asguy

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by asguy 4y ago
Quick, flag it.
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by asguy 4y ago
> The abdication of Congress in many areas of governance has placed undue influence in the state governments. Don't forget the 10th amendment. State governments having power over their laws is a feature not a bug.
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by asguy 4y ago
I carry a small pair of these in my truck bag. I love them. The fact the jaws stays parallel is a boon for getting grip on all manner of fasteners.
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by asguy 4y ago
The absolute state of journalism: - Auto sears are not illegal. There are massive restrictions on ownership of them in the US, but law abiding citizens can own them. With the right paperwork (as a manufacturer) you can even legally make t
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by asguy 4y ago
Yah, Forrest Mims' books were a massive part of my childhood.
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by asguy 4y ago
The US Congress better get to work. They've spent way too much time asleep at the wheel, giving the executive branch carte blanche to do whatever their whims are, rather than passing actual law.
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by asguy 4y ago
> Because California’s economy is forcibly diverted to subsidize Alabama's political decisions (given the way federal funding formulas work, largely specifically because those decisions are consistent failures in aggregate economic
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by asguy 4y ago
The US supreme court seems to disagree with you.
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by asguy 4y ago
What do you need to unite them about? Unless Alabama is imposing something untenable on California, what does California care? It can keep being California. You're not going to unite France and Germany on everything either. But you
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by asguy 4y ago
What about focusing on fixing the country you’re in, rather than moving to somewhere else? You have 50 states you could explore first.
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by asguy 4y ago
This opinion is ignoring the fact that Apple's build quality and long-term compatibility keeps their machines alive and useful longer than most other machines out there. Lenovo/IBM not withstanding. The used market shows this.
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by asguy 4y ago
Yah, you can't install AWS-unsupported extensions in RDS, but you can extend the type system and operators. You also have access to stored procedures with plsql/plv8/plperl so it doesn't end up being that bad in the end
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by asguy 4y ago
> Let's adjust the statement a bit. It's overrated. Still phenomenal compared to alcohol -- which is one of the weakest drugs per unit mass or volume. Literally only 2% of blood ethanol gets to the brain, so most of what folks
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by asguy 4y ago
His Berkeley Bowl videos is one of my favorites: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PUFQouwqbe8
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by asguy 4y ago
> I can't use libvirt for my project because ... Yah I had some similar constraints, also I just didn't want to bring the entire mess of libvirt into my project's life. > This would be especially true if the QEMU CLI
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by asguy 4y ago
> Any suggestions for how to get help learning QEMU as a "power user" hoping to eventually contribute as a dev? I'd happily pay for consulting if I knew the right people to ask. I'm not being cheeky: read the source.
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by asguy 4y ago
I don't think he cares specifically about Trump, but I do think he cares about Trump being banned from the platform.
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by asguy 4y ago
Because Elon's been pushing the topic of Twitter and freedom of speech (or the lack thereof) for... a quite a while now. He even ran the (now famous) poll: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/15072597092246323
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by asguy 4y ago
Because depending on how you look at it, Twitter suspending Trump (and Babylon Bee et cetera) was part of the motivation for Musk to buy Twitter in the first place.
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by asguy 5y ago
Reading this, I feel like I’m seeing the past through the eyes of a US-based zoomer. This person should spend 6 months living with the locals in any 3rd-world country.
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by asguy 5y ago
It’s strange how the pendulum swings isn’t it? Almost like the Horseshoe Theory has validity.
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by asguy 5y ago
> Since open() is defined in C, you basically have to speak the C ABI, and therefore C. .. but what does open() call? Do you think that's air you're breathing? (The GP is implying you can just call directly into the kernel via
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by asguy 5y ago
Now please do the original hardware.
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by asguy 5y ago
If you think Eric went crazy, he went crazy a long time before you heard of him. He's been pretty consistent.
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by asguy 5y ago
Now do life of a sysadmin trying to keep the Consul service mesh alive in a production environment.
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by asguy 5y ago
Please post sources.
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by asguy 5y ago
This should be required reading for low level engineers, along with the Itanium C++ ABI.
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by asguy 5y ago
Electric stoves have a negative impact on my food quality. I guess there’s no winning.
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by asguy 5y ago
Maybe you didn't screw up as bad as I did? Maybe the stakes weren't as high? Who knows,. it's all about context. Blanket bans on behavior ignore that context.
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by asguy 5y ago
> I would report the situation / leave immediately. [...] I am pretty sure it goes against the Code of Conduct [1] Back in the early 90s, I was young and working for a startup. I had a fiery and seasoned boss, who knew what he was

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