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by zx8080 10mo ago
> USB-IF are the prime examples of "don't let engineers name things, they can't" While not disagreeing, I'd ask for a proof it's not a marketing department's fun. Just to be sure. Engineers love consist
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by zx8080 10mo ago
Sure, for those who has money for lobbying.
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by zx8080 10mo ago
In addition to VC funds spend at random things not necessarily all of which are good innovations (and many exploit it), also VCs probably have harder and less flexible requirements for ROI than many non-VC investors. That kills some (probab
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by zx8080 10mo ago
Welcome to the world of imitation of value and semantics.
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by zx8080 10mo ago
It's interesting to read such an opposite opinions on public transport from Americans and Europeans.
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by zx8080 11mo ago
Not living in the US, so cannot.
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by zx8080 11mo ago
> The part where the license says "Don't run this on your server and charge people money for it, or we will sue you"? A bit offtopic but could re-generation of the project with LLM (with for example prompt "rewrite th
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by zx8080 11mo ago
What kind of politics? I mean, what do they sell, little to no tech books?
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by zx8080 11mo ago
Who said they did not? It's probably not public, that's all.
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by zx8080 11mo ago
Everything? Ok, everything. Names "anonymmized" (but easily trackable) and the list of addresses. Why not sell it to get money? /s
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by zx8080 11mo ago
> but I swear it built the comprehension I have today. For interns/junior engineers, the choice is: comprehension VS career. And I won't be surprised if most of them will go with career now, and comprehension.. well thanks mayb
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by zx8080 11mo ago
> Before using Holesail, make sure you have Node.js installed on your system. No, thank you. I would expect this tool to be containerized.
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by zx8080 11mo ago
Yeah, it's how everywhere is measured. But I like to remember Joel Spolsky's takes on measuring everything, including his famous book and blog: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/08/09/the-econ-101-
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by zx8080 11mo ago
Everyone wanted to centralise as much as possible to save every cent. No wonder what it got us all into. Enjoy it while saving your cent!
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by zx8080 11mo ago
> It's me. I'm the LM Okay.
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by zx8080 11mo ago
Year-end promotion cycle is the worst time for end-users and the best one for engineers greedy for promotions.
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by zx8080 1y ago
Hardware repairs done by AI recommendations sounds really scary and dangerous.
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by zx8080 1y ago
> swift Not everyone would want to get into Apple vendor-locked language (formally not, but it's like saying Chromium is opensource and not related to Alphabet/Google) and its development environment. Especially after JetBrains
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by zx8080 1y ago
Good point! What are the other peoper languages in addition to golang and maybe c++ for such tooling? However people... don't like (hate? fear?) c++ nowadays. And I doubt that golang fits well here. So what else? (I'm not pushing
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by zx8080 1y ago
> AppImage No, thanks.
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by zx8080 1y ago
So what? It will not restore trust. I will not spend money on Synology which can make pay me more for nothing any time when their management wants some more money next time from users. So now they will make less money and not more users.
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by zx8080 1y ago
If only we treat ads like we treat emails! Our world could probably be a bit better place to live in.
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by zx8080 1y ago
> then I felt sharp object to my belly and they told me to walk slowly towards cash point. Wow. What country is/was that?
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by zx8080 1y ago
> if one thing, it's made harder by git being so terrible at branching in the general/long lived case Interesting. What's wrong with branching in git?
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by zx8080 1y ago
Are you serious? There are more options than you think (or try to convince others). I do prefer control over what I can install to my computer be it a box or a mobile one, and control on what runs there.
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by zx8080 1y ago
> I don't lose any privacy there. By sending your gov ID(s) to a third party? You do! They will leak (or leak and then sell) your ID with your name to those who wants to buy it. With services you've ever authorized with them, a
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by zx8080 1y ago
Theere are two quite a widespread classes of not readable code: Some code is not readable by _anyone_. That's not readable code. Some code is readable by its author only (be it AI or a human). That's also not readable one. Saying
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by zx8080 1y ago
Lineageos has probably the most compatibility among the android-compatible opensource and open (not vendor-locked) phone OSes. However the list of compatible phones is too small. There's almost devices one can go and buy (except Pixels
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by zx8080 1y ago
Any centralisation like this is bad: it's too easy for Google to delete all f-droid apps with their play protect one day.
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by zx8080 1y ago
> but there are only one way to use them Optional nature of those features conflicts with this statement. As optionality means two ways already.

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