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Company I worked for was taken over, and they treated the old owner very badly. So I left at the point of the handover. Never regretted it.

With variable sources of electricity it can be cheaper to have capacity at a level that you sometimes overproduce than to have a capacity that produces at a lower level, and so mostly needs a backup source of power.

Yes. The difference between "A program that does what you want" and "A program that crashes on startup" can be one character.

Ya but the real fun ones are the "a program does what you want 99.993% of the time"

The annoying situation being that sometimes that 0.007% requires a major rearchitecture!

Because these places are only 14 hours from Washington. And its in the interests of everyone to not have war that close to their homes.

I'd pay for a browser. I pay for a search engine, and for an email client (Thunderbird).

You can give people time to go fix things that bug them. Two systems that you use don't work together and it bothers you? Have a day a week to fix it.

Only if you can find a way of monetisng that data or selling it on.

So, basically, ads.


IPv6 is now up to 49% [1] - it's possible that there's just less demand for IPv4 addresses.

[1] https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html


Installing an adblocker is trivially easy. I just checked, and it took me 5 clicks total, and typing in "Ad blocker" in the addons search.

Tell that to my mom.

Be a good kid and install it for her.

Yes, especially if you ignore all the risks - does that solution you googled in 5 seconds steal your data after 5 clicks - it is easy

The risks of installing an add-on inside Firefox using their own Addon store?

What's Google got to do with that?


I assume parent is linking at googling being absolutely ass nowadays with sponsored links leading to malware. Then again that's not an adblock issue but an ad issue.

I wasn't talking about your personal case where a tiny browser is relevant, but a huge search engine isn't (this is the same mistake that led you to believe it's trivially easy), but about the "non-elitist" general public

It's just as easy in Chrome.

And over 30% of the population use an ad blocker. So clearly not as hard as all that.

https://backlinko.com/ad-blockers-users


Waymo have had self-driving taxis for years now.

Well, friends of mine use Linux as a desktop since more then 10 years now. So my point is pretty much confirmed.

I'll believe the self-driving taxi hype when I am every able to drive own to my place of brith. I am pretty confident that is not going to happen before I die.


Yes but they have LIDAR which Musk has steadfastly refused to have in Teslas (probably becasue if it does turn out to be required he's in deep shit for all the cars he's sold so far without it they could be forced to upgrade).

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