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by ydlr 3y ago
They aren't trying to hide it. The very first word in the story is "Fagooglix."
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by ydlr 3y ago
So Google had to apologize for their chatbot being "unreliable" because it gave an accurate answer to a question?
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by ydlr 3y ago
That is not too bad, considering there are about 90000 packages in nixpks now.
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by ydlr 3y ago
My impression was that Gnome 3, Unity, and Windows 8 were all a part of the "convergence" craze to use the same OS on mobile, tablet, and desktop. KDE also introduced convergence features around this time, but without destroying t
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by ydlr 3y ago
Let folks keep their wine and art collections. Limits need to be placed on ownership of productive assets. Employee, consumer, or even municipal ownership of firms would be a natural consequence of such a limit. No other way to offload asse
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by ydlr 3y ago
The goal wouldn't be confiscation. It would be to incentivize behavior to avoid confiscation. Charge less rent to mine minerals. Spread equity in business more broadly.
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by ydlr 3y ago
For me, the act of writing something down helps with memory and comprehension. Reviewing something I wrote down a week ago does not. If I forget it, I look it up and write it down again. Eventually it sticks. Or it doesn't.
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by ydlr 3y ago
For me, lists work great... as long as they don't turn into obligations. I keep a legal pad on my desk. I keep a running list of anything I want to learn, accomplish, research, etc. If I finish an item, I mark through it. Once I turn a
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by ydlr 3y ago
Liquified natural gas.
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by ydlr 3y ago
Reprint from 2018
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by ydlr 3y ago
The tragedy of it is that building Firefox is the most impactful political advocacy they do.
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by ydlr 3y ago
Isn't the solution to this problem to just distribute the source code. Let package maintainers worry about creating binaries for their distros.
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by ydlr 3y ago
The purpose of the the Center for Auto Safety is to influence public policy. That is exactly why they release reports like this. Everyone knows you can't shame the shameless.
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by ydlr 3y ago
There is no VC funding for companies that offer simple, well-designed products at a reasonable price.
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by ydlr 3y ago
I grew up in a fairly matriarchal family. I could write a biography on my mother's mother's mother's mother. I have no idea who my father's father is (or was. I don't know if he's alive). I've never even b
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by ydlr 3y ago
That is true of any distro. Packaging software for NixOS is still easier than arch or Debian.
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by ydlr 3y ago
Systemd-nspawn is definitely an underrated option for spinning up quick test/Dev environments.
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by ydlr 3y ago
Allowing supervisors to be fired for union activity is one of the most insidious parts of the Taft-Hartley Act. It has been very effective in creating disunity among workers -- which most managers definitely are.
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by ydlr 3y ago
No, the article says that it was her real estate agent that discovered the squatter and that the house had previously been rented. Your confusion is understandable. The framing of both situations in the article is "homeowner returned t
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by ydlr 3y ago
The individual service rep may not be lying, but the company is. They intentionally put someone in front of the customer without the correct information and without the ability to find it so that they will have no option but to follow a scr
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by ydlr 3y ago
Once you give it to them, its not your software. It is theirs.
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by ydlr 3y ago
Maybe that is the just penalty is such egregious cases. The ownership of the business should be forfeited to the employees.
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by ydlr 3y ago
I really like the while roots ecosystem for ease of development. The problem comes in when I have to hand-off the site for someone to maintain. At some point, every client decides they are better off switching to an extremely cheap agency f
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by ydlr 3y ago
https://bhhspremiercre.com/
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by ydlr 3y ago
> Is there a WM out there that can do the basic quality-of-life functions of today's DEs? I think FVWM is what you are looking for. Last commit on May 10. https://github.com/fvwmorg/fvwm3/
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by ydlr 3y ago
They cherry-picked a handful of companies that they knew I'm advance would confirm their existing biases. I highly doubt these 32 companies accurately represents the mass of "technology workers."
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by ydlr 3y ago
The submission page says poems must be less than 150 words, but the submission form only accepts less than 150 characters.
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by ydlr 3y ago
I am curious about what criteria will be used to score/judge the submissions. Will the AI come up with the criteria?
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by ydlr 3y ago
> I agree with the concept and we definitely need this. The issue, generally speaking, is that there isn't much of a business model. This is similar to one of the anti-businesses I have long considered, except I would like to perfor
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by ydlr 3y ago
With regulations, including government issued id and adult supervision of people under a certain age.

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