TrumpetX

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TrumpetX,

Pay to play was the problem there. I had the highest ranking joke page on webcrawler for a stint, but Yahoo wanted $500 to put me on top. My 15 year old self was not interested.

TrumpetX,

This is what I’ve done on my last 2 cars. First was a Leaf that I leased dirt cheap. The second was a used Tesla at more than 1/2 off. I’m looking at a truck now and finding amazing deals on the '23 F150 lightnings. I’d prefer a Rivian and I’m not quite ready to let my Tesla go, but soooooon.

Someday, the deals will be harder to find, but for now take advantage!

FTC bans most noncompete agreements between employers and workers (www.npr.org)

The FTC estimates about 30 million people, or one in five American workers, from minimum wage earners to CEOs, are bound by noncompetes. It says the policy change could lead to increased wages totaling nearly $300 billion per year by encouraging people to swap jobs freely.

TrumpetX,

Counter point, the other company pays better because they save on training costs.

3000 isn’t much when it comes to onboarding costs, so I don’t think that’s why, but imagine if it cost 10k,20k, etc.

For clarity, I’m very much in favor of this ruling. But I also sympathize with the above reply.

TrumpetX,

2 years is too long IMHO. 1 year, forgiven in a prorated fashion seems far more palatable.

TrumpetX,

There are many ways around this, like using intermediary services like PayPal or a privacy.com credit card with ephemeral numbers.

Crypto, while one way, is not the only way.

TrumpetX,

No idea why you’re down voted for math :/

TrumpetX,

Check out Onlyoffice. Just the client (not the server part)

WAY better

TrumpetX,

You don’t have to host only office to use the client. As others noted, it doesn’t do anything to combat non open standards, but it does work.

TrumpetX,

Check out WeBoost brand repeaters. I live in what used to be a rural area and when we moved in the cell signal was trash inside the house but fine outside. Put an antenna outside on the roof, ran some coax cable to the kitchen and mounted a repeater there. No issues. Works for all major cell bands.

TrumpetX,

This wouldn’t work for a few reasons, but the most glaring is that it would incentive re inventing the wheel.

TrumpetX,

Reinventing the wheel is exactly why we should use open source libraries.

Expanding on other unintended outcome here: Different projects have different values. This takes no account for something like Spring vs Apache Commons IO. Or Rails vs nokogiri.

Libraries will be incentivized into breaking apart to maximize revenue.

This isn’t really unlike the unintended consequences of health insurance and how it leads to overpriced services with lots of indecipherable codes for service.

It’s about how the system rewards (pays) for the service. I’m all for supporting open source, but the proposals in this thread are disturbingly anti open source.

TrumpetX,

Have you found any good private server sublemmies? Whatever we’re calling them?

TrumpetX,

I think you meant YAGNI, but I dunno, YOLO might be a legit strategy for you too ;)

Java is corporate personified

For the past 14 years, the only time I really did any work with Java was a course in college. I don’t like Java because it’s corporate shit. Yeah Guy Steele and dozens of other giants whom I admire and suck cock off on a good day are the spec writers, and the original creators. But remember that it was initially a corporate...

TrumpetX,

Plus shit like Maven and Gradle leave nothing to the imagination.

Isn’t it wonderful?!

Embrace boring software development practices. You’ll get good rest on the weekends and have a long and productive career.

TrumpetX,

Xennial: came of age in X but adulted as a millennial.

TrumpetX,

I can’t stop laughing at this. Thank you!

Afghan girls as young as 16 arrested in shops, classes and markets in Kabul by the Taliban, who labelled them ‘infidels’ for wearing ‘bad hijab’ (www.theguardian.com)

The girls – who were detained in shopping centres, classes and street markets – were accused of “spreading and encouraging others to wear a bad hijab” and wearing makeup....

TrumpetX,

Sure, I’ll just travel to places to verify the source every time when I consume news. That’s reasonable!

TrumpetX,

So glad 'flus left Indy. Those 4th quarter collapse were epic.

“Guys, let’s do something they won’t expect. Let’s play prevent defense and make sure they can come back to beat us!”

TrumpetX, (edited )

I used it before and still use it. No issues with my $5 linode.

TrumpetX,

It depends on the state I’ve recently learned. Some states allow inheriting debt, others don’t. Even some are in between allowing it for spouses only.

Seattle Hospital sues after Texas Attorney General asks for handover of patient records (www.kxan.com)

The Seattle Children’s Hospital filed a lawsuit in Travis County District Court on Dec. 7 against the Texas Office of the Attorney General (OAG), after that agency requested documents related to gender transition policies and any such care provided to Texas children.

TrumpetX,

States rights!!

(Republicans: not like that!)

TrumpetX,

Read this for an idea as to why people are against letting Meta federate: ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-ne…

It’s not a cut and dry yes or no for me.

TrumpetX,

XMPP was very popular. Google joined it, and with it, the power to give it’s users on Gmail access to all the other chat products that all had more chat users by sharing the same XMPP space. Users were very happy to use the superior Gmail product and also let go of their old chat tools because they could still talk to everyone just fine!

Google waited until they had most of the users and simply started making non compatible changes to their chat until they finally defederated themselves and suddenly their users could no longer chat with anyone who wasn’t also on Google.

People noticed, but most of the users were no longer willing to drop their now-familiar gchat client because they were now used to it. Users like me who wanted to use Pidgin still were suddenly unable to chat with 80% of their friends unless they gave in and opened up gchat too.

If Google never federated with the system, we might still likely have aim, msn, etc still around focusing on their chat users. But Google did their thing, stole the market and we’re where we’re at now. Ironically, most people I know now disable Google chat because Google has tried really hard to ruin something that was just fine. But no one is installing Pidgin again and have mostly moved to Discord and Slack (at least in my circles).

TrumpetX,

I wanted to downvote, but then I read it. While I don’t accept the premise entirely, I think the points are very well made and thought out well (even if taken to the extreme).

TrumpetX,

Why wouldn’t they?

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