Tabular-Iceberg

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by Tabular-Iceberg 1y ago
I don't like the association any more than you, but what's the greater threat to the United States, the capture of its congress, administration and intelligence community by a foreign power, or a ragtag group of politically and cu
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by Tabular-Iceberg 1y ago
What's anti-intellectual about religious pro-lifers?
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by Tabular-Iceberg 1y ago
The KLM squirrel problem is arguably the opposite problem as all the other examples. It would have been a simple matter to call up KLM's corporate counsel and have them figure out how to both comply with the government's order and
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Trump dismantles surveillance watchdog, triggering Europe's privacy PTSD(politico.eu)
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by Tabular-Iceberg 1y ago
Probably not a bad strategy. The people who go by Google reviews probably only visit once in a lifetime whether they like Thailand or not, so it pays to wow them with fraudulent reviews and then gouge them as much as possible while they’re
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by Tabular-Iceberg 1y ago
Thankfully mine made this exact point in the homily. Also great to see it made on HN of all places!
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by Tabular-Iceberg 1y ago
Is this service endorsed by Studio Ghibli, or is it, as the man himself once said, “an insult to life itself”?
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by Tabular-Iceberg 1y ago
Even .sh is questionable now that the UK has started just giving away their islands to randos.
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by Tabular-Iceberg 1y ago
I’m not disagreeing with you on the eventual outcome, but what makes you think Stallman and his cronies ever intended to limit the scope of the Free Software movement to foundational software? The only limit in scope I’ve heard about is “de
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by Tabular-Iceberg 1y ago
Have there been court cases where developers have been held liable for faults in FOSS code despite the language of the licenses?
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by Tabular-Iceberg 1y ago
Microsoft needs to be investigated for aiding and abetting the defrauding of the elderly and the feeble minded by leaving password management to third party hacks instead of creating an integrated always-available solution like Apple’s keyc
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by Tabular-Iceberg 1y ago
Yes, but we’re just talking about making websites here. Rolling your own HTTP is overkill, you’re not Google.
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by Tabular-Iceberg 1y ago
Honestly how trustworthy was the US before? Are we supposed to be completely fine with PRISM and XKeyscore now?
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by Tabular-Iceberg 1y ago
What did Adobe possibly think they could gain by posting on a communist web site? They really didn’t think this one through.
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by Tabular-Iceberg 1y ago
It’s better to just assume neither conductor can be touched. There is no use case touching neutral conductors or neutral connected metal cases. No functionality is lost by having devices be double insulated, and in practice most if not all
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by Tabular-Iceberg 1y ago
Every web browser already has a built in system for matching requests and responses and checking if requests have been pending too long. There is no need to reinvent the wheel. The real problem with the software engineering discipline is th
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by Tabular-Iceberg 1y ago
It’s absolutely ridiculous to require a single phase AC plug to be plugged in with one particular polarity. The device doesn’t know or care if its power is 180° out of phase or not, you’re just making the user experience worse for absolutel
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by Tabular-Iceberg 1y ago
I’ve seen it in practice. I decided to use a Java parser combinator library for one problem. As soon as I was off the project they ripped out my code and replaced it with regexes. That what was to be parsed wasn’t regular apparently did not
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by Tabular-Iceberg 1y ago
And here’s the library for it: https://github.com/tsoding/nob.h
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by Tabular-Iceberg 1y ago
30% seems like a low ball offer when you’re the one taking on all of the risk while they’re hiding inside a giant impenetrable fortress. The moral issue aside, anyone who accepts less than 200% is a sucker. Otherwise it’s better to just get
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by Tabular-Iceberg 1y ago
If it was racist rhetoric, wouldn’t it necessarily also have to implicate South Koreans as nefarious agents as well, if we’re claiming that being a nefarious agent is an intrinsic feature of the Korean race?
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by Tabular-Iceberg 1y ago
It seems very particular about what curl options it supports. I keep getting “Please enter a valid curl command” no matter what I do. Maybe the only solution is to somehow extract the actual command line parser from curl itself.
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by Tabular-Iceberg 2y ago
Are these jobs at all attainable by people of unremarkable intelligence and aptitude? In principle I don’t see why less clever people like myself can’t get together and solve less challenging problems in the same way.
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by Tabular-Iceberg 2y ago
But then Teams will only let you book calls that start and end at the hour and half hour, making everything either back-to-back or with gaps too long for breaks and too short for focus work. Teams goes out of its way to create colossal amou
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by Tabular-Iceberg 2y ago
The real value of AI is if they could make one that is capable of looking at dashboards. So much time is wasted making dashboards that nobody cares enough to look at.
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by Tabular-Iceberg 2y ago
It helped that they were working on an interesting problem. Most problems that need solving are not interesting.
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by Tabular-Iceberg 2y ago
Yes. I got fired from that place for being too negative and now work somewhere much more sane. The CEO to his credit went on a campaign to improve the culture, but middle management obstinately refused to change a single thing. I recently h
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by Tabular-Iceberg 2y ago
This is where remote work goes off the rails, but then it’s wild how intentionally isolating the implementation of RTO that many large corporations are doing now. They line people up in rows, put headphones on their heads and wire them up t
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by Tabular-Iceberg 2y ago
> “It’s not in our interest to share product with public or private agencies,” Jurasek said at the time. “You are not the first person to ask for us to give them fire retardant. It happens. It’s not something we do.” I don’t get why they
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by Tabular-Iceberg 2y ago
It’s not that. MV Sewol killed 304, many of them schoolchildren. The captain was put away for life, and rightfully so, but it’s not an incentive to do much else. For some reason only air crashes seem to make any lasting impressions.

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