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by dccoolgai 3y ago
Those places exist, but they are the exception rather than the rule in 2023. I'm not offering a full-throated apology of Kissinger (or, by extension, Nixon) just pointing out that a lot of the people jumping out to proclaim what a terr
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by dccoolgai 3y ago
Before Henry Kissinger, there were walls in the world - just as there are now. The difference was those walls - by-and-large - were designed to keep people _in_. A very subtle but meaningful difference. The people who built _those walls_ wa
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by dccoolgai 3y ago
This was later adapted into Club Caribe for Q-Link. I regard it as deeply unfair that only those of us born in a brief window of history got to experience the pure magic this represented at the time. It lit up areas of the imagination like
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by dccoolgai 3y ago
I think it's just the after-effects of the layoffs working their way through the system. If you want to read something that makes you feel better, I'll give you a link... But more than that, I'll explain the meaning behind it
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by dccoolgai 3y ago
I'm up to like a whole two minutes now. I'm done after this, but here's some more pretty direct quotes: "French KFOR troops refused to come to the assistance of the Serb residents of Svinjare, even though their main base
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by dccoolgai 3y ago
Another 20 seconds using Google yields from HRW: "In others areas, local KFOR units have been unable or unwilling to intervene to prevent displacement or destruction of property" https://www.hrw.org/reports/19
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by dccoolgai 3y ago
"Between the arrival of the Kosovo Force (KFOR) in June 1999 and the 2004 unrest in Kosovo, more than 140 holy sites were destroyed, about half of the historical ones from the 14th and 15th centuries" https://en.m.wikip
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by dccoolgai 3y ago
There was a lot of borderline propaganda on US news media during the war in the 90s that a lot of people swallowed whole without thinking about it too much: "Serbs are bad. Everything they do is bad. Albanians and Croats are just simpl
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by dccoolgai 3y ago
Or like... if the actual _company_ that claims it "needs that worker from outside the U.S. so so so much" actually took the risk on instead of foisting it on the poor employee (and by extension, the entire labor market). My 2-step
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by dccoolgai 3y ago
They basically ran one of the most beloved coaches in NCAA football - Jim Tressel at Ohio State - out of town. The reason? Because while these ghouls were profiting off of his players' NIL to the tune of millions per year, a couple of
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by dccoolgai 3y ago
"even if" you can change the program (and like some other comments indicated, I'm fairly certain that's not how linear memory in WASM works), WASM still runs on a "capability model": It has access to only certa
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by dccoolgai 3y ago
There really needs to be some option you can choose that's like "I don't want to cheat on my taxes like a billionaire and pay 3 percent, but I also don't want to spend 2 weeks of my life scrambling to recover documents f
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by dccoolgai 3y ago
This is the inexorable mean to which heavy government regulation inexorably regresses: The fantasy that large evildoers will lose some of their ill-gotten gains (for the IRS, billionaires privatizing gains and socializing losses... for the
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by dccoolgai 3y ago
"That was a real pretty dance, that dance they just did," said Hazel. "Huh" said George. "That dance-it was nice," said Hazel. "Yup, " said George. He tried to think a little about the ballerinas. The
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by dccoolgai 3y ago
I heard something on a podcast a week ago that blew my mind: tribesmen who come from cultures without a word for "blue" cannot distinguish _the actual color blue_ when shown a series of swatches of different colors (blue, red, gre
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by dccoolgai 3y ago
I don't understand all these comments coming out of the woodwork like "oh, no - one day they may raise prices and try to be the bad guys". I don't plan on using fly personally, but I don't understand how you could l
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by dccoolgai 3y ago
Sound and practical advice from a fellow grizzled veteran that I will put to work my next go-round. Thank you, sir.
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by dccoolgai 3y ago
Nielsen/Norman. No other resource quoted here comes even close to distilling important first principles and citing research to back it up. Bonus Round: "100 things" series by Dr. Weinschenk and coglode.com maybe after you fin
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by dccoolgai 3y ago
But I can have my cake and eat it, too! I'll find the one who is stupid enough to do these things, but smart enough to build my industry-disrupting product!
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by dccoolgai 3y ago
"The problem is, we're not hiring people to build to a spec. We want to assess your decisions and ability to go from a basic problem to a first implementation" You could have told the candidate that, then. That would have bee
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by dccoolgai 3y ago
It's a little worse than that even - in that example, I think the feds are just trying to get him to repeat something _he said_. The way it works, is they meet with you alone: You say "A, B, C". They take some notes and write
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by dccoolgai 3y ago
Recent case in point: Walt Nauta, who got charged along with Trump. Had he just kept his mouth shut, he probably wouldn't have been charged, but they got him dead-to-rights saying stuff they're pretty sure they can prove he was ly
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by dccoolgai 3y ago
Workers communicating and coordinating with each other for their own safety, well-being, and ability to retain some of the vast wealth they create for their employers benefits their employers just as much as them. How do you like having a w
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by dccoolgai 3y ago
I hope one of the "secret spots" is the Quarterdeck.
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by dccoolgai 3y ago
There is _one_ thing that can allow "two machines in the same room to talk to each other without sending a request to a server farm in Virginia". It does require the _first_ request to populate the app: Web Bluetooth. Unfortunatel
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by dccoolgai 3y ago
I hate this industry so much. I know what a trie is, but having it dangled over my head by some smarmy git like this: Just the thought of it fills me with so much sadness. These "Junior year computer science problems" just make me
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by dccoolgai 3y ago
It's categorically unfair, but everyone says it when the "teacher isn't looking": Tech companies are just riding the wave to get rid of low performers and troublemakers while they can. Signalling that you're part of
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by dccoolgai 4y ago
Seems incredibly shortsighted, even in the limited examples provided; It says "the number of musicians required for a quartet is the same as in Beethoven's day" which is true, but even by 1960 recording technology provided th
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by dccoolgai 4y ago
With a bill in both the House and Senate, and the vocal support (and implicit support, given these "leaks") of the administration, I get the feeling that the average techie doesn't quite get how close we are to a TikTok ban..
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FBI and DOJ Issue TikTok Subpoenas(forbes.com)
1 points by dccoolgai 4y ago|1 comments

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