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by abraae 5y ago
Back in the old days we learned about computers without the internet. You had mainly paper documentation. With 10 or so of the best tech manuals to read, and a bunch of old machines to network together, and a few CDs of useful software, the
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by abraae 5y ago
Yep, the article slates this as "Like a Juicero". However Juicero was most definitely a thing and attracted a heap of interest and $120M investment. So comparing this to Juicero is .... undercutting the entire premise of the rant.
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by abraae 5y ago
Same. We Built a new house a few years ago and I really wanted a wetback, having had one in a previous house I was talked out of it by the fireplace guys and the plumbing guys. Now I regret it every time I light the fire. The main problem i
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by abraae 5y ago
How about an intelligent proxy that effectively intercepted and modified the queries that Grafana send to it's back end? Is that considered a modification? In my eyes it shouldn't be as no changes are needed to any Grafana code, i
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by abraae 5y ago
I've often thought about how easy some issues must be to deal with with the US's "fire at will" regime. In my country you really can't fire anyone without a major HR process that saps everyone's energy and mora
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by abraae 5y ago
Carbon tax is unusual in that it has a major benefit simply by suppressing consumption. If an alien civilization invaded earth and imposed a carbon tax, and took all of the proceeds back to their own planet, then we would still be better of
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by abraae 5y ago
Yep, that's my interpretation of "advanced". Yours could be one that retreats into hermetic shelters and plays Call of Duty between themselves all day long.
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by abraae 5y ago
> I'd be more interested in what you think it "should" look like for an "advanced" species besides optimal? An advanced species would recognize the uniqueness and importance of the natural world, and would fence
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by abraae 5y ago
Surprised that Scott Morrison's government didn't elect to use coal, given their denialist tendencies.
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by abraae 5y ago
Look no further than Rupert Murdoch. His empire is built on monetizing outrage.
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by abraae 5y ago
I mainly saw this style in large retailers wanting to deliver a cool experience to their customers and candidates. Difficult, fraught projects battling with flash and unrealistic customer expectations. Once live, never touched until entirel
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by abraae 6y ago
Perhaps it's due to conditioning on stack overflow, where posting links on their own always swiftly invokes rebukes from the moderators (because linkrot).
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by abraae 6y ago
I don't know anything about helm, but your promotional comments in here are getting a little shrill. I feel less inclined to investigate it tbh.
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by abraae 6y ago
> Google [ ...] could spend about a year and build a vastly superior product to both Oracle and SAP that everybody would want. So why don't they? This is laughable to anyone who has ever worked on development of an ERP product. Here
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by abraae 6y ago
I don't like the xenophobic tone of the parent, but you are incorrect. > This would have entailed no one working at grocery stores, no deliveries, no travel, no global trade. I just don't buy that this was ever plausible for ho
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by abraae 6y ago
A great and painfully honest and upfront read.
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by abraae 6y ago
You're joking right? I don't live in the US but I've watched as plausible deniability had been deployed there at the very highest levels, with great success, for 4 years.
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by abraae 6y ago
Never go full Godwin
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by abraae 6y ago
Medicine is a similar field that advances enormously based on increasing knowledge hand in hand with incredible leaps in technology. Is it arrogance to say that medicine is far better than it was in the past?
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by abraae 6y ago
Consider what happens when you type in "= 1 + 1" in the Google search bar then.
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by abraae 6y ago
As a user I want a way to bypass your overly intrusive data collection on me.
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by abraae 6y ago
Not sure about in the US but here in NZ, birds of prey such as Australasian Harriers thrive by eating roadkill. It's common to round a corner and find one struggling to take off from the carcass it is eating in the middle of the road.
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by abraae 6y ago
The site in that article was set up to allow random malware to be uploaded and effectively hosted. So not a good example.
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by abraae 6y ago
Not too wordy is a matter of opinion. While surprisingly well written and readable for a govt pub, I still find it's a little "wall of text" like. At a meta level, here's what the document itself advises about wordiness:
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by abraae 6y ago
Our product automates pdf forms in a specific area (HR). From experience, the presence of form fields in the PDF will tell you that it is a form, but the converse is not always true. Plenty of people flatten their pdfs to remove the form fi
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by abraae 6y ago
Was "boolshit" a typo or is it a magnificent new pejorative?
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by abraae 6y ago
Dealing with auth, including single lockout, is all much easier if you can put all your systems behind a single reverse proxy on a single domain. (Certainly that's not always possible, but for many systems it is).
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by abraae 6y ago
The knowledge ingestion from reading your article felt like being plugged into the matrix. Great article!
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by abraae 6y ago
Linux is indeed wonderful, but there's a lot to be said for dealing with things at a simple level when your goal is to e.g. measure voltages, turn LEDs and relays on and off etc. I still find it incredible that a fairly fast, dual core
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by abraae 6y ago
I suggest you don't develop an interest in esp32, or like me you may add an equivalent pile of those devices to your gaggle of interesting but unused hardware. At least it's much cheaper that pi!

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