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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
From my point of view, it's a booming economy for the top 10%-20%. The middle are mostly holding ground, but the bottom 10%-20% are in, or close to, a depression. Homelessness and food bank utilization are at a record high by some meas
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
Somehow, the cost of a trillion dollar defense industry isn't a problem.
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
Encrypting data at rest in a data center doesn't provide as much protection as you might think. The level of system access in order to access the raw data files is usually about the same as accessing the higher level database system it
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
Just to be pedantic, the DoD does have a large police force and a prison system.
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
Government agencies require a data sharing agreement when providing data to other agencies. These are service level contracts that specify the data to be shared, the redistribution conditions, security requirements, update frequency, and ot
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
> removing the search bar and keeping pesky user input from interfering with targeted ad revenue. But how will they know what you are shopping for?
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
HIPAA allows your medical information to be widely shared without your consent. It just requires the many holders of the data to implement some security controls. https://www.healthit.gov/topic/interoperability/how
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
AFAIK, Windows applications typically use GDI instead of DirectX. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/direct2d/com...
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
Didn't realize that this discussion was in the context of games.
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
XAML based WPF and Silverlight were really nice and eliminated so much boilerplate and plumbing code. Unfortunately, Microsoft management-marketing didn't want to sell an opinionated framework, among other blunders.
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
Is running events though a domain socket really so different than Windows message ports?
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
You can't register a vehicle without paying the tax, but there's no other enforcement besides tax department business audits. Sometimes politicians and other public figures will pay it.
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
In case anyone is wondering what Use Tax is, it's sales tax for purchases where sales tax was not paid by the seller. For example, if you live in Washington state, purchase a TV in Portland Oregon, and then bring it back to your home i
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
In 2009, the black budget was estimated to be over $50 billion [1]. It's so huge that the military industrial media complex designed, built, and operated an entire 100 jet wing of secret new fighters in the 1980's [2]. 1. https:&
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
There's money to steal, so a politician did something to help their cronies be the ones to steal it.
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
Seems a bit out of style to blame the Russians, but I guess that describes Microsoft in general.
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
I think we've stumbled onto the mission of the X-37b.
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
Live TV from Apollo 11 had a huge cultural impact. People who were born before the Wright Brothers flier watched the moon landing on live TV. They had an incredible sense of Progress that we seem to have mostly lost.
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
The other factor is RAM, which is more problematic. The Cray-1 had up to 4 Meg WORDS RAM, or 2 Meg as we would measure today (I think).
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
Washington state seems to be leading the way on this issue by spending $700,000 on boulders for the homeless. /s? https://www.theolympian.com/news/local/article283855368.html
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
Probably also worth noting that the laser would have practical military uses.
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
Why do copyright holders get due process but not accused infringers?
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
"Contractors in Kenya say they were traumatized by effort to screen out descriptions of violence and sexual abuse during run-up to OpenAI’s hit chatbot" https://www.wsj.com/articles/chatgpt-openai-content-abus
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
"Success has a thousand mothers, but failure is an orphan"
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
The traditional way to handle this is to use a GAAP style transaction/journal and a roll-up summary table. The current state can be reconstructed from the read only transaction table and you don't need any complex event processing
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
Individual units are ordered by military units through the GSA. If anyone happens to have access, there's a per unit cost in the GSA catalog.
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
Complete nonsense. My uninformed guess is that they aren't buying from some political crony, so the crony's friend in the congress or senate (Ron Wyden probably) is rattling some cages.
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
The call is coming from inside the house. Why do you think this is a systemic problem in the first place?
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
The GTA5 kids grew up and are living their dreams.
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by GartzenDeHaes 3y ago
"I hope it's not a civilian flight" -- low ranking guy in the CIC who was ignored.

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