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by jbstack 7mo ago
I don't buy it. It makes sense for a small company where the cost of fixing it might be noticed. But AMD generates some ~$30bn in annual revenues. How much of a developer's time does it take to change the code to use HTTPS? $1000?
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by jbstack 7mo ago
Also there's always the risk that the bolt cutter has a defect (perhaps deliberately introduced at some point when it was manufactured) which will cause you more damage than the thing you're trying to prevent by carrying it. I&#x2
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by jbstack 8mo ago
Maybe I've misunderstood, but isn't the whole point that it outputs to those other formats? So if you like the way Mermaid outputs look, you'd just output to that?
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by jbstack 8mo ago
What you mean is that you don't find ASCII diagrams useful. Other people do (see other comments). I find them useful for Org Mode where I prefer to work with just text instead of having to keep separate image files together with my .
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by jbstack 8mo ago
I don't know how it works in France, but in common law systems opinions of other courts are always at least capable of being persuasive (not binding) precedent, so they are not irrelevant. Other courts can be, and often are, influenc
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by jbstack 8mo ago
Not sure it's good as a starter distro, but other than that I agree. I was put off NixOS for a long time despite loving the principles behind it. Then a few weeks ago I had ChatGPT give me a short course on it, including flakes and the
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by jbstack 8mo ago
There are so many distros that it really depends on your use-case and it's hard to make a generic suggestion. Ubuntu is a common recommendation for first timers, mainly because as the most popular distro you'll easily be able to G
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by jbstack 8mo ago
You only have to run through a modern Windows installer to understand how screwed you are if you install it. Last time I did this for a disposable Windows VM (a couple of years ago) I remember having to click through a whole bunch of prompt
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by jbstack 8mo ago
Suggestion: improve the opening summary paragraph: " Radicle is an open source, peer-to-peer code collaboration stack built on Git. Unlike centralized code hosting platforms, there is no single entity controlling the network. Repositor
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by jbstack 8mo ago
> This reminds me of the people who think they can build docsend in a weekend. The author is very clear that that's not what they are trying to achieve: " Now, don’t get me wrong, Jabber is not “production quality.” I would nev
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by jbstack 8mo ago
At the risk of sounding repetitive, my comments are in the context of the OP's article which is specifically about a scenario where you lack control in macOS. If you're someone who doesn't care about being able to do what the
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by jbstack 8mo ago
Again, my comment wasn't isolated. It was a response to the article. In that article, the person was concerned with tracking down 500+ potentially unneeded processes, and lamenting the difficulty and time consuming nature of doing so.
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by jbstack 8mo ago
NixOS is an extreme case, and I only mentioned it as a counter to the OP's article which was talking about the mammoth efforts required to remove unwanted processes. More generally, there are plenty of Linux distros which "just wo
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by jbstack 8mo ago
No insult intended. I genuinely wasn't aware of what advantages macOS offers for a power user (by which I mean someone who wants to do tasks more advanced than browsing, email, etc.). From quickly skimming the replies the common theme
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by jbstack 8mo ago
Such public shaming loses its value when it's overused though (see: boy who cried wolf). The "written by AI" accusation is thrown around so much, when it often isn't even true, that it just triggers scepticism as the ini
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by jbstack 8mo ago
I've never personally understood the point of macOS for power users (other than cases where you're required to use one e.g. for work). I can understand it for casual users who just want something simple that works for basic tasks,
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by jbstack 8mo ago
I feel like HN should have a policy of discouraging comments which accuse articles and other comments of being written by AI. We all know this happens, we all know it's a possibility, and often such comments may even be correct. But se
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by jbstack 8mo ago
As a matter of adopting sensible definitions, I think you need to draw the line somewhere between what is gambling and what is not. If the risk taken can, in principle, be shifted in your favour (i.e. to produce positive expectation) throug
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by jbstack 8mo ago
If you need a strategy to mitigate it (roll back and change approach) then it isn't really fair to describe it as "silly". If it's silly you could just ignore it altogether.
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by jbstack 8mo ago
It's not really a fair analogy. Restaurants don't want you taking food away because they want to limit the amount you eat to a single meal, knowing that you'll stop when you get full. If you take food out you can eat more by
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by jbstack 8mo ago
That's not the debate we're having here. See the comment I originally replied to: > What precise process do you suggest to tell them apart at Google scale? The suggestion is that scale makes a difference. I was refuting that.
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by jbstack 8mo ago
> You may want to limit Google size by forcing them to perform human reviews for all their customer service interactions You've inferred that, but I didn't make this claim. A sensible strategy would involve automating as much a
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by jbstack 8mo ago
I'm not sure how this is a reply to my comment. What you said applies whether you are hosting 1 video a month or 1,000,000 videos a month. My point was that scale isn't an excuse. What applies to large applies to small and vice ve
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by jbstack 8mo ago
Why does scale matter? If I have 100 customers and I have to spend 1 hour a week dealing with legal compliance requests then if I have 200 customers I have to spend 2 hours a week dealing with legal compliance requests, but I also have more
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by jbstack 8mo ago
I have a crazy idea... how about we take action on legitimate cases AND don't take action on fake ones?
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by jbstack 9mo ago
As someone who runs a charity, it surprises me how often people equate "non-profit" with "doesn't get paid" or "does everything for free". Non-profits still need money, they just don't use that money
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by jbstack 9mo ago
You can also mitigate a lot of the "familiarity penalties" by planning ahead. For example, by the time I made the decision to switch from Windows around 15 years ago, I'd already been preferring multi-platform FOSS software f
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by jbstack 9mo ago
You can't really make blanket statements like this about "Linux" in general because it depends on what distro you use. For example, in NixOS to fix this type of problem all you have to do is rollback to a previous configurati
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by jbstack 9mo ago
It's a bad analogy because the incentives are totally different. With sports betting (of the type in the article) you're betting against the bookmaker. If you win, they lose, and vice versa. Obviously it's better for them tha
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by jbstack 9mo ago
But by your own reasoning, you're also saying it's reasonable to learn Russian as a way to better understand Russia because your country happens to be opposed to them. If you accept that this relatively obscure reason is a valid m

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