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New comment by letsdothisagain in "Apple announces ability to download apps directly from websites in EU"

letsdothisagain — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 22:59:26 +0000

Yeah that's why I'm expecting another change. When they tried banning Epic the EU said no, and Apple was forced to move to this point. I expect/hope that the EU comes back with a further "clarification" on Apple's contention that they can gate this to 1,000,000 downloads.

It is funny to see American companies scream "that's not fair" when faced with a functional government.

New comment by letsdothisagain in "Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it a 'threat' to iOS"

letsdothisagain — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 23:44:18 +0000

Corporate personhood means that legally they are. If we stripped that away and let the board of governors go to jail for doing blatantly illegal stuff, then they might stop being sociopathic.

I'd also like a pony.

New comment by letsdothisagain in "Why do tree-based models still outperform deep learning on tabular data? (2022)"

letsdothisagain — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 18:54:29 +0000

I'm really not clear on why you're arguing against this. A proper data warehouse tackles the known unknowns, i.e. supervised learning. But you can glean new insights using unsupervised learning, like the textbook example of Target knowing a woman is pregnant based on sales data.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...

New comment by letsdothisagain in "I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train"

letsdothisagain — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 18:48:42 +0000

Tell me you're a landlord without telling me you're a landlord.

"How dare this fucker weasel his way out of giving me 50% of his income! That's MY money!"

New comment by letsdothisagain in "Boeing missing key elements of safety culture: FAA report"

letsdothisagain — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 22:30:08 +0000

It's not new either. Teddy Roosevelt ran on trust busting and defeated both the dems and republicans.

New comment by letsdothisagain in "We might want to regularly keep track of how important each server is"

letsdothisagain — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 19:09:55 +0000

I know someone who did that in the Yukon during the winter, just monitor temperatures and crack a window when it got too hot. Seems like a great solution except that they were in a different building so they had to trudge through the snow to close the window if it got too cold.

New comment by letsdothisagain in "We might want to regularly keep track of how important each server is"

letsdothisagain — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 19:03:53 +0000

Welcome to University IT, where organizational structures are basically feudal (by law!). Imagine an organization where your president can't order a VP to do something, and you have academia :)

New comment by letsdothisagain in "Why do people still use VBA?"

letsdothisagain — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 18:16:34 +0000

Yeah in the early 2000s Java was supposed to be the universal platform of write once run everywhere. And then every IT department locked Java out, so we said fuck it and wrote everything in PHP.

New comment by letsdothisagain in "Tell HN: Enterprises spend 10x more to build no-code solutions than coded ones"

letsdothisagain — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 22:19:13 +0000

How dare you deny their lived experience? The OP clearly stated that it's BAD.

As someone who runs a low code dev shop (I have a low/high mix of frameworks), I've already started reflecting on my BAD behaviour. I will repent and jettison all of my cruds, and web forms, and other dumb little things that provide so much value to my clients.

New comment by letsdothisagain in "Tell HN: Enterprises spend 10x more to build no-code solutions than coded ones"

letsdothisagain — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 22:12:17 +0000

Yes, it's called consulting and it's great work if you can get a consistent client base.

I genuinely wish you the absolute best of luck getting a consistent client base.

New comment by letsdothisagain in "FTC sues Amazon for illegally maintaining monopoly power"

letsdothisagain — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 22:54:20 +0000

The anti-competitive bit is they have all the sales information that would typically be a trade secret for a company.

Go ahead, call up your local 7-11 and ask them what their sales were for the quarter. They'll tell you to fuck off.

New comment by letsdothisagain in "Mullvad on Tailscale: Privately browse the web"

letsdothisagain — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 18:48:11 +0000

It's not a terrible result tbqh.

99.999% of airport wifi users don't know that their traffic is bridged. So unless WIFI-6 introduced some network segmentation features that I'm not aware of, it's still a good idea for Grandma and Grandpa Jo.

The reason it's ubiquitous on YouTube is because they are gouging the hell out of consumers. Honestly it should be provided by your ISP as a bundled service. Although then it's just Comcast gouging you instead...

New comment by letsdothisagain in "Keystroke timing obfuscation added to ssh(1)"

letsdothisagain — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 17:25:16 +0000

I'm honestly seeing little value in asterisks with WFH and the move to passphrases. Feedback is important when you're typing a long phrase with complete precision. Plus shoulder surfing is simply not a thing when my physical security profile now involves a locked front door and a call to the police.

New comment by letsdothisagain in "How Modern SQL Databases Are Changing Web Development: Part 1"

letsdothisagain — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 18:58:27 +0000

Yeah the cloud is a lovely weapon against the BOFH. They smarten right up when you shrug your shoulders and say "Oh, I guess I'll just buy some cloud."

New comment by letsdothisagain in "Fast machines, slow machines"

letsdothisagain — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 22:20:22 +0000

Oh sure, I can justify this easy.

Labour productivity vs wages doubled since the 1970s and the trend seems to be continuing. It was about 150% in 2000 so we can use Excel as as the benchmark.

This means that an accountant today can wait for Excel to load for 2 whole hours of their 8 hour shift, and still be as productive as an accountant from 20 years ago!

Isn't that amazing! Technology is so cool, and our metrics for defining economic success are incredible.

New comment by letsdothisagain in "Private equity is buying everything from vet offices to tech conglomerates"

letsdothisagain — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 19:03:57 +0000

PE is just a rebrand of Corporate Raiders. The fact that this worked is a testament to just how much of our media is directly controlled by Wall St.

New comment by letsdothisagain in "Tell HN: "I don't care about cookies” extension bought by Avast, users jump ship"

letsdothisagain — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 22:10:08 +0000

Yeah this guy has rose coloured glasses.

Remember when Java and MySQL weren't owned by Oracle?

I do.

New comment by letsdothisagain in "I criticized Amazon’s policies in a blog – their lawyers have subpoenaed me"

letsdothisagain — Tue, 30 May 2023 20:48:52 +0000

The system is working exactly as designed.

New comment by letsdothisagain in "Mozilla stops Firefox fullscreen VPN ads after user outrage"

letsdothisagain — Fri, 26 May 2023 17:41:55 +0000

Hanlon's razor only makes sense if you're a teenager posting on reddit. Just world theory and all that.

Once you get into corporate politics it's the exact opposite.

God help you if you ever get into the nuts and bolts of governmental, or gasp intergovernmental politics.

New comment by letsdothisagain in "Simple exercise to eliminate gastroesophageal reflux (2022)"

letsdothisagain — Wed, 24 May 2023 18:53:13 +0000

It turns out drinking 4 cups of coffee a day for a few decades isn't great for your esophagus.