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by dessimus 1y ago
> We find very little common grounds when we have forced encounters with the uneducated trouble makers up to no good, in systems designed for high trust abused by said individuals. I'd bet good money lots of non-Western European civ
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by dessimus 1y ago
And yet, look at how pretty much every human society deals with immigrants/refugees. We most often find the least common ground between races, ethnicities, nationalities, or any other way to create outgroups, and you think humanity wil
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by dessimus 1y ago
Something like this has happened in the proprietary world: the SolarWinds supply chain attack. IIRC, they were releasing breached versions for about a year, and I think it became known only when the US Government came knocking on SolarWinds
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by dessimus 1y ago
Right or wrong, the _saying_ is that "a new car loses half its value as soon as you drive off the lot." I've heard that repeated from many people across multiple regions in regards to buying a new vehicle. I've always he
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by dessimus 1y ago
You literally proved my point by admitting to daily driving FreeBSD. You are not the target audience for Kubuntu.
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by dessimus 1y ago
I feel like the difference is that Kubuntu installer is specifically intended for users wanting the Desktop experience via KDE, whereas the Ubuntu installer can be used for multiple use-cases such as headless Servers or Desktops. Server adm
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by dessimus 1y ago
Yeah, and nothing was going to change when IBM acquired Red Hat.
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by dessimus 1y ago
The graph confused me for a moment, but then realized the graph is showing the winter with SNOW on the ground, not the general case. So in the winter the vertical panels produce more power than tilted panels in very specific conditions and
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by dessimus 1y ago
> I have no idea how/why Intel got a second life after that, but they did. For the same reason the line "No one ever got fired for buying IBM." exists. Buying AMD at large companies was seen as a gamble that deciders weren
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by dessimus 1y ago
>The American eighteenth-century enlightenment approach is an attempt to make everything tidy: it's based on the rationalist idea that a thing is its definition and nothing more. So private property is private, that means nobody els
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by dessimus 1y ago
Users better be running now before they get hit with those new licensing fees. Oracle: "Your phone has 6-cores and our minimum plan is 64 cores. Additionally, we see you upgraded from an iPhone 16 to the 17. Licenses don't transfe
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by dessimus 1y ago
>it won't ensure user's freedom, for almost everyone involved today would rather chase their own satisfaction. Why should my freedom to build my own distro that I choose to distribute for my reasons be squashed so some hypothet
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by dessimus 1y ago
Except there are times when exclusivity deals have games launch on other platforms first, and then get to Steam sometime later. Therefore, more like the movie model than the music model.
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by dessimus 1y ago
Don't forget about range tops: they are used for cooking, and what is "cooked"? Methamphetamines. When will the police stop Big Appliance! /s
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by dessimus 1y ago
My local library still does Summer reading programs for both adults and kids. My teacher spouse does the adult one since she has a lot of free time in the Summer. She gets at least one gift basket each Summer that includes a $25 gift card t
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by dessimus 1y ago
"First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?"
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by dessimus 1y ago
You do not think a mother killing her own child is punishment enough? It's very unlikely she intentionally planned to kill her child in this manner to cover it up as an accident. Besides backup cameras have use beyond just making sure
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by dessimus 1y ago
He was nominated in 2020 for an Academy Award in Best Original Score for both Mank and Soul, winning for Soul, plus a slew of other award ceremonies that season. Challengers in 2024 also had nominations in a bunch of awards.
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by dessimus 1y ago
Yeah, my first thought was: Huh, I would have had Egyptians more into rock and roll.
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by dessimus 1y ago
Odds are the CSR's KPIs are Average Call Time and Resolution on First Contact, so as long as you give them plausible deniabilty by claiming motherboard change, it allows them to quickly resolve and close the call vs forcing you to have
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by dessimus 1y ago
According to SEC, Madoff started his Ponzi scheme in the early 90s and wasn't arrested until December 2008, about 15 years or so.
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by dessimus 1y ago
It was passed in 2001, surely there has been adequate time for parties to get a case to the Supreme Court and get it ruled as such. Especially with how quickly some of the Trump EOs have been turned down.
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by dessimus 1y ago
> Nevermind the patriot act... Whether you agree with it or not, at least the Patriot Act was passed by Congress and not simply Executive Orders because it's too inconvenient to work with Congress on legislation.
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by dessimus 1y ago
Lyme Disease : PCPs :: Lupus : Dr. House?
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by dessimus 1y ago
> Why wouldn't the USDA pay... Maybe because there is an executive body hell-bent on the slashing expenditures regardless of any perceived benefit?
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by dessimus 1y ago
If any line of any codebase was written by AI, then up to 30% can be true, in the way that my ISP will claim ~900 Mbps still qualifies as up to 2 Gbps.
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by dessimus 1y ago
> it should be audited immediately. Certainly Elon made him print it out on paper to personally code review.
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by dessimus 2y ago
>The noise .... is so loud and grating :( So, like basically every kids toy that's battery-powered?
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by dessimus 2y ago
If one was going to use a non-printable character as a delimiter, why wouldn't they use the literal record separator "\030"?
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by dessimus 2y ago
> Detaining is all of: cruel, expensive, unnecessary. What about those poor private prison corporations that are being deprived of an income?! How dare you! /s

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