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by rusk 1mo ago
It’s not. Try pulling updates after a rebase. Very much not the same as piping arbitrary disembodied text into your shell.
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by rusk 1mo ago
Precisely the reason is to give breathing room for big players to invest in development of technology so they can capitalise exclusively for a period
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by rusk 1mo ago
Pharma and Healthcare was the implication I believe. The US approach to these things has a bad reputation internationally though I am informed that it’s an amazing system if you’re rich.
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by rusk 2mo ago
At least they’re allowing their colonies to have elections
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by rusk 2mo ago
Yeah I think that’s done. Tragically this technique coupled with a poor selection of materials was the structural cause of the grenfell fire. We see this kind of panelling around various European cities. “Cladding” it is called and it serve
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by rusk 2mo ago
I actively skip stuff that’s on substack just like I do medium and blogger. Maybe there’s good stuff on there but it’s usually a by-word for slop. I figure if anyone has anything that interesting to say they’d make the effort and put it up
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by rusk 2mo ago
https://steelroofsheets.co.uk/categories/ventilated-wall-cla...
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by rusk 2mo ago
Already in widespread use https://www.sips.org/what-are-sips
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by rusk 2mo ago
This was tried before but was presumably scuppered by the market intelligence and surveillance communities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P
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by rusk 2mo ago
> If there are tens of thousands, it may make you feel less bad about tossing them. That’s a great point. It doesn’t eliminate the problem but it helps break it up a bit, which is definitely helpful.
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by rusk 2mo ago
I had considered this. Up cycling them as eco bricks but that’s nearly as destructive as burning. Life would be so much easier if I had no qualms.
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by rusk 2mo ago
That’s no good to me. It’s the physical volumes I need to get rid of. I couldn’t give a fiddlers about what’s in them
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by rusk 2mo ago
I have lots of old books that aren’t very good. That I can’t give away. What do I do with them? I have this strange taboo feeling about destroying books, even bad ones!
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by rusk 2mo ago
Unless you’re hoping the regulators will build you a moat. Stupid, yeah but that’s the kind of thinking that a highly leveraged and desperate situation breeds.
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by rusk 2mo ago
Maybe that’s the point!
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by rusk 2mo ago
My main issue was it was bricked. I had given up on it and then just got an email out of the blue. Just because I bought direct from them I guess. They didn’t demand any proof or that I send the device back or anything. They just gave me th
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by rusk 2mo ago
Correct you will be left with the people who couldn’t switch
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by rusk 2mo ago
How’s this for a working theory. Economic actors that were established doing the “easy stuff” that got displaced first got a head start on everyone else and started low balling on the harder stuff and that’s why we’re seeing impacts in the
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by rusk 2mo ago
They did the decent thing with the Versa and refunded everybody.
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by rusk 2mo ago
Okay bro.
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by rusk 2mo ago
They’re not going to support legacy pebble by any chance?
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by rusk 2mo ago
> You can’t really call it a pro-piracy message though. Of course not. That would probably infringe on advertising standards. But it is the clear implication.
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by rusk 2mo ago
> Apple knew they were selling a device to play pirated music If I’m remembering right, the tagline on the Mac mini was “rip mix burn”
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by rusk 2mo ago
It’s not a big secret. I’m pretty sure it was mentioned in Chris Pratt’s recent adaptation…
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by rusk 2mo ago
I was suggesting that website hosting isn’t a particularly hard problem with no moat. European customers could go literally anywhere.
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by rusk 2mo ago
“American website hosting companies are disproportionately exposed to market shock from their European customers”
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by rusk 2mo ago
Yes they don’t call it AI
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by rusk 2mo ago
> Successful product though, wasn't it If you can call being an “also ran” in a field they had a ten year march on their competitors in success, yeah. Truth be told it was the shoddy code they were forced to use for the vanity of th
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by rusk 2mo ago
In so far as AI can do hardware reliably you can bet your bottom dollar the big chip fabs have already been doing that. They don’t call it AI though and the models aren’t language based, surprisingly enough /s
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by rusk 3mo ago
I think a lot of European nations have been reevaluating their relationship with the US. Digital sovereignty in particular is a burning topic.

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