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by bogomipz 4y ago
>"Everyone moved to Windows NT when 4 came out, though, because of the way Microsoft did licensing." Can you elaborate on what the difference was between how the licensing worked on OS/2 vs NT 4? What was the big innovatio
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by bogomipz 4y ago
I'm increasingly encountering the following hostile sequence: 1. A CAPTCHA 2. A cookie consent ad 3. An immediate content blocking pop up asking me to subscribe to their newsletter(generally before I've had time to read a sing
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by bogomipz 4y ago
The author states: >"While some airlines provide baggage tracking, it’s awesome to always know exactly where your checked bag is." Can someone say which airlines provide baggage tracking and it works exactly? It's amazing
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by bogomipz 4y ago
>"The reason fiat money works is because at the end of the day if you run into trouble you have the legal system to make things right. And if the perpetrator of the crime doesn't listen to the legal system, there are people wit
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by bogomipz 4y ago
No, that is in Santa Barbara. Same university system though, just two hours north.
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by bogomipz 4y ago
From your link: >"Within days of the announcement that the Twitter board had accepted Musk’s $44 billion offer, Benioff, who is currently worth more than $6 billion, sent Musk a cryptic text about his own vision for the platform, wr
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by bogomipz 4y ago
What a great post! The author has one on GPT as well which I thought was also a great read.
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by bogomipz 4y ago
What is an "an injectable immunomodulator merchant account"?
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by bogomipz 4y ago
That's interesting. Might you or someone else be able to say what was the catalyst for this change in mission? What happened between 2015 and 2018?
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It's very bizarre that your response is nothing more than a complete deflection - "what about Apple?!", but then you go on to accuse others of being reductionist and lacking honesty.
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I sincerely hope you walked out of that interview without accommodating that request. Would hope you mind naming the company only so others can avoid it? Treating a candidate as suspects seems to be a new low, even for the tech industry. An
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by bogomipz 4y ago
The parent is referring to concerns of a ubiquitous "man in the middle" and you are referring to SPOF. Those are two very different things. At any rate I can always choose two 2 or even 3 cloud providers for diversity against havi
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by bogomipz 4y ago
>"I'm really getting tired of this kind of take." Which take is that? An opinion or outlook that differs from your own? >"You never really see that if AWS adds a product, or GCP adds a product or any other products
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by bogomipz 4y ago
>"All serverside cloud-style VMs get tap devices." I'm having trouble understanding this sentence. Specifically "serverside cloud-style VMs." Does "serverside" mean from the host OS that's running
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by bogomipz 4y ago
>"If all you believe in is my economic interest, it’s far more lucrative to be the trusted, private network over time than any alternative." And yet AT&T has proven otherwise. [1][2] [1] https://www.macrotrends.n
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by bogomipz 4y ago
This was a great read! I hope you keep up the "Algos in Plain English" series. Its' a great idea. I also enjoyed the one on KMP. I also thought that was well written.
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by bogomipz 4y ago
Hi, thanks for the article, I'm looking forward to the next installment! I hope you post it here when it comes out. I actually appreciated the simplicity of the diagrams and I think most literature follows this where terminals(I think
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by bogomipz 4y ago
The intention of your comment appears solely to deflect, however what happened in Texas and what is happening in the EU right now are not even remotely comparable. The cause of the Texas grid failure in February 2021 was a Winter storm and
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by bogomipz 4y ago
Does this mean that the solar elements are not connected to the grid, i.e you don't send your excess back to the energy company's grid or does it mean that your only power is solar? If is the former how does that work in practice
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by bogomipz 4y ago
I have a question about the relationship between the "simplified transistor" animated gif and the "Simplified AND and OR gates, using transistors" animated gif here: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content
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by bogomipz 4y ago
Thank you for the wonderfully insightful and detailed response. This is really helpful. Cheers!
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>"I think it's clear the Firefox branding will live on, since it is Mozilla's crown jewel." I'm not following your question. How does Firefox branding live on without Gecko/Spidermonkey?
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by bogomipz 4y ago
They did. It was called Firefox OS. They killed it in 2015/16. See: https://killedbymozilla.com/
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>"Mozilla, the non-profit proprietor of the Firefox browser, has accused Google, Microsoft, and Apple of "self preferencing" and nudging consumers towards using their own browsers." Is it not odd that that Mozilla is
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What is "link juice here?
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>"That is because C++ is not taught properly. It is not just a collection of syntactical features but a multi-paradigm language (i.e. supporting Procedural, Object-Oriented, Generic and Compile-time) where a feature is best suited t
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by bogomipz 4y ago
Ah ok, now the explicit vs other OSes "implicit" guarantees makes sense to me. I had no idea other OSes changed their system call numbers from time to time. Thanks for your detailed response!
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by bogomipz 4y ago
>"AFAIK, it is only Linux which explicitly supports the kernel system call interface.: Could you elaborate on this? Specifically I'm not understanding what exactly is "explicit" with regards system calls on Linux comp
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by bogomipz 4y ago
Wow. Is boomeranging actually common at Amazon then? Why would you go back to a company that you had to leave in order to get a raise? It seems like the cultural aspects at the root of leaving would not have fundamentally changed the second
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by bogomipz 4y ago
>"When petitioned, my cries were ignored and I was recommended to boomerang if I wanted a pay raise." Is petitioning a process in AWS? What does boomerang mean here?

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