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   by area51org 4y ago

   > Perhaps it's a scientific fact that women are superior to men in science The only valid broad generalization is that there are no valid broad generalizations. My take? I think we men are used to having things handed to us, and wom
2. 62.▲
   by area51org 4y ago

   I very much want you to be correct, but having been around for a good amount of time, it's not always as straightforward as you suggest. In many instances, companies are reluctant to hire people who have been laid off, because they ima
3. 63.▲
   by area51org 4y ago

   Adding a bunch of noise to that situation is less than helpful.
4. 64.▲
   by area51org 4y ago

   Does he need to develop an AI system at all in order to have a valid opinion, though?
5. 65.▲
   by area51org 4y ago

   I appreciate the Ruby love in this post, but it's worth pointing out that the author is clearly new to the language. I say that because he writes Ruby as if he's writing some other language, and not idiomatic Ruby. This: dirp
6. 66.▲
   by area51org 4y ago

   > all of which presuppose that the recipient's perception of a communication is all that matters ... and assuming that the listener is able to parse and then object to phrasing on the fly. Phrasing can matter, but fine-grained hyp
7. 67.▲
   by area51org 4y ago

   “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.” –pithy quote from a summer action movie I'll just say it now: this is a mistake, quite possibly a huge mistake. The average h
8. 68.▲
   by area51org 5y ago

   It's fueled by the exhaustion caused by monkeying with what time it is. It's not about circadian rhythms. It's about having to wake up an hour early and pretend that you got enough sleep, and for no good reason.
9. 69.▲
   by area51org 5y ago

   The past is prologue and not necessarily predictive. That was then; this is now.
10. 70.▲
    by area51org 5y ago

    Jails are not a replacement for containers.
11. 71.▲
    by area51org 5y ago

    Exactly. Personal preference is all fine and good, and he's got a right to his own opinions, absolutely. But to imply that these are empirical differences between FreeBSD and Linux, well, that's nonsense.
12. 72.▲
    by area51org 5y ago

    All the "advantages" of FreeBSD are really just personal preferences, and little more. E.g., FreeBSD jails are not a replacement for containerization in any way. The FreeBSD network stack is better? I'll bet you can talk to a
13. 73.▲
    by area51org 5y ago

    You do have a point, there—he seems to contradict himself—but his larger point is about hosting, specifically.
14. 74.▲
    by area51org 5y ago

    I can't wait until they announce that DHMO (dihydrogen monoxide) is unsafe because it can so easily lead to death in children and adults. Perhaps no amount of DHMO is safe. http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html
15. 75.▲
    by area51org 5y ago

    There is such a thing as being unnecessarily and overly cautious, however. This sure seems like a good example of that.
16. 76.▲
    by area51org 5y ago

    Looks like this might be making its point just a tad too subtlety.
17. 77.▲
    by area51org 5y ago

    You're not roped in (good, albeit not free, alternatives exist), but yeah, this is just a fuckover. I've been paying google for GDrive for some time now, and that's about to end. It's back to Dropbox. I know, I don'
18. 78.▲
    by area51org 5y ago

    Boy, you could not dream of a better way to drive people away from custom Gmail domain accounts, and into the arms of * Fastmail * Protonmail * Zoho
19. 79.▲
    by area51org 5y ago

    Thx for this. It's reassuring to hear.
20. 80.▲
    by area51org 5y ago

    That's not an excuse to actually be complete assholes.
21. 81.▲
    by area51org 5y ago

    Yup. The multi-billion-dollar company is low on cash and just has to do this. I hope they succeed in completely ruining any goodwill they have left. I'd toss out some four-letter words, to boot, but I just can't be bothered.
22. 82.▲
    by area51org 5y ago

    Rarely if ever, AFAIK.
23. 83.▲
    by area51org 5y ago

    I'm just like so many others here: I've had these services for years and now they pull the plug. Here's an exercise in how to piss off the world. I will never recommend or use google products in the future if I have a cho
24. 84.▲
    by area51org 5y ago

    THANK YOU. I thought it was just me. And Chrome works fine! Bizarre.
25. 85.▲
    by area51org 5y ago

    I think it beats even Chef (a DSL, not a standalone language, but still). When you google for that you get a mix of automation documentation and links to Gordon Ramsey. But io?? The planet? The Italian pronoun? Good lord. EDIT: thankfully,
26. 86.▲
    by area51org 5y ago

    Let's be thankful for being alive. EDIT: "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself." –Carl Sagan
27. 87.▲
    by area51org 5y ago

    Let's just be thankful for what we have.
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    by area51org 5y ago

    It's funny how fast that attitude changes when someone you know dies of something you could have helped prevent. Suddenly you feel like you've got blood on your hands, and that maybe sometimes other people need a nudge or a kick
29. 89.▲
    by area51org 5y ago

    Link to an MP3 of that call with the dude flying into Area 51: https://www.area51.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Man-tries-...
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    by area51org 5y ago

    Here's a link to an MP3 of that 'dude flying into Area 51' call: https://www.area51.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Man-tries-...