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Rush Limbaugh.
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> The internet is "sovereign" in the only way that matters: it's hard to enforce regulations. The internet is not sovereign in the only way that matters: it has no army. As far as it being "hard" to control infor
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> To be fair I don't care about the app size either > Jesus christ. You say I'm absolutely incorrect, yet you're happy with a default package of 70MB?
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Let me tell you about the laptop connected to our network with a cellular antenna we found in a locked filing cabinet after getting a much-delayed forced-door alert. This, after some social engineering attempts that displayed unnerving fami
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My thoughts exactly. I did some guesstimates last month, the experimentation and playing I've done with my 3090 so far would have cost somewhere around $7k on the metered OPC options.
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I don't see any indication in the story that the police were involved in the return. The hard part, as with most transactions of this sort, is trust. I'm curious how Brand convinced the returner he wouldn't double-cross them.
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Eventually you hit rabble.
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> The syntax itself (ie. text) is not that important So, you're preferentially discarding information you consider extraneous to your application, distilling it to a smaller representation that retains what you consider important ab
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Some of us who came up on the ops side routinely check logs. It is both how you spot problems other monitors might miss and partly how you learn how your system works (or doesn't). Especially with MacOS, where the documentation quality
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So I take it you are employed by someone that allows you to connect to nothing and change nothing? Because if you can do any of those things, your employer is clearly Doing It Wrong, based on your interpretation. (If you happen to be local-
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by _jal 3y ago
Missing the point. Power-only cables should be specified to have a different connector. Vastly different speeds should have a different connector. It should be physically impossible to stick the wrong kind of cable in.
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> It is not the spec's fault that some cheap knockoff brands violate the spec to save a few pennies Yes it is. The spec could have been written such that different capabilities were reflected with different physical characteristics.
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I always love it when someone helicopters in to a complex, long-established system and, without even attempting to understand the requirements, constraints or history, knows this thing they read on a blog one time would fix all the problems
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> this continued uncertainty is their brand FIFY. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Discontinued_Google_s... If it doesn't shove an ad in someone's face, Google is structurally incapable of caring abo
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It is interesting to note how ideology ends up being used as just another marketing tool in situations like this. Resisting simplifying tax filing, to keep the tax system annoying, is seen as a way to build anti-tax political support. Among
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I agree, and there really need to be controls on it. I understand they want the "IMessage Network" to have predictable functionality, but I care about security more, and IMessage has been demonstrably unsafe for a long time. I wou
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> Ok, a warmer Mars is desirable. To humans.
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> I don't understand why the media downplays them so heavily. There are a few reasons that interlock. - The DPRK government is a mob family with sovereign status and nukes. Most folks in western countries don't have a strong se
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It is a gradient, especially as blacksmithing becomes more prized for aesthetics. But that applies to a lot of metalwork. One common definition is that you're doing craftwork if the object is functional, artwork if it is functionally u
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What's interesting there is how many authors of works we consider classics now only become popular well after their deaths. Kierkegaard, Thoreau, Dickenson and Melville, for instance. If their works had been lost, "we" probab
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I think I'm at the point where "platform" stores are more hassle than they're worth. Saving a buck doesn't mean much when they aren't delivering the product you wanted. Amazon is a huge vending machine stocked
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Ditto, only my domain is unfortunately similar to a major (non-us) airline. The tarmac reports can be oddly entertaining sometimes. I still wonder how an alcohol bottle became embedded in a runway a few years back.
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Scrum can never fail, only be failed.
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> In that sense trafficking victims are absolutely more deserving of those rights than convicted criminals. No. you assume conviction = guilt, and that whatever treatment that comes thereafter is just. For instance, it appears you would
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There should be a version of Nomic[1] specific to the sort of fantasy legal interpretation popular with NFT-enthusiasts, tax protestors, sovereign citizens, and other idiosyncratically motivated amateur legal practitioners. [1] https:&#x2F
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I don't think that wasn't the deal-breaker. Jobs didn't want Flash to become the de facto development environment for the phone. I'm pretty sure he always knew they'd end up with apps on it, they just didn't pu
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> The economics and tactics around technology has been revolutionized a dozen times over in the last 4 decades. Now, maybe a few rare individuals have kept up, but most likely, they all rely on outdated strategies from out of touch MBA p
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Maps drive me fucking nuts, taking over zoom. As do nearly every other app that does it. They think they know what's good for me, and they don't, and it leads to me using them less. Yes, paper maps just work better for me a lot o
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> The problem with 'defense in depth' No, that's a problem with bad engineering. That a process requires skills most people attempting it don't have isn't a problem with the process, it just means that it is hard
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Professional designers, on the other hand, need to care not just about typeface and foundry, but also about the exact version of fonts. Back when magazines weren't nearly dead, I did production for a few years. The very first issue I w

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