cactacea

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by cactacea 3mo ago
Zero trust or bust. I actually cringed when I read "done right" applied to split-horizon DNS.
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by cactacea 3mo ago
Yes, they solve the problem that you called the company.
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by cactacea 3mo ago
RTO has always been about cheap layoffs so yeah, of course they'd do this.
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by cactacea 3mo ago
I hike at night fairly regularly and use either a dim red light or no light at all. I'm willing to bet that most people don't have any idea how good their fully dark adapted night vision actually is, especially with any sort of mo
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by cactacea 3mo ago
> <eyes roll in literal loop> k
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by cactacea 3mo ago
Yeah there's a Pho place in Seattle I'd go to lunch at (iykyk) where we'd regularly have 20 people at a table and pay individually. But they didn't even use the check for that, they'd just ask what you had and ring
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by cactacea 3mo ago
> But when 6 people simultaneously tried to pay their share of the bill, chaos ensued. I'm guessing the author has never worked as a server themselves... Is there any part of the world you can have a six top with individual checks w
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by cactacea 3mo ago
It was also designed by European engineers, not in Michigan. Not saying that's the reason the Focus is more reliable than a Taurus but they didn't follow the "typical" Ford design process at the time for that vehicle. Fo
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by cactacea 3mo ago
I see this question as akin to "do I really need to learn basic flight skills when my A320 has autopilot?". Yes. Yes, you do. For exactly the same reasons. AI is workload reduction the same way that autopilot is workload reduction
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by cactacea 4mo ago
Science is evil and must be destroyed at all costs.
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by cactacea 4mo ago
> In the early 2020s Texas was luring in remote workers And not a single one of the people I know that moved there want to still live there. ymmv I guess
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by cactacea 4mo ago
compare to https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/dfa/distr... rest of america == bottom 50% hedge funders, fascist VCs, etc == 50-90% walton children == 90-99% elon bezos == 99.9%
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by cactacea 4mo ago
Highly recommend the book Fixing Your Feet if you found this useful, it is a gold mine of helpful info. I used to get really awful blisters even on short hikes but after applying some of the lacing techniques from this book I don't g
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by cactacea 4mo ago
Thanks, I needed a laugh. Only on HN...
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by cactacea 4mo ago
So the numbers will need adjusted for inflation. Eventually. Like any other tax. If you're making an argument it is entirely unclear what your position is.
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by cactacea 4mo ago
Sure yeah, all those middle class families with second homes in New York City . Right. Nobody affected by this is middle class. Nobody that will be affected by this in the next 20 years would be considered middle class by any rational me
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by cactacea 5mo ago
"Separation" seems like clear bad faith to me as well. Alberta as an independent country? Yeah right, they'd pull a Texas for sure.
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by cactacea 5mo ago
I also work at Amazon and my coworkers are playing 20 questions every morning to keep their metrics up. Like anything else there it depends on your org & managers.
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by cactacea 5mo ago
That is pretty much my existence at $MAJOR_TECH_COMPANY now. Inexperienced security engineers running bots against my codebase and sending me pages long tickets with their "findings". There might be a couple of interesting nuggets
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by cactacea 5mo ago
There isn't one.
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by cactacea 5mo ago
Thanks, I hate it. What are the practical, legitimate use cases for buying domains at scale? I really can't think of a single one. I can however think of quite a few nefarious ones.
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by cactacea 5mo ago
not anymore!
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by cactacea 5mo ago
Because stuff like the Bullet Cluster exists. Dark matter is in fact the simplest answer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster
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by cactacea 5mo ago
> I've worked in the aerospace industry for the past 8 years, and for most of that time I felt like I could confidently say that RF engineering felt like it was a quiet, non evolving field. Not an EE myself but honestly baffled how
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by cactacea 6mo ago
Really shows where our priorities are at as a country. SMH
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by cactacea 6mo ago
yes NFC and with an e-ink display no battery needed from there
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by cactacea 7mo ago
Yes.
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by cactacea 7mo ago
Any time I see rounded corners on a PCB I know someone put love into that board. Well done
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by cactacea 8mo ago
> A milestone in the evolution of our digital organ.
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by cactacea 8mo ago
The author is describing active listening. You don't have to come off like a bot when reflecting either, "man that sucks" and just leaving space for the other person to keep talking goes a long way. Anyone here that feels the

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