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by cbzbc 8y ago
My description of what they did was not meant as an endorsement. That said; in an age where a large percentage of physical devices/device parts are made in China - protecting against attacks you don't understand or think to look f
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by cbzbc 8y ago
The UK government started worrying about the same thing when Huawei won a bunch of BT 21CN contracts for network renewal. The chosen solution in that case was to set up a dedicated engineering facility onshore, where evaluation of the produ
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by cbzbc 8y ago
The point is that each serverless implementation is different enough that even if you are using the same feature, the cruft around that is different enough to provide an certain amount of lock in.
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by cbzbc 8y ago
I think the problem here is that OCaml/ReasonML is a relatively large language - the flip side to the nice syntactic sugar, and there's a paucity of material to get people into ReasonML if they haven't touched FP before (whic
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by cbzbc 8y ago
Within the UK Huawei has won a number of network refresh contracts with BT. I assume this then got levels of concern going within the various agencies, as this was one of the results: https://www.gov.uk/government/publ
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by cbzbc 8y ago
Just on the basis of what you report of the bosses response I would have accepted his offer - sounds like you ended up in a great place people-wise.
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by cbzbc 8y ago
Greenpeace has been targeting non-sustainable practices in biofuel production - and the ill thought out legislation that led to this for at least the last 10 years, so it is factually incorrect to say that they have been 'staying silen
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by cbzbc 8y ago
And which leather did you settle on ?
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by cbzbc 8y ago
Complete with five year plans and local versions of kremlinology.
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by cbzbc 8y ago
Remember the 80s when the Japanese were going to take over the world, and pulp novelists turned out airport thrillers in which the villain was a Japanese businessman?
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by cbzbc 8y ago
Yes, generally with the economist ignore the editorials and read the news: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/1991/10/-quot... As you say, doom-mongering about various parts of the world is a
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by cbzbc 8y ago
.. yeah but we make it up on volume!
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by cbzbc 8y ago
.. but in real time.
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by cbzbc 8y ago
How do you work with testing local changes outside dokku ? Because the one thing I've found with a docker setup is that I write increasing amounts of stub code to avoid going through the docker rebuild/redeploy cycle when doing de
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by cbzbc 8y ago
Looks good - though it does introduce a dependency on java.
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by cbzbc 8y ago
why nftables rather than iptables?
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by cbzbc 8y ago
Maybe you just hate bad metaprogramming Metaprogramming is hard to get right - often harder than writing good libraries, and the number of programmers who can do it well is correspondingly smaller. So of the metaprogramming that's ou
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by cbzbc 9y ago
Assume they meant that it was essentially hidden advertising (under the surface).
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by cbzbc 9y ago
They always let loose a little - you can go back and look at old transcripts and see much the same thing. There's a certain element of it becoming slightly worse due to being televised. In an era where there is a huge gap between gove
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by cbzbc 9y ago
This has always been the case to an extent - see the Esterhazy's patronage of Haydn and the Prince of Salzburg's sponsorship of Mozart. The exception is the 20th century when the Soviet system pushed art as something for the peopl
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by cbzbc 9y ago
"The entire Eastern system of medicine evolved based on shared experience and knowledge" and the stuff that worked has became .. medicine.
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by cbzbc 9y ago
It's possible to get unscented versions of most personal hygiene products- and generally you shouldn't be using so much shampoo that you smell it for hours after using it.
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by cbzbc 9y ago
Sure, but that's because the post is public - I agree that it probably makes people increasingly unwilling to comment on such things.
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by cbzbc 9y ago
> Colour me skeptical. Can also be arranged, as long as the colour of sceptical is an off-orange shade.
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by cbzbc 9y ago
I was pleasantly surprised. The writing in that article is of a much better standard than that in Moorcock's fiction.
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by cbzbc 9y ago
Or you can get mini PC (Zotac or similar from AliExpress) and put any number of Linux distros on it for firewalling and optionally other stuff.
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by cbzbc 9y ago
Time will tell - but the reason for the split in the first place was the bureaucracy and slow progress of the OpenWRT project.
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by cbzbc 9y ago
It should be, however the events surrounding Israel, India and Pakistan successively going nuclear-armed has weakened the force of the rhetoric somewhat.
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by cbzbc 9y ago
Yeah, though this dates back to a time when not joining the NPT was seen as controversial (there was a diplomatic fuss at the time, and a lower level fuss some decades later when India started developing weapons while remaining out of the N
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by cbzbc 9y ago
It's both/and, there are costs associated both with the laws around llcs and providing the need to play the of liability holder of last resort in certain circumstances.

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