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Digital ID comes of age as pubs and bars get go-ahead for biometric scan tech(theguardian.com)
7 points by squiffsquiff 2d ago|2 comments
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by squiffsquiff 28d ago
Could call it... 'a Hamburglar'
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by squiffsquiff 1mo ago
This is like an 'experiment' where you hold out an apple and drop it. Pretty obvious foregone conclusion. Did you do a control, e.g. release the same app on Homebrew with similar marketing? Release another app and market it? You h
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by squiffsquiff 1mo ago
LOL
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by squiffsquiff 1mo ago
OK so you built a small utility app in a crowded space- see: https://setapp.com/lifestyle/best-color-picker https://alternativeto.net/software/instant-eyedropper/?platf... etc. You released o
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by squiffsquiff 1mo ago
You can also use homebrew on Linux - obviously not for casks
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by squiffsquiff 4mo ago
I am not defending the current situation but I am not aware of any case where anyone in the UK has gone to jail for piracy. Invariably what actually happens in such cases is: 1. See headline 'movie pirate goes to prison' which imp
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by squiffsquiff 4mo ago
One benefit: People are no longer trying to pretend that Meta is some beneficent orgainsation
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by squiffsquiff 5mo ago
By this logic you should factor that android was an acquisition, as were YouTube, doubleclick, deepmind and Waze
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Microsoft must face $2.8B UK lawsuit over cloud computing licences(reuters.com)
2 points by squiffsquiff 5mo ago|1 comments
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by squiffsquiff 5mo ago
LONDON, April 21 (Reuters) - Microsoft must face a mass lawsuit alleging it overcharged thousands of British businesses to use Windows Server software on cloud computing services provided by Amazon, Google and Alibaba, a London tribunal r
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by squiffsquiff 10mo ago
Can someone translate this from marketing puff into something meaningful? All I'm seeing is 'lambdas should map to micro services' 'please use more managed services'
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by squiffsquiff 1y ago
Appears that our author was present whilst either he gave a talk with no questions or a tame interviewer asked Werner soft questions with no follow-ups. Absolutely no pushback or challenge to anything he's reported as saying. Nothing a
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by squiffsquiff 1y ago
> 32 bit Linux is still supported by the kernel and Debian Deprecated for Debian https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/release-notes/issues....
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by squiffsquiff 1y ago
Wearing American football style helmets does not reduce the risk of concussion which is primarily the result of sudden acceleration or deceleration causing the brain to move around inside the skull https://ideas.ted.com/foot
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by squiffsquiff 1y ago
So naturally AI will be in the office 5 days a week and not working remotely right? right?
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by squiffsquiff 1y ago
This is an ignorant position. Look at e.g. https://engineering.marksandspencer.com/mobile/2024/09/05/re...
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Q&A with Sonos interim CEO Tom Conrad on the disastrous app redesign and more(theverge.com)
1 points by squiffsquiff 1y ago|1 comments
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by squiffsquiff 1y ago
The man who hopes to become Sonos’ next permanent CEO talks about the app, the now-canceled video player, subscriptions, Google, and more.
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by squiffsquiff 1y ago
Scheuer allegedly went into action quickly following his termination, and by early July was said to have used his work credentials, which still functioned after his termination, to access the menu creation system Disney contracted another c
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by squiffsquiff 1y ago
Client Caution Weighs on India's $280 Billion Tech Services Industry Infosys, TCS and Wipro report disappointing results as Trump tariffs and economic headwinds prompt corporate caution
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by squiffsquiff 1y ago
Article appears to blame developers for not attracting VCs to crypto. Right... Because every other industry would blame the developers for not attracting VC's to their industry, right? Right? And of course VC's are where it's
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by squiffsquiff 1y ago
I'm sure that we'll still be able to spot candidates doing the needful, and kindly reverting the same
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by squiffsquiff 1y ago
I think the better/mature response to this cultural change is to design takehomes anticipating the use of AI and then seeing where the canddiate got lost in the weeds or gets lost when cross questoined about it
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by squiffsquiff 1y ago
There were 30% layoffs at a company I worked at and one of the 'survivors' was so traumatised by it that they took their own life. It's a known phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor_guilt
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by squiffsquiff 2y ago
I had a Nokia n95 at the time. It also had superior hardware and a fully functional web browser. Yes the iPhone was attractive at the time but not initially a smartphone and certainly not the first
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by squiffsquiff 2y ago
Apple did NOT create the smartphone. When the iPhone released in 2007 it was a feature phone- no app store and famously missing featured like copy and paste. Besides Palm who you have mentioned there was Symbian and Windows Mobile which eac
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by squiffsquiff 2y ago
Ah ok thank you for clarifying
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by squiffsquiff 2y ago
My take away from this article is that the super heavy element Rutherfordium can barely be agreed to even exist outside of a theoretical sense.
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by squiffsquiff 2y ago
To me, the rules given to you are pure gatekeeping. The fact that even after they had given successively more restrictive rules for what should be a trivial program they then verbally restricted you further confirms this. I would question w

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