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by cvccvroomvroom 4y ago
For grades 3 - 5, forced busing 90 minutes each way in California to the bad part of town because of skin color required waking up at 4:55 am every morning. Didn't get home until late evening. If I was any other ethnicity, I wouldn&#x2
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by cvccvroomvroom 4y ago
That's ceding to a popularity catch-22 from a view of learned helplessness, assuming an individual has no power, which is untrue. Network effects bring all sorts of new apps to the fore, one user at a time. Good and better things are
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by cvccvroomvroom 4y ago
Yeap. Gtalk did XMPP for a while until it became another walled garden.
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by cvccvroomvroom 4y ago
Unless believes in "Ancient Aliens" and Ouija boards, copycats and/or productivity, obviously, to increase tourism.
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by cvccvroomvroom 4y ago
Anyone else's company's employment agreement prevent them from join a standards body without permission?
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by cvccvroomvroom 4y ago
What about situations where one parent is a psychopath, sociopath, and/or narcissist who "seems" like the more stable one? Also, if both parents seem to possess severe, codependent drama-attracting personality disorders, woul
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by cvccvroomvroom 4y ago
Not really a plane so much as a expense, semi-hovering, large drone, inefficient consumer of electricity. An efficient vehicle would have significant aerodynamic properties like a glider. Instead, it's mostly pushing itself up rather t
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by cvccvroomvroom 4y ago
Commercial "social" media and chat apps are allowed to do whatever they want without any reason or process. If people had any sense, they would use subscriber-funded, employee co-op, nonprofit services. "Free" commercial
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by cvccvroomvroom 4y ago
I support ad blocking on Wikipedia. ;) Don't give them a dime. They're worse than Encyclopedia Britannica door-to-door salespeople.
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by cvccvroomvroom 4y ago
Ah cool. I use a Yubikey for macOS logon, BitWarden 2FA, and GPG secret keys. All of my passwords and TOTPs are in BitWarden.
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by cvccvroomvroom 4y ago
That's all that matters. Get the vaccine.
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by cvccvroomvroom 4y ago
You have outdated information. https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-appr... I got it for free with terrible insurance.
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by cvccvroomvroom 4y ago
Not in the field. Q: How can the human genome be "mapped" without sampling and sequencing genetic material from millions of individuals? Is it a sequencing of one individual?
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by cvccvroomvroom 4y ago
I'm a MAANG SRE/PE. To be fair, I'm tired of absurd behavior and mindset of many unprofessional corporate employees in general not particular to any company: immature, self-absorbed, toxic positivity, BS, and low threshold fo
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by cvccvroomvroom 4y ago
Similar to individual units of stock prices being meaningless on their own. TCO and ROI are far more important. For example, inkjet printers are insanely expensive per use. Generally, the larger and more expensive the laser printer, the che
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by cvccvroomvroom 4y ago
Build & support vs. buy or use The cost of maintaining and supporting beyond simple cryptographic primitives is too steep for most projects.
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by cvccvroomvroom 4y ago
OpenSSL is everything and the kitchen sink feature creep. Their development and architecture methodology are nil.
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by cvccvroomvroom 4y ago
HeartBleed, Spring4Shell, LogJam, Struts, Jetty and many more beg to differ. More LoC is always a greater attack surface, regardless of development trustworthiness. Minimize code ruthlessly.
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by cvccvroomvroom 4y ago
Not unusual. Look at tech management pay, 7-digits typically.
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by cvccvroomvroom 4y ago
Insurance, licensure, and NIMBY pressure. Previously in nuclear industry.
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by cvccvroomvroom 4y ago
No need. There's a real off mode.
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by cvccvroomvroom 4y ago
This is generally old news. Philz Coffee in Palo Alto, CA and major department stores in the US have been doing this for years to track foot traffic. If you don't want to be tracked, turn off BT and Wifi and demand the protocol stds bo
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by cvccvroomvroom 4y ago
My mom's Samsung fridge tells me whenever it opens and closes. I had to disable notifications. It implies collection of analytics from inside peoples' homes when attached to WiFi.
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by cvccvroomvroom 4y ago
It's a haphazard, inconsistent, bureaucratic, unkind, demeaning patchwork that isn't funded enough to meet the needs of people left-out in the actual cold. It's not meant to help people improve their situation because it trea
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by cvccvroomvroom 4y ago
There's a law school dropout/hippie/merchant mariner/retired writer with the NY Daily News and The Village Voice who lives in Los Gatos, Campbell, and Los Gatos. His memory is sharp enough that he could win at Jeopardy.
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by cvccvroomvroom 4y ago
Essentially every modern car is deliberately optimized to fail within 10 years and requires expensive subassemblies primarily made from fragile plastic.
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by cvccvroomvroom 4y ago
The Juicero of washing machines deserves to be hacked for trying to waste money and plastic through anti-consumer proprietary DRM.