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by _jal 4y ago
I find I can't talk to people who do that. Things don't flow, they don't work well, and both of us end up frustrated. So that ends up being a limit for me, I just choose not to interact with people like that if I can help it,
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by _jal 4y ago
My most recent example was a low-end Unifi camera, which was $85-something in Safari/MacOS, $65-something in FF/MacOS at Amazon.
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by _jal 4y ago
No, I don't. Two things: - Your browser already makes "your internet" different than mine. You will see different different content and (at stores) pricing in Chrome than you do Firefox on a bunch of major sites. Try it, it i
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by _jal 4y ago
> Tell me how ML is different than the mind of a toddler ravenous for new information. Well, I can't keep a toddler in a data center, pumping out work on demand. Or copyright it and limit who it chooses to work for when it grows up.
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by _jal 4y ago
It is normal, at least in my world. I don't find the term "performance" useful outside of a specific context. The main reason we don't use swap is predictability. We know how much memory a particular VM should be using.
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by _jal 4y ago
Yes, if there's sufficient time, money and will, you can usually, eventually, run someone down in a particular case. In practice, someone has to want to do that. There's an awful lot of opaque money flow in entities like this, a
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by _jal 4y ago
Lots of people. There is a legal difference, of course, between "truly anonymous" and merely effectively so. I am including situations like the designated trustee knows who the owner is, and if subpoenaed, will disclose that the o
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by _jal 4y ago
> It seems like a large look at drug and money flows would say the same about the US It is policy in the US. There are a number of simple policy changes that would make money laundering much harder for most. Start with anonymous corporat
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by _jal 4y ago
This happens because cops have trained the media to do it. Cops have an informational advantage over journalists and use it. A huge chunk, just by volume, of news comes from the local crime beat. That means journalists need to be on friendl
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by _jal 4y ago
Think of it is paranoia-pareidolia. People see connections that aren't there and build conspiracy theories on top.
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by _jal 4y ago
I realize that is a stereotypical belief state, but do many people here really hold those beliefs? Having known several folks in both of those camps, my experience is that career choice provides very little information about the chooser&#x2
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by _jal 4y ago
Kind of, but it is the WSJ. Tangent, but it is interesting to me, how many people now seem to be unwilling to go out of cell range. It reminds me of people decades ago who would go camping, but only with a car. If you had to leave powered-t
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by _jal 4y ago
That's the plan. I haven't built a new package in a while, time to remember how `fpm` works. Conflicts: grep Provides: grep
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by _jal 4y ago
We are heavy on-prem Postgres users. We currently run all major versions from 10-13, and are upgrading some clusters to 14 very soon. Old versions are mostly to support internal tools that we're not upgrading for various reasons, and w
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by _jal 4y ago
> It is legitimate to consider convenience for the maintainers In which case, time to fork it. I don't fucking care who you are, you do not break grep and keep a privileged position on my machine.
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by _jal 4y ago
That's management guilt-reduction. Hire an outsourced talk-therapy outfit like Modern Health to add to the HR bundle and they can fend for themselves.
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by _jal 4y ago
You don't even have to get that fancy in Excel before Google can't keep up. But there's an even more basic problem - trading documents with Excel users. Trying to round-trip anything more than a simple data-only Excel doc thr
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by _jal 4y ago
> This will never happen . [...] Better to worry about how to adapt. In ecology, there's talk of population boom/bust cycles that result from biome variation, like a predator going away. This results in more members of a given
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by _jal 4y ago
No, please - name cases you're thinking of. I am extremely curious about what you'll cite. Because there was a specific reason QI came to be, and it was not a matter of a long-established doctrine being formalized. I'll wait.
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by _jal 4y ago
> Qualafied immunity is the cornerstone of a functioning democracy. I take it you believe the US became a functioning democracy in 1967, then? That's when Pierson v. Ray was decided and QI was invented. https://en.wikiped
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by _jal 4y ago
> We encourage others to speak up if they feel uncomfortable. OK - your weird swipe at Sqlite tentatively tells me you're founding with a grudge, which (a) doesn't tend to last very long as a motivation and (b) has nothing to d
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by _jal 4y ago
> Do we really want to become that poor? Well, that depends. Are we talking about your child or my child?
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by _jal 4y ago
I don't know much about Fedora, haven't run it in years. But there are quite a few open source projects that are effectively dominated by RH employees. In a few that I've had interest in, it was pretty clear the direction was
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by _jal 4y ago
Demanding a signup for a toy like this is rude. Like demanding an email address to tell someone the punchline to your joke.
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by _jal 4y ago
I suspect it is a salience effect. If everyone can be paid well, that's just a company doing well. There is no tough decision to be made. If a company is perceived as reacting to bad finances and leadership makes a show of taking the h
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by _jal 4y ago
What I find interesting is that everyone critiquing my critique completely ignores the swipe I took at banks. It appears to be utterly banal and beneath concern that banks subvert legal and moral efforts against multinational drug cartels a
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by _jal 4y ago
Depends. If it is a poorly designed remote that forces you to think about how to operate it, the friction makes it much less you-like.
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Yeah, and it is a fact that cartel and authoritarian statist money laundering is intertwined with banking. See just about any story about Deutsche in the last decade. I've worked with sex-related sites before. And you're right tha
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by _jal 4y ago
There are exceptions, but generally US legal mechanisms function on money. More money buys more consideration. US culture also tends to wink at a lot of what is called "white collar" crime. If whatever you're up to does not i
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by _jal 4y ago
Apple is starting to remind me of auditors, but instead of trying to keep people honest/push trendy practices, they're pushing whatever's trendy in Apple's management class this month. When do we get to the point of comp

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