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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-bake…

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, mull…

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 ow…

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…

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 somet…

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 polit…

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 - may…

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 scena…

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.