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by awalton 6y ago
McConnell says you never replace a Supreme Court Justice in an election year. Let's see just how long it takes him to release a public statement going back on that one...
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by awalton 6y ago
Overruled, statement goes to motive and habit.
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by awalton 6y ago
So what you're saying is we need more regulations to cover these kinds of cases? Aren't you "regulations" people usually against regulations? Like, normally wouldn't I be arguing against someone screaming about
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by awalton 6y ago
> Yes, but the larger and more important issue is why are there so many explosives in the first place? Ah, so the problem is negligence. And what negligence was there? PG&E not maintaining their towers as clearly documented (or rathe
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by awalton 6y ago
Unless they've pivoted again since the last time it was discussed/demonstrated, the cars don't steer themselves through the tunnel like a car on open road, but instead are steered by the tunnel itself, more like a roller coas
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by awalton 6y ago
Going way out on a limb here, maybe productivity has dropped due to the overall stress of the situation, and not being at home? It doesn't seem like it's ever going to be possible to separate the noise from the signal here - every
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by awalton 6y ago
> It is just a request. You can say No. And when you do, they send their staff of high powered attorneys to shop for an amenable forum and file the SLAPP lawsuit that your org can't possibly afford to defend in a court you've n
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by awalton 6y ago
It still boils down to "who pays." And we're in the "I won't even pay my taxes since I can just hide them somewhere and the government won't come after me" phase of capitalism. The world's going to he
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by awalton 6y ago
The difference being that American Idol contestants are often actually quite artistically good - they only managed to get where they are because of skill and looks and luck, instead of just the latter two. (This isn't universal; it
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by awalton 6y ago
> Legislation that makes this illegal would be a great (and really easy) start. Legislation is really working right now, with Congress sitting on 400+ bills and refusing to vote on them, and with known members of the government, includin
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by awalton 6y ago
That's a damned timely shameless plug :). I'll add it to the reading list.
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by awalton 6y ago
Lots of talk about fault tolerance, not a lot of talk about trusting peers and preventing them from introducing bad data into your presumably precious model... So if you're forced to trust all of the peers, how is this better than a cl
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by awalton 6y ago
Unless you're a billionaire who can actually get a Congressperson on the phone, you're burning cycles. They've got an army of staff that do nothing but write stock replies, print and sign documents with stamps and mail them b
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by awalton 6y ago
I won't be the first to admit that the rackmount hardware is a nuisance, but at the same time, it's relatively inexpensive since there's no practical reason to buy new hardware for a homelab and the IT renewal companies are a
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by awalton 6y ago
The admin is admittedly the worst part about it, but since virtual machines and Ansible were invented it's at least a tractable problem.
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by awalton 6y ago
Still waiting on that Wisconsin factory they promised...
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by awalton 6y ago
> software that everyone has to be running the same version at runtime for it to work Have you ever attempted a flag day? Even at a small scale organization it's a nightmare - imagine trying to do it at Credit Card Processor (tens o
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by awalton 6y ago
GTK+ 3 was a bit of a nightmare in this regard, but GTK+ 3 is also feature frozen and will be supported for more years to come, so a new application doesn't have as much to worry about here. The downside would be the desire to port to
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by awalton 6y ago
What kind of misinformation are you trying to spread here? GTK+ has accessibility built into the toolkit itself - it's not optional, and it's always on. In fact, GTK+ had it before Qt did - ATK was written back in 2001 to be a p
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by awalton 6y ago
Ugh this is a deep gut punch, as this is one of the most interesting recent projects Mozilla was working on in my opinion.
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by awalton 6y ago
> The design relies on a new smartglass technology that turns the walls opaque when the door is locked. Which is pretty much exactly what I expected when I heard the words "transparent public toilets."
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by awalton 6y ago
> I miss the old Google search, the one that didn't try to guess what I mean, but instead did exactly what I said. You and me both. I cannot stand the whole 'I know better than you, let's use these synonyms that don'
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by awalton 6y ago
I'm fairly close to this. I used to require almost exactly 4 hours of sleep a night, and getting more or less than that made me feel absolutely abysmal, but over the years it's jumped up to 5.5 hrs/night with it being slightl
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by awalton 6y ago
I can confidently assure you that I've had that feature off for ages and could not possibly be happier about it.
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by awalton 6y ago
Apple just spent a billion dollars buying Intel's wireless modem business. If there's still a hardware reliance on Qualcomm, it's certainly coming to a quick end.
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by awalton 6y ago
Google it maybe? Here's one example thread to pull at: why did Apple stop buying nVidia GPUs across their entire hardware line? EGLStreams is a recent pain in the ass. nVidia's infanticide of OpenCL with CUDA being another painful
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by awalton 6y ago
I'm in agreement. nVidia's history of not playing nicely with others does not make this sound like a good deal, especially for entrenched ARM vendors. (Apple won't be phased; they basically design everything themselves, so th
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by awalton 6y ago
David Kanter makes an excellent point about why CPUs still aren't going away any time soon - nobody's building GPUs with arbitrarily upgradeable memory, and there are still more larger-than-memory problems you want these systems t
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by awalton 6y ago
Real-time ray tracing is hype. And I agree - any arguments that "the next gen consoles have it" is specious at best; they always front load next gen consoles because there's usually a very, very long tail where they're
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by awalton 6y ago
Honestly no. I really want to like Civ 6 but it's such a departure from earlier installments that I can't see myself pouring much more time into it. It's a fundamental design change where you're almost forced to play the

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