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My company has two full time staff members running point on customer service. Directing people to the 5 bullet point FAQ page is about 85% of their job.

I dabbled with setting up an AI classifier to do this for them, and while it would remove 99% of those FAQ emails, the remaining 1% of the time it was so catastrophically wrong it made us press pause on the whole thing.

You can just point your domain at your local IP, e.g. 192.168.0.100

Or simply “i need to change the address of my delivery”

You have to pay for visual studio too if it is for business use (the license is also SIGNIFICANTLY more expensive than rider)

My coworker uses VS and it seems like the IDE is doing nothing - every time I open one of his projects in rider 85% of the code is highlighted with suggested optimizations and refactors that VS thinks is fine

I don’t think software developers working in AI are “exploited labour just doing it to survive”

For what it’s worth I’ve never had an issue launching a game from a library on my NTFS partition

Windows doesn’t have ext4 compatibility. When you mount a Linux partition through WSL you aren’t actually mounting the drive itself, you are booting a VM up and piping all I/O through that VM back to an emulated disk device on the host windows OS

You would be better off having your steam library on an NTFS partition - at least your Linux OS can read the drive natively

If you need a video to explain your graph, is it really that good of a visualization?

Probably because the week input is just a date picker that applies Math.floor() on the result, and month inputs are better suited for a <select>

Chrome implements features that aren’t standards track into their browser, and lazy/oblivious devs use these features to build their products - only to realize wayyy too late it won’t work in Safari/Firefox because it uses APIs that are chrome only

This is disingenuous on OPs part.

All LTS releases get 5 years of updates. Ubuntu pro (which is free for non-commercial users FYI) extends the LTS support window to 10 years, which is 5 years more than any other Linux distribution I know of

I mean I’m speaking from first hand experience in academia. Like I mentioned, this obviously isn’t the case for people running prohibitively costly experiments, but is absolutely the case for teams where acquiring more data just means throwing a few more weeks of time at the lab, the grunt work is being done by the students usually anyways. There are a lot more labs in existence that consist of just a PI and 5-10 grad students/post-docs than there are mega labs working cern.

There were a handful of times I remember rerunning an experiment that was on the cusp, either to solidify a result or to rule out a significant finding that I correctly suspected was just luck - what is another 3 weeks of data collection when you are spending up to a year designing/planning/iterating/writing to get the publication?

the danger is that valuable data from studies straddling the arbitrary p=0.05 line is simply being discarded by researchers

Or maybe experimenters are opting to do further research themselves rather than publish ambiguous results. If you aren’t doing MRI or costly field work, fine tuning your experimental design to get a conclusive result is a more attractive option than publishing a null result that could be significant, or a significant result that you fear might need retracting later.

Because many apps will (or would prefer to) only be bundled as Flatpak.

This reads like speculation to me and is directly contrary to the file counts on flathub and snapcraft. What about CLI apps and server software? How are they supposed to distribute their software if not via snap? (Flatpak doesn’t support this well)

could just as well be a rant why Canonical shouldn’t have introduced Snaps in the first place

You are acting like Ubuntu core (and snaps) came after flatpak? Snaps were announced almost a decade ago

Like, I get you don’t like snaps, but your argument is basically “every Linux distribution should ship the same default software, and it should be the software I choose”

Why do you need to have two package formats that do the same thing installed by default? If you could install snaps and flatpaks both from the same store you could have 2 (or 3 if you also installed the .deb) copies of the same app, like steam etc installed, and user sessions and games set up on one wouldn’t be launchable from the other because they all store their state and config in different locations - the only way to know what config your program is launching with would be to inspect and rename the launcher scripts. If you are intending to support naive users this is the absolute worst case scenario. It would be like debian including pacman by default as well alongside apt for maximum user accessibility confusion.

They didn’t “disable the format”

From your own link:

Do keep in mind that “not installed by default” is not the same as “not available to install at all”. To this end, Flatpak continues to be available in the Ubuntu repos, and users of Ubuntu flavors are free to install Flatpak

APK isn’t a closed source format just because Google operates the main store.

If there was community effort someone could spin up their own snap store, this person did it https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/lol-an-open-source-snap-server-implementation/27109 - problem is, it would serve no benefit because you would have to create your own signing authority and patch snapd to use those assertions instead - and then you are still relying on a central authority to vet and sign releases and frankly I would rather have my software signed by canonical than someone random guy operating their own snap store

Which is why I phrased my above comment in the very precise and deliberate way I did.

You don’t need to interface with canonical’s server to use snaps, you only need to do so if you want snaps that have been approved by and signed by canonical. Anyone can create a snap and privately distribute and install it, and every part of that process is open source.

Every line of snap code that touches your computer is open source, so “closed off” is absolute hyperbole when you are discussing the format

473ml is abundantly common in Canada because it’s the most common size used in the US (16oz)