bborud

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by bborud 9d ago
If, for a moment, we set aside the fact that Europe is strongly incentivised to depend less on the US, and US companies, it should worry us that so many sectors are dominated by 1-3 or so players. One of the selling points for market capita
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by bborud 11d ago
How is this different from observed reality. No, don’t chicken out and try to get out of the question with something witty: give a proper answer.
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by bborud 11d ago
I’m not American. This is not an attitude. It is an observation. Before you get to thump your chest you owe me homework. You have to prove me wrong.
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by bborud 11d ago
For those who downvoted that comment: grow some nuts and prove me wrong.
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by bborud 16d ago
What is the likelihood of that happening? Realistically? Does anyone think government can, or even wants to, break up large companies? The large companies _own_ the politicians.
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by bborud 16d ago
How would one hold Google accountable? By fining them $1bn? $10bn? $100bn? To them it is just the cost of doing business. We're beyond holding huge companies accountable. The only way they could be held accountable is if there was pe
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by bborud 16d ago
You make it sound like IKEA isn't fit for second hand use. I live in Scandinavia, the classifieds and the second hand furniture shops that do not specifically cater to the vintage crowd, says otherwise. There's a lot of IKEA fu
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by bborud 16d ago
People don't get rid of it because it gets worn out. They get rid of it because they want to change their surroundings. Imagine being stuck with the same furniture for the rest of your life? Why would I want to buy furniture that las
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by bborud 16d ago
I probably don't understand what "fashionable" means, but I've always suspected that in order to be fashionable you have to give up your dignity and, ironically, your individuality. It's like that (probably apocryph
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by bborud 17d ago
For years I consistently wore a Seiko around people who had watches that cost more than my car. Proudly. When asked why I didn't have a "proper watch" I'd point out that their swiss masterpiece wasn't nearly as ac
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by bborud 17d ago
Hemnes is a municipality in Norway. 10 minute drive from where I grew up.
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by bborud 17d ago
We're talking about the masses. Non-cookiecutter stuff costs more. Not everyone can afford to pay 5x or 10x what an IKEA product would cost.
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by bborud 17d ago
At least here, you'll also find a lot of IKEA furniture at those stores as well. Most of the nicer stuff tends to go to higher end stores and ends up being rather pricy.
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by bborud 17d ago
An architect friend of mine once said that he admired IKEA above all other furniture manufacturers because it made a modern range of aesthetics available to the masses. IKEA had done more to evolve the public taste than any other manufactur
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by bborud 23d ago
If only they had avoided XML. XML drove away a lot of people who would otherwise have been interested early on. (I once found myself in the same meeting as two of the people who made the mistakes that meant you couldn’t just pipe stuff thro
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by bborud 27d ago
I think it depends on how you work and what the application does. When I'm in a flow state I need things that are fast. GUIs, even on my relatively fast mac are not terribly fast. They take more time to start. They require more screen
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by bborud 1mo ago
It can both be better than 60 years ago and worse than what you would consider a «good» life. Exploitation and being less poor are not mutually exclusive. It is easier to think poor quality of life is ok for people you cannot identify with.
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by bborud 1mo ago
Doesn’t just mean the model has picked up on what happens when two graybeards who still wear cargo shorts meet and one utters a declarative sentence? :-)
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by bborud 1mo ago
...and then the "colonies" figured out how to weaponize it and turn the balance in their favor. Or, not quite: the workers are being exploited just like they were during the colonial period. But at least now their rulers have pow
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by bborud 1mo ago
I did not anticipate where that sentence ended up :-).
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by bborud 1mo ago
Many of them can't help themselves. I used to have long conversations with frontend developers that "no, when I log on I don't want to be forced through a look-at-the-new-feature-we-made" sequences. And then they went a
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by bborud 1mo ago
That would make you sound a lot more professional too. And trustworthy. (As long as that's actually what happens). When I see these dialogs listing they have 1289723 gazillion vendors they share data with, I know that whoever is in ch
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by bborud 1mo ago
I'd say just remove it. Don't ask people who don't actually understand the cost of having it there because you will get the wrong answers. Sometimes people just have to do the right thing, take some heat and then everyone c
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by bborud 1mo ago
From the service provider perspective storage is a feature not a service. From the customer perspective it is a pretty important product. The customer may not be aware of this until it is too late. It becomes tempting to store your data wi
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by bborud 1mo ago
It is more like my mailbox: overflowing with shit. Fortunately the bin is right next to the mailbox. I don’t use Google that often anymore.
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by bborud 1mo ago
And yet, their search engine is enshittified beyond all belief.
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by bborud 2mo ago
It’s pretty much anything these days that requires authentication.
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by bborud 2mo ago
If Google News is the shrimp boat, then what is Google Search?
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by bborud 2mo ago
This is also why people eventually leave languages. Satisfy everyone’s wishes for long enough and you get lots of different styles of doing things and … «wow look at that much simpler language over there; let’s try that instead»
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by bborud 2mo ago
You rarely get anything for free. Look at exceptions in Java, for instance. In theory the mechanism is there to guarantee that errors will be handled. In practice there are multiple schools of thought — several of which purposefully circu

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