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by lonelappde 6y ago
Free users should get time-budgets or group size limits or video resolution limits, not be spied on.
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by lonelappde 6y ago
This is horrific. The surveillance state has infiltrated ACLU. How is such a brazenly anti-liberty person tolerated at the ACLU? Even if you take his perspective, why is child porn OK in the enterprise?! Especially after Jeffrey Epstein?!
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by lonelappde 6y ago
Why would it cost 75% premium?
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by lonelappde 6y ago
Have they deployed a demo? It's hard to talk about something that no one can see.
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by lonelappde 6y ago
This smells like a feature built 10+ years ago, before notifications existed in Mac OS X, that never got upgraded. That's how apps "notified" back then.
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by lonelappde 6y ago
Why not just migrate the resources? Spin up new instances, load data from snapshots, get back to work.
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by lonelappde 6y ago
Why do I need 30? 1 rack in a datacenter is plenty for a database backed web app with a million users.
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by lonelappde 6y ago
IBM charged the customer for each server.
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by lonelappde 6y ago
Is Time Machine or other backup tools affected too?
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by lonelappde 6y ago
That's totally wrong. It's not OK to add ratios . It's OK to add populations . You can't add 1/3 and 1/3 to get 2/6 if the first 1/3 was reduced from 3 of 9 and th second was 1/3. Well, you can
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by lonelappde 6y ago
Related: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactical_urbanism There's also a guerilla group that fills potholes in Seattle.
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by lonelappde 6y ago
He hacked the server, not the client.
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by lonelappde 6y ago
Hmm? Highway means "public road" (and sometimes private) pretty much everywhere, legally, since before the US existed. https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/highways_and_motor_vehicles https://en.m.wikip
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by lonelappde 6y ago
Disney+ with Hulu, Netflix, HBO, Apple+, Amazon Prime, Starz, adds up if you want full coverage.
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by lonelappde 6y ago
Is this accurate? How is it tested?
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by lonelappde 6y ago
Yes for Firefox mobile.
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by lonelappde 6y ago
Did you like Google News content better? If not, why wasn't content quality a reason to switch before?
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by lonelappde 6y ago
What about the URL bar? For average non techie users, the URL bar isn't particularly helpful. They use page content. And AMP pages do show the original page domain name.
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by lonelappde 6y ago
Correction: The original URL is provided by the Share button on the right. But it's not a link. (To visit it, you'd have to copy and paste back into the browser. You can't share a link to the app you are shared from ) So the
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by lonelappde 6y ago
Why edit url? For non images, the original URL is in the page content.
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by lonelappde 6y ago
Like Colbert's truthiness, MC is educationaliness. Infotainment.
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by lonelappde 6y ago
The lesson to learn is that stardom is about branding (marketing/advertisers) and being the boss of workers, putting your name on it to fake authenticity and singular genius in what is a team effort.
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by lonelappde 6y ago
In 2002 the inventor of Microsoft Office (Charles Simonyi) took his $billions and left to create a company to replace programming with an Office-like app. In 2017 the company (Intentional) was acquihired back into MS after failing to genera
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by lonelappde 6y ago
Also, scammers using VOIP (plus extremely sensitive ADA rules around treating disabled people nicely and never doubting people who claimed disability) ruined the deaf-serving text-to-telephone gateway. Fortunately that problem was mostly so
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by lonelappde 6y ago
2001 was Mad OS X Cocoa. 2020 is JavaScript. The standard for UI was higher then, but was lost to the almighty god of cloud-based web apps.
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by lonelappde 6y ago
Even more simply, if something took a person year to write, it will take at least a person to maintain in perpettuity, as bits rot, especially after the profit authors disappear.
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by lonelappde 6y ago
You roll the feature out incrementally to the users who are ready. You build backwards compatible features. Basic software engineering.
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by lonelappde 6y ago
defyccc is barely this side of Alex Jones with their conspiracy theorizing absurd caricatures: They invented a theory that CO2 is called a "greenhouse gas" because farmers use CO2 in fertilizer, not because it increases temperatur
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by lonelappde 6y ago
Because the Lancet has a bad reputation for publishing poor quality research: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/05/25/this-contr... Edit: I'm not saying denyccc is good! I'm pointing out t
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by lonelappde 6y ago
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/05/25/this-contr... Edit: Gelman has posted 3 articles on this topic in the past 2 days. (The guy is prolific! He also publishes about 1 paper per month over his de

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