jwommack

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by jwommack 3y ago
The M chips make for real bad developer experience when trying to support interoperability. Lots of docker images and other virtualized software just can’t be emulated like it used to on them. We’re how many years in on this issue? When mos
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by jwommack 4y ago
There’s a reason they stopped selling Photoshop in non-subscription when the pricing difference was something like this. $699 vs $49/mo. Now maybe $20/mo since they no longer force bundling and have lower cost feature restricted v
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by jwommack 4y ago
Windows updates on older Eee PCs got/gets brutal a few years in. Mostly due to them needing to take up more and more hard drive space. I remember there was a significant security update a few years back that would just constantly retry
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by jwommack 4y ago
They pretty much already had the "Python 3" issue with PHP 6, the unicode PHP
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by jwommack 4y ago
They've been doing that since 5.2
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by jwommack 4y ago
The primary beneficiaries of this are basically Netflix and Google, no? My understanding is most of these policies have always been targeted at the large streaming services that are putting the most burden on the networks and who often alre
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by jwommack 5y ago
What's the phrase? You'll own nothing and be happy.
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by jwommack 5y ago
Things of possible note: * This is a survey published in 2018 with (survey) data gathered in two months of 2016 * mobility data comes from a different source for each country and they vary wildly in the period covered. Notable Italy and US
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by jwommack 5y ago
The bottom end of that range is $125k/yr. That’s within the average of a senior software engineer. It’s not a big leap or, really, hard to get in that context. The article specifically sites this as for senior software roles.
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by jwommack 5y ago
The Stanford study here cites an 11% reduction from ~8% to ~7%. This is purely for surgical masks, it found no impact from cloth. By far most mandate compliant masks even in high mask populations are cloth. There might be a conflation going
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by jwommack 5y ago
We’ve been able to write buggy automated software for a very long time. That’s not interesting. It’s also not that interesting that stealing/replicating code replicates bugs. When the AI/ML programs can actually create lines of co
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by jwommack 5y ago
Didn’t they get in big trouble for this not long ago?
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by jwommack 5y ago
It’s not an additional $20-50 an hour it’s the doubling of their single biggest expense in a sector known for extremely thin margins at a time where all of their supplies are also shooting up drastically in price.
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by jwommack 5y ago
The thread following this is a great example of Linux’s fatal issue. 5 different people have 5 different user stories. Public uptake requires ease of use and consistency.
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by jwommack 5y ago
It’s slower but, assuming you have control over page content, I’d think the answer is probably pseudo selectors or sibling selectors. The more complex stuff really. Of course if that’s a need the page needs work but, not everything is “fixa
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by jwommack 5y ago
Don’t even need the exact number just the aspect ratio.
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by jwommack 7y ago
When they did that they were never more than 10% of the personal computer market much less the world. Making products for everyone is exactly how they did it, with universally popular iPods, iPhones, and wearables. The two biggest revenue
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by jwommack 8y ago
That does it but also you can find more detailed information on their Github page: https://github.com/teslamotors/valhalla
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by jwommack 8y ago
You're making the same mistake a lot of people are pointing out in this thread, you're conflating Daily Active Users with Visits. If this were a decline Daily Active Users it'd be a 100% loss, it's clearly not. You'
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by jwommack 9y ago
This is more than a bit of revisionism, or possibly he just didn't know much about the German/Austrian interwar period. It's well documented, and covered in most of the histories regarding the rise of Nazism, that a not insig
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by jwommack 9y ago
Part of the reason that is an issue is that they're settling for much smaller amounts because the cut they get is big. So you have some massive data breach cases settled for things like $10 million. That's not even punitive at t
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by jwommack 9y ago
There is no try; only hacked and soon to be hacked.
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by jwommack 9y ago
> Do you use Linux in your stack? Do you often extend the kernel? How about nginx or Apache Webserver? Tomcat? You're talking about a massively different scale of thing here, especially in terms of lifecycle and long term support gu
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by jwommack 10y ago
Yahoo's fantasy sports app is pretty successful. It's about as installed as ESPNs and they were third in DFS (though far behind the first two). They actually just did a major redesign to it that made the DFS stuff more prominent.