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by __jal 7y ago
> kill the lizard You grab the lizard by its neck and pull it close to you. It lets out a scream and tries to escape, but you catch it and hold it tight. You begin to choke it until it falls unconscious. You take off the lizard's
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by __jal 7y ago
As long as people continue to pay good money for defective products, there will be people selling them. Vote with your wallet.
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by __jal 7y ago
> tech startups is specifically because of tech's unique promise of both worldwide scale and zero marginal costs This theory fails to adequately explain WeWork. I mean, I think you should be right, but in principle I do not see wh
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by __jal 7y ago
Older Macs had the indicator light hardwired. I don't know if they still do. > If it isn't, why on earth not? The same reason for nearly every other design defect in retail-grade hardware: cost vs. margins.
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by __jal 7y ago
> Key feature, must not look suspicious on credit card bill That's called a hotel room.
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by __jal 7y ago
Google has a market cap of 894.52B at this point in time. For instance.
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by __jal 7y ago
Then it is not a Mac app. Which is fine, but if I'm looking for an application in the app store (as opposed to looking for some service on the web), I want a Mac application, not a web app. One hint: if I'm looking for a Mac app,
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by __jal 7y ago
I've worked on exactly one project where performance concerns lead to removing Fkeys. The compromise we came to was to enforce them in dev and qa in order to catch bugs, and relax them in prod. I still strongly believe that database co
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by __jal 7y ago
Back when I still used them, this was why I only had things delivered to my office. If I tried to have things delivered to my home, one of two things nearly invariably happened: I'd either waste my time waiting on a delivery only to ha
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by __jal 7y ago
There is this practice called "backing up". If you try it, you might find you can protect your data more easily than you can protect most other things in your house if it burns down.
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by __jal 7y ago
A huge swath of the consumer market in physical products is Chinese goods. Why would your average nontechnical, fairly apolitical, non-foreign policy or intelligence news following person draw a distinction? They see a fun app, they play wi
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by __jal 7y ago
Pretty bullshit method. Any software that wastes my time begging me to market for them gets uninstalled, period. I don't know why anyone puts up with that.
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by __jal 7y ago
For their next trick, I would encourage them to abolish and reform the NYPD. Although I fear if someone seriously tried, there would be a coup.
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by __jal 7y ago
Perl is really great at text processing. Pretty much any kind. A lot of folks dislike first-class regexes, but if they're magic in a lot of contexts like this. My second remaining use is experimental coding. It is probably about famili
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by __jal 7y ago
You pretty clearly have very little familiarity with "Perl culture" and even less with Perl6/Raku. Perl 5 is in decline, no doubt. But it isn't because whomever you're visualizing when you wrote the above is an anno
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by __jal 7y ago
The last couple times I've made big architectural decisions that would be expensive/impossible to change, I've bounced it off of a small number of trusted folks first. This is almost nothing like a formal critique like you se
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by __jal 7y ago
The operative difference is that intelligent adversaries are not coming up with new and better methods of making your bumper fall off. The economics of providing 5 years of defensive patching on a $100 device simply does not work.
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by __jal 7y ago
Right, because the quality of every lesson one learns about programming practice should be evaluated by the market cap of the firm where it was learned.
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by __jal 7y ago
Get back to me when beavers are causing the extinction of thousands of other species and arguing about how to warn their descendants about radioactive waste.
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by __jal 7y ago
Some[1] will never drop the "simple physics" line because they don't care about learning about the biology of body weight, but rather reaffirming their aesthetic judgement that people they decide are overweight are also moral
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by __jal 7y ago
"Haskell. The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems."
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by __jal 7y ago
> I don't think that's Google's job at all, especially for a competitor's product. If they want security professionals to pay attention to them, it is. I accept that maybe P0 just didn't carefully think through w
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by __jal 7y ago
Oh, but it is worse. It teaches members of the class that exploit it that taxes are for everyone else. They spend time on efforts to avoid taxes, which not only "starve the beast", but are frankly non-productive while shifting the
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by __jal 7y ago
Please allow me to introduce you to J. Edgar Hoover. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover Not that he was the first in US history, by a long shot.
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by __jal 7y ago
No more so than you usually are. Which means it can happen to you at any time.
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by __jal 7y ago
I don't know, but if I were doing this, I'd find out. Call your residential waste management company and ask them who handles commercial hazmat in the area, if you can't think of any other way to start. If you're plannin
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by __jal 7y ago
That is a reasonable restatement of parts of the Bork doctrine, yes. Suffice to say this is a recent legal innovation, and many, many people believe ignoring other monopoly effects is myopic.
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by __jal 7y ago
> why shouldn't Amazon be allowed Antitrust law used to address this. Monopolies are not allowed to do things that non-monopolies are allowed to do, because the effects of monopolies doing them are different than the effects of non-
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by __jal 7y ago
As if Zuck wasn't a right-place-right-time lottery winner.
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by __jal 7y ago
A refreshing view. So many people seem to emotionally need some sort of social vindication of their injury, or in some other way feel dissatisfied if there isn't third-party shaming/punishment/etc. involved in conflict resolu

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