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Early this on, the process of building physically accurate "fake humans" was not really possible. Bear tests were probably more an early proof of viability than anything else. The …

As someone with long term health conditions, it hangs in the back of your mind. I'm fortunate enough not to have to call mine "chronic", and I may (probably will) be blessed by the…

No, it's a bug. A home/consumer router isn't targeted at power users, and should not require the average user to understand what they're doing. I also think it's unreasonable to ex…

Or, you're using snapchat, or instagram, or signal.

I disagree - I've used a $300 stock android phone for just over a year now, and I haven't really run into any "cruft" issues. But, poor android performance is a very valid problem …

Yes, $250K counts as rich. You can "get by" on combined income of $150K extremely easily. Maybe you don't buy a new bmw every year or live in an untrendy neighborhood. Oh, no.

Signature based anti-virus is a must have on any widely deployed platform that doesn't have default code-sign requirements. So, basically, Windows and FOSS Desktop. But, it's becom…

I disagree. He's been transparent with his goals, and people (besides a loud but relatively small amount of hard dissenters) don't seem to object. And by that, I mean: they use fac…

Sudoroom and noisebridge are still alive. The fact of the matter is that for all of the innovation you hear about there, it's really just romanticizing the margin thinning of exist…

If someone was missing, then there wasn't enough people.

Part of the problem is this: who'd fork it? Who'd put in the effort? Sure, they alienated key members, but the people doing the bulk of the work were at the core, including Leah. S…

It's possible the FSF doesn't want them back without terms they find onerous, like full dissolution of the team and just handing over the brand.

I know a handful of people doing this right now, and they're pulling above average developer salaries. However, they're also traveling a ton and building kick-ass resumés as well.

There's a ton of them. Many of them are smaller players consisting of core developers providing feature additions for money, or support contracts, or selling an "enterprise" wrappe…

The fact that you're able to spend time leisurely on sites like HN implicitly groups you into a higher income bracket. If you couldn't afford a personal computer, your comment migh…

You could form a corp but legions of shareware developers since the beginning of time (80s) have used licenses that absolve them of responsibilities. A few things: you'll need a co…

tldr ill get in trouble if i use kite at work :(

Yeah, I'd love to try it. However, I'm at work and that's where I would be trying it - and I can't. Aside from intellectual policy problems, in large codebases mistakes happen, inc…

I straight up cannot use Kite. The "code-to-cloud" functionality means that I cannot use it at work. I would love to use it, but it's a non-starter.

If using every product requires reading a dozen pages (at the very least), then how do you expect to use literally any mobile phone you can buy in a store?

Yeah, that's why I used consent. Consent is a messy topic that requires a best effort and careful deliberation. I definitely agree that EULAs like that are in a dangerous gray area…

Part of justice is enforcing a contract between two people who can and do consent. Would it not be an injustice if one person abused that system and hurt another?

Those tools weren't successful by Apple-sized metrics.