kdomanski

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Measuring developer productivity? A response to McKinsey(tidyfirst.substack.com)
3 points by kdomanski 2y ago|0 comments
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Apple: Prove your identity with a CC neither you or us have ever seen(kdomanski.substack.com)
3 points by kdomanski 2y ago|3 comments
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by kdomanski 2y ago
tl;dr: During account recovery, iCloud might ask you for the details of a credit card you’ve been using with the account. But it doesn’t just check whether the data matches their records — it tries to actually run the card. And if the live
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by kdomanski 3y ago
Wow, in the EU one email to the local data protection office would set them on fire for this.
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by kdomanski 3y ago
Yeah, banks unfortunately have their opinionated checklists of “best practices”, also know as “what every other bank does”.
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by kdomanski 3y ago
In Poland, drinking in public space (with some exceptions) is forbidden. Sometimes police will issue fines even for “intention to drink” if they see a person with an unopened bottle of beer.
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UniFi 7(community.ui.com)
2 points by kdomanski 3y ago|1 comments
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by kdomanski 4y ago
> there was an ambitious project called Nepomuk for Semantic Desktop and that failed 10 years ago? Oh, they didn’t fail per se. They just ran out of the 11.5 million EUR grant money.
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by kdomanski 4y ago
https://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/Project+Summary.html https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/027705 The 11.5 million EUR funding is the primary driver behind KDE‘s semantic desktop and the infamou
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by kdomanski 4y ago
That doesn’t stop the DoJ from extraditing foreign nationals who never set foot on US soil before.
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by kdomanski 4y ago
> Clearly you haven't had much interaction with German PhDs. It's very common to include titles in your name (this also includes lower ones) there. Although it admittedly has become less common. Expat living in Germany here. Yo
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by kdomanski 4y ago
One can argue that under US legal system only.
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by kdomanski 4y ago
> Another way to look at it is that people who other people want to work with get high ratings. Is that bad? From a company culture standpoint, I'm not sure it is. Depending on who is it that people do and don’t want to work with, w
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by kdomanski 5y ago
I still remember when Samsung effectively bricked their SSD for Linux users with a faulty firmware update. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fstrim/+bug/144900... Not only did they never revert&#
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by kdomanski 5y ago
Planning to commit a murder or a terrorist attack is a felony that will put an individual in prison for a long time.
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Show HN: A Go package for building ISO images(github.com)
7 points by kdomanski 5y ago|0 comments
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by kdomanski 5y ago
Isn’t the Apache Foundation exactly that?
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by kdomanski 5y ago
This. In addition, in some countries like Germany, having your name connected to a bankruptcy will ruin your credit score, making it difficult to e.g. rent an apartment.
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German restaurants object after police use Covid data for crime-fighting(reuters.com)
4 points by kdomanski 6y ago|0 comments
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by kdomanski 12y ago
http://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/Project+Summary.html The semantic desktop was nothing more than a way to leech EU grants for "innovation". They've been looking for use cases long after the money ran out.
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by kdomanski 12y ago
Not even that is necessary. > The best solution probably is to create a new database during image creation, but in the official Postgres image this option is still not available. The official image's README ( https://regis