littlecosmic

Can always make a new law, or edit an existing one…

The stakeholders just want to send emails and excels around, someone in management has a budget for a productivity enhancing tool to replace that and the engineers have a half-baked solution that some sales guys are saying is the second coming.

IMO these folk are doing a great job slowly chipping away at all the barriers to using guile everywhere. Also, their software, like "Goblins", gets the imagination started up, mulling what the next wave of software could be like.

Far crazier things have happened on this planet than switching to Linux and retraining some IT folk.

If there are terrible crimes being committed by a dictator then there is the ICC and the UN. It would require building up rather than undermining the institution but it’s there.

You say this like it is a law of nature, but we can plan and build it directly if we want it. Redundancy is not something that only emerges from an indirect 4d-chess strategy of ownership mixes.

Even under capitalism there is a lot of central planning at huge scales. Walmart is one American example. Woolworths and Coles are another couple in Australia. These companies aren’t rocketing up at the market each morning and taking the latest price… they are managing supply and pricing end to end for most of what they do in advanced.

They say transparency is important which is true, but taking accountability would be good too. This is an OpenAI incident and internally they have a subcontractor mixpanel.

Maybe the military should pillage all the places it goes to self-fund?

In Singapore there is no MRT congestion prices only for private cars, right? Trains get crowded but still workable. It’s not clear if people would start working 6am to 3pm or something if you did. Overall I think charging money made more sense when there were more private, profit seeking companies involved as it’s the name of the game… buts it’s cheap enough that it’s hard for someone with an ok job the get bothered about it

In my experience, it’s often the business side - rather than IT - that tries to use a technical change to force change to the business process that they have failed to change politically… and it usually turns out that a technical change isn’t enough either.

The trap will work if you are near destitute.

Valued by the worker to give meaning and quality of life not by the buyer - so it does carry much weight.

Don’t you also have to consider this just as much without CRDT? Not saying it isn’t a real issue, but this example could easily be a problem with a more traditional style app - maybe users open the record on their web browser at same time and make different updates, or they update the different timestamp fields directly in a list of tasks.

In Singapore there is a mix, but BYD seems to be a growing quickly - just anecdotal

On my 16" M1 MacBook Pro both Return and Fn+Return edit the filename... does it work differently on yours?

yes, fair points. Thanks for clarifying.

The risk factor is mainly that someone got the password from a web application hack not that they logged into your computer and accessed your password manager. In the web app scenario it is still a second factor.

Alternatively it just puts pressure on the walled garden to let people do what that want to do safely within the walls so they don’t have to go through the escape hatch.

But how sure are you that it was the fuel efficiency standards that led to more SUVs? Feels like bad reasoning, unless you have more evidence.

Better to find a postwar fibre optic than a postwar mine, I guess

What is ‘blind’ about sending it to a paired device whitelisted by the user?

Maybe artificial in the way that we hypothetically could do things better if there wasn’t so much inertia to the status quo.

Looks cool but it seems to have a lot of tracking of personal data that is used for more than just the social features of the app. Am I misunderstanding?

24hrs of web/office is a work day of something more intense, or a few hours of something crazy.

It’s ok, I can imagine it.

I just think the extra context the article provides is more measured and less emotive, so you can read the situation better. I’m in favour of criticising everything, including China.

The story has more details and sets the context that makes it obvious that it’s not more nefarious than the existing firewall policy. I’m not saying that they shouldn’t be criticised or anything.

This post reads as anti-China propaganda in tone. I found this less breathless account of it: https://web.archive.org/web/20240326212544/https://www.rfa.o...

This plan worked out so well last time it was tried in Cuba :)

The are sold out