dingaling

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by dingaling 3d ago
"as it highlights how humans have essentially two reactions to change" I'd wager that the most common reaction to change is actually "wearily accept it as there is no realistic option". Most change is deleterious to
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by dingaling 6d ago
" If someone is hosting their own blog and use ads to help offset that..." It used to be that hosting your own blog was a hobby, not a cost-neutral or revenue-positive venture. Like any hobby, you did it for your own enjoyment an
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by dingaling 6d ago
CPI is based on prices such as these, so it provides no useful signal.
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by dingaling 7d ago
Apple sold around six million Mini models per year that they were on sale. It's hard to envisage a boardroom scenario where that's not considered successful, but apparently it exists.
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by dingaling 8d ago
" to spend half of your earnings on the collective" Why not 99% then? Or 90%? Or a bargain 85%, leaving you some money for bread and circuses ? It's for the collective good, so how could you complain?
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by dingaling 8d ago
Even if the features are ignorable, they have consumed development time and attention to get there.
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by dingaling 11d ago
No, that's almost as bad. Locking knowledge into a benignly-ruled centralised blackbox instead of a despicably-ruled centralised blackbox isn't solving the core problem.
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by dingaling 11d ago
> and aren't purchased for the same reasons Yes, that's his point. Quartz watches have eaten the market for "I need a cheap portable time piece", like artificial diamonds did for "I need diamonds for tooling&quo
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by dingaling 11d ago
> That's insane progress and worth celebrating. A non-reusable launcher that can put small payloads into a Polar orbits only, due to launch site latitude and lack of an orbital bus. It's fairly 1960s stuff.
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by dingaling 12d ago
"Traditional accounting depreciation would imply that purchasing local hardware is a terrible financial decision." Depreciation is designed to _encourage_ purchasing of useful local tools, by incrementally matching fractions of th
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by dingaling 13d ago
The Shorts 360, very similar to this aircraft in size, weight and structural design with a strut-braced wing, cruised at 216kt ( 249mph ) for 400nm with 36 pax, three crew and fuel for 50nm diversion and 45 min hold.
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by dingaling 14d ago
> You still have to choose your opportunities wisely It's odd that you've gone off on this as opposed to people who spend their 'opportunity time' on Netflix, Call of Duty or D&D. Sysadmin is a hobby I enjoy and I
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by dingaling 15d ago
> They're developing 40 million lines of code Isn't half a billion dollars per year enough to maintain that? Over $10 per LoC annually?
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by dingaling 15d ago
That's their choice, nobody forced them to implement that corporate structure and they can decide to deconstruct it any time. Google pays Mozilla for default search engine selection in Firefox, no other product. If Mozilla then redire
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by dingaling 15d ago
The problem is that to achieve privacy through security, Graphene has to treat the user as a potentially hostile actor. Therefore, the system needs to protect itself and other apps from the user. Which is very much contrary to software fre
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by dingaling 16d ago
The Russian response to directional antennas is to mount GPS jammers on satellites https://www.gpsworld.com/todd-humphreys-russian-satellites-a...
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by dingaling 16d ago
"What makes it any different if the website executed the same logic cloudflare is on their own box?" Without Cloudflare it's highly unlikely that 20% of websites _would_ implement the same logic.
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by dingaling 17d ago
Try editing key-values in Regedit using only the keyboard.
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by dingaling 19d ago
Aer Lingus have introduced app-only self-service bag drops, which are invariably swamped with passengers trying to get them to work while a single staff runs around clearing on-screen errors and directing people to rescan, or reweigh their
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by dingaling 19d ago
Sounds like gratuitous over-use of technology. Please just put placards on your exhibits, then I can take as long ( or as quickly ) as I need to digest the info. People can then use their phone to translate into other languages, if needed.
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by dingaling 20d ago
"It is a common userspace decision to lock things to userspace" Yes, running in userspace for the majority of tasks is good hygiene. Preventing the user from ever escalating beyond that layer on their own devices, however, is rest
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by dingaling 24d ago
Unfortunately ( for the WiFi Alliance ) that doesn't sell new kit.
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by dingaling 28d ago
Like their G-Shock watches, the actual area dedicated to showing the time is overwhelmed by superfluous elements. Must be barely 20% of the top surface that actually performs its primary function. When I look at my watch I want to see the
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by dingaling 28d ago
"Solo geniuses don't have the money to operate the patent system" Very true, a friend patented a design, that he had developed over a decade, and tried to license it to established players in the astronomy field. They looked
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by dingaling 1mo ago
And when the crack came out on the same day as the CD release it was called a zero-day. A term that has long since lost ita original meaning, in fact it has been inverted.
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by dingaling 1mo ago
You're fortunate if that's the case for where you live. In the UK weeding is at the discretion of the Branch Librarian. Books I checked out 15 years ago have now vanished from the system.
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by dingaling 1mo ago
Yes, I think that identifying patterns and applying the appropriate combination of A+B to solve is true intelligence. It's a combination of knowledge, insight and inspiration. In the UK organisations such as GCHQ ( Brit NSA ) use brai
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by dingaling 1mo ago
> but that can hardly be blamed on cloudflare They are installing the gates with configurable locks that the site owners use. They are absolutely to blame.
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by dingaling 1mo ago
> convince rich people to give the non-profit large amounts of money And yet Google's funding remains 85% of Mozilla's income, so that 'convincing' doesn't seem to be worth paying for.
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by dingaling 1mo ago
> The UK already has so much CCTV. But most of it, the overwhelming majority, comprises standalone installations at best networked into a corporate HQ but most commonly just recorded on site. It's not like in police drama programmes

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