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I think you should reread my post. My post is making a very specific point that your reaction tells me you get, but aren't applying.

Read it more like a poem and less like a proposed bill.

I disagree with your premise that I shouldn’t express concern/opinions or point out problems with things that affect me simply because I’m not a trained expert in that thing.

I’m advocating for controlling the damage. The way I said it is cutesy, not literal.

I intended it to point out that it’s too easy to merge companies together but it’s effectively impossible to stop someone from becoming anticompetitive without a real consequence.

If we can’t make it easier to rip them apart then we shouldn’t be so slap-happy about approving them in the first place.

Slightly tangential thought:

My belief is: legislation needs to either make it just as hard to merge two companies as it is to unmerge them, or make it just as easy to unmerge two companies as it is to merge them.

It's insane to me that for how often companies merge and cause competition issues, we effectively never see the opposite happen. I know there's a ceremonial approval for merging two companies (at least in the US), but it's just impossible to undo or prevent the damage.

> When you are outdoors, especially on public property, you generally have no "expectation of privacy."

what about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpenter_v._United_States?

> A person does not surrender all Fourth Amendment protection by venturing into the public sphere ~ John Roberts

I do get the separation from private companies and government. I'm not arguing that. But this ruling was specifically about using Cell data collected by a private company being used to violate the privacy rights of citizens.

I don't think a private company harvesting data from public spaces and then reselling it is loop-hole enough to say "press rights > privacy rights". And there's precedence from the SCOTUS to support my belief on that.

Understand. Thanks for the answer.

There’s obviously a line somewhere though, right? Like if that same company put a camera in a bathroom stall?

So on one extreme with have CCTV parking lot cams, on the other we have bathroom stalls. It seems like we could find where spy cameras that exist solely to break citizens rights to privacy land on the spectrum and write laws around that.

> In what world is this not abridging the freedom of the press?

Why does that freedom supersede all other guaranteed freedoms? For example the US constitution tries to protect its citizens from unlawful searches, etc. just as strongly as protecting the presses. Why do I have to sacrifice my freedom from searches to preserve Home Depot’s freedom to tape others?

I live by a park. These places don't care for the same reason the park doesn't care: the wind blows it all in my yard, not their problem anymore.

Shipped to countries that have banned the growing of the crop because of water concerns

Utah

Nagware will always get a bad review from me if I paid money for it.

I'm your customer, not your marketing team.

The nags seem to always come at the worst time. Open an app to look up something and I have to click to close all the bubbles about what's new and "you like this? please review us!". It's incredibly frustrating.

I have a windows computer that tries to install HP Printer software automatically because it detects an HP printer on the WiFi. No physical access needed

Mario 64 was byte for byte decompiled to C. It was helped by using the Debug symbols accidentally(?) compiled into the final version of the game.

Otherwise they reference rips of the original game.

yeah, i ignored them for years just to see how long they'd play their little game. I finally got sick of it, paid them for a month, downloaded everything, and then canceled/closed the account. Didn't know there was the free option... but oh well. Glad to be rid of them.

So tired of the games everyone plays to squeeze $5 out of someone.

I think it’s a major feature gap that Gmail (paid or free) cannot create filters on headers.

I also can’t do wildcard filters on “to” or “from”. For example, in my GApps I have it set up to route all emails not associated with a specific user to my primary user. So that it’s easier to make throwaway emails. I want to filter all to:`X.X@domain.tld` to a certain folder. No can do.

It just feels restricted.

I miss being able to skip ads and previews without “this feature is disabled for this disk”.

This is definitely not true for general .us domains.

I registered one a year or two ago. And assuming my normal default Whois privacy was being applied (I clicked through too fast. Wasn’t paying attention)

I noticed my mistake after the spam bots started hitting me up for their web design products.

When my kids were young, we canceled our Disney Channel / etc cable subscription and showed them more PBS and similar.

It was really annoying turning on a show for 30 minutes then for the next week hearing about that new toy they just have to get. It was exhausting.

Asking this question got me to stop being lazy and actually try to answer my own question. Mimir being one that caught my eye

https://grafana.com/oss/mimir/

Honest question, how do you handle high cardinality data points?

Reference to where my brain is at: https://www.robustperception.io/cardinality-is-key/

I feel like splunk’s business model favors a healthy system and gives major disadvantages to an unhealthy one. What I mean in an example: when the system is unhealthy, I know it because all my splunk queries get queued up because everyone is slamming it with queries. I hate it.

But I’m stuck in knowing how to move some things to Prometheus. Like say we have a CustomerID and we want to track number of times something is done by user. If we have thousands of customers, cardinality breaks that solution.

Is there a good solution for this?

Yeah, totally a woosh moment for me. Read all the way up to the `* * *`. That's on me :)

I thought I had read it. :) I thought the three `* * *` at the bottom was indicating I was about to start reading suggestions for the next article. So definitely a "Woosh" moment for me :D

> That would probably not trigger anyone’s midnight pager, but it would make it clear that relying on the deprecated functionality is a bug lurking in the code.

How do you know? This is a wild assertion. This idea is terrible. I thought it was common knowledge that difficult to reproduce, seemingly random bugs are much more difficult to find and fix than compiler errors.

If you're ready to break your api, break your api. Don't play games with me. If more people actually removed deprecated APIs in a timely manner, then people will start taking it more seriously.

I tried to use a USB-C HDMI dongle I had. But I assumed it was because the switch 2 was looking for something that could deliver enough power and actively cool it, like the first party dock does.

One time an interviewer asked me languages I knew.

After I went through my experience with Java, C#, python, etc. he said, “I meant like… Spanish…”

Oh wow! Didn’t expect to see this piece of my childhood on the front page!

I used to spend hours on telnet playing this game with my friend. What a fun blast to the past!

About 60 for me. I have to charge mine while working to get it to last a day :/

I wish I could better help my org see that. Luckily my boss agrees with me, but he's not in full control. Between the vendor lock-in, and the _almost but not quite api compatibility_ with OSS... I just dread as more teams adopt it.

"But it's easier!" ... yeah, we'll see...

Maybe you’re thinking of this?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_(operating_syste...

Similarly, I would love if videos/blurays/streams/etc had a way to adjust volumes separate from each other. So many movies have such loud music and quiet dialog. So I'm constantly adjusting the volume between different scenes.