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by crankylinuxuser 6y ago
Indeed! That's it :) Thank you for finding it.
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by crankylinuxuser 6y ago
> Open office is my favorite by far. I'm a programmer and I'm not easily distracted and I find the environment a lot more social and enjoyable....My least favorite was the shared office and cubicle. I found offices isolating, b
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by crankylinuxuser 6y ago
Wasnt there a story about a graybeard who, upon being turned into a gamafied LOC programmer, ended up changing 2 lines and removing 2000? He put -1998 lines on his daily email? And I think that hits to the core of Goodhart's law: &quot
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by crankylinuxuser 6y ago
Well, they would die. Venturing on the edge of civilization or extending that edge is always fraught with dangers, and also surrounded by wonders nobody else will see for years or decades. As long as those risk takers understand what risks
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by crankylinuxuser 6y ago
Poor planning on their part does not constitute an emergency on my part. My parents threatened to kick me out on my 18th birthday. That was my big birthday "present" from them. Not soon after, I left. They made is clear and known
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by crankylinuxuser 6y ago
> Another example is closed OSes like iOS. Consumers love iOS because you almost never see malware. Open OSes easily acquire malware if the user is not tech-savvy (and even sometimes if they are), and finding software outside a walled ga
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by crankylinuxuser 6y ago
Damn. Sure would have been nice if they assumed a automiscorrect rather than a nasty comment.
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by crankylinuxuser 6y ago
> A new measure that could replace GDP needs to do a better job of measuring environmental as well as human benefit. Imagine if instead of measuring how the economy grows in pure dollar amounts of economic output we also measure restorat
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by crankylinuxuser 6y ago
I'm sure the people working in Adtech (primarily google) have already thought of this long ago. It's only stopped by the fact that many websites are just frontends and have no backend access.
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by crankylinuxuser 6y ago
You know.... I'm still waiting for Adtech companies to request realtime log shipping on the backend. You'd set up each server type (Apache, HAProxy, Nginx, IIS, etc) as a log ingester type. And from there, you ask the server admin
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by crankylinuxuser 6y ago
Is antivirus unethical Advertisements have all the downsides, are used in tremendously unethical ways including abhorrent views and as a malware propagation network. It is my duty to put heavy adblockers on as a layer of protection. And i
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by crankylinuxuser 6y ago
Many of us are in the same boat. I would only read an article or 2 a month from any 1 source. But I'm expected a 1-size-fits-badly plan? But yet, why these bypass paywalls even work is because they discriminate on who gets free and who
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by crankylinuxuser 6y ago
Don't need to pay. Just use https://github.com/magnolia1234-new/bypass-paywalls-chrome-c... to bypass paywalls. Was on HN back in March ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22482329 )
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by crankylinuxuser 7y ago
Oh yeah, I had it in writing. I also had $500 to my name and a car that was falling apart. And it was against Walmart. I talked to 2 attorneys. They said effectively that even though I had a very good case, they were too big for a probono s
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by crankylinuxuser 7y ago
Even better yet, say I'm on my company's Teams instance. And I'm talking with a customer, who is on another Teams instance. I can cross over to their full videoconference with an invite, share screens, put notes in chat, whol
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by crankylinuxuser 7y ago
As anecdotes... I know a sole proprietorship locally that re-dates grocery goods when they expire so they can continue to resell until they look 'unappealing'. It's also common knowledge they do this. The health dept has been
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by crankylinuxuser 7y ago
I'd argue that the other HN story about Krebs doing investigative journalism about who the players are behind the "reopen*.com" is a much more interesting discussion. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22928
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by crankylinuxuser 7y ago
> There's a big prisoner's dilemma thing going on. If you're charitable, and the people you're discussing with are too, you can have better discussions. Privately, I'd very much agree. However Cardinal Richelieu
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by crankylinuxuser 7y ago
> Based on what you are saying though, you lead me to believe that the NYTimes wants this behavior to occur, which I doubt. Not at all. We wouldn't expect reddit.com. to share cookies with news.ycombinator.com. The browser enforces
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by crankylinuxuser 7y ago
It's simpler than that. I'd disagree that it's a site config bug. I think this is intended operation with respect to browsers. Your browser won't allow access to cookies of "nytimes.com" to the "nytimes.co
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by crankylinuxuser 7y ago
Thats the difference between a domain name and a fully qualified domain name. If you've ever administered BIND, you'll note that you need to add a ending . to A records. Thats the FQDN. Now, our browsers link cookies to domain. An
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by crankylinuxuser 7y ago
Because HN is primarily the realm of scientism : science as a religion. Anything that deviates from that will be -4'ed within an hour. And it even appears that discussing such will also incur the wrath of non-comment -1 voters. Without
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by crankylinuxuser 7y ago
Harming or offing yourself isn't as a big of deal as being a food/beverage producer and handing what you make to others (even free). Distillation is one such bulk method. Distilled alcohol with a cut of methanol will make for a ve
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by crankylinuxuser 7y ago
And here, I though you all were talking about the element of mercury, and how its mass is calculated from the 1s orbital using special relativity :) https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunctio...
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by crankylinuxuser 7y ago
What's more interesting is how starkly negative and hypocritical HN is. Yes, children are murdering other children with guns in school. If that mattered, we collectively would have done something to stop that. Politically, it didn&#x27
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by crankylinuxuser 7y ago
Bad statistic. School has been either cancelled or online. It's be like saying "No electrocutions" in the 1700s or no "social media anything's in the 1800s".
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by crankylinuxuser 7y ago
Spoken like a cityfolk. In the more rural parts, mail is very important. Cutting it down to 1/week is terrible.
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by crankylinuxuser 7y ago
Another part about the firewall is that without profiling, it's pretty hard to make a good firewall that allows "good traffic" and denies the "bad". It takes a good amount of profiling and being a firewall admin. An
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by crankylinuxuser 7y ago
I think its more of "Think of the children" argument cropping up. IIRC there was a few high profile naked people (primarily men) doing obscene things. And there was at least 1 porno track being played. Of course, it was all during
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by crankylinuxuser 7y ago
> Are you high? Really now? That's uncalled for. > You are not seriously equating some trolling and digital damage with the violation of a human body, are you? I am not equating digital trespass with rape. However I am comparing

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