disordinary

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by disordinary 3y ago
Oracle is now in the keep customers locked in business rather than the get new customers business.
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by disordinary 3y ago
It's a challenging time for OpenSource at the moment.
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by disordinary 3y ago
I wasn't implying that at all, more I was shocked at how a country like America doesn't have high speed broadband ubiquitously available. So it was more rhetorical than anything.
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by disordinary 3y ago
Surely you have options though? In Rural NZ we have a choice between 4g which runs at about 50mbps and latency of about 15ms and starlink which runs at around 100mbps and has a latency of about 25ms. Both should be good enough for remote wo
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by disordinary 3y ago
That's not a loss, that's an investment in an asset. It's a loss because the assets have devalued.
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by disordinary 4y ago
I mean, they look better than your standard Mitsubishi or Panasonic heatpump, but other than cosmetics, what difference does this have from the normal sort of heatpumps that most homes have?
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by disordinary 4y ago
You might have to take a paycut even working remotely. A lot of companies now pay what you'd expect locally rather than in a tech hub. So, if you worked remotely from San Francisco you'd earn more than if you worked remotely from
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by disordinary 4y ago
No, New Zealand with UFB which is fibre to the door for about 90% of the population with rural broadband initiatives for the remaining 10%.
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by disordinary 4y ago
Wow, we have fibre to about 90% of the population and ripped out copper a few years ago. In rural areas there is government subsidised 4g internet and in the most rural it's government subsidised satellite. I was in Korea for work and
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by disordinary 4y ago
I've used Fedora for years as my desktop linux distro on my laptops and CentOS or RHEL for servers. Fedora is the desktop focussed project which is upstream from the commercial RedHat Enterprise Linux, CentOS is the community distribut
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by disordinary 4y ago
I've used Fedora for years as my desktop linux distro on my laptops and CentOS or RHEL for servers. Fedora is the desktop focussed project which is upstream from the commercial RedHat Enterprise Linux, CentOS is the community distribut
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by disordinary 4y ago
Maybe in the developing world but I'd imagine most of the developed world got rid of wired internet and replaced it with fibre years ago.
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by disordinary 4y ago
You have to pay extra for 5g in the US?
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by disordinary 4y ago
We've even lost our post offices, I couldn't tell you where a post office is in the city I live in, they've been slowly disappearing for the last ten years or so. But small businesses like service stations and convenience sto
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by disordinary 4y ago
That's a good idea, one of the tough things about banks closing - espeacially in small towns where there isn't any around for miles, is the elderly struggle with technology.
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by disordinary 4y ago
Interesting that they say the number of tellers is up because the amount of branches is up, because where I live (New Zealand) it's practically impossible to find a bank branch now days, they've all been shut and replaced with int
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by disordinary 4y ago
No, there is a lot of transparency and oversight, including to any member of the public, and ultimately the government sets policy. I can just request any document, and in fact I used to work in the public service where a coworker would fre
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by disordinary 4y ago
Of course it does.
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by disordinary 4y ago
Sorry, I meant the lack of an overarching constitutional document gives more flexibility as it's not one thing which is held up as an almost holy document. The closest we've got it the treaty of Waitangi.
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by disordinary 4y ago
Yes, we have laws that's why we live in a society. People that work in the censorship office don't make calls based on morals, that make calls based on policy, they also face mental health challenges and get the support needed to
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by disordinary 4y ago
New Zealand
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by disordinary 4y ago
She does not have any power, her party has power collectively. A prime minister has no more power than any other minister. She's not like a president, she can't decree law. NZ also has a constitution, the constitution is made up o
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by disordinary 4y ago
They don't want people to see it because it will motivate copy cats. People get perverse enjoyment from it, like that white supremacist from Christchurch who put a kill counter on it. What do you think the survivors think about that vi
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by disordinary 4y ago
Freedom is defined differently in different countries, in New Zealand the general rule is you have freedom to do what you want as long as it doesn't impact on the freedom of others. Therefore, you can have freedom of speech but you can
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by disordinary 4y ago
New Zealand has very strong separation between policy makers (the government) and the agencies that enforce policies. The government can't tell the police what to do, they can't tell treasury what to do, they can't tell defen
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by disordinary 4y ago
The differentiator in the server space comes in power management and thermals, all things that AMD does better than intel. AMD also has better yields and better margins because of their chiplet design philosophy. ARM also has a significant
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by disordinary 4y ago
You would have definitely used Citrix products, but unless you were in IT you might not have known they were Citrix.
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by disordinary 4y ago
Citrix are pretty ubiquitous in the corporate space. Not as big a deal as they were ten or 15 years ago, but still a huge company that powers a lot of businesses.
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by disordinary 4y ago
Blood uses the build engine which was open sourced at about the same time as Quake, there are numerous source ports and it can run on most platforms (although people have gotten it running on mobile devices, there's never been an offic
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by disordinary 4y ago
According to this map I have nothing to worry about (except for global economic collapse, famine, and war)

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