BonesJustice

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by BonesJustice 7y ago
Should be okay now. There were several BIOS updates early on that made it possible to brick your machine by toggling seemingly innocuous settings, like discrete/hybrid graphics or thunderbolt support. As far as the Linux experience go
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
That was my first question: "do the latest fingerprint readers work?" Because I definitely have not found a driver that supports the reader on my ThinkPad X1 Extreme.
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
Be careful. I work for such a bank, and even secure traffic is MITM’d when possible. There are data loss controls in place to analyze outbound traffic for things like source code. Just because you’ve circumvented IT’s blocks doesn’t mean
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
> No, no, it isn't. Desktop is far more productive than mobile ever will be or can be. Desktop is usually more productive when you're sitting down to work. Desktop is probably not more productive if you're walking down
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
Yeah, I don't think burying it in the ninth paragraph of the Terms could be reasonably called 'prominent'. For that matter, the landing page for the Apple Card shoves it into a footnote. Seems like a case of "tech compan
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
> It's writes to any address. It would be quite useless otherwise ... Ugh, you're right, of course. My brain hasn't quite woken up today :-/. I remember there was some subtlety about read/acquire and write&#x
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
It doesn’t help that there are sometimes subtle but extremely important differences in the guarantees that certain types of barriers provide, be it at the hardware level, language level, VM level, etc. Example: does a write with release s
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
First parties might compensate me by providing a service in exchange. What of the third parties with whom they share my personal data? When those parties profit off my data, what compensation do I receive?
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
Assuming that’s true, the fact that it has happened before does not mean simultaneous failure is not incredibly unlikely. Unlikely things do happen. One might call it extraordinarily bad luck.
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
You know what’s better than $3B? More than $3B. I don’t like my information being brokered for someone else’s profit, but the incentives are pretty clear.
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
Same, but (unfortunately) I suspect we are in the minority. Whenever I visit my parents' house, there are at least two separate TVs on, regardless of whether someone is actually in the room watching. There's probably a 50% chanc
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
One can be justifiably angry without becoming completely unhinged. I have no idea who was actually in the wrong here, but I would tend to side with the person making the calm, measured response. All things being equal, if someone acts nut
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
I wish they would just offer a variant with physical function keys and a Touch Bar. They’d have plenty of room for both if they reduced the comically oversized touchpad.
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
Once you’ve solved your first programming issue in your sleep, you’re officially a Real Programmer(TM). Or at least you can feel confident that you’ve picked a good career path.
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
Also, ‘businesses’ is not the same as, say, ‘megacorps’. Though I get where the grandparent comment was coming from.
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
Is that basically just pho with egg noodles rather than rice noodles? If so, I agree.
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
Oopsie. Some poor bastard is having the worst day of their career. I find it concerning that it was even possible for this to happen, regardless of whether it was intentional.
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
Actually, there was an interesting link posted here a while back[1] that explored how non-profit colleges have a vested interest in making sure at least half of their students cannot afford full tuition. To keep their tax exempt status, t
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
Might have to do with wanting to avoid people trying to game the system? Not that I expect the shroud of secrecy to actually mitigate that problem.
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
There are engineers who were already working at Facebook when all the negative press started piling up. Then there are the engineers who went to work for them in spite of that bad press. Given the revelations that have come to light, th
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
My point was not that ‘extremism’ does not have a definition; my point was that what content falls under that definition is very much subjective. I could have phrased my original comment better. Obviously, the drafters of this agreement
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
Bless your heart. It was actually a trick question: you cannot tell me what “violent extremism” means in this context, because you don’t know. You don’t know because you’re not the one who gets to decide. The only definition that matters i
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
And yet those in power are the ones who get to decide what the term means.
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
What constitutes ‘extremism’? It’s a term so vague as to be practically meaninglessness.
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
Indeed, $50k for a few hours of work is a lot better (for the contractor) than the $21k for 280 hours chronicled in the original post. Hell, considering probably he spent most of his time sitting around, bored out of his mind, and had to co
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
Only until it comes true, at which point it will be considered prophecy.
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
Almost certainly, though YouTube does not want to deal with DMCA requests and would rather the entire system stay largely automated, so I’m not sure it would want to incentivize rights-holders to go the DMCA takedown route.
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
Because failing to present material information accurately to current and prospective shareholders is securities fraud. That’s the allegation—not that they did something stupid, but that they misrepresented their risk exposure. I’m of the
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
If it were me, I'd rail against the Boeing _leadership_. Frame it as management's greed putting blue collar jobs at risk (by putting sales and corporate reputation at risk).
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by BonesJustice 7y ago
Many of the “clients” at these rehab facilities were ordered there by a judge, so while they could technically refuse, the alternative is prison (likely involving more slave labor).

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