JTbane

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by JTbane 4y ago
>Is it that difficult to make off-site backups every hour? Storage is cheap. There are many air gapping options for backups, too. I'd imagine that often your backups get encrypted as well, early enough that the data loss to the last
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by JTbane 4y ago
A lot of libertarian-types might say "IT'S THE GOVERNMENT'S FAULT", but seems like this guy had a ton of potentially hazardous chemicals lying around to make foam. Those regulations exist for a reason, resins are very na
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by JTbane 4y ago
I have a bunch of no-name laptop batteries lying around that no one will take. Apparently lithium ion waste is not as valuable as I thought.
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by JTbane 4y ago
Knowing corporate bean counters, step 1 and 3 will be unattainable due to "budget constraints".
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by JTbane 4y ago
Gas stoves bad, yes. If you do a modicum of research you can see that they cause indoor air pollution (and most people don't have real hood vents to outside the building).
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by JTbane 4y ago
I'd prefer "Zoomers".
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by JTbane 4y ago
The name "Wallace" kept coming up, supposedly connected to MI6.
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by JTbane 4y ago
Should they? One political party's disinfo is another's creed.
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by JTbane 4y ago
My edgy take is that it's the same as donating to any church.
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by JTbane 4y ago
If I followed this rule I wouldn't own a thing, the perks of living in a small room.
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by JTbane 4y ago
I was appalled by the recent discussions about doing away with income tax in the USA and replacing it with a heavy VAT (the most regressive type of tax). Libertarians in this country can be the worst enemy of the poor and working class some
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by JTbane 4y ago
My hot take: the team I'm on is prone to extreme bikeshedding so sometimes I just go "lone wolf" on my work items to get a minimum working version out. The team then gives a lot of feedback (which is great) but would be insur
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by JTbane 4y ago
In a similar vein I found flat-soled shoes like Converse sneakers are a dream to wear during daily activities, rather than arch-supported shoes.
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by JTbane 4y ago
I don't have a crystal ball but Fuchsia seems like it's dead on arrival. Most likely anything gained from the project will be rolled into Android.
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by JTbane 4y ago
It ought to be illegal, I've went to a take-out place that had a tiny note card taped to the counter where no one EVER looks before ordering: "optional" COVID surcharge.
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by JTbane 4y ago
various creators were sent OGL 1.1 licenses, a contract to sign, FAQ, and an NDA on/around Dec 21 to be signed by Jan 4th. This is pretty underhanded and will cost WotC a lot of goodwill.
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by JTbane 4y ago
I wish the company I'm at would do this, I have a mandatory daily morning meeting that gets longer and longer, now 45-90 minutes with tangential discussion.
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by JTbane 4y ago
Yeah, no, this works great until you get an actually important call from a previously unknown number (hospital, job interview, etc.)
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by JTbane 4y ago
Pretty sure even private hedge funds have to disclose to their clients exactly what they hold, not Madoff's "just trust me bro" promise.
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by JTbane 4y ago
I wonder how bad 2038 will be. Real talk, I expect a lot of servers to go down.
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by JTbane 4y ago
Crunch in software will always result in bugs and missing features, I don't know why execs don't get this. Especially with games where they apparently MUST be out by Christmas.
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by JTbane 4y ago
The one time I used the live chat (to attempt to cancel my Economist subscription) they immediately left the chat
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by JTbane 4y ago
>seriously, anyone at this point advocating for any other phone/os/service out there besides apple is really going out of their way to swim up river sideloading is a deal breaker for me, so I'd rather stay out of the walle
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by JTbane 4y ago
pass soul as an argument to brew(), and I hope no one mentions dependency injection
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by JTbane 4y ago
Browser push notifications give me the same vibe as the malware toolbars and add-ons of old.
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by JTbane 4y ago
Personal anecdotes from a family member of mine who is just breaking into genetic research at an Ivy: - Power tripping principal investigators - Cutthroat competition leading to actual sabotage (researcher deliberately social engineered the
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by JTbane 4y ago
Man, outputting data to a CSV is a very difficult computing problem. /schadenfreude
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by JTbane 4y ago
Bikes are not dangerous (unless you're talking about e-bikes with beefy frames and tires), if you get hit by a bike as a pedestrian you're probably only getting bruised. Cars are absolute murder machines.
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by JTbane 4y ago
>Obviously, Americans filing tax information the government already knows every year is another canonical example Yeah it's pretty ridiculous, especially when you hold things like mutual funds. You have to figure out how much to pay
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by JTbane 4y ago
You've heard of speed dating, now try snitch dating!

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