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soccerdave commented on Nix: An idea whose time has come   revelry.co/insights/devel... · Posted by u/susam
silisili · 4 years ago
Thanks for your experience.

To be clear, I never reset because I have to, just to clear things out. Despite what anyone says, things do get funky.

For example, I noticed different behaviors and tools between wpa_supplicant and iwd. Deleting iwd left me in a working but half state, as the ips stayed the iwd way.

That times hundreds over a year really makes things weird.

soccerdave · 4 years ago
Except with nix it doesn’t make it weird. If you delete iwd and something stops working, then you can just roll back to the previous generation of the nix store that included iwd.
soccerdave commented on Unemployment Is High. Why Are Businesses Struggling to Hire?   nytimes.com/2021/04/16/up... · Posted by u/burlesona
soccerdave · 4 years ago
Didn’t read the article, but why would you go work at a lower end job when you can make 80-90% of what you would make by just collecting unemployment benefits?

I personally know at least 2 people that admitted this and said they would wait until unemployment benefits expire to seek work.

soccerdave commented on The Inheritance Tax Is Far Too Low   nytimes.com/2020/06/24/op... · Posted by u/tysone
dhosek · 5 years ago
I've never understood why people think that just because, e.g., their parents created a business worth millions of dollars, they should get that for free.
soccerdave · 5 years ago
I've never understood why the government thinks that just because someone has died, they deserve 40+% of money that has already been taxed.
soccerdave commented on The HEY discussion has revolved around money, but this is not about money   hey.com/apple/iap/... · Posted by u/rydre
ahmedbaracat · 5 years ago
“ You can no longer help the customer who’s buying your product with the following requests: Refunds, credit card changes, discounts, trial extensions, hardship exceptions, comps, partial payments, non-profit discounts, educational discounts, downtime credits, tax exceptions, etc. You can’t control any of this when you charge your customers through Apple’s platform. So now you’re forced to sell a product - with your name and reputation on it - to your customers, yet you are helpless and unable to help them if they need a hand with any of the above.”
soccerdave · 5 years ago
These statements are so true. When our company had billing issues with in-app purchases, there were plenty of times that we wanted to refund people for their purchases and we had no way to do this on both Apple and Amazons platforms. We had to send them to Apple and Amazon customer service and we never knew if they got help or not. Google on the other hand actually made it very easy for us to find someone’s purchase and issue them a refund, but even with Google you are very removed from the customer and can’t directly contact them or find out much about the customer.
soccerdave commented on My 2020 desk setup   michael.stapelberg.ch/pos... · Posted by u/secure
secure · 5 years ago
Have you tried stacking mode? The title bar will still be visible, while the window is out of the way. See it in action if you zoom into my monitor on https://michael.stapelberg.ch/Bilder/2020-05-22-desk-setup.j...

That works for me, but I understand it’s not for everyone :)

soccerdave · 5 years ago
Also want to give you a big thank you for creating i3. After using it for a long time I can’t imagine going back to a setup without it. I almost always need 2 windows side by side and it makes that workflow so effortless.
soccerdave commented on Harvard epidemiologist: my colleagues assumed UK coronavirus plan “was satire”   theguardian.com/commentis... · Posted by u/knzhou
Donald · 6 years ago
The main issue with the UK's approach is approximately 10% of young people need acute medical care (e.g., ventilator access). There aren't enough hospital beds in the NHS system to meet that demand.
soccerdave · 6 years ago
Do you have a source for the 10% of young people needing ventilators?
soccerdave commented on Why we’re switching to calendar versioning   cockroachlabs.com/blog/ca... · Posted by u/tosh
AnIdiotOnTheNet · 6 years ago
Why are developers always insistent on trying to trick the user into doing what they want them to do, or what they think is best, instead of letting users do what users want to do?

Users shy away from major version numbers because they are allowed to change things in incompatible ways. When you jump a major version you're signaling that stuff might intentionally break, and they make their decisions accordingly. The solution is not to make your communication with user even worse!

soccerdave · 6 years ago
This could easily be solved by something along the lines of “Version 3.0 maintains full compatibility with Version 2.2” at the top of their release notes.

I dislike the idea of going away from SemVer just for marketing purposes. At least as a user when I’m going to upgrade versions then I could see that “oh, this version doesn’t break compatibility”

soccerdave commented on Do I really need to get out the soldering-iron again?   naughtycomputer.uk/do_i_r... · Posted by u/xylon
dylan604 · 7 years ago
> Its more than just audio. Watching movies sucks; you now pay full price to effectively indefinitely rent movies, and have them taken away at any time.

This has always been the case, even when you "owned" the physical media. Owning a CD, DVD or even vinyl copy of audio/video did not mean you owned the content. It was always just a delivery mechanism. It always came with legal wording to state you didn't own the content, and were only allowed to listen/view in a private setting. You were not allowed to take the music and play it in public, you were not allowed to show the video to large groups of people (including in your own home).

Your OS is the same way. You don't own the software. You only pay for a license granting use of it on one computer.

soccerdave · 7 years ago
I disagree with you. When you “owned” a physical cd, you had to ability to sell it. When you own the digital version it is not possible to resell it.
soccerdave commented on Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results   apple.com/newsroom/2018/1... · Posted by u/hw
s3r3nity · 7 years ago
Wow - Services grew 27% year-on-year to $10bn! For comparison, AWS made about $6.8bn in Q3.

That's bananas. And it's more than just Apple Music / iCloud storage; it's the "ecosystem lock-in" and the glue that keeps folks from bouncing away from Apple hardware.

Congrats to the team!

soccerdave · 7 years ago
Amazon really missed the boat when they came out with their crappy phone attempt. They could have invested more money and made some decent hardware instead of trying to do something gimmicky. They still haven't really learned though by launching poorly designed Kindle Fires with low res screens that lag a bunch. I wonder how different it would be if Amazon had launched a device like the Pixel as a phone.
soccerdave commented on Windows 1803 Update Turns on SSH   bleepingcomputer.com/news... · Posted by u/gilnims
benjohnson · 7 years ago
Forgive me for a dumb question, but I'm trying to be helpful.

Are you talking about tunnels and port forwards?

OpenSSH can do that - you type in an escape sequence and you can work your magic on the fly.

soccerdave · 7 years ago
Just wanted to thank you for this answer. I never knew about OpenSSH escape sequences and I've used ssh for years.

https://pleiades.ucsc.edu/hyades/SSH_Escape_Sequences

u/soccerdave

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