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I finally caved and switched to Wayland 6 months ago or so. Things just work so much more smoothly.

I love uv, the why not works great if it’s your machine but in places without your machine uv is just another step for a customer.

`sh` is nice but it requires a dependency. No dependencies is nicer IMHO. uv makes this way easier but for low dependency systems, or unknown environments stdlib is king.

Fair enough w.r.t to how it works in the EU. I sort of knew that the legal system there was not as easy to bring suits etc. As you said reaction is based on my personal experience …

Because lawyers and courts become involved. They don't understand software or anything related to it.

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/11/26/you-have-hacked-into-... He's got many other examples of emails he gets from people. They find his name or whatever in some apps attribution.…

A law and regulation is written one way and interpreted a different way by the courts. In the USA it's all about case law. Hypothetical: I write a nifty alarm clock app. To cover s…

This is outrageous and ridiculous. Cool, don't use my code if you're in Europe or within Europe. We will need amended licensing for denying use within Europe.

How in the world is this good for devs? It's terrible. Do you really think that "big corp" will not figure out how to pass the liability directly to the author? What will happen th…

please provide a link to all your software, so I can find bugs and then sue you for everything you have.

I rarely comment here on hackernews. I've also seen several flame wars over pipenv. I also believe that python packaging and pinning is nothing but a mess. Recently I started using…

I almost _never_ write comments, but I had to write here and say that despite having almost all the Boynton's books we own memorized that I still enjoy reading them for my 18 mon o…

They're are many downfalls with working remote. In the past year of being remote I've found that it can be very difficult to pick up on the attitude of a co-worker or boss. It also…

Hey PM here - once you go PM it's going to be harder to back to DevOps if you want to.

Small sites may not have been hit if you turned it off soon enough. Quick tips: * Look through the menu_router table for suspicious looking entries. * Look at users & user roles, a…

NPR has a system call COPE (Create Once Publish Everywhere) use to COPA Create Once Publish Anywhere but they modified the data structure again. The system takes a DBA kind of appr…

Personal thoughts - suggest you look into organizational skills. Learn to take great notes, and have a tenacious follow up and follow through.

Finally!!! I thread that I feel that most competent at answering! My background is highly similar to yours. I started life as a Mechanical Engineering student and quickly grew to d…

I can vouch for that...

Ahh I started thinking that...but at first I was just wondering if I was really confused on the current date.

What's up with the date on this article `Monday, Mar. 10, 2014`

Yes... there's also RCN in DC as well yet in my neighborhood I can only get Comcast.

Out of curiosity do you have issue when running Iceweasel? I had some issue with my IDE (PyCharm) and a few random web applications that just hated Iceweasel. I just self installed…

As of 2.23 via Debian yes: http://i.imgur.com/vCKvoZF.png

I would try Keepass Droid[1]. I used a similar setup in the past and didn't have issues opening. Personally, I don't like the idea of browser plugins and I'm perfectly happy using …