pipo234

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by pipo234 2mo ago
+1 That, and it works in mountainous areas like the Alps or Pyrenees, where you're lucky to have GPS and most definitely can't rely on 4G for Google Maps
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by pipo234 3mo ago
48kHz makes alignment between video and audio so much easier. (I.e.: Lip synchronization after edits)
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by pipo234 4mo ago
But presumably, you only include dependencies that you trust and those dependencies themselves do their trusting more strictly than you. Trust is built on vetting, signatures and reputation. That is, at least what we do, in theory. In pract
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by pipo234 4mo ago
Or, as they say in AMD's case: they never miss a chance to miss a chance
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by pipo234 4mo ago
> Can someone that understands quantum computing please comment? ... Crickets ...
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by pipo234 4mo ago
There is little president for healthy industry being killed by bands of unionized workers. Charitably, one might think of rust belt car industry or Britain's mines and railways. Though of course, there was no way those industries could
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by pipo234 4mo ago
I suppose this comes down to semantics. It's more grey than black and white. For instance, Russia doesn't send conscripts to fight in Ukraine. But it's hard to argue that soldiers fighting and dying in the front lines made a
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by pipo234 4mo ago
True, they are not the same. But they probably feel similarly coerced into accepting an unfair deal. So yeah, the comparisons are hyperboles, but I totally feel why they're upset and hope collective bargaining helps better their situat
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by pipo234 4mo ago
You might ask the same about any exploitive relation. Why is there prostitution? Why are slaves doing work for their masters? Why are children going through our garbage in some distant country, if they hardly earn enough to eat?
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by pipo234 5mo ago
A BLE tracker can't really broadcast very far itself, can it?! Isn't the problem that someone on board was using a phone with Bluetooth relay, gps and cellular enabled?
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by pipo234 5mo ago
Last paragraph: > Big donations like this tend to flow toward well-established foundations, while the countless smaller projects that hold up just as much critical infrastructure quietly struggle for resources.
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by pipo234 5mo ago
Wait. Wasn't AI supposed to alleviate the burden of legacy code?!
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by pipo234 5mo ago
The technical term seems to be: entrapment . The war could have ended after the first few "successful" days. And still every day it continues, it becomes a little bit harder to back out. Like Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan this war
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by pipo234 6mo ago
Sad, but true. And if they had it their way, Oracle would have similarly strangled every last customer of Java, MySQL, OpenOffice, Solaris, etc. to squeeze out every last dollar. And then make it look like they're innovating.
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by pipo234 6mo ago
> Output is a lot harder to measure, which means it can be fudged easily. First and foremost, this is about Oracle. For the short period I worked there, my impression about culture and tech was: mediocre. Not excellent, not poor but just
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by pipo234 6mo ago
So glad to no longer be working for these clowns
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by pipo234 7mo ago
Not a subscriber, but I understand your call for retribution. I suppose the silver lining is that they are putting the responsibility for age verification adults. Which imo is better than requiring everyone; kids get a free pass to the kids
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by pipo234 7mo ago
Please consider re-posting as "Show HN" or adjusting subject line
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by pipo234 7mo ago
This has those Hotmail migration vibes off the early 2000s.
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by pipo234 7mo ago
And "a very limited number" may mean "though we pretend to be a big company, we have a limited number of customers and while they all pay licence fees, most are not actually using the product in production."
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by pipo234 8mo ago
Fair enough, but they also have a deeply embedded New Public Management culture.
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by pipo234 8mo ago
Very good point, though I believe it's both market push and consumer expectation. Because we have such limited control over our devices, they effectively provide the security of a jail locking down what users can do. That is appealing
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by pipo234 8mo ago
> On top of that Patreon is a closed centralized platform that's bound to have issues like this and that's where I very much prefer using protocols (vs platforms) that enable the same. There are very similar solutions to Patreo
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by pipo234 8mo ago
To many users, an app seems to be perceived as the blessed way to access the web. While on a mobile, they are mostly a way to organize symlinks or bookmarks. Except, off course a web browser does its best to protect the user while most ap
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by pipo234 8mo ago
> However, if I were closer to the front end of my career, I'd certainly be looking to change, perhaps to technical writing. It's tough for Juniors. I recommend specializing on one or two systems aspects, like performance, rel
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by pipo234 8mo ago
Hoping plain old software development will remain for the next decade or so, then retire.
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by pipo234 8mo ago
Simplicity makes sense, of course. I just hadn't considered a grpc-only world. But I guess that makes sense in today's Kubernetes/node/python/llm world where grpc is the glue that once was SOAP (or even CORBA). Stil
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by pipo234 8mo ago
I understand some of the appeal of grpc, but resumable uploads and download offsets have long be part of plain http. (E.g. RFC 7233) Relying on http has the advantage that you can leverage commodity infrastructure like caching proxies and C
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by pipo234 8mo ago
Would like to point out that professional translation has been under pressure for much longer than AI. I have friends that made a descent buck 20-30 years ago translating technical documents like car manuals. Over the years, prices fell fro
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by pipo234 8mo ago
It is a bit of a race to the bottom for library components: either you open source and it gets snatched by LLM parties or you keep it closed and good luck selling your wares. On top of that the open source market will increasingly be floode

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