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felipelemos··on Python's splitlines does more than just newlines
For all of us that don't read all documentation for every single method, tool, function or similar, it is, by awarenes, very useful.
felipelemos··on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
> But does it really matter?

I am pretty sure - if his theories works - it would be really good for accumulating even more capital for the shareholders.

And I am also pretty sure it, at least for me, will not matter at all, and it will be really bad for everyone else involved.

felipelemos··on Wttr: Console-oriented weather forecast service
AND you can disable the ANSI control code:

```

To force plain text, which disables colors:

$ curl wttr.in/?T

```

felipelemos··on Replace Philips Hue Automation with Home Assistant's
Maybe the point is for the people who already have it and want to avoid being locked in on proprietary ecosystem.
felipelemos··on The size of BYD's factory
> but most people seem to have giant trucks for the occasional times they go camping or carry something large.

This is the reality in United States, but not in most of the world.

felipelemos··on Owe your banker £1k you are at his mercy; owe him £1m the position is reversed (2019)
Pharaoh predates it for some thousand years.
felipelemos··on Microsoft didn't sandbox Windows Defender, so I did (2017)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows Defender\Exclusions\Paths
felipelemos··on Did Sandia use a thermonuclear secondary in a product logo?
> at someone had posted on Reddit late last night (you know, as one does, instead of sleeping)

After a couple of decades of internet I was expecting people to realize other timezones exists.

felipelemos··on Apple might be implementing a VPN censorship order in Brazil
> Playing devils advocate for a moment: One reason why is that many app developers truly do not have your best interests at heart.

You are right, and neither Apple does.

felipelemos··on Flaw has Microsoft Authenticator overwriting MFA accounts, locking users out
One could say you shouldn't store the 2FA along with your password.
felipelemos··on CrowdStrike will be liable for damages in France, based on the OVH precedent
Many companies are actually not us companies.

In the end probably only the us companies will be left empty-handed.

felipelemos··on Allan McDonald refused to approve Challenger launch, exposed cover-up (2021)
> But at some point, one needs to launch the thing, despite the complains.

Or: at some point, one decides to launch the thing.

You are reducing the complaints of an engineer as something inevitable and unimportant, as if it happened in every lunch, and in every lunch someone decided to went ahead, because it was what was needed.

felipelemos··on U.S. Rules Apple Illegally Interrogated Staff and Confiscated Union Flyers
> If it made no difference why would employees bother?

>> despite the data showing little negative impact of unionization to overall productivity nor company survival. *

Employees should bother to improve their own lives, not to decrease productivity or affect company survival.

* Emphasis mine.

felipelemos··on How Africans are changing French, one joke, rap and book at a time
French, as a romance language did not import from Latin as English did not import from proto germanic.
felipelemos··on Epic vs. Google: Google Loses
> Customers don't necessarily want a choice.

I was going to say that it's something for them to decide, but then the conversation was going to be circular.

Nobody should have the right to not have a right.

felipelemos··on The new Paris métro
Successful to the shareholders, not the users.
felipelemos··on New York may ban noncompete employment agreements and Wall Street is not happy
My email is not your confidential data. My phone number is not your confidential data.

If your company can only exist by blocking other companies from competition with your customer, then your company should not exist in first place.

felipelemos··on New York may ban noncompete employment agreements and Wall Street is not happy
> If you join a consultancy group, and 2 months later quit with the client roster... is it really OK to poach all their clients to start your own consultancy?

If the clients prefer to leave with the then 2 month-old employee, then the consultancy is doing something very wrong.

felipelemos··on Colorado Law Would Charge Owners for Driving Giant Trucks and SUVs
bill noun /bɪl/

a written suggestion for a new law that is presented to a country’s parliament so that its members can discuss it

felipelemos··on Armed with traffic cones, protesters are immobilizing driverless cars
Or maybe would be disingenuous to think that public transport would cover for all places a car today can go. The world is not only made of urban sprawl.
felipelemos··on In every reported mistaken arrest using facial recognition, person was Black
I think he is referring to what others considers them, not themselves.
felipelemos··on Twitter Is DDOSing Itself
> [...] it was a very old, very large startup [...]

Can we start to call companies with almost 18 years old just "companies" and not startup anymore?

felipelemos··on All Pocket accounts will be converted to Firefox accounts
Sometimes one gets tired of endless complaining.
felipelemos··on All Pocket accounts will be converted to Firefox accounts
> In fact I don't want to open accounts with anyone

Then it's not and issue for you, as you probably didn't want to open an account with pocket in first place, right?

felipelemos··on Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro is barred from office until 2030
The will of the people is expressed in vote and then indirectly applied by the elected officials. If 100% of Americans decided to make King Charles president, then they will amend the laws allowing him to do so.
felipelemos··on Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro is barred from office until 2030
In a democracy, the only way forward from a democracy, legally speaking, is through laws. Specifically a new constitution. And the constitution (at least in Brazil) is very clear on what happens of you try to depose the democracy by force.
felipelemos··on City Council to install 20 cameras as automated license-plate recognition system
> You've conveniently excerpted the article to avoid showing that it wasn't two thefts randomly scattered across four decades, but four decades without theft and then two thefts that have just happened.

But the parent said just that in the third paragraph:

> does 2 thefts in a week, after 40 years count as a spree?

felipelemos··on I Like Powershell
> 1. > is a thing

Silly how you need sh to do a very basic thing in PowerShell

felipelemos··on Barbados 4–2 Grenada
This was not a match fix, and it is not considered cheat, although you could say it is unsportsmanlike.
felipelemos··on Supreme Court asked to strike down immunity for police who brutally beat student
> Even if they brutally beat a criminal, they are going far beyond incompetence.

It is actually worse than that. The police cannot be the judge, jury and executor. The Judge Dredd is an anti-hero for a reason.

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