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Given their track record - how much do you trust them to be telling the truth?

Screenshots of e-mails could be doctored.

Lying by omission is also perfectly possible. Just tell the “right” bits.

Notice how everyone was robotically sticking to the script, apart from Linus who just went back to his default can’t handle criticism mode.

Some of this could be learned or guessed from your behavior too. Google or FB tracking your location. Combined with other factors they might just even guess the right condition, or you googled something and they combine this data to profile you.

Obviously fully possible that you are right too, but that would be a huuuuge violation for a quick buck.

GN had actual communications with Billet to verify.

But note how the wording is carefully selected.

It’s technically not a false statement, but it gives the reader the impression that it is proper past tense, not after they were caught with their pants down giving it to a startup.

Sold the block. Kept the GPU

One week will get nothing done, but for the people who buy it - it works.

Linus is an entertainer foremost, but his personality is … well, yeah.

Not a huge fan of LTT and their setup, but they seem to reach a lot of people.

Not at all surprised to hear that it’s a toxic workplace. Matches the vibe of the “we’re sorry” video, and the “trust me bro” warranty shit.

Besides - isn’t the term typically used “sold at auction”?

Typically followed by whatever exorbitant amount someone paid for something that’s only that valuable because too many people have too much money, but that’s a topic for another day.

Have a few colleagues with the remarkable 2 and they love it.

There are rules for you and me, and there are different ones for people of means and influence.

How Trump has managed to remain the prior and, and how on earth he managed to gain the latter still baffles me.

Or you can just add contempt and multiple charges of witness tampering on top?

Ideas usually aren’t the problem.

Executing on an idea is though, and executing successfully on an idea is even harder.

As such it stands to reason that people with real business experience, connections and network are more likely to have success in executing an idea.

Chance of success is low. I think it was somewhere around 13% of startups that “make it” long enough to be deemed successful.

But it doesn’t mean they have better ideas, or as the headline suggests - “are more radical”.

And most of the world think that it’s too young.

Just because something is allowed by law in one country doesn’t invalidate arguments about it being immoral.

Having sex with animals is “allowed” (by not being illegal) in many countries. I would still argue that it is immoral.

Depends on what you mean by self-hosted. Because basically they are. No cloud providers meet their security requirements (required for their level of PCI certification).

Someone I know who works in payments told me they had to go to CF because of the insane amount of DDoS attacks they were facing.

While having three ISPs and mitigating a boatload of DDoS on their own infrastructure they were simply unable to cope with the persistence.

They first tried another provider, but they handled less DDoS than their own internal systems.

Cloudflare wasn’t even sure they wanted them as a customer.

Some of the biggest attacks mitigated by Cloudflare last year (they wrote about it) was this client.

More than just me who read that as AnonDaddy?

Sorry if I was unclear; I was trying to say “imagine if you had a system that worked” 🫣

And I don’t mean that in any negative way, other than to say that the current system is visibly broken.

Imagine if we made new laws that evolved with the time and retired old laws that are clearly anachronistic?

If instead of interpreting and discussing unclear text the legislators just said “we believe this is wrong, and thus - now we change it”.

Apparently we’re both half right.

Not sure if I just never tried driving routes in offline Google Maps, but I see that it works now.

However, other types of routes are unavailable.

https://imgur.com/a/FANmMOr

Download yes, but you can’t plan routes offline.

I’ve used TomTom on iPhone since 2010. Improvement is huge.

I do suspect your complaint is more likely to be directed towards the hardware and touch interface of your infotainment than the software, but a satnav with outdated maps is not worth much IMO.

If you’re looking for something for free I can also recommend Here. Also great for when you are traveling where roaming is expensive as it allows offline search and routing.

Have seen zero improvements after the regression, but I think you overestimate people’s willingness to help improve something that has worse data quality than open street map.

If it’s broken and I have a better alternative I’m not using it.