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by donnachangstein 2y ago
Curious how this guy can positively ascertain this is indeed the narrowest escalator in NYC. I surmise there are many narrow escalators in such an old city which predates the ADA. Has he undertaken a quest to take a shit in every building l
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by donnachangstein 2y ago
Everyone was blaming the Chinese/Russians/Israelis for the xz backdoor.... maybe it was the bloody Australians the whole time and no one suspected it!
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by donnachangstein 2y ago
Accommodations usually (but not always) require diagnosis or confirmation by a doctor or other medical professional, and the law affords companies this discretion before granting one, whereas nonspecific 'neurodivergence' is often
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by donnachangstein 2y ago
Are you seriously comparing Australia to... North Korea?
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Rebuilding a PowerBook G4 Battery (2010)(neufeld.newton.ks.us)
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by donnachangstein 2y ago
> so neuro divergence isn't a legitimate disability? It doesn't really matter if it is or isn't, if being able to function well around other humans is a job requirement, as it often is in technical occupations. Why do you
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by donnachangstein 2y ago
Nearly every large company I've interviewed with would comply with a reasonable accommodation request for a legitimate disability e.g. providing a deaf person the interview questions on paper or even having an ASL interpreter present.
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by donnachangstein 2y ago
> Classic bigotry. Hiring is all about finding the best candidate. If you find you cannot function sitting in conference room with three other people for an hour, there is a 100% chance there is a better candidate suited for the role, ev
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by donnachangstein 2y ago
This guy has been ranting and raving here longer than I can remember or thought to make an account so I assume he is HN royalty and that's why it's tolerated. That said it doesn't really bother me if I understand the circumst
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by donnachangstein 2y ago
> or around 5 years after Stallman started the GNU project. So 5 years after he started with an empty repo and some political ramblings? GNU did not have a working system until Linus released Linux in 1992. They had pieces and components
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by donnachangstein 2y ago
> but legal uncertainty hung around them for years. I mean if we're going to split hairs and play this game, SCO claimed ownership to alleged Unix code in Linux which wasn't initially resolved until 2008 or so (and further cont
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by donnachangstein 2y ago
BSD predates the Stallman Utilities (kernel sold separately) by about a decade.* * in "shared source" form
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by donnachangstein 2y ago
> It's because no one in the US would work gruelling hours for such little pay! There are entire towns in the US where nearly everyone is unemployed since the manufacturing dried up. I would happily pay a few more dollars more per s
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by donnachangstein 2y ago
Do you think walling their population off from the Internet doesn't qualify?
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Apple's 1993 Ergonomic Keyboard(allthingsergo.com)
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Apple Pippin(failure.museum)
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by donnachangstein 2y ago
No, because ⌘ is often mapped to the Windows key on a PC keyboard, and the physical position of those is swapped on the Mac layout. The key width is different too (Command being a wider key than Ctrl) on a traditional Mac layout. If it were
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Ask HN: Where are the Mac ergonomic keyboards?
4 points by donnachangstein 2y ago|5 comments
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Is Technology Terrible or Am I Just a Grumpy Old Man?(cnet.com)
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US extends deadline to keep TikTok running(bbc.com)
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by donnachangstein 2y ago
> No-one has to be, and it certainly doesn't need to be anyone but the owner of the machine. Technically the web should work with self-signed certificates. But that is likewise impractical.
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by donnachangstein 2y ago
> security of "secure boot" there is a joke because anyway all os have to be signed by Microsoft itself. Is Apple a joke because they sign the root of trust for their devices? Someone has to be the root authority. Honestly I
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by donnachangstein 2y ago
Meanwhile these same people are tripping over each other to buy ARM MacBooks, which are by design extremely hostile to their cause.
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by donnachangstein 2y ago
It stops being a feature and becomes a bug bordering on retardation when they purposefully ship broken software . First example coming to mind, TLS is broken in the version of OpenSMTPD that ships with Debian Stable. Yes you read that corr
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by donnachangstein 2y ago
That's because Debian 'stable' has a half-assed implementation of systemd, frozen in time on some ancient version. So you are stuck waiting years between upgrades. Bookworm finally supports the crypto functions. Arch OTOH was
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by donnachangstein 2y ago
Most 'systemd haters' see boot security as unnecessary, or a toy no one would use, and that UEFI secure boot is a conspiracy orchestrated by Microsoft. It fits the personality profile of not wanting to learn new things. After all,
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by donnachangstein 2y ago
Writing software specifically for the BSDs then licensing it LGPL is like trying to sell them chilled, bottled poison from a roadside stand. What were they thinking? That said, this sounds like what systemd should have been : a service con
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by donnachangstein 2y ago
Your example of personal family photos is in no way comparable to storing terabytes of essentially unindexed data for which one has no detailed knowledge about, under the notion that the government is somehow lighting a match to everything,
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by donnachangstein 2y ago
No it isn't. It's merely a cause du jour for data hoarders to justify their hobby in light of this Chicken Little hysteria. 30 years ago it was thought collecting every issue of magazines like TV Guide was important. No one even k
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by donnachangstein 2y ago
Note this dates back to before Elmo purchased Twitter, when the company was full of highly paid, supposedly essential personnel who ultimately did little more than put wear and tear on the company espresso machines.

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