AdamN

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by AdamN 1y ago
In the old Soviet/US rivalry days there was an accusation of cheating that I thought was novel. The accusation was that the Soviet players in the middle rounds were doing subtle not-right moves with the US #1. This forced the lead US
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Privacy (a big issue) is the least of our problems with media ownership by hyper-elite royalty.
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Didn't read the book but I think it's more insidious than what you wrote. The journalists don't think they're writing these stories to amplify the police narrative (they think they're unbiased). They just don&#x27
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by AdamN 1y ago
Kayak has a flag to limit tickets shown to only those sold by airlines. That's the way to go.
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Yeah - I read that and was like 'yeah' and didn't even realize at first that they were trying reductio ad absurdum. At some point demolition is the best step. Don't agree in demolition of the USG though - it's actu
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by AdamN 1y ago
That was a different era. The velocity of change is 100x now and the expectation for public libraries to do common things is 100x higher as well.
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by AdamN 1y ago
I don't think it has the hallmarks of social media (aggressive engagement mechanisms, etc...). We've had newsgroups for 30+ years and social media requires more than just message boards. The owner needs to push the content such
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by AdamN 1y ago
> they must have been using the ruling PDF to write the story Oh you sweet Summer child :-) The worst is with criminal cases where they can't even be burdened to write what the actual charges are. It's just some vague 'cr
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by AdamN 1y ago
Here's the deal for you young'ns. Richard Stallman (rms) had it right on this topic and alot of people had to fight to have the limited stack we have. It's not enough though. All we can do is make all the decisions possible
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by AdamN 1y ago
There are only 3 countries capable of taking down a satellite and China isn't going to waste such a weapon on anything that isn't a top-tier escalation with either the US or Russia. Since Russia is irrelevant strategically for Ch
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by AdamN 1y ago
Both - and really MCAS was fine but the issue was the metering systems (Pitot tubes) and the handling of conflicting data. That part of the puzzle was definitely a bug in the logic/software.
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by AdamN 1y ago
This is true but there also needs to be good developers as well. It can't just be great process and low quality developer practices. There needs to be: 1/ high quality individual processes (development being one of them), 2&#x2F
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by AdamN 1y ago
This time accuracy would need to propagate to all their hosts, not just the ones in a single DC. I presume they have hosts in the EU, London, NYC/NJ, Tokyo, Chicago, etc... I imagine 100ns accuracy with that kind of global installati
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by AdamN 1y ago
Not really. Meta is kind of the most corrupt towards users of the big tech companies imho. All companies want to make a profit but Meta has very few scruples.
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by AdamN 1y ago
That's a Germany issue. Getting married in Denmark is straightforward and registering a company in Lithuania is also straightforward. There's nothing European about that issue - it's just how Germany handles this stuff.
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by AdamN 1y ago
Isn't that why we have government? We have judges to make the final say on right and wrong and what the punishments are for transgressions, legislatures to make laws and allocate money based on the needs of the constituents, and an ex
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by AdamN 1y ago
The expense report for mileage was another one. Kind of cute and an interesting insight into the time period but it wasn't really needed.
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by AdamN 1y ago
Or even crazier, a manual shift on the steering column. Nothing weirder than pushing down the clutch and then changing the gear with your hand on a knob off to the side of the steering wheel.
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by AdamN 1y ago
We are truly surrounded by heathens. A soiled yogurt spoon in the honey jar?!?!? [I'm kind of being whimsical here but c'mon - get a squeeze bottle of honey if you can't handle keeping the jar clean plz]
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by AdamN 1y ago
I remember when Jobs killed the Herald Square Apple Store even though the lease had been signed and it 'made sense' on paper. When visiting the location it's clear it's a dump and no Apple store will fix that. He put h
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by AdamN 1y ago
Uber?? I think I've turned off notifications for that. Baby monitor I'd prefer radio - is an iPhone really reliable enough??? Car/home alarms I guess make sense but it always seems odd to me that people have this stuff and
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by AdamN 1y ago
In this case though, high reliability electricity delivery is very doable. Many countries achieve 3 9s or higher. Sure there are the issues like the recent Spain/Portugal blackout but even that has some political roots.
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by AdamN 1y ago
I don't want the filter. An app sends me a notification like that, all notifications are banned.
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by AdamN 1y ago
?? This has been called out for more than a decade I think. Within 100 miles of the border CBP has broad discretion and rights are limited in these types of circumstances.
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by AdamN 1y ago
This is really just the essence of bureaucracy - which is the problem with these rules that sounds fine if you don't think about the implementation of them. Trump himself probably wouldn't care (which is why he thinks these rules
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by AdamN 1y ago
Just a plug for the Max Foundation out of Seattle: https://themaxfoundation.org/ Even where these problems are more solved than they were - the access is not broad enough for everyone to benefit. The Max Foundation works t
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by AdamN 1y ago
I feel reasonably confident that if the focus is on open tooling and sovereignty and not saving money then a shift to Linux can 100% work even at large and complex organizations.
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If you read all the notifications you'll never do your actual job. People who just open their IDE and code are to be commended in some respects - but it's a balance of course.
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This is one of the problems at big tech - people 10-20 years in and haven't lived in the outside world. It's a hard problem to solve.
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I feel like we're well into the longtail now. Are there other SCM systems or is it the end of history for source control and git is the one and done solution?

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