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by zer8k 3y ago
I can tell you having worked at a majority SaaS-type of companies my entire career the amount of "updates" we put out is as frequent, or less, than the previous model. Despite working in the industry (it's impossible to avoid
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by zer8k 3y ago
> maybe it’s time to stop this madness and try to make every software do anything and extract money from the consumer for things that are really not needed Or put on your entrepreneur cap and realize this is an opportunity.
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by zer8k 3y ago
I never had problem paying a company for patches. The problem companies had would be someone buying their software and then never buying updates. That's a product problem not a system problem. SaaS keeps the consumer captive in a perma
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by zer8k 3y ago
It also greatly exacerbates piracy. I'd be willing to bet movies, music, and certain software like CAD are seeing unprecedented levels of piracy after SaaS. Especially when SaaS enables companies like Netflix to betray their consumers.
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by zer8k 3y ago
I agree. SaaS was supposed to be a model that was highly beneficial for vendors selling to corporations. Once it penetrated the consumer market it became death by 1,000 cuts. Now everyone's life is loaded down subscriptions for things
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by zer8k 3y ago
You have a somewhat textbook view of the problem. That's okay, except it's wrong like most textbooks. At least in a practical sense. The key mistake I think you made is here: > I dont think i'm missing the point. if mortga
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by zer8k 3y ago
Yes the article seems to be written with the undertone that mortgages are somehow exploitative. It even goes all the way back to the GFC to point out the weird edge case where NINJAs were lent out like hotcakes. The reason that become toxic
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by zer8k 3y ago
Cold turkey is all that worked for me. Gum did nothing. Never tried the patches. No secrets, no magic. What worked for Grandpa works for us too. Got hooked on vape too for a while. While there's very little risk to it the risk that is
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by zer8k 3y ago
I live in a place with exactly 1 natural gas energy plant and something like 300 square miles of solar panels. The solar panels are placed in the wilderness and an eye sore. At least with a coal plant I can expect it. I wish I was as delusi
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by zer8k 3y ago
If it makes you feel any better your click -> see paywall -> leave likely counts as a bounce. But I agree, archive links should be default. My strategy is to just immediately pass any major news outlet article through an archive servi
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by zer8k 3y ago
Or peppering every outdoor surface with solar panels. What a techno-noir nightmare that will be. Otherwise, electricity generation via natural gas/coal would mean you may as well just stick with ICE.
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by zer8k 3y ago
To be honest, these types of posts come off with a level of smugness that I don't have words for. It's this holier-than-thou attitude that prevents us from getting people to use their computers better. Yes, there are 1,000 better
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by zer8k 3y ago
The vast majority of actual software engineers can't even write JS and SQL right. It would make no sense to send humanities students on a wild goose chase trying to learn two harder languages when visual programming delivers the messag
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by zer8k 3y ago
Age matters far less than skill set. I've ran into very little ageism. The caveat being I am not at the top 1% of companies. The problem with older engineers (myself included) is that their skillsets tend to atrophy. When you're a
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by zer8k 3y ago
Freedom of speech and freedom of religion are held in the same esteem constitutionally. There's no different legal rights. Practicing a religion is a form of speech. The same form of speech protesters were using. It was entirely politi
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by zer8k 3y ago
Yeah, you'd have to do 6 weeks of PT first. But you can waiver that.
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by zer8k 3y ago
> They're wannabe military tough-guys with laughably worse training and culture, A lot of them are ex-military which is why every incident is treated like a mini-fallujah. There should be better psychological evaluation of police. I
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by zer8k 3y ago
Another fun fact is when controlling for race and gender you are still more likely to be killed by a cop than almost anything else.
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by zer8k 3y ago
I think the "forced inside thing" is false. I am not particularly religious but I take issue with the government telling congregations they cannot practice their faith, even outdoors, and in the same breath tell people protesting
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by zer8k 3y ago
But on the other hand if a mother's child combusts they now have a way to help.
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by zer8k 3y ago
> We do?! Yes, generally it's the legal system we live under. When you boil it down laws are technically just an encapsulation of the larger view society takes on issues of morality. Now, you may not agree with every law. I don&#x27
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by zer8k 3y ago
Just because a large number of people agree something is bad does not make it objective. You can of course pick examples 99% of people agree with. Hitler is bad, killing kids is wrong, beating your wife is bad, Mao killed millions, stalin k
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by zer8k 3y ago
The term "hacker" describes someone skilled at tricking systems into doing what they can't. Mitnick was not only one of the first popular hackers he also had many famous exploits. His arrest was a major rallying cry for the h
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by zer8k 3y ago
I don't normally get inflammatory but you are a consummate moron.
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The hobbyists over at cloudflare have done a lot with it.
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I think the reason is more practical. Mastodon is distributed, user-controlled, and easily managed. You can just choose to simply not interact with privacy-adverse systems rather than being forced to use a single centralized system.
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by zer8k 3y ago
> There are reasons why it is a bad candidate: - terrible spelling for an alphabetic writing system - definite articles, which confuse speakers of languages which lack them - arguable unnecessary tense and aspect distinctions - obligator
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by zer8k 3y ago
I agree with the actual point you're making. This is a thinly veiled DEI opinion article.
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I don't see a problem with this. The lingua franca is English. Prior to that it was Latin. In science you're held to a higher standard and this is a small issue. > Compared to a fellow PhD student who happens to be a native Eng
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by zer8k 3y ago
Could be parenting too, yeah. I don't think it can be discounted the level of violence in public school. Even when I was in school it was closer to a prison than a learning environment. Both in culture, and in construction. I'm su

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