Pokepokalypse

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by Pokepokalypse 4y ago
But if we can image it, then there IS an effect. The photons emitted by that galaxy effect us, here in ours because we can see them. It's the ones we can't see that are disconnected.
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by Pokepokalypse 4y ago
This is possibly true. I'm in my 50's now, and when I was in my 40's, my life-situation allowed me to pursue a lot more outside interests and hobbies. I had a lot of different outside activities, and would go out after work 4
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by Pokepokalypse 4y ago
You mean: Oracle™ Java®.
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by Pokepokalypse 4y ago
I find your ideas interesting and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
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by Pokepokalypse 4y ago
Oncosiphon piluliferum as well.
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
Dammit! so all this Kaizen training my employer paid for me to take 20 years ago, is actually Scrum?
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
>the one the “caring progressives” keep voting for. And the alternative is what? Keep on hoping the oligarchs will share their wealth and it will "trickle down"?
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
No big company I have worked at was stable. (otherwise, I'd still be working at my first employer). Stability is something I've strongly valued, but I've also found, it's basically non-existent in this career field. C
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
My worst interview experience: Company had their own custom hackerrank test set up. Timed. It failed to execute on my laptop. (Maybe browser plugins? I tried a different browser; still no joy) - I tried a few things, including using the bro
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
I knew it! This Greek Bioweapon will continue to be used with impunity!
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
Only in Romanized Chinese; which is an English-approximate spelling of how it would be pronounced. (sort of). Spelling is different in Chinese, of course, which has fuck-all to do with the Greek letter, or how it would be pronounced in Eng
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
4chan?
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
>Unless you are developing something to be part of the distro, they are not for you. . . . forgetting the original purpose and mindset behind Linux in the first place. From a 1990's point of view; it was always intended to be a hobb
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
". . . and then he installed cygwin, and decided to manage and run python through the bash environment. . . " (fun fact: the git client's bash shell is actually cygwin. Also; MobaXTerm has cygwin bundled-in as well).
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
> Confidential, Secret, and Top Secret are the only clearances Not necessarily. Maybe in DoD land, but there's also a different system (uses similar terminology) for the State Department, and Department of Education (and some others
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
yes. Even as a civilian; they told us that we should not visit the site.
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
you're not wrong; conceptually. But those aren't the actual definitions. https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/do...
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
Or what you mean to say; a bit of controlled information, may only be classified by virtue of its context.
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
I had a secret clearance, and it was used for setting up an application to print pages with a classified banner. Once that page was printed, it was technically classified material. As you know; generation, and possession, and destruction
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
I'd just like to relate my experience with VC's and startups. I worked at a non-silicon-valley startup in the 1990's. After a couple of years of growth and success, a new investor came in, and bought the company; supposedly t
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
Well, the lawyer factor is probably most important. A lot of people are willing to spend big money to shut down truth.
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
actual timestamps (instead of "relative time"). . . what a concept.
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
>Is it just their ever-growing echo chambers of yes-men yes
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
Or, (thanks, Amazon): `--no-paginate` `--no-cli-pager` (dang that pisses me off! thank goodness for `jq`).
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
lol, how is this different from his last 3 attempts? (his shitty blog, his twitter misadventures, and his sad failed command of the whitehouse.gov website. . . )
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
Media multitasking is great. Tragic though, for advertisers.
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
> Essentially, because it was against human nature. I've heard this counterargument against socialism/communism for a long time, and it always sounds like a form of "magical thinking" to me. Asserting the tautology th
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
yes, the consequence is; those who are more easily able to accumulate the money, will still hoard and stash all the excess.
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
Fill those voids with closed-cell spray foam, and you get even better sound (and heat) insulation.
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by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
The whole west coast is full of old brick houses; which were either knocked down, or have been retrofitted and reinforced. Because brick structures are inherently unstable in earthquakes.

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