pompino

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by pompino 2y ago
Yes, most people and most countries are evil. In todays age I'd say the US has the largest concentration of evil.
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by pompino 2y ago
Lots of people do.
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by pompino 2y ago
Google will never stop spying themselves but will give you the ability to stop their competitors from spying on you. Heh..
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by pompino 2y ago
Good/Bad are consensus votes. Its hard to escape their use just because of how deeply ingrained the programming is. We just think it makes "sense" and is "obvious" because its a meme that is already in our head. The
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by pompino 2y ago
> Now all that remains is a good, measurable definition of what a bad company is. Lets re-invent religion.
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by pompino 2y ago
There are existing well established companies already doing this (active cooling). https://www.worldcourier.com/ This is one we use all the time.
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by pompino 2y ago
$14 mil isn't a whole lot when your company hires software people in the US. Software people in the US are expensive.
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by pompino 2y ago
The industry may learn from failures, but the shareholders of private companies want a return on their investment. I sure as heck don't want my 401k tied to oncology.
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by pompino 2y ago
>The little-known structures in tax-friendly destinations have contributed to the 15 pharmaceutical firms amassing profits of €580 billion in the last five years. >This amount outweighs their research and development (R&D) costs,
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by pompino 2y ago
Yeah, that makes the most sense. Take supplements if and when you need it. I think the real study would be if someone did trended vitamin deficiency data from all the subjects and then co-related the intake (for deficient persons) with heal
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by pompino 2y ago
https://www.cvedetails.com/top-50-products.php Yeah, I don't see Windows in the top 5.
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by pompino 2y ago
You can make an argument to convince people of your personal point of view, but there is no reason to be all upset if someone has a different viewpoint. Thankfully we are all at liberty to have our own view on this topic.
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by pompino 2y ago
You can have your own view. Nobody is taking it away or forcing you to believe otherwise. My point is why are people so upset when someone has a different view or doesn't agree with your personal view on Microsoft?
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by pompino 2y ago
Why are you so upset that people derive a lot of value from Windows? Enough that they want to keep using it, and defend it because they don't agree with the "everything is broken" meme.
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by pompino 2y ago
Yes it has an editor and a debugger, and some other stuff. So what? Its still an application. An application forcing you to update your OS would be laughed out of the room in any other situation. Personally I wouldn't defend such a bro
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by pompino 2y ago
>You don't just copy the binary on windows. You copy the binary and its dependencies. Unless it's based on .Net-framework, then yeah, you still care about it being updated through windows. Sure, but I can install s/w built
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by pompino 2y ago
>Install a specific app version from flatpak, download binaries, or compile it yourself for your current system. Then you can't have those dependencies managed by a package manager, which means you'll constantly be compiling (a
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by pompino 2y ago
Its funny that a compiler forces you to update your OS.
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by pompino 2y ago
Just to put things in perspective - MacOS forces you to run on their update treadmill for the OS, and you can't even update your xcode dev environment if you refuse. Ditto with Linux, you can't refuse OS updates if you use a packa
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by pompino 2y ago
A policy proposal needs a legal framework under which can actually can work. You can't just push that off as "that's the judiciary's problem".
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by pompino 2y ago
And you decide what is genuine? Sorry, this whole thread is a fantasy of nerds thinking they can create a punitive policy for behavior they don't like. But there is no actual substantive framework under which any of these fantasies can
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by pompino 2y ago
So if send an email "Fix all your bugs or else bad stuff will happen", and if they don't fix all their bugs now I can put their devs in jail ?
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by pompino 2y ago
What standard do you suggest to prove intent?
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by pompino 2y ago
> can of course install Arch or Gentoo or NixOS Minimal and then audit the packages that they're installing to see that there's no obvious security violations, but it's unrealistic to think that most non-software-engineer
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by pompino 2y ago
So software developers should be criminally liable for introducing security bugs?
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by pompino 2y ago
>Maybe as a consumer I’m better off leaving their ATM machine alone for now. Or we can go after the surveillance side too. "As a consumer" IDGAF about lining Apple executives pockets.
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by pompino 2y ago
I think he is good at building a narrative, but I guess I have a different view of what constitutes educational content. Nothing against the guy, I'm glad hes making the videos. Though I wish he would drop his scammy sponsor - betterhe
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by pompino 2y ago
For people who like to learn about new stuff, it feeds their addition. IMO the main takeaway from those videos is "Science is cool". The trap is thinking you know something, when in reality you don't. If one watches them alre
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by pompino 2y ago
That sounds nice, but I don't agree that it is the most-likely point. Anyway, I would argue the point of failure is lack of expert level guidance/mentorship and (sometimes) monetary resources to pursue higher education. Once you&#
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by pompino 2y ago
>educational like stuff from Veritasium People call his videos educational, but really, what is the actual education being imparted? Its superficial, and you will never know how rich the topic actually is, and what the nuances are who th

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