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by amalcon 8mo ago
I don't remember people thinking HW Bush was dumb. Or McCain, or Romney, or Ryan, or McConnell, or even someone like Gingrich. Quayle, Palin, W Bush (very incorrectly, dude was wrong and/or lying about a lot of stuff but he
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by amalcon 8mo ago
Some of these video codecs have pathological cases that might be maxing out your video while doing the decoding. If you're only using it as a media server, that might exceed the (possibly age-degraded) capacity of your power supply.
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by amalcon 8mo ago
I don't think it's that independents in general are embarrassed republicans, but that independents who constantly talk about being independents are embarrassed republicans. I know some independents who are to the left of democrat
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by amalcon 9mo ago
I've always found it interesting that these tech infra companies' stock tends to rise in the immediate aftermath of these outages. My best guess is that people see the effect of the outage and say "Hey, this company I'v
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by amalcon 9mo ago
I mean, sure. The problem is that ignoring Republican agency is seemingly incubated by both parties' philosophies (such as they are). It's a common "conservative" vice to blame problems on those you identify less with
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by amalcon 9mo ago
Others responding to my speech by exercising their own rights to free speech and free association as individuals does not violate my right to free speech. One can make an argument that corporations doing those things (e.g. your Play Store
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by amalcon 9mo ago
This is a failure of imagination. There are plenty of things that are more unjust than that.
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by amalcon 9mo ago
This argument has always seemed odd to me. The 17th amendment first took effect in 1915, and the whole Senate had been directly elected by 1919. Are we really going to claim that the late 1910's are when things really went off the ra
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by amalcon 9mo ago
It doesn't really matter if they're doing that for this purpose, though. Cloudflare (or any other AS) has no fine control of where your packets to their anycast IPs will actually go. A given server's response packets will o
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by amalcon 9mo ago
I used to have so much trouble with pants (I need 30-34 in inches, 86.4cm long and about 76cm waist). No store had that size. I once got to the point where I considered leaning into my Scottish heritage and just wearing a kilt. The inte
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by amalcon 9mo ago
Well, it can be annoying to limit oneself to a smaller under-seat bag. Taking the bigger bag out during the flight uses up even more of the available space. I've generally got nowhere to put it except behind my legs (which cramps thi
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by amalcon 9mo ago
Yes, it's usually called "premium economy" or something like that. I was resistant for a long time, but eventually decided that being able to walk the next day without pain was worth the extra cost. That said, they tend to
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by amalcon 9mo ago
Those few degrees matter if your knees are already brushing the back of the seat in front of you. It matters how tall you are, how much of that is in your legs, how big your feet are (the more you need to bend your knees, the higher they w
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by amalcon 9mo ago
The physical requirements are an issue for a lot of people. E.g. a tall senior citizen, anyone flying with a small child, anyone with a visible disability (temporary or otherwise).
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by amalcon 9mo ago
To be fair -- there are a lot of people in the southern US who do the same thing to various demographics that HN users are likely to belong to. You can actually see serving politicians do that on TV, and have been able to see that for a lo
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by amalcon 9mo ago
Basically anyone with access to Wikipedia can design and build a nuclear bomb given raw materials. Not to go into too much detail (both because I'm not really an expert and because it's a dangerous activity even without involving
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by amalcon 9mo ago
Saddam Hussein was also a brutal dictator; it didn't make the Iraq war a good thing.
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by amalcon 11mo ago
I have had several things over the course of my career that: 1) I was (temporarily) the only one still at the company who knew why it was there 2) I only knew myself because I had reverse engineered it, because the person who put it there h
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by amalcon 11mo ago
Or C) deploying machines to do almost all of it (developing said machines if necessary). Which is more likely to actually happen than either A or B, even though the current regime is making it difficult. It also won't create very man
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by amalcon 11mo ago
The claim I think you're referring to is in two parts: 1) They were willing to sell DDoS protection to DDoS services 2) This decision was made specifically because the existence of DDoS services increased the value of their product Thi
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by amalcon 11mo ago
You jest, but this actually does exist. Multiple CDNs sell multi-CDN load balancing (divide traffic between 2+ CDNs per variously-complicated specifications, with failover) as a value add feature, and IIRC there is at least one company for
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by amalcon 11mo ago
It's also not exactly the least common way that this sort of huge multi-tenant service goes down. It's only as rare as it is because more or less all of them have had such outages in the past and built generic defenses (e.g. au
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by amalcon 11mo ago
So-called "sanctuary cities" have made the judgement that their law enforcement apparatus will be more effective if people who fear immigration authorities are willing to interface with it. They can't and don't stop e
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by amalcon 1y ago
The earth also doesn't care about national borders, so why are national numbers more useful in this regard?
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by amalcon 1y ago
That was very bad, but it was plausibly authorized by Congress ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Milit... ). There is no comparable authorization here. There is, to my knowledge, no allegation t
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by amalcon 1y ago
Before Trump, a lot fewer. There is a well known phenomenon of GOP governors in deep blue states (e.g. Christie in NJ, Schwarzenegger in CA, Baker in MA, Scott in VT). This is a lot rarer in deep red states. There are a lot more red stat
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by amalcon 1y ago
Operation Warp Speed, the Abraham accords, and this new Gaza ceasefire have all met with near universal praise from the media. It's not the media's fault that the good things he does are so rare.
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by amalcon 1y ago
There are two separate issues that folks are getting tripped up on here. The first is that the most powerful AI systems do not do offline learning. There are a bunch of hard problems here: e.g. known unsupervised learning techniques have
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by amalcon 1y ago
I've kept about 1/3 of my investments in a non-US index fund for years, basically as a hedge against some unforeseen event in the US (having 100% exposure to the economy that my job is in seemed suboptimal). In 2016, all that r
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by amalcon 1y ago
Trump can do whatever nobody will stop him from doing. Who's going to stop him from running again?

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