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by da_chicken 2mo ago
That one is actually kind of interesting. So he was born on Feb 11 the year before the British empire adopted the Gregorian calendar. After the change, his birthday was Feb 22. Feb 22 is the date that we generally remember. That makes sense
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by da_chicken 2mo ago
11 states have them specifically for data centers. Most states have some form of this in general : https://www.michiganbusiness.org/services/pa-198/ What's more, having a statutory abatement is only one way
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by da_chicken 2mo ago
No, it's exactly the truth: https://www.ncsl.org/fiscal/subsidizing-servers-how-states-a... The legislatures are betting that the data centers stick around or bring in jobs. They won't. They think something t
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by da_chicken 2mo ago
Nobody invests a billion dollars in a facility without first lobbying to get an exemption from property taxes. Most states in the US have passed incentives that include sales and property tax exemptions. They're all drain.
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by da_chicken 2mo ago
Yeah, but how often are we talking about exactly specific dates without referring to specific historical texts? The Magna Carta was sealed on June 15, 1215 for the Julian calendar. But if you want the actual anniversary, it was sealed on Ju
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by da_chicken 2mo ago
It's not a wrong way to think about it. There are some use cases for proleptic calendars, but there are just as many where it's completely inappropriate. If you ever need to compare what day you think it is with what day someone i
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by da_chicken 2mo ago
Git doesn't need a hub. But, even though the Linux the project created git specifically for their own workflow, and is in the running for the largest and most complicated decentralized software project ever known, they still operate gi
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by da_chicken 2mo ago
It's definitely an attempt to pull up the ladder behind them.
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by da_chicken 3mo ago
That's kinda like asking why someone might complain about Chrome's memory usage in a thread about a new version of V8.
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by da_chicken 3mo ago
End users don't care about if it's an app or not. What they care about: - Does it do what I need it to - Can I access it easily - Is it easy to navigate - Does it work or is it buggy - Is it slow - Does it abuse notifications - Is
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by da_chicken 3mo ago
Yeah, I absolutely understand the allure of agentic AI, but I am absolutely not going to give shell access or data access to any agent. Certainly not with my permissions level. Until we can get something set up that gives strict schema-only
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by da_chicken 4mo ago
I could believe that if you were near the coast. I grew up in central Michigan and thought the same about the sun until I spent a few years in southern Arizona. The sun there feels like a heat lamp in summer. The low humidity makes the atmo
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by da_chicken 4mo ago
Well, there probably wasn't a concession stand.
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by da_chicken 4mo ago
My best friend bought a house. She noticed within the first month that the name of the road she lived on was misspelled in Google Maps. Specifically, it's a slightly unusual spelling of the road name. Like "Chickorie" vs &quo
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by da_chicken 4mo ago
> While this is sort of laughable out of context (I mean, Steam on Linux for the last few years has run basically everything with full acceleration)... Eh. It's sort of like saying FreeDOS is laughable because DOSBox exists. I think
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by da_chicken 4mo ago
I did so in the other reply thread of the comment you replied to. > [Z]ero-day specifically compares when the white hats (vendors, system owners) and the black hats learn about the existence of a vulnerability. If white hats learn that a
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by da_chicken 4mo ago
It's difficult to do that because we don't even really know how many cancers there are. Cancer is best understood as a family of tens of thousands of diseases. They're a whole range of different genetic changes that can happe
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by da_chicken 4mo ago
No, that's the difference between exploit (knife) and either the incident or impact (wound). The vulnerability would be a gap in armor. The vulnerability is the exposed weakness . Vulnerabilities get fixes, and they exist without anyb
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by da_chicken 4mo ago
No, I think it was since Code Red. I understand why it's poorly understood. It's a snappy term, and people assume it means "bad" and nothing else because that's all you can get from the context. However, since most
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by da_chicken 4mo ago
That's not what "zero-day" means.
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by da_chicken 4mo ago
That seems like it would be incredibly fragile. As soon as the receiving party made a change that required re-saving the PDF -- like commenting, highlighting, changing default layouts, saving as a PDF/a, checking PDF/ua, etc. --
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by da_chicken 4mo ago
Kelly's 14 points are still a great read and should resonate with a lot of people here. That said, when they tried this in the past they did it by changing the sticker price to $65k+. So, color me skeptical.
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by da_chicken 4mo ago
The planner breaking on updates is common for almost all RDBMSs. They introduce optimizations that work great for 95% of customers, and some will just have queries that now act like cardinality is way off or covering indexes are missing.
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by da_chicken 4mo ago
Not just television. Also the supermarket checkout aisle magazines. Not just tabloids, although that, too. Also the "glossy" magazines. Vogue, People, Us, Cosmopolitan, Vanity Fair, McCall's, Seventeen, etc. The commercializa
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by da_chicken 4mo ago
The last I knew, EDS and HSD are mutually exclusive. HSD is typically diagnosed because you have hypermobile joints, fatigue, brain fog, POTS, and other symptoms, but you lack the very specific genetic markers that hypermobile EDS requires.
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by da_chicken 4mo ago
I would say it exposes how imperative programming was forced to adopt declarative/functional paradigms in order to write things concisely, to the extent that nobody thinks those elements are declarative/functional anymore.
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by da_chicken 4mo ago
> Anything that causes a persistent change of the state of a system is imperative, regardless of how detailed the command is. No. That's more to do with imperative vs functional programming, which is a subset of declarative, but e
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by da_chicken 4mo ago
No. Standard DDL and DML are declarative in SQL, including DROP and INSERT. Those still don't tell the system how to accomplish the thing. Declarative doesn't mean idempotent, and it doesn't mean stateless. Imperative SQL is
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by da_chicken 4mo ago
On the other hand, if the same problem keeps happening, it's hard to argue that the problem isn't foundational to the design and that it should be called out until either the problem is fixed or the design abandoned.
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by da_chicken 4mo ago
This feels like a underlying property that contributes to of Benford's Law[0]. That is, most numbers we measure and record are the results of various independent (addition) and dependent (multiplication) factors stacking together, and

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