vinaypai

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Founder of Facteroid, combating fake news by bringing transparency and context to online news.

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Comment · 2 years ago
DRAM pioneers don't die, they just stop their refresh cycle.
Comment · 2 years ago
The assumption here is that Boeing is responsible for these.

What exactly does Boeing gain from murdering whistleblowers after the fact? At this point Boeing's reputation is already tarnished and they're already going to be under a microscope, so what does murdering whistleblowers even achieve?

Comment · 2 years ago
I don't know which sites you use, but Kayak and Google Flights both let you input the number of checked and carry-on bags you're traveling with and include those fees in the comparison.
Comment · 2 years ago
I'm okay with bag fees. There is a real cost to carrying extra bags. I pack light and don't see why I need to subsidize other people if it's bundled.

On the other hand, fees for things like seat assignment (regular seats, not just the exit rows and such) are just an annoying cash grab.

Comment · 2 years ago
If they had a ready alternative market they could just do that instead of flipping out over Germany decided what can and can't be imported into their own country.
Comment · 2 years ago
Botswana is a landlocked country.
Comment · 2 years ago
It's kind of pathetic to make silly threats that everyone knows they have zero ability to carry out.
Comment · 2 years ago
There are reasons to want your own modem, to avoid overpaying via rental fees, for example, but what security or privacy do you imagine you're getting by buying your own modem?

You're literally plugging it into their network and they can see everything that goes on the pipe whether they are on the LAN side of it or the Cable side.

There's a stronger privacy argument for using your own WiFi access point though.

Comment · 2 years ago
In my experience, Jira isn't great out of the box but it's pretty good if you take a few hours to understand how to configure workflows, field configurations, forms, and boards.

For example, at my last company I had the development project configured with about a dozen different ticket states, but you created a ticket with a simple form with the title as the only mandatory field but there were optional fields for details and screenshots.

Developers could move a ticket into "in progress" or "can't reproduce". The latter transition showed a form with a mandatory explanation field, and it would automatically get assigned back to the person who created the ticket.

On completing the ticket, the developer has to put in a pull request and can only moves it to the Code Review state and had to pick a different developer to assign it to.

It sounds a bit tedious when you describe it but in practice everyone worked off a board with three or four columns appropriate to their role. They move tickets to the right to advance them or to the left to reject them. There were also automated transitions triggered by things like CI tests, deployment etc.

Comment · 2 years ago
Children are capable of understanding the difference between pretense and reality.

My 4 year old loves playacting scenes and games from Bluey but he also understands that I'm not an anthropomorphic dog. Or, for that matter that our dog can't do most of the things the dogs on Bluey can.

Comment · 2 years ago
This is why "save the earth" is a silly slogan. The Earth doesn't need saving. An environment suitable for humans on the other hand...
Comment · 2 years ago
Glad to hear the copyright troll got his comeuppance. I just wouldn't have expected a large estate to be in the receiving end of the trolling.
Comment · 2 years ago
Same here. Especially considering the ones supposedly "look like shit".

The whole thing reads like a no-so-subtle brag about how his mighty photographer's eye can spot details that mere mortals can't.

Comment · 2 years ago
If that's the case it makes more sense to say "too bad show x isn't more popular".
Comment · 2 years ago
Regardless of your opinion of the show I don't understand why you'd be "depressed" about other people's entertainment choices.

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