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by Arainach 8mo ago
Again: an outage caused by a config change is different from data loss. The remediation was painful but it was not data loss.
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by Arainach 8mo ago
The release process, monitoring checks, etc. for a customer's private cloud is generally significantly different from the release process for a global product. I'm not going to get any more specific for all the standard NDA reaso
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by Arainach 8mo ago
.....no? "We deployed this private cloud with a missing parameter and it wasn't caught" is as different from "we wiped out all customer data" as hello world is from Kubernetes. No one promised this "should be i
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by Arainach 8mo ago
It's not inevitable, it's essentially impossible. There are a few things that can cause tremendously widespread outages , essentially all of them network configuration changes. Actually deleting customer data is dramatically mor
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by Arainach 8mo ago
Is this article missing opening context? First line: >Pecan nuts were already a dietary staple for Native Americans in various parts of what is now the United States before Antoine’s innovation established the basis for a commercial peca
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by Arainach 8mo ago
Such as who? And are most of their employees actually using Slack or are a few white collar employees using it while 90% of their workforce has no idea?
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by Arainach 8mo ago
>it was a bit too much of the social stuff Because clearly none of the other series focused on social stuff, except... TOS, which featured an interracial cast (and kiss) in the 1960s, where nearly every episode was thinly-veiled commenta
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by Arainach 8mo ago
You can start with DS9 and understand what's going on with the characters. Like many series it takes a couple of seasons to figure out what's going on and who the characters are, but in the end the payoff is fantastic. It was th
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by Arainach 8mo ago
There's been enormous pushback, pushes for privatizing (ruining) it, underfunding it from Congress, an absolute refusal to remove the criminally low income cap on contributions, etc.
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by Arainach 8mo ago
US Unemployment statistics have a number of flaws, including not capturing people who are underemployed (taking any low paying job to try to make ends meet instead of working in a higher paying field they are qualified for) and not capturin
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by Arainach 9mo ago
I disagree. My most precious resource is free time. I never have anywhere near enough. It is absolutely not worth $5 for me to spend another 15 minutes trying to find a cheaper price
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by Arainach 9mo ago
"Demand" is not a good metric for proper medical or safety review. There is constant demand for products that promise amazing things, but they should not be approved more rapidly because of their claims until they have gone throu
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by Arainach 9mo ago
>It’s kind of crazy that they have been slow to create real products and competitive large scale models from their research. Not really. If Google released all of this first instead of companies that have never made a profit and perhaps
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by Arainach 9mo ago
>Sure. But let’s get rid of all early voting and mail in balloting. No excuses right? Throw in voter id too. There's no reason that a holiday to give people time to do it requires or logically leads to either of those, no. >I nev
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by Arainach 9mo ago
Compliance certification costs money - lots of it. The laws also require proactive scanning of uploaded material, not just responding to complaints, and require a person to be declared liable for mistakes. Gone are the says of paying a cou
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by Arainach 9mo ago
It's not a matter of "immune" - larger organizations generally have more resources to allocate to things like this. That doesn't mean they get it right 100% of the time, but they are at least able to try, while small te
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by Arainach 9mo ago
No, the reality is far worse - and prohibitively expensive in time and money to any individual as opposed to large corporation. https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/401475/
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by Arainach 9mo ago
In the US, maybe. In Europe, not necessarily. The UK's OFCOM regulations are particularly concerning.
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by Arainach 9mo ago
The legal landscape has also changed. 20 years ago I helped run a web forum, but with today's legal landscape - DMCA in the US, various different laws in the EU and other countries - I would never do so. The amount of liability on the
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by Arainach 9mo ago
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. Our current laws and enforcement don't prevent 100% of murders or rapes, but that doesn't mean we should remove the laws prohibiting them.
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by Arainach 9mo ago
Neither group SMS nor shared email lists have the algorithmic dopamine tweaking that are the root of most of the harm.
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by Arainach 9mo ago
You're assuming the students are reading any of this. They're not, they're just copy/pasting it.
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by Arainach 9mo ago
Not if you were connected to either when turning on airplane mode. Both can also be turned on manually in airplane mode. A physical block avoids any uncertainty or mistakes.
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by Arainach 9mo ago
"requiring apps to do X" means blocking running every app written prior to you instituting the requirement, bricking everyone's workflows, so that would be the least competent thing imaginable.
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by Arainach 9mo ago
In the US market, the Hyundai Ioniq 6 has better build quality, identical range in real world conditions, a ton of comfort, and no threat that their CEO will go off his meds and take away your driving assist features unless you pay a ~~rans
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by Arainach 9mo ago
No, not by a long shot, unless you define "class" so tightly as to only include those vehicles and no competitors.
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by Arainach 9mo ago
There's way too much going on to follow all of it, and most of the important stuff isn't written down. By the time the text of bills is available, the politicians and influencers have been discussing things for a long time and th
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by Arainach 9mo ago
In contrast I've never seen someone have to cut up a driveway. There are many ways concrete is superior to pavers. One of the most important is that it is miserable and almost impossible to properly clear snow and ice from pavers.
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by Arainach 9mo ago
If the person reading the code doesn't quickly understand what's going on from the name or finds the name confusing, the name is poor and should be changed. It is way too easy for the author to be caught up in their mental model a
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by Arainach 9mo ago
A significant number of American driveways are concrete. I'm not going to look up numbers, but I would have to believe that more are concrete than asphalt/tarmac. Unpaved driveways could outnumber both, who knows, but most peopl

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