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by daxelrod 1mo ago
That’s a good point. I had assumed the states allowing plug-in solar also allowed batteries, but according to https://pluginsolarguide.com , it’s only Utah so far.
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by daxelrod 1y ago
I don’t understand how that conclusion follows from that comparison. We also wouldn’t describe the current day as “after the flu”. Both are endemic.
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by daxelrod 1y ago
Wix has embraced the entendre https://youtu.be/IddnMutPgTI?si=fCgGY9-bZT9WikWz
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by daxelrod 1y ago
I have a relatively high-end desktop with a nice monitor. I also have an aging laptop with a tiny screen and an anemic amount of RAM. Most of my computing ends up being done on the laptop. With a family and a kid, it turns out I’d prefer to
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by daxelrod 3y ago
Part of Apple clearly wants to do that with Focuses giving more control around what notifications people get in which contexts. Unfortunately other parts seem to think the opposite. For example, Apple News by default sends notifications for
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by daxelrod 3y ago
Great explanation. F-Zero managed to do the “change zoom on each scanline” trick without a coprocessor in the cartridge, didn’t it?
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by daxelrod 3y ago
It’s been possible for years. I’m not sure what a good definition of “practical” would be though. https://bellard.org/jslinux/
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by daxelrod 3y ago
Fair point.
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by daxelrod 3y ago
MS is still probably somewhere in the supply chain of software you use. They have contributed to the Linux Kernel, they own GitHub and NPM, they make an extremely popular editor, among other things. It’s a different set of risks than depend
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by daxelrod 3y ago
In practice, customers can also make requests via private support tickets. I’ve seen GitLab determine priority of an issue based partially on demand from paying customers.
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by daxelrod 3y ago
This is how a fintech Chief Compliance Officer explained it to me: The industry that the SEC regulates is full of clever people who have a financial incentive to push rules as far as possible. The concern is that if they provided a clear li
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by daxelrod 4y ago
Thank you for that answer! Wow, I can't believe how small the team was 6 years ago. Is that 120 engineers or 120 employees total? Looking forward to seeing GitLab doing this well. It hits a sweet spot for a lot of organizations.
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by daxelrod 4y ago
Ah yes, it was called GitHost. Here's the previous page for it https://web.archive.org/web/20190528091645/https://about.git... . Note that the domain it used to be hosted at (GitHost dot Indian Ocea
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by daxelrod 4y ago
If I remember correctly, GitLab used to offer the same kind of service, but discontinued it because managing it was not a core competency that they wanted to focus on. I'm curious what's different now.
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by daxelrod 4y ago
The Pirate Bay may never have deleted anything, but they also don't host any of the music. Just because a torrent exists doesn't mean anyone is seeding it.
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by daxelrod 4y ago
What precisely did the creators of Podman Desktop do that was unethical? I'm not sure if by "ripoff" you mean "copyright infringement" or something else.
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by daxelrod 4y ago
I agree that it denotes an imbalance. I also agree that terms like "white privilege" are intended as criticism. However I don't see them as criticism of the individual who has the privilege, but rather of the society whose ci
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by daxelrod 4y ago
My associations are mostly neutral. It can even be positive in certain contexts, like "It was a privilege to meet him".
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by daxelrod 4y ago
I'm not suggesting one implies the other. Are you saying the only advantage one could possibly have is economic? Or maybe that you'd expect all advantages and disadvantages to be reflected in wealth or lack thereof?
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by daxelrod 4y ago
Why do you believe "privilege" is a negative word? Also, assuming you mean Robin DiAngelo, what of hers have you read? She's pretty clear in both White Fragility and Nice Racism in advocating against "constant, deliberat
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by daxelrod 4y ago
Why can't whiteness and wealthiness both be types of privilege?
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by daxelrod 4y ago
> The code is GPL, nobody will arrest you for forking it. The author is literally maintaining a fork already https://asahilinux.org/ I do take your larger point about rubber-stamping contributions generally not being a g
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by daxelrod 4y ago
Perhaps I misunderstood your point, but building nuclear plants can't be priority one because we don't have time to wait around for them to be built. We should be building them in parallel with more immediate initiatives that can
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by daxelrod 4y ago
> And I wonder why in the world they took jobs as lecturers. If you don't have a passion for teaching, why take a job that pays substantially less than what you get in industry? I don't know about this specific situation, but m
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by daxelrod 4y ago
Thank you, I had missed that it was moved out of contrib.
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by daxelrod 4y ago
This confused me too. The rationale seems to be explained in more detail in https://www.spinics.net/lists/git/msg421817.html
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by daxelrod 4y ago
See Cory Doctorow's article about the feudalism of digital platforms (an expansion of Bruce Schneier's idea). The gist is that digital security and compatibility is difficult enough to keep up with that most people conclude serfdo
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by daxelrod 4y ago
It would make sense for Apple to tout a replacement connector as being faster, so I'd imagine they would go above the USB 3.0 that Lightning is capable of.
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by daxelrod 4y ago
Not all tinnitus is lifelong. See the Natural Course section of https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2686891/#__sec2...
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by daxelrod 4y ago
It's weirder than that. The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve is an agency of the US federal government. The system as a whole has "a combination of public and private characteristics". See the section "The U.S.

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