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by adamsb6 2y ago
Developer tools, along with availability of developers, was probably the number one reason to have chosen a Microsoft stack around the year 2000. The annoyances of IIS were borne by sysadmins, but your developers were probably able to be mo
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by adamsb6 2y ago
I wonder how much more libgen traffic can be attributed to the lawsuit. When Metallica sued Napster, for many people the reaction was, "wait I can download music for free?"
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by adamsb6 2y ago
What do you think the point of such a questionnaire was? Why would you want to filter for applicants who report that their worst high school subject was science and their lowest college grades were in history?
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by adamsb6 2y ago
In what context would it ever make sense to preferentially hire a population whose worst high school subject was science and lowest college grades were in history? Sharing the answers wasn't someone going rogue, it was the whole point.
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by adamsb6 2y ago
I don't think Treasury Direct could get much worse without just being completely broken. At least they don't force you to login with a virtual keyboard any longer.
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by adamsb6 2y ago
Our local schools, like many around the country, spooled up new permanent programs in response to the influx of COVID funding which they always knew to be temporary. Now that the funding has gone away, they say they have a funding crisis, a
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by adamsb6 2y ago
Not long ago like 90% of Hacker News commenters would have agreed with the sentiment that information wants to be free. Many of you purchased merchandise with DeCSS code written on it.
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by adamsb6 2y ago
The excuse would be that it's not free and the revenue from lost customers is less than the cost of upgrading the peering points.
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by adamsb6 2y ago
In Washington state they never expire.
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by adamsb6 2y ago
Saddam Hussein was a brutal despot who also kept his own country’s factions from waging war on one another. It didn’t turn out well when we took him off the board.
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by adamsb6 2y ago
If it’s not air gapped the company could be compelled to activate it remotely.
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by adamsb6 2y ago
You can buy Pooh merchandise in just about every mall in China. My son has a Pooh sweatshirt we bought at Uniqlo in China. You just can’t use it as a coded way to agitate against the government.
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by adamsb6 2y ago
Lots of things change in China because people make a big stink about it. Probably the most notable are the lockdown protests, but there are countless examples of someone complaining about bad local governance and the national government com
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by adamsb6 2y ago
It’s not that they have no idea what what they’re doing, it’s that they typically are mapping patient problems to a set of scripts. I’m analogizing shell scripts, not using shorthand for prescriptions. In nearly all cases this works out pre
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by adamsb6 2y ago
I’m on the other side of the international date line, you insensitive clod.
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by adamsb6 2y ago
Wild to see a newspaper so mercurial about censorship.
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by adamsb6 2y ago
Having cameras on your house isn't an invitation for the police to come in and take the footage.
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by adamsb6 2y ago
Curious if that means putting more CO2 in the atmosphere than if we tossed the old plastic in a landfill and refined oil instead.
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by adamsb6 2y ago
Recently I needed to do some ESP32 development. The project was built on Windows and I wanted to maintain fidelity to the build environment. So I installed WSL along with all of the rest of what I’m used to like NeoVim and Fish. Made my cha
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by adamsb6 2y ago
What’s so special about bar codes that the testers couldn’t create one themselves? Are they cryptographically signed by a system that was inaccessible? Or is it just a matter of figuring out the bar code format and writing out some KCM id?
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by adamsb6 2y ago
I suppose I could have my security camera DVR entirely offsite. That thieves could steal it is kind of a weakness, and I’ve been too lazy to complete my project to auto upload smaller clips based on Frigate detection.
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by adamsb6 2y ago
Reading through the details on the lawsuit now: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25060739-us_et_al_v_... It is alleged that they use proprietary data, and it looks like they definitely do. RealPage doesn't
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by adamsb6 2y ago
I would agree that having a price enforcement mechanism crosses the line, but I can’t find evidence that they do.
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by adamsb6 2y ago
In other contexts there’s no problem with using proprietary data to set prices, so long as you don’t run afoul of insider trading regulations. Landlords also don’t have monopoly pricing power, they’re making tradeoffs. They can’t list their
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by adamsb6 2y ago
Curious where the line is supposed to be for gathering market information and making pricing decisions. Surely it would be legal if I had an employee scour all the rental listings in my area and use that to give me price distributions for s
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by adamsb6 2y ago
NASA certainly is deeply entwined with SpaceX, but that relationship predates the Biden/Elon animosity. Biden has the authority to say that he’s not going to give Elon this gloating opportunity ahead of the election. Biden also has the
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by adamsb6 2y ago
I doubt Boeing fanboys are part of the equation. NASA is an executive agency, the President doesn’t like the head of SpaceX, and it’s an election year.
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by adamsb6 2y ago
> Critics of carbon removal have long feared that it will offer polluters an easy way out, by giving them an excuse to continue their emissions. A great illustration of the moral valence of the issue. If the problem were considered as an
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by adamsb6 2y ago
Oh man I hope the opening bell is pistols fired in the air like Yosemite Sam.
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by adamsb6 2y ago
This was so shocking that I went to look it up, and discovered that there's a bit of a telephone game here. It's "shockwave therapy" that isn't eletric. It uses acoustics to cause microscopic damage, and which Johns

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