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by dessimus 3y ago
The sequel miniseries covers the 2nd and 3rd books, covering Children of Dune as well.
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by dessimus 3y ago
Or similarly a clbuttic mistake ( https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/clbuttic ).
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by dessimus 3y ago
>There's a reason Amazon wanted to build HQ2 at NYC & NOVA To quote Contact: "First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?" They were likely given so much in tax incentives
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by dessimus 3y ago
The SLA is to respond within X hours, not resolve. So when the SE sends an email that says: "I'm the owner of the case and will reach out after looking at the notes." They have complied with the SLA.
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by dessimus 3y ago
Because you have drug smugglers buying them in the US? I'm pretty sure they can buy drones and parts in Mexico, too.
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by dessimus 3y ago
If nothing else, 10 years forces the renewal cert to use a newer, likely less vulnerable encryption algorithm. Imagine your organization was dependent on a CA root using a mid-90's algorithm and still had another 70 years to expiration
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by dessimus 3y ago
Look how long we're still dealing with software that requires Java 6/7/8, and all the security issues that come with that. Servers/Appliances with IPMI remote consoles that do not support HTML5. It's easy to say &qu
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by dessimus 3y ago
>A git branch is a pointer. It can point at whatever. Not really, a branch is only a pointer to a commit, not to trees or blobs. The commit in turn points to 1 or more parents (unless its the root-commit) and to the tree object that repr
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by dessimus 3y ago
Seems like a variation on the birthday paradox.
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by dessimus 3y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/02/california-s... Since 1997, the 1033 program has handed $7.4bn worth of surplus equipment from the Department of Defense (DoD) to more than 8,000 law enfor
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by dessimus 3y ago
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/01/28/pentagon-tell... Please tell me more about Congress spending money on equipment the military doesn't need or want isn't corporate welfare for Defe
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by dessimus 3y ago
It's pretty clear what certain people wanted in response to the 70s stemming from the rise of minority groups like the Black Panthers or the American Indian Movement trying to use their newly-enacted rights to fight oppression. Even th
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by dessimus 3y ago
How else was the government to continue to systemically hold down minorities in this country post-Civil Rights Act, while simultaneously enriching the Military Industrial Complex by flooding local law enforcement with military equipment pai
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by dessimus 3y ago
I wouldn't go quite that far. Disney was forced to divest the Fox Regional Sports networks in the deal because they already owned the ESPN channels and would have caused too much consolidation. The economies around professional and col
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by dessimus 3y ago
Sure, but one hopes that a national brand takes care to avoid any type of contamination that might cause a scare on the level of the Tylenol scandal in the 80s. A generic making 20-some store brands might be more lax.
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by dessimus 3y ago
Except it's missing a 2-5 year timeline that will never come to fruition.
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by dessimus 3y ago
Beyond the use of the "Hero's Journey" meta, I'm not sure what 90% of fantasy rips off from JRR. Not even Tolkien invented the concept.
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by dessimus 3y ago
No, China seems to have issues with transitting through the Suez canal all on their own.
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by dessimus 3y ago
I think the improvement of pitchers has been understated. 30 years ago, a guy that could throw a 100 mph pitch 1 or 2 times a game was the Ace of the starting rotation. Now, pitchers that can throw 100+ come out of the bullpen in relief bec
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by dessimus 3y ago
That doesn't mean 20% is their profit. It means all the rest of their overhead has fit into that 20%, such as hosting infrastructure, office space, labor, marketing, etc.
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by dessimus 3y ago
How else would one perform in the European dressage circuit?
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by dessimus 3y ago
>In the top 1% of basketball games and the top 1% of poker games, they are sponsored and no one loses money. I don't know, I hear lots of sports fans complain about the money earned by athletes that one might think that the owners a
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by dessimus 3y ago
Certainly the additional set of parallel locks opened in recent years would only serve to hasten the speed with which they are dumping the fresh water into the oceans on each side.
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by dessimus 3y ago
They should include a family photo and explain how the PM's kid(s) might not eat because of your selfish decisions, maybe include Sarah McLachlan doing a voiceover, too.
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by dessimus 3y ago
>Given the impact, shouldn't we double down on methods which enable servers to do their job without 'listening' to the network? UUCP exists, but generally, people prefer their business communications to be a bit more immed
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by dessimus 3y ago
I don't know if you've ever compared the street and topographic maps of San Francisco vs Phoenix, but it's not even playing in the same league. Cheering on Waymo in Phoenix is like cheering that one's kid knocked some bo
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by dessimus 3y ago
Probably because it would literally taint the jury pool against the company for any wrongful termination suits ever brought against them.
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by dessimus 3y ago
Yugos existed as affordable vehicles, too. Doesn't mean they are built to the safety standards required by US Law or any more reliable than your average power tool found at Harbor Freight.
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by dessimus 3y ago
Yes, drop a large enough rock from, say, orbital height and there might be zero carbon emissions going forward.
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by dessimus 3y ago
From memory, it wasn't so much that they were fake ventilation ducts, but that they were plumbed in a manner that dropping a grenade in them at the upper level caused them drop out at your feet. Kind of like how flushing your toilet do

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