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by adamsb6 3y ago
This comment is evidence of how successful the left has been in demonizing the right.
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by adamsb6 3y ago
I like the standard way that most Linux distros do this: default to a pretty loading graphic, but you can hit esc to see the boot scroll.
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by adamsb6 3y ago
Even more terrifying for the uninitiated back in the day: fatal error
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by adamsb6 3y ago
Wait wait wait... Are eggs healthy again?
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by adamsb6 3y ago
If you bring your own cell data plan you won't even need to futz with VPN. Cell data tunnels back to the carrier and the Great Firewall doesn't block anything.
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by adamsb6 4y ago
Naturally this bill designed to strip our privacy is named after the song from Fifty Shades of Grey.
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by adamsb6 4y ago
You're right, it's not all. I must have mis-remembered. Though I'll note that a lot of the states we consider to be "One Party" actually do allow controlled opposition parties, they just never let them gain actual p
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by adamsb6 4y ago
This sounds like the motive for religious war. Are we not tolerant enough to let other peoples have their own political systems? It took a couple hundred years for Europeans to stop killing each other in the wake of the Reformation. Maybe w
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by adamsb6 4y ago
One of the first things Zelensky did after Russia invaded was to outlaw all other political parties. The U.S. government is fully supportive of this one party state. It's all realpolitik. Our leaders would never let a country's sy
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by adamsb6 4y ago
Why should it matter that China and the U.S. have incompatible political values? And what does that even mean? It's not like the two systems need to interface in ways where that matters. If you're trying to negotiate a treaty it d
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by adamsb6 4y ago
I'd say it's more like reverse protectionism. A protectionist demands that his country consume products made domestically. The sanctionist demands that other countries consume their own products, or those made from a coalition of
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by adamsb6 4y ago
I guess "Largest rocket test in history successfully launched" doesn't generate enough traffic compared to the pessimistic "explodes minutes after launch."
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by adamsb6 4y ago
Same, Workplace is sorely missed. Slack is good at synchronous communication, it’s a substitute for Workplace Chat. Where I’m at now there is nothing similar to Workplace, which is great at asynchronous communication. On Slack content scrol
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by adamsb6 4y ago
A supermajority threshold requirement is not minority rule. It's supermajority rule. Minority rule would be if 40% of the Senate could pass laws at will.
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by adamsb6 4y ago
Fractional reserve requirements limit the amount of loans a bank can make relative to its deposits.
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by adamsb6 4y ago
Parent income may be correlated but it is not an input. As someone who grew up poor, big tech was my best way of building wealth. I didn’t need connections, didn’t need to work unpaid internships. I just had to get an interview and pass it.
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by adamsb6 4y ago
The big cloud providers are likely packing machines more densely and powering them more efficiently than alternatives like colos.
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by adamsb6 4y ago
Mail... kimp?
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by adamsb6 4y ago
This article is not at all skeptical of this regulation. I'm especially skeptical about legislation coming from the body responsible for making me click dozens of "Accept Cookies" buttons every day.
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by adamsb6 4y ago
Long ago I had setup lancache for this purpose, which is strictly inferior. Not only can chunks be evicted from cache, but it seemed like there were a lot of cache misses even when testing re-downloading the same game. Though lancache does
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by adamsb6 4y ago
My knowledge is a decade old, so they very well may be using tape now, but were not originally. At announcement time Glacier was using super dense racks of hard disks but only powering a subset of them. This led to some tape-like behaviors,
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by adamsb6 4y ago
I never expected I'd experience such joy at a website failing to load, or to see it had been turned into a completely different business that doesn't even have a login form. Thanks, LastPass!
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by adamsb6 4y ago
This reminds me of the time on Something Awful that radium banned the one user that was using WebTV. > About 91% of visitors are on Windows. Mac users make up 5% and Linux is 2%. The other 2% are permabanned IRC trolls browsing the forum
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by adamsb6 4y ago
> Other tech people change the API for no reason and give work to 1000 more people to ,,upgrade to the newer system'' and stop maintaining the old system. This was a good 15% of what I used to do at Facebook. Adapting to the us
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by adamsb6 4y ago
It's happening more and more often that the first result doesn't even include all the words in my fairly short queries. I'm thankful they have a warning on the result so that I don't waste my time. They're also extr
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by adamsb6 4y ago
Every time I pipe the output of `terraform` somewhere I always forgot to append a `-no-color` option. Every time I also think of just making a wrapper for it, but I never do.
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by adamsb6 4y ago
At Facebook we would simulate an entire datacenter disappearing. When we first started doing it the datacenter would be chosen months in advance so that teams would have plenty of time to ensure their services can run without that specific
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by adamsb6 4y ago
That’s another common misperception, that Facebook sells data. They don’t. They sell targeted advertising that uses that data. The advertiser API specifies descriptors for who should see the ads. There’s no facility for accessing private da
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by adamsb6 4y ago
As a recent insider, this is one of those things where the outside perception doesn't match the inside at all. Privacy is taken more seriously at Facebook than any other place I've ever worked. It's drilled into you from day
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by adamsb6 4y ago
I haven't put on the headset in months and haven't gotten an email. Thanks to the person that raised the issue so I don't lose my content.

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