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With pleasure. The article is pretty much on point but the prose makes it difficult to build sympathy with it. It feels sterile, lacking in conviction and generally detracts from the point. It's an emotional plea without any emotion.
Thanks for the diagnosis. Have you met or communicated with humans recently?
It's so banal and middle-of-the-road it has to be AI generated.
Well I guess the industry is fucked then!
Really not interested in this one. There is no data portability as none of the file formats they use for anything are documented and they are shovelling you into an eternal subscription model. At least Adobe file formats are well documented and have importers on pretty everything else so you can escape if you need to. I can open illustrator and photoshop files in a load of other apps, including open source. Pixelmator and their office stuff, nope.
I’ve been in this trap before and I’m only interested in portable, documented, non subscription stuff.
I’ve moved to Darktable, Inkscape and libreoffice here mostly for my needs. I don’t really need photoshop equivalent.
Indeed.
But they are until they are actually defeated. I would rather plan for failure. We are in a global climate where court rulings can be ignored.
Sudden account closure. Bad neighbours. IP blocks on DO ranges all over the place randomly. Egress email is painful.
I know this is facetious, but Mullvad funded fascism. So you're right anyway.
AWS does care. You have to sign up with a credit card and verify a phone number. And if you want to spend serious money you have to actually provide business documentation.
I can stop any time. I promise.
I haven't found a competent supplier who doesn't want to know who you are.
I entirely exclude Digital Ocean from competent suppliers.
Heroin dealer running a loss leader operation.
This is what I do. No Ryanair. Everyone else runs A320 series across Europe. I usually just fly easyJet.
How do we know if our bills were ever right if this made it into production?
It's much simpler than that.
If you can't afford a video then don't make one. A slop video for $100 will devalue your entire brand. People will question your music.
There's a lot more value in just cutting some live performance videos together cheaply.
I hate all this weird activist stuff. It's pointless. Someone just pays for it and the problem is fixed.
If you want to sabotage their hyperscale data centre construction, you probably should do it from the inside. Get the skills, get a job, get to the top and do a fucking terrible job of it like MSFT's C-suite.
My daughter went to watch that and walked out. To compare, she managed to make it through Cats.
Yeah. I gave up a couple of years ago after Epic broke my account and I lost my purchases irrecoverably. I have actually started playing board games with people now. This is so much better for me. And cheaper. And you can't taken them away.
We did that and our customer satisfaction tanked and the query logs were full of "fuck off and tell me how to speak to someone". This was as I expected it would be.
You really think people will give you any respect or interest if you stick something between them and you? How
Yeah we have actually have to prove to some enterprises that we have a certain level of staffing.
Seen similar. They will be back when they realise the vibe coded SaaS run by two people in a trailer park isn’t what it looked like.
A lot of the big SaaS stuff isn’t code or product. It’s support and hand holding.
Oh that one really makes you think doesn’t it.
I am a USB-C maximalist too. Until I find a cable that doesn't do what it looks like it is supposed to do. Then I suffer from USB-C depression.
My partner was for a bit. She deleted Instagram and started reading books again. This was surprisingly difficult to pick up again after a year of Instagram apparently. It does form very bad habits.
Can we have the UI that was promised in all the mock ups a few years back please?
Just had a quick scan through it. ToC is a bit rambling. Content sample isn't enough to judge the whole book. I'll reserve judgement. It looks considerably better than Practical Electronics for Inventors and several orders of magnitude better than Mimms' and Make garbage.
Probably a good start. We shall see.
I was going to write my own book on the matter but quite frankly I don't have the time or energy for it.
No one knows what is going to happen in the long term. No one is going to know what is going to happen in the short term. I'd take the education and put off working as long as possible and see if the market sorts itself out.
It's one of those characteristics you can't rely on unless you select / bin parts. Also depends on temperature. Which is why no one does this in a production design - it's expensive and unreliable.
Yeah that advice is smoking crack. I have no idea what people are thinking these days? We seem to have lost any sensible security understanding recently.
You can't gaslight something into not doing something bad. There has to be a hard security control that prevents it doing something bad. And if you don't know what it's capable of because it's non-deterministic then you have to start with a default block everything. This should have never been possible with any sensible design.
On my first point again, ethics and engineering both went out of the window when fast and shiny came along. This is disgraceful.