littlecosmic

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by littlecosmic 3mo ago
The stakeholders just want to send emails and excels around, someone in management has a budget for a productivity enhancing tool to replace that and the engineers have a half-baked solution that some sales guys are saying is the second
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by littlecosmic 7mo ago
IMO these folk are doing a great job slowly chipping away at all the barriers to using guile everywhere. Also, their software, like "Goblins", gets the imagination started up, mulling what the next wave of software could be like.
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by littlecosmic 7mo ago
Far crazier things have happened on this planet than switching to Linux and retraining some IT folk.
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by littlecosmic 9mo ago
If there are terrible crimes being committed by a dictator then there is the ICC and the UN. It would require building up rather than undermining the institution but it’s there.
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by littlecosmic 9mo ago
You say this like it is a law of nature, but we can plan and build it directly if we want it. Redundancy is not something that only emerges from an indirect 4d-chess strategy of ownership mixes.
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by littlecosmic 10mo ago
Even under capitalism there is a lot of central planning at huge scales. Walmart is one American example. Woolworths and Coles are another couple in Australia. These companies aren’t rocketing up at the market each morning and taking the la
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by littlecosmic 10mo ago
They say transparency is important which is true, but taking accountability would be good too. This is an OpenAI incident and internally they have a subcontractor mixpanel.
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by littlecosmic 10mo ago
Maybe the military should pillage all the places it goes to self-fund?
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by littlecosmic 10mo ago
In Singapore there is no MRT congestion prices only for private cars, right? Trains get crowded but still workable. It’s not clear if people would start working 6am to 3pm or something if you did. Overall I think charging money made more se
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by littlecosmic 11mo ago
In my experience, it’s often the business side - rather than IT - that tries to use a technical change to force change to the business process that they have failed to change politically… and it usually turns out that a technical change isn
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by littlecosmic 11mo ago
The trap will work if you are near destitute.
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by littlecosmic 11mo ago
Valued by the worker to give meaning and quality of life not by the buyer - so it does carry much weight.
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by littlecosmic 1y ago
Don’t you also have to consider this just as much without CRDT? Not saying it isn’t a real issue, but this example could easily be a problem with a more traditional style app - maybe users open the record on their web browser at same time a
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by littlecosmic 1y ago
In Singapore there is a mix, but BYD seems to be a growing quickly - just anecdotal
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by littlecosmic 1y ago
On my 16" M1 MacBook Pro both Return and Fn+Return edit the filename... does it work differently on yours?
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by littlecosmic 1y ago
yes, fair points. Thanks for clarifying.
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by littlecosmic 1y ago
The risk factor is mainly that someone got the password from a web application hack not that they logged into your computer and accessed your password manager. In the web app scenario it is still a second factor.
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by littlecosmic 1y ago
Alternatively it just puts pressure on the walled garden to let people do what that want to do safely within the walls so they don’t have to go through the escape hatch.
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by littlecosmic 1y ago
But how sure are you that it was the fuel efficiency standards that led to more SUVs? Feels like bad reasoning, unless you have more evidence.
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by littlecosmic 1y ago
Better to find a postwar fibre optic than a postwar mine, I guess
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by littlecosmic 1y ago
What is ‘blind’ about sending it to a paired device whitelisted by the user?
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by littlecosmic 2y ago
Maybe artificial in the way that we hypothetically could do things better if there wasn’t so much inertia to the status quo.
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by littlecosmic 2y ago
Looks cool but it seems to have a lot of tracking of personal data that is used for more than just the social features of the app. Am I misunderstanding?
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by littlecosmic 2y ago
24hrs of web/office is a work day of something more intense, or a few hours of something crazy.
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by littlecosmic 2y ago
It’s ok, I can imagine it. I just think the extra context the article provides is more measured and less emotive, so you can read the situation better. I’m in favour of criticising everything, including China.
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by littlecosmic 2y ago
The story has more details and sets the context that makes it obvious that it’s not more nefarious than the existing firewall policy. I’m not saying that they shouldn’t be criticised or anything.
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by littlecosmic 2y ago
This post reads as anti-China propaganda in tone. I found this less breathless account of it: https://web.archive.org/web/20240326212544/https://www.rfa.o...
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by littlecosmic 2y ago
This plan worked out so well last time it was tried in Cuba :)
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by littlecosmic 2y ago
The are sold out
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by littlecosmic 2y ago
They have a certain percentage of direct control and the remainder is what causes all the problems.

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