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by Arnt 8mo ago
No. I think these things are basically something some managers do, and that "management did this because neoliberalism" is as meaningless as "… because communism".
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by Arnt 8mo ago
This seems like a good time to mention Adolf Hennecke. People who don't know much history don't know about the campaign that made him famous in the country where he lived. Put briefly, Adolf Hennecke was the poster boy for a produ
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by Arnt 8mo ago
As the thread makes clear, it was someone who doesn't have backups. Does that kind of person give AI agents full access?
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by Arnt 8mo ago
On the back of an envelope, exporting a hundred million drones or so per year ought to fix the current Russian budget shortfall. Less would be needed if they can charge high prices, or if the state produces them and so gets the profit inste
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by Arnt 8mo ago
Maybe you ought to read the article. Or a few of the articles. At this stage, according to the numbers presented here, Russia would have to increase taxes on oil to about 115% of the exports (not the profit, the total exports) in order to b
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BadSMTP — the reliably unreliable SMTP server(badsmtp.com)
12 points by Arnt 8mo ago|1 comments
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by Arnt 8mo ago
If you read RFC 2119, you'll see that the definition of SHOULD includes the word must. Perhaps it's easier to understand if I rephrase it as: "If you understand the issue and its consequences, SHOULD means optional. If you do
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by Arnt 8mo ago
Well… yes… no… SHOULD means that you must either do the thing or understand the consequences of not doing it. That's not simply optional, the two options are to ① spend time on writing code and ② spend time on learning the consequences
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by Arnt 8mo ago
FYI slightly over 10% of RFCs contain at least one occurrence of SHALL. Even that small minority uses other words for most requirements.
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by Arnt 8mo ago
There are indeed such situations. Two situations AFAICR, and neither of them apply to when you connect to someone else's MX. Gmail rejects the vast majority of compliant messages, I think they've stated in public that they reject
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by Arnt 8mo ago
Happily, the meanings in RFCs are clearly specified, see https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2119 . Note "the full implications must be understood and carefully weighed before choosing a different course". Gmail
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by Arnt 8mo ago
Hearsay has it that the reason is spam. Spam messages are said to have massively higher chances of minor RFC violations when they arrive at the destination server.
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by Arnt 8mo ago
SHOULD is a requirement. It means that you have to do it unless you know some specific reason that the requirement doesn't apply in your case. "I don't want to" is not a valid excuse, "I don't see a reason to&q
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by Arnt 8mo ago
That reminds me of RFC 1925 Truth 3.
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by Arnt 8mo ago
I use matrix. Every chat room I use is unencrypted and all have at least one matrix.org user. I assume it can be encrypted but the usability is such that in practice it's cleartext.
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by Arnt 8mo ago
Hm. The question half-sounds as if they're asking "do you check AI output over and above your usual review, unit testing, CI, whatever? If people interpreted it that way, 48% is not at all bad.
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by Arnt 9mo ago
If you pay someone 3x for work/service/product, x is the price and 2x is what you pay to encourage them to make/do the things instead of the people who could/would do it for x. However, you're not paying 3x. I assum
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by Arnt 9mo ago
Rooting my vacuum cleaner felt a little stupid. Did that a few days ago. "Fun with an excuse" is how it felt. Right now it feels okay. Makes sense, was not urgent.
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by Arnt 9mo ago
During WW1 the front moved rapidly from west of Ukraine's western end to east of its eastern. There's a fine map at the top of https://www.britannica.com/event/Eastern-Front-World-War-I-h... That trench warfa
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by Arnt 9mo ago
The problem? As in, the only one? A matter of opinion. As I see it the several carcinogenic components of ICE exhausts are problems. Dying of cancer may be a small problem compared to an uninhabitable planet and I can see how one might co
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by Arnt 9mo ago
Do you have some examples of letters that say more? Some ltter signed by 30 CEOs or more.
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by Arnt 9mo ago
When I had a job at a power plant near where I live, one of the engineers there pointed at the big chimneys and said (I translate:) "what comes out of those chimneys is cleaner than the air around us". They filter out everything e
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by Arnt 9mo ago
I'm late to the party. Sorry. Why do such articles not distinguish between the cheapest and that which is the cheapest? Including this one. One might reasonably make a long-term policy for new power plants such as "40% of new powe
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by Arnt 9mo ago
What? I didn't know that. Do you have a reference? I'm particularly interested in the origin — is this something that applies to countries with a common law tradition, a roman law tradition, does it originate in one of the copyrig
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by Arnt 9mo ago
Maybe I misunderstand, but that sounds as if you're saying that Treasuries have low risk and middling yield. Is that what you mean? (Half the G20 countries currently have <4% yield on ten-year bonds, the other half more.)
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by Arnt 9mo ago
It can also violate other laws and rules that are not relevant to copyright. Perhaps I should have digressed into listing that? I chose not to.
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by Arnt 9mo ago
The normal trading volume isn't really the key. Rather, it's how elastic the price is. Suppose these guys sell 10% of the daily trading volume. How do the traders in the market react? One possibility: Buy at current prices. Anothe
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by Arnt 9mo ago
You're close to an important point. Our current laws are written to make it legal for you to copy the Quran via your brain — some people learn it by rote and can stand up and speak the entire work from one end to the other. This is int
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The relentless rule of my fitness tracker(timharford.com)
20 points by Arnt 9mo ago|8 comments
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by Arnt 9mo ago
At a glance, it sounds as if those power stations need to pay for themselves in a few hours per week, and as soon as you get more transmission capacity from Scotland they're dead. Give those constraints, of course they must be expensiv

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