LooseMarmoset

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by LooseMarmoset 8d ago
as someone who is associated with “the big guys”, I can tell you this is changing. Our Oracle license licensing went up so dramatically that the team I work with is moving some very large databases to postgres from Oracle because it doesn’t
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by LooseMarmoset 11d ago
i miss my wobbly windows
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by LooseMarmoset 13d ago
every time I use the Internet on a computer without some sort of ad blocking, I am astounded to learn that there are still people who use the Internet without an ad blocker. The Internet is unusable these days without ublock origin or a pih
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by LooseMarmoset 13d ago
former squid here, can confirm. filipinos were very common until the USN pulled out of the bases in the Philippines in the early 90s. they couldn’t get clearances easily if at all so a lot of filipinos worked in the galley (kitchens) which
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by LooseMarmoset 27d ago
This guy did a nice thing for people, let's keep it positive. Thank you very much for this! KDEConnect is great, but it's a little awkward to use with iOS (because of Apple, not the great developers), so this is a nice project to
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by LooseMarmoset 3mo ago
Social media won because it is better and more profitable for the producer/site owner. It is objectively worse for the consumer: * Algorithms that push content the user didn't ask for/dark patterns * Prioritizes low-attention
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by LooseMarmoset 3mo ago
That is a great book. All my kids loved it. "Good night little house and good night mouse, good night comb and good night brush, good night nobody, good night mush" My kids loved the mush part. I still remember it more than a deca
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by LooseMarmoset 3mo ago
not an amputee, but he did heal a man with a withered or malformed hand in Matthew 12. he also healed plenty of cripples, so I don’t think it’s a stretch to think that some or many of them were missing limbs.
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by LooseMarmoset 3mo ago
even the Jews of the time that did not believe or follow Jesus wrote that he performed signs. They claimed it was sorcery. in Folio 43a of Tractate Sanhedrin of the Babylonian Talmud as follows: ‘It is taught: On the eve of Passover they hu
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by LooseMarmoset 3mo ago
Were I still on Linkedin, I could totally have been caught by this. Thank you for this post, and the technical breakdown. The company that I currently work for is currently paying for a curation product to scan NPM for vulnerabilities, and
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by LooseMarmoset 3mo ago
You are not wrong. They don't do this because they make money from the scammers. I have posted about this before. See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35191971
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by LooseMarmoset 3mo ago
this is unfortunately, the most revisionist take I can imagine. I don’t mean this in a personal way, mind you but while it may have been magical to publish interactive websites, using flash, that magic is utterly outweighed by the mundane v
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by LooseMarmoset 4mo ago
Secure boot is designed to verify software signatures. The UEFI bios might support loading software over https, but it isn't part of secure boot. Secure boot would verify any kernels/etc loaded from https.
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by LooseMarmoset 4mo ago
Drivers got better after ATI merged/got bought by AMD, but ATI has a loooooong legacy of terrible drivers in Windows. The funny thing is, in Linux, the drivers are pretty great as far as I can tell. It's not like there aren't
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by LooseMarmoset 4mo ago
Why can't it be both?
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by LooseMarmoset 4mo ago
256 here :( the cpap is a wonder, I can't sleep without it. I only wish I'd gotten one 10 years sooner. I have whole years of my life missing from my memory - REM sleep is very important to long-term memory formation. Using my CPA
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by LooseMarmoset 5mo ago
Nvidia makes a fine GPU. The problem with Nvidia on linux is the drivers. You're beholden to Team Green for driver updates, and when they decide not to support a GPU anymore, that's it. Now, linux does have the nouveau driver, but
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by LooseMarmoset 5mo ago
I think that this is actually a good thing. If everyone had the same internal world model, we would have very little innovation. I try to train and mentor those that are junior to me. I try to show them what is possible, and patterns that r
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by LooseMarmoset 5mo ago
Think about how they validate how old you are. Meta and Google, who are lobbying in support of this legislation,will force you to sign up with your real ID, and be the arbiter for questions like “are you old enough for this website”. For ev
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by LooseMarmoset 5mo ago
An outstanding idea. Those lobbying for age verification hate it though, because they want to be the arbiters of age, and all that juicy PII that they can analyze and resell.
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by LooseMarmoset 6mo ago
From my own perspective, the "visceral hatred" isn't so much at AI (which I use almost exclusively to generate funny pictures of myself and coworkers) but at the executives that view it as a way to enshittify society. turning
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by LooseMarmoset 6mo ago
Big space stagnated because they could. Their friends in Congress directed them lots of money and lots of political cover, and they both profited handsomely. Why would they change? They never had so, and I might argue that they still don&#x
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by LooseMarmoset 6mo ago
I wonder if kawaii face paint would work
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by LooseMarmoset 6mo ago
Neither GM, Chrysler, or Ford wants to hurt their expensive offerings. Toyota and Nissan have less expensive offerings, but can't bring them here because the tariffs make them much less margin, and the CAFE standards kill the rest of
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by LooseMarmoset 6mo ago
CAFE killed small trucks in part, tariffs in another part, but US manufacturers are the real reason small trucks are dead. US manufacturers want margins, and they're not getting margins on little, efficient cars. They get enormous marg
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by LooseMarmoset 6mo ago
> The arguments I've heard against it are almost all slippery-slope (e.g. "they're gonna do this first, and then add ID requirements next year, because that's what I fear will happen.") Because that's exact
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by LooseMarmoset 6mo ago
You shouldn't be downvoted for this, the problem is exactly as you described.
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by LooseMarmoset 7mo ago
> out of style a bunch of viral tiktok videos could bring it back pretty easy.
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by LooseMarmoset 7mo ago
The micro stamping law is in no way reasonable because removing the micro stamping from the end of a firing pin is laughably trivial. The only people who won’t do this are people who weren’t going to break the law in the first place. Even p
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by LooseMarmoset 8mo ago
I was put on 5000IU D2 and I got kidney stones, twice. The doctor wouldn't believe that the D2 was the cause, but I stopped taking it and the stones have not recurred. I would like to bring my D levels up, but not at the expense of ki

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