darby_eight

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by darby_eight 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper If he is posting, I sincerely hope he's doing it through the security-from-state of some anonymized internet access. Chances are he's just dead though.
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by darby_eight 3y ago
> Good security happens when the incentives are right. Has this ever happened before? I can't name a single major company on earth that takes customer security seriously except through farcical characterization of the concept. It&#x
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by darby_eight 3y ago
If that were true, surely it would make sense to demonstrate this directly rather than with a contrived benchmark? The issue is not the preponderance of small files but rather the distribution of data shapes.
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by darby_eight 3y ago
It's insane to me anyone would downvote this comment (edit: or flag my disbelief for being somehow irrelevant to conversation). The public library system is quite possibly the best thing this country has ever invented.
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by darby_eight 3y ago
Ok? How are you comparing these systems to the benchmark so they might be considered relevant? Compressing "Lots of small files" describes an infinite variety of workloads. To achieve anything close to the benchmark you'd ne
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by darby_eight 3y ago
> To an extent, everything is pushed to its limits in all human systems, so that it's most efficient ...with respect to which parameters? Efficiency is not an absolute measurement in any sense. To my mind, an efficient justice syste
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by darby_eight 3y ago
> People on HN give me the impression that graduates with no experience get paid six figures and it's considered poverty level. If you think anything in this thread is implying salaried tech workers are trying to pass themselves off
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by darby_eight 3y ago
Eh, it's not that hard to imagine given how rare it is to zip 81k files of around 1kb each.
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by darby_eight 3y ago
Unions have the same issues most organizations have, the same opportunity for dysfunction that all forms of hierarchy imply. Meanwhile the lack of collective leverage poses a real problem for my individual compensation—I'm not about to
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by darby_eight 3y ago
I haven't had issues using a printer from my mac in about 25 years. I haven't tried from Windows, but I still needed to find and download a driver when I last tried from linux.
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by darby_eight 3y ago
Nintendo has always been sue-happy. What's notable here is they haven't been able to find a way towards injunctions against hosting the source. It's not going to be difficult to find non-hostile hosting. I don't believe
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by darby_eight 3y ago
You seem to be conflating open source with free software—open source implies free as in beer, not speech.
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by darby_eight 3y ago
How are workers incentivized against unions? From my perspective there's little downside.
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by darby_eight 3y ago
> but things are horrible now and not moving in the right direction. Nobody ever backs shit like this up. You've been had and in the most obvious and shallow manner.
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by darby_eight 3y ago
They are. The change is that the source is no longer (as?) free.
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by darby_eight 3y ago
> security Oh come on, the NYPD swallowed 5 billion in public funds, the most of any city on earth. Crime is near an all-time low. Hell, they could probably slash half that budget without causing the crime sprees the NY post implies coul
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by darby_eight 3y ago
A lot of money laundering involves traceable transactions, no? The point isn't to hide the transaction but rather have a plausible explanation for it that's difficult or impossible to verify. I'd think a larger issue would be