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by Volundr 3y ago
I really want true compact pickups to make a comeback. Back in high school my girlfriend had a 79 Ford ranger. Put a modern AWD and airbags on that thing and it's my dream car. Great mileage, some towing capacity, and an actually usefu
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by Volundr 3y ago
Data-point of one, but I have definitely run into issues where Typescript can't understand what's going on in a reactive expression, and had to aggressively refactor my code to make everything happy. Most of the time it works grea
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by Volundr 3y ago
It's an interesting bit of context. I also grew up with guys as a generic plural, but it's not really generic, rather it's a mixed group plural. It would feel just as natural to say "the people I date", as "the
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by Volundr 3y ago
Put another way, try working at Walmart. If you pop open the safe and walk out with $140k, do you really think the outcome will only be a $5k fine?
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by Volundr 3y ago
> If your country allows companies or individuals to not be taxed on assets they locate overseas somehow, that’s on your country, not on us. Who is blaming the Caymans? They Caymans is commonly used as a tax haven for US companies due to
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by Volundr 3y ago
I'm curious whose telling you not to roll your own auth. I've worked on far more software that handles its own auth than integrates with Okta/Keycloak/Whatever. In fact the general advice I've heard is "just us
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by Volundr 3y ago
If you're going to wait for me to take my headphones off in an open office, your going to wait till I'm heading out. Your better off sending a meeting invite, I'll make sure I'm available. What's funny is your solut
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by Volundr 3y ago
sigh my point was that they would happily use the reasoning "it's bad" as a reason for overriding local government, despite having a long history of preaching about the importance of local government, and using that importa
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by Volundr 3y ago
Yep, I assumed you didn't, which is why I said it. My point was that if pressed, the lawmakers responsible for overriding these "bag bans" would say something similar to you, essentially that bag bans are bad (though I suspec
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by Volundr 3y ago
> Most “bag bans” are a propaganda campaign to frame the last participant in the supply chain as the culprit of everything. I doubt you meant it this way, but this is the thing that peeves me most about the Republican party continuing to
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by Volundr 3y ago
> Growing up in the south the flag is used as an regional identification and lifestyle pride. I'm sure plenty of people believe this and it's why they choose to display it. It remains true it's display dramatically increas
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by Volundr 3y ago
> Is it overly dramatic to have HR dictate formally non-offensive speach? (I'm talking about non-derogatory and non-slur based language) Your question is phrased in such a way that I honestly can't figure out how to answer it,
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by Volundr 3y ago
> I've had one organization call the "confederate flag" a form of racism. Claiming it's not is not the hill I'd choose to die on. Modern display of what most call the "confederate flag" (it isn't)
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by Volundr 3y ago
This anecdote is not only unverifiable (as most are), but vague to the point of uselessness. I don't doubt that there are all sorts of overzealous HR departments out there, but I can also think of all sorts of ways of using "respe
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by Volundr 3y ago
Sort of. You can use Pulumi for free as an individual. As a team you'd have to use a backend for your state other than Pulumi cloud, and your responsible for your own concurrency control [1]. In a team environment that's such a bi
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by Volundr 3y ago
Your governing system isn't a single system, it's multiple using a suitable algorithm to establish quorum. This is a well studied problem in distributed systems.
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by Volundr 3y ago
I don't get this site. Yes, emacs can be used to read/write files, and yes indeed if you set the SUID bit or run it via sudo it'll have root privileges... And? Is this a common configuration on some system I'm not aware
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by Volundr 3y ago
> No, but it is an offer that would have made him safe if he was smuggled there. I don't think anyone is arguing that if he magically had the ability to be smuggled somewhere wouldn't then have options. But there's no evid
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by Volundr 3y ago
"Discussing" something is not the same as offering it, and your same source mentions that indeed said plane was then grounded due to suspicions Snowden was on board. In other words someone discussed a plan, that had it been put in
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by Volundr 3y ago
For my 2c I'd say either doing nothing or blocking links makes the most sense. They've sent a clear message they don't want HN traffic, and I don't see a lot of value in posting links to sites that explicitly don't
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by Volundr 3y ago
I can't find any sources to back up your claim that Venezuela and WikiLeaks, or anyone for that matter were offering to smuggle Snowden anywhere, but hey let's take that at face value. We'll assume Venezuela was prepared to t
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by Volundr 3y ago
I can't find it in a quick 2 minute search, but I seem to recall a study that concluded that people who thought they were unaffected by advertising were actually MORE susceptible. Which makes a sort of intuitive sense. If someone is aw
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by Volundr 3y ago
I was definitely late to the game when it came to ad-blockers at least compared to a lot of HN. In general my position is that sites have to make money somehow, and too many users are never going to purchase their way past your paywall, not
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by Volundr 3y ago
> There are ways he could have gotten himself smuggled out of Russia if that is what he truly wanted. Wait what? Are you seriously asserting that if you place a random person in an airport in a random country that person is going to beg
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by Volundr 3y ago
> We already get a trial that is as fair as humanly possible so asking for a "fair" trial is ridiculous. Is every other trial unfair? No, but every other trail is not conducted under the restrictions of the espionage act, as ha
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by Volundr 3y ago
A previous job had unlimited "dto" (discretionary time off). Before I accepted the job I told my manager I was currently getting 5 weeks PTO and asked if that would be inline with the expectation. He told me he saw no issue with m
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by Volundr 3y ago
> If EVERYONE farmed, there would be waaaay to much food and no water left on the planet. This is only true if everyone had industrial sized farms. If everyone farmed the scale of the farms would naturally decrease in size. I'm not
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by Volundr 3y ago
It's still stealing to take something that's not for sale and leave money behind.
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by Volundr 3y ago
I think it makes sense. If the penalty for stealing is just paying for the item there's no incentive not to try it. Worst case it's like you bought the item. Pay for it and return it, there's a downside while still keeping it
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by Volundr 3y ago
Abraham Lincoln supported enshrining slavery in the constitution. Einstein and MLK were serial adulterers. George Washington owned slaves. Let's not even start on Columbus. There's something about human nature that makes us want t

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