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by xorcist 3y ago
Avoid sftp and use rsync instead (much better support for more types of metadata, more robust error handling). Avoid passwords and use keys instead (easier to distribute, easier to generate, lets you lock them down to a single command). The
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by xorcist 3y ago
He also tried to replace everything unix-like with MS Windows. Somehow that must have seemed really important when trying to make a startup survive the dot com boom-and-bust cycle.
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by xorcist 3y ago
With the added benefit that you can feel like a famous writer! (Many professional writers have done this by tradition. They have a "work space" in a shed or an attic somewhere close to their home.)
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by xorcist 3y ago
> It can also go in the dishwasher Why would you do such a thing? It breaks my frying pan heart. Be gentle, clean with oil, wipe off excess. It will love you back.
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by xorcist 3y ago
The hoops people jump through in order to avoid using an operating system that just works in that setting never ceases to surprise me. It was something that started when Macs were popularized among developers and never really stopped.
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by xorcist 3y ago
Not sure why this is downvoted. HTTP3/QUIC is a lot more complex to implement than SSH. SSL is a very well studied standard, but it is clearly a committee product with lots of features built on enterprise standards like X.509, and SS
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by xorcist 3y ago
Not to mention the various licenses and insurances required to ferry people around. Anyone who gave it a second thought probably didn't take it seriously, but that didn't stop a whole bunch of fans and stock market analysts to ske
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by xorcist 3y ago
Airplane autopilots are something else. You are not allowed to use an autopilot unless you have training and a license for it.
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by xorcist 3y ago
It like when Apple funded lots of usability studies on why one mouse button was optimal for most users. They held out longer than expected, some 20 years or so, but common sense prevailed. Even if they had to make a design where the buttons
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by xorcist 3y ago
After those two years have passed, probably. But the claim was actually stronger than that. It was that it should earn back the money it cost by running an autonomous taxi service during night and office hours. That specific claim was a sca
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by xorcist 3y ago
Why the need to reinvent the commit message? Look at how Linux does it. If it's good enough for a globally distributed organization creating the operating system the cloud and most phones run on, it can't be completely wrong. They
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by xorcist 3y ago
Yet ~ nobody uses PyPy by default. Speed is clearly not the top consideration for most Python programmers.
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by xorcist 3y ago
Just ship the .so files? It's what most commercial software and things like Firefox do. Just run it via a wrapper that sets LD_PRELOAD.
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by xorcist 3y ago
RSS requires a lot of developer resources to work with. AdSense, for example, is super hard to fit into RSS. How do you do it? Sorry, we tried everything but the user agent support for Javascript in RSS is simply lacking. Unfortunately, it
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by xorcist 3y ago
The main problem with ECN was the remarkably widespread behaviour by middleboxes that either cleared that bit or straight up dropped the packets. Maybe that situation has improved now?
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by xorcist 3y ago
This is either a misunderstanding or some sort of conspiracy theory I am unaware of. This is not a question of taxation, unless you are alluding to some "lawyer tax" which is the price of doing business. Tesla needs a contract wit
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by xorcist 3y ago
You could always construct an example to how a specific behaviour. The problem in the example here is that you can't set environment variables to a list of arguments, you can only set it to text strings. Normally on the command line da
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by xorcist 3y ago
> what if a company like Tesla wants to dictate 60 hour work weeks for all it's engineers. But that goes against Union Law, Which is exactly why the choice to handle the labor market under contract law has been made. If Tesla wants
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by xorcist 3y ago
Wait what? China as an ethnic state? That would require a pretty large stretch. Europe is populated by Europeans, but saying it's an ethnic state is not very useful. China is a huge country with many ethnic groups with their own identi
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by xorcist 3y ago
How would that work with basic human rights such as the freedom of association? And how could it be enforced, under civil law? Of course you are free to break the strike or whatever feels right for you. But it might not be compatible with m
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by xorcist 3y ago
It's very different. The respective unions see their roles very differently, and fight for completely different things.
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by xorcist 3y ago
> I think Tesla has a good case here You misunderstand. There is no case. Tesla refuses to negotiate with the labor market, and the labor market refuses to do business with them. They can either get a contract, in which case they are fre
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by xorcist 3y ago
Nobody is demanding any fees. Of course you sign a contract when doing business. It's like that in any market economy. What's peculiar about Sweden is how that extends to the labor market. So instead of commercial civil law you ha
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by xorcist 3y ago
They could, the next time the contract is up for renegotiation. It would require however that there are other couriers that fulfill their safety requirements with the logistic infrastructure to deliver to the entire country. That's not
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by xorcist 3y ago
Spotify has negotiated, they just haven't come to an agreement. Tesla has refused to negotiate. Even then, it still took five years before the conflict escalated. At some point negotiations with Spotify will have to be restarted. It&#x
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by xorcist 3y ago
I think you underestimate how much the employer's unions want contract law to be respected. As for the socialist conspiracy theories, they mostly feel out of favor in the 1990s.
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by xorcist 3y ago
Any unions on a European level are loosely connected support groups. Nothing else. Nordic unions are fundamentally different from for example the French, which are more like the American. Both organize workers, but from completely different
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by xorcist 3y ago
It's the other way around. Unionized workers have traded away their right to strike without union support. Anyone can strike, it is a basic right, but good luck not getting paid. That salary might have been handy for the legal represen
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by xorcist 3y ago
You seem to be advocating that PostNord bring in strike breakers to do the jobs of the people at strike? That would be an insane way to escalate the conflict to a level which would bring down the entire force of all the unions combined. The
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by xorcist 3y ago
This is certainly not about pay, as no one has suggested Tesla pays worse than anyone else. It is about upholding a free labor market by contract law. If you don't want to negotiate that contract, the majority of the market will come t

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