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Comment · 4 years ago
Listen to an audible book while you do it. Treat it as meditation time. Treat it as exercise. Use the time to call your mum or dad.

Lots of things can be done while aimlessly walking.

Comment · 4 years ago
> the vast majority of Web scraping efforts are to build businesses on top of other organizations hard work and innovation. Period. End of story.

Yeah and the vast majority of the internet and all these mega corps run on open source while paying pittance back to the ecosystem. Cry me a fuckin river.

Can't wait til someone sue's them for "scraping" their site for web previews and thumbnails everytime someone shares a link on Facebook.

The double standard of these muppets.

Comment · 4 years ago
Profattip Linus Tech tips clothing line has awesome fat people sizing and the stuff fits well too.
Comment · 4 years ago
> I'd have still been paying £50/domain or £150/wildcard root domain cert per year.

For vapourware. SSL certs should never have ever cost anything. They've always been a scam.

Comment · 4 years ago
We got juiced by PE. Hiring went to absolute shit. Nobody knows whos in charge anymore. Decision makers have all left the company. I just make everything up as I go along and people go with it because I've been around so long nobody will question it.

Total shit show.

Comment · 4 years ago
Not being able to run delete commands is a bit more than a limitation no matter what way you want to spin it.
Comment · 4 years ago
Intel does a fair bit of exclusivity deals to prevent vendors from making certain pairings. It also didn't help that amd mobile CPUs were budget options for a long time. Manufacturers haven't caught on to the demand yet really.
Comment · 4 years ago
It also leads to overengineered framework code that only exists to support the glue code that is now required to pull distant code together.

Increasing the distance between inputs and outputs increases complexity.

Reusable code isn't all that reausable when nobody understands it or things are so fragmented people can't figure out how to operate the code base.

This isn't a rule. It's a moderation thing.

Comment · 4 years ago
aka

Abstractions have non zero complexity costs.

And

Repeated code has non zero complexity costs

Why is this a hard concept?

It doesn't make dry any less valid.

Generally you can invoke both reasons to do something but the underlying reasoning is always complexity.

Comment · 4 years ago
I think author is making the point that it always was interchangeable and that we've been over treating it as if it's always a disease.
Comment · 4 years ago
We have our own datacentres. Lucky enough to have got them up and running pre cloud era. If we were any later we would be full cloud but the reality is we outcompete everyone on price in our space because of it.
Comment · 4 years ago
Thanks. Almost felt guilty for a second there.
Comment · 4 years ago
> Why must I say no to this every time I open the app?

It's a custom nudge. It's shown by the Spotify app. Clicking on the CTA takes you to the settings page or something.

Comment · 4 years ago
I don't think I've checked permissions on the play store in ages. Don't apps prompt when they access things now?

Speaking of which, anyone from Spotify around?

Could you kindly take your request for control over Bluetooth and shove it up your fuckin arse?

Why must I say no to this every time I open the app?

No means no.

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