Suzuran

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by Suzuran 10d ago
>why the hell would anyone want a job where a mistake results in personal ruin? I guess you think pilots, doctors, air traffic controllers, etc. are all made up?
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by Suzuran 11d ago
Netscape died because we all hated it. Back when Apache didn't exist yet, we were forced to run Netscape's server. (Even if Apache did exist, we didn't have the $20K per-seat license fee for DEC's C compiler so we wouldn
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by Suzuran 18d ago
My mother was looking for cheat codes for some video game she was playing and she ended up on Fandom. I had installed uBlock Origin for her because she had a history of being victimized by malware. Fandom detected it and served her the &quo
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by Suzuran 26d ago
Great, now every website can block those operating systems since they can't participate in the age assurances the websites will be required to use.
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by Suzuran 1mo ago
On days when I need gas I just leave for work about 10 minutes earlier than usual and drive to Costco, which means I turn up at the station about 15 minutes after the fuel pumps open and several hours before the actual store opens. I'v
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by Suzuran 1mo ago
I still have a box with about a dozen of those around here somewhere; They were still useful even well into the era of on-motherboard ethernet because installing the operating system over the LAN was a lot less of a hassle than swapping CDs
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by Suzuran 2mo ago
They are continuing to be maintained only because the FAA fought very hard for that ability. The rest of the government does not understand (or care) why the FAA wants to keep "obsolete" systems, and the FAA is subject to their le
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by Suzuran 2mo ago
Don't worry, our government is doing their level best to make GPS the only option for air navigation. After all, we all know that technology NEVER fails, and the sooner we can turn off all those big bad old ground radars and navigation
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by Suzuran 2mo ago
The problem is not that society is hierarchical, the problem is that position in the hierarchy rarely maps to expertise or trustworthiness. Instead it usually maps to whoever is best at exploiting and then destroying others to raise their p
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by Suzuran 2mo ago
"We" don't research it ourselves because we are increasingly taught that we are either too stupid to conduct our own research or not qualified to understand the results, and we must rely on someone else who represents a posit
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by Suzuran 2mo ago
It's not my problem if the math doesn't work, or if my money doesn't pay for me. The contract as presented to me by the government is "You will pay into this system, it provides Social Security to the aged and disabled.
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by Suzuran 2mo ago
Does it matter? In the US, we send a sizable portion of our paychecks to the government's Social Security program so it can provide for us in this exact scenario . The government dictated the terms and we upheld our end of the contrac
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by Suzuran 2mo ago
You guys are missing the point entirely. Absolutionism is not about being right, it's about everyone else being wrong and therefore deserving of abuse.
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by Suzuran 2mo ago
My favorite complaint during development of our simulator was someone who insisted we give them the means to replace the "jingoistic" American markings from the spacecraft so they could pretend the mission was flown by some multin
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by Suzuran 2mo ago
The real problem with it turned out to be that while the software is complete it expected data to be provided from both the crew and the ground at different points in the mission. Without this external data (and more importantly, the proced
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by Suzuran 2mo ago
moar liek chad hominem amirite
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by Suzuran 2mo ago
My apologies for incorrectly assuming your nationality.
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by Suzuran 2mo ago
CLOSED WONTFIX Working as intended
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by Suzuran 2mo ago
You are not allowed to discuss human rights until your government stops its unprovoked war on Iran, issues a full repudiation of the policies that led to it, and makes full reparations to the entire rest of the world whose energy prices you
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by Suzuran 2mo ago
No, you missed the point. The GP was talking about causes for the situation where people are apparently prone to "outsourcing their thinking", resulting in low-effort AI slop being produced by entities that really should know bett
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by Suzuran 2mo ago
There was also a test of the Apollo Launch Escape System wherein an unmanned CSM was launched on a Little Joe rocket with the plan being to manually trigger the LES at a specific point in the flight. The problem was that the roll accelerome
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by Suzuran 2mo ago
There is also the "You aren't paid to think, you are paid to do exactly what I tell you, nothing more or less!" school of management. I'm not sure how prevalent this attitude is now but it was very common in the 90s and
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by Suzuran 2mo ago
Funny, I've also been lectured in the past but the other direction. I was judged guilty of being unjustifiably optimistic and giving people false hope which will only harm them in the future.
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by Suzuran 2mo ago
What will be left for us to work on? Nothing. The wealthy own all of the infrastructure and we are already being priced out of the means of building our own. The proverbial ladder has been pulled up. When the wealthy no longer have need of
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by Suzuran 3mo ago
None of those concerns approach the level of priority that must be assigned to security. On defense, your security must be perfect forever or you are absolutely defeated. None of us are on the red team. It's not a rash decision, it&#x2
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by Suzuran 3mo ago
That's not relevant though. All concerns are secondary to security and Rust is the only language with security GUARANTEES. No other language is as secure. Therefore, even the worst Rust rewrite is automatically better than the best wor
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by Suzuran 3mo ago
...probably with a referral string that results in them getting paid, too.
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by Suzuran 3mo ago
Your problem is not to circumvent security policies. Doing that places you at fault for whatever may happen. Reboot and comply fully with all security mandates. When productivity fails to meet expectations, that is a problem for your superi
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by Suzuran 3mo ago
"Bait used to be believable."
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by Suzuran 4mo ago
Freedom of speech exists to protect politically useful tools. That means the nazis and the Klan so long as they remain such. When they are no longer useful, the protection will pass to another useful tool.

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