IneffablePigeon

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Comment · 9 days ago
Open source it, cowards
Comment · 12 days ago
What on earth are you talking about my guy
Comment · 15 days ago
> 40 PRs open

Ah, so you've privatised the benefits and externalised the costs.

Comment · 26 days ago
Neat! Now find me some hills on my routes in Cambridgeshire, it's flat as a pancake out here
Comment · 1 month ago
Ah, well then we can make them ourselves and not need to have the argument then
Comment · 1 month ago
It's pure snobbery
Comment · 1 month ago
I think it's changing a lot recently. Our eng team of ~150 has been fully macos for several years now and we've deployed to Linux for ten.
Comment · 1 month ago
They're an incredible marketing machine.

But mostly it's a mix of the integration network effects you mention, cost of reimplementation if you want to leave, and the good old "nobody gets fired for buying IBM" dynamic.

Comment · 1 month ago
It is mostly the freshness. There is a reason it all comes from small local bakeries - it has to be made that morning. Even by the afternoon it will not be as good.
Comment · 2 months ago
Wild that I could read this article, give DeepSeek about 4 sentences of prompts and have it running on my own homelab and unifi cameras in about 10 minutes.

The future mostly sucks but some parts are pretty cool.

Comment · 2 months ago
...have you tried any of the cameras from the last 5 years or just the pixel 6? My 11 pro's cameras are by far the best cameras I've ever used on a smartphone, my previous iPhone included.
Comment · 2 months ago
Football field and pitch are fairly interchangeable in the UK.
Comment · 2 months ago
Two of those are the same thing and both are much cheaper in countries other than the US where the government is much more involved
Comment · 2 months ago
Which law? Seems like it is under EU law.
Comment · 2 months ago
The brand of ice cream I associate the most with being tasteless and cheap is Carte D’Or so I’m not sure this is the burn you think it is

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