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by blabitty 6y ago
Identity politics type news stories shot up right at the end of the Great Recession, around the occupy wall Street time, when people were the most infuriated that moneyed interests bailed themselves out at the taxpayers expense. Really make
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by blabitty 6y ago
Maybe it wasn't a mistake
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by blabitty 6y ago
>The major advantage of DIY is that you end up being able to repair your own stuff, to know how it works, to know where it is. I have this mentality with my normal on grid tract house. My saying is "at least I know what corners I cu
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by blabitty 6y ago
I consider the roles you mention hands on fwiw. I'm talking about the self sustaining paperwork roles that once they reach a critical percentage of a project start creating their own "gravity". I'm not a feature Dev.
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by blabitty 6y ago
Forgive my nitpick but power generation doesn't generate electrons it pushes existing ones around, very slowly. Highly recommend http://amasci.com/miscon/whatis.html to anyone interested in discovering how inconsi
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by blabitty 6y ago
This seems to be the norm on software teams these days. For every one hands on keyboard maker there is at least one architect, security analyst, agile coach, tester etc. In reality it is one person doing the work and 10 commenting on it.
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by blabitty 6y ago
I remember that storm! Week off of school and you could skate right on the sidewalk.
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by blabitty 6y ago
No, what's not reasonable is being expected to do creative, novel work in little 30-60 minute slices of time between status meetings or slide deck presentations.
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by blabitty 6y ago
Better also enjoy reams of eye glazing paperwork
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by blabitty 6y ago
Countries in Europe that are much whiter then the USA at this point have some of the lowest corruption on Earth. Countries in Europe that are much whiter then the USA at this point also have some very high levels. Maybe some variables besid
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by blabitty 6y ago
Not being snarky at all but isn't the answer to this always going to reduce to "have as many offspring with as many partners as possible"?
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by blabitty 6y ago
Maintenance should be just that, maintenance - something you attend to regularly to prevent future problems. The problem our industry has is that every approach to software has become a religious like cargo cult activity. In my opinion the
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by blabitty 6y ago
My experience with Walmart is poorly packed boxes handled roughly by FedEx leading to a bunch of damaged orders. At this point Amazon's delivery service itself is a differentiator for me, and I don't love the company or paying for
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by blabitty 6y ago
The grid in general has a lot of old wiring especially in earlier settled parts of the country. I grew up in a house built in 1940 and it wasn't especially old for my area. These are real costs that affect real people when discussing a
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by blabitty 6y ago
If the electronics and computer industries are any guide the manufacturers will "recover" those savings through desupporting software / forced upgrades. Either that or go to a pure leasing model since the car's software
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by blabitty 6y ago
Japan and Germany were barely allies; Japan signed a non-aggression pact with the USSR and the Germans were happy about it because they didn't want any competition for the spoils they thought they would have. This is one of the pivota
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by blabitty 6y ago
There are some great video interviews with Eugene Sledge out there too. He had such a great ability to convey the view from the boots on the ground.
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by blabitty 6y ago
I stand corrected. I think I am thinking of the Soviet program with regards to heavyweight dual use.
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by blabitty 6y ago
It's pretty popular in South Texas. Beef is King in Texas and the parts of northern Mexico that it borders that may have something to do with it. There is also "barbacoa" which traditionally is a whole cow head slow cooked i
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by blabitty 6y ago
I avoid all the middlemen gig economy food delivery apps entirely. One I do like is the Little Caesars smartphone app in combination with their pizza portal, it really is seamless and a social anxiety sufferer's dream. Little Caesars i
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by blabitty 6y ago
I think it's fair to characterize the antinuclear movement as cynical and disingenuous in general,they are a political movement that has never argued in good faith scientifically. In fairness the original governmental nuclear program w
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by blabitty 6y ago
I like to half jokingly assert that microservices are a pysop to sell cloud hosting
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by blabitty 6y ago
Actually I believe http was originally envisioned to be 2 way, a la webdav.
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by blabitty 6y ago
I wish I could use Debian at work, I run it at home on the same server for 8+ years through multiple full version upgrades with very little hassle or trouble. With RedHat I'm fighting satellite server and subscription nonsense and have
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by blabitty 6y ago
They attemtpted to storm a federal building in Portland every night for weeks without being "gunned down".
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by blabitty 6y ago
Sounds like Amazon did misrepresent their relationship with elastic intentionally, which is abusive. It was also unnecessary in my opinion because the AWS service is so much easier to use - no licensing to worry about at all as an end consu
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by blabitty 6y ago
How do you feel about covered calls? From a risk perspective they are equivalent positions, limited upside and big downside risk.
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by blabitty 6y ago
For simple document or file type storage for an application I think solutions like S3 or azure blob storage are really great. In my real world experience we replaced a highly finicky way too heavyweight COTS CMS and all the associated datab
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by blabitty 6y ago
Not exactly true I've worked for several very large agencies that use encrypted and/or signed email extensively
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by blabitty 6y ago
https://threatpost.com/air-gap-attack-turns-memory-wifi/1623...

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