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by Nursie 7mo ago
Yup, and it's a demonstration that the US is unable to just impose its will wherever it wants, making the US look weaker. Failure all around. But no doubt Trump and his people will tell the world what an amazing success the whole thing
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by Nursie 7mo ago
And where has that gone now? From all reports the regime has not lost control domestically, and internationally it is now emboldened - the US tried to get rid of them and has failed, and they have demonstrated their power to disrupt the reg
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by Nursie 7mo ago
Opposite for me. I have an actual shed that I spend time in, doing maintenance work, building physical items (latest one is an auto-refilling bird watering station), and making beer. Given my day job is so desk-bound, and so tech oriented,
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by Nursie 7mo ago
> At worst you waste a couple hundred dollars At worst you inject unknown substances into your bloodstream that could do more or less anything.
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by Nursie 7mo ago
There’s nothing strange or one-sided there at all. One party or other mismanaging San Francisco or Seattle has zero effect on me here in Australia. A madman waving his dick around overseas and insulting everyone does though, and is costing
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by Nursie 7mo ago
Because, uh, Democrats didn’t do this? I don’t really give a rats ass who runs the internals of your country, and what goes on in San Francisco seems like a you problem. Due to voters like this, Trump is now my problem many thousands of mil
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by Nursie 7mo ago
Well let me be the first to thank you for the extra dollar a litre on my fuel, the extra hundred or so dollars a month on my mortgage and the impending recession that your choice has imposed upon me here in Australia. Thanks so much for vot
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by Nursie 7mo ago
It seems I encountered the “ftServer” line, which on closer inspection launched in 2001, and was indeed intel/windows 2k, based around Pentium III Xeon Chips. They still list old product sheets here, the oldest being the ftServer 5200
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by Nursie 7mo ago
Yeah the water-lock mode is really useful! Discovered that later.
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by Nursie 7mo ago
The ones I encountered (and I never worked on them directly) were tandem-x86 systems and ran windows. According to Wikipedia they launched in 2002, so I guess they were quite new when I saw them in 03.
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by Nursie 7mo ago
In the 90s, perhaps not massively, but gaining ground very early in the 00s. I started my career in 2000 and most of the credit-card related stuff I built until ‘05 was targeted at Windows, Linux and Solaris, with a variety of other Unix pl
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by Nursie 7mo ago
> Credit card transactions and banking software run on this model for example Eh, they can but even a couple of decades ago there was a shift to open platforms. 90s and early 00s, sure, it was mainframe and exotic x86 species like Stra
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by Nursie 7mo ago
Yeah that is unfortunate and embarassing. I think I nearly called them a couple of times before I flipped my watch around. Current gripe is that every so often, usually when my hands are busy, Siri interprets my "Hey Siri fast forward&
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by Nursie 7mo ago
Yeah I used to get this a lot because I have my phone in my pocket when I'm doing land maintenance around the place here. It's massively annoying. That and watch gestures firing off and interrupting the music I'm listening
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by Nursie 7mo ago
Don’t forget the fairly naked corruption around his crypto coins too… He may not have been that successful as a businessman, but his whole clan are monetising the Whitehouse.
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by Nursie 7mo ago
> It's like complaining about being 1/100000th of a soup with no real proof you're even in it. I love a good analogy, especially one that takes a complex situation in which esoteric, unusual conditions are distilled and re
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by Nursie 7mo ago
In a social species such as ours, with such a prolonged childhood, having healthy parents and grandparents is likely to affect the survival of children so there will be some selection pressure on a long life there.
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by Nursie 7mo ago
> implying that two thirds of the quadrants with the ability to do it are the smarter kids. But only one of those involves overcoming anything. And unless you have information on the relative sizes of those quadrants, it’s meaningless in
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by Nursie 7mo ago
Let's look at that original claim - "As with smoking, alcohol, sex, drugs etc Children who are smart enough to get access to a given vice without getting caught are more likely to be mature enough to be able to cope with that vice
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by Nursie 7mo ago
Sure, I agree. I only disagree with the just-so notion that kids who have an Uncle Roy are somehow better able to cope with the consequences. Ability to access something is (IMHO) pretty uncorrelated with the ability to cope with the conseq
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by Nursie 7mo ago
I mean what if Roy doesn't care? We're just optimising for kids with shitty family at this point.
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by Nursie 7mo ago
Sorry what? Kids with low parental supervision who steal uncle Roy's marlboro are more likely to be able to cope with tobacco addiction? Do you have any reasons to think this might be the case? Studies, research, a well thought-out art
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by Nursie 7mo ago
It's definitely ruined one of my favourite interview questions. I used to ask candidates what their preferred source control system was and why. I wanted them to demonstrate that they'd thought about it and had some insight rather
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by Nursie 7mo ago
You pretty much just have to use an Xfce distro, as I don't think Xfce fully supports Wayland yet. As I am an Xfce user, I'm happy to wait.
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by Nursie 7mo ago
There are those of us who remember the before-times, who I think are in general just happy we have git. Having lived through sccs, pvcs, SourceSafe, Clearcase and svn (among others), the introduction of lightweight, sane branching, merging,
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by Nursie 7mo ago
Not for the first time, I was taking the piss out of you for how ridiculous this whole thread is. I guess you missed that though. You don’t get sarcasm then Ivan?
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by Nursie 7mo ago
The problem in these conversations is that we’re in a fairly small niche of people who understand their systems and want to be able to tinker with them. I agree, my mother doesn’t really need a general purpose computing device. She needs a
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by Nursie 7mo ago
> NOR any particular desire “Nor” doesn’t fit there IMHO, “or” is part of the nested either-or clause, so I don’t believe it to be incorrect. Regardless, I lay no claim to perfect grammar, decades on the internet seems to have atrophied
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by Nursie 7mo ago
This has got to be the weirdest conversation I’ve ever had on here. I have no reason to lie, nor do I have either a method or any particular desire to prove myself to you. If you want to believe a foreigner is lecturing you on British socie
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by Nursie 7mo ago
LOL. Home-counties born and bred, attended a minor public school and a Russel group university. Grandad was a Desert Rat, one grandmother was brought up in colonial India. I’m so English I’m a fucking stereotype, though it’s true I no longe

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