spr93

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by spr93 6mo ago
usenet and irc are quite old. how are they examples of some mythical point at which the internet was unlocked by services? centralized and decentralized would include almost any service. your comment is so vague and ambiguous as to be mean
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by spr93 8mo ago
Meet the new Microsoft - same as the old one. This is the same reasoning that led to a decade of mindnumbingly obvious exploits against Internet Explorer. You've got to create secure defaults. You have to ask whether your users real
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by spr93 2y ago
He's wrong about capitalization. The "to" in "to allow" is part of the verb (forming the infinitive). It's not a preposition. Dumb flex.
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by spr93 3y ago
JetBlue has an all Airbus and Embraer 175 fleet. No matter what you book on B6 mainline, you're getting a comfortable airliner. Virgin America had an all-Airbus fleet...until Alaska bought them and ditched the Airbus leases because &#
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by spr93 3y ago
no. that case is about whether notice on shrinkwrap or via a license-acceptance screen can create an enforceable agreement. its not even a copyright issue. morality has nothing to do with contract (or copyright) law in a common law countr
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by spr93 3y ago
a few concepts you need to start: copyright is a right to exclude. copyright does not arise from your agreement. the copyright attaches to the protected expression. analogies are dangerous, but these concepts are intuitive if you think i
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by spr93 3y ago
No way am I giving your startup* my phone number. Maybe you can have a custom-generated, one-use-only email address that I can turn off so you don't spam me. (Your startup may be virtuous, but most startups fail, and then my data bec
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by spr93 3y ago
microsoft has always had a culture of "just make it work yesterday" that led to shoddy code. they spent a lot of money, some of it on PR and some of it on real work, polishing up some of windows's more egregious problems a c
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by spr93 3y ago
Nice write up, but the author is wrong about the GEOS version. Geodes (GEOS executables, drivers, libraries--pretty much anything that "runs") have their own version information (version, release, protocol) in the file header. Th
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by spr93 4y ago
You are: 1. Consuming medical and emergency resources by creating easily preventable severe injuries 2. Raising raising insurance premiums or burdening public hospitals with the same 3. Potentially burdening the legal system (with a higher
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by spr93 4y ago
TUL: Skoda makes reliable cars at a good price. VW bought them out; they're basically VW models built in Czechia factories that apparently have great quality control. https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/business&
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by spr93 4y ago
What were they a professor of? I don't see a paradox of choice here; none of those Colgate products, or anything else sitting on the shelf that's ADA accepted, is going to rot your teeth. It is, however, a classic result of oligo
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by spr93 4y ago
As others have pointed out, you're wrong about USB-C's minimum standards. But more important, markets work best when consumers have good information about what they're buying. Lightning always works as expected. Give me a Lig
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by spr93 4y ago
This kind of piece usually happens because of the following common industry practice: A company's PR department (usually via an outside publicist) approaches a friendly (or likely friendly) journalist with an idea for the story. They
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by spr93 4y ago
Your airplane analogy is apt, but it cuts the other way. In fact, FedEx likes to buy out Boeing facilities so that they're not "completely reliant" on Boeing for anything.[1] As for the more general cloud v. on-prem debate, I
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by spr93 4y ago
so use '2>&1' to redirect stderr to stdout. new ideas are great. but this isn't a new idea. "run a command silently unless it fails" is basic; it's the sort of thing that should make one think "i s
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by spr93 5y ago
The Kobo Sage is slightly cheaper (in the US) for a comparable product. Still over $200, but not a lot if you get a Sage on sale and buy via Rakuten for an additional rebate. I've had a Kindle Oasis (the non-ad-supported version) for a
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by spr93 5y ago
I think the writers believe what they're saying. They're just unable to express themselves concisely or think clearly (or both). It's a lot of words to say something really simple: "minimalist stylized logo with lines a
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by spr93 5y ago
A "group of people ... collectively making decisions" doesn't help make sense of anything. A company is itself a group collectively making decisions. Where you draw the "group" line is arbitrary unless you underst
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by spr93 5y ago
The (possibly apocryphal) version I was told includes another layer: The problematic code was part of a last-minute kludge for the Ariane 4. The kludged code violated the Ariane 4's specifications. The Ariane 4 team knew this, but t
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by spr93 5y ago
So true. Today I must explain to my mother that she needs to press a flat picture (not a button) of three horizontal bars in order to pull up a command list. The list won't be sorted by category, but by a designer or developer's
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by spr93 5y ago
You must not have been around for the 80s and 90s' "desktop wars." Microsoft did everything they could to undermine innovation and they didn't help businesses, they locked them into inferior technology that cost more an
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by spr93 5y ago
Apple can absolutely accuse you of pirating something it doesn't want to sell. The real question is whether they will spend the time or money to do anything about it. The answer is complicated. In your scenario, Apple will technical
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by spr93 5y ago
If that "company" owned the copyright, they would almost certainly win, but damages could be low or negligible negligible as long as the distributor wasn't selling the abandonware and as long as the suit was only for one copy
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by spr93 6y ago
That's excellent, and Rust makes perfect sense here. But consider that OP has an important point (though not said very diplomatically): Ada/SPARK has decades of experience and research in safety, especially type safety, which ha
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by spr93 6y ago
If you've got back up media, you can still get the OS/390 Backup Facility from Arca Noae: https://www.arcanoae.com/shop/s-390-backup-facility/ (Arca Noae is IBM's licensed purveyor of OS/2.)