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by dsr_ 6mo ago
Nobody sensible runs the latest kernel; nobody running PG in production should be afraid of setting a non-default at either boot time or as a sysctl. So this will, most likely, be another step in building a PG database server (turn off pre-
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by dsr_ 6mo ago
If you can inject arbitrary malicious routes, you can make ACME requests for a new cert.
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by dsr_ 6mo ago
Because BGP works, is understood, and has been debugged by thousands of people and billions of sessions between dozens or hundreds of implementations. So the benefit of changing out all that infrastucture needs to be much higher than the co
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by dsr_ 7mo ago
More useful for most people: is the company you are considering doing business with run by one of these fine upstanding folks?
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by dsr_ 7mo ago
If you put everything into a monolith, it looks simpler than if you have components that have to speak protocols to each other.
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by dsr_ 7mo ago
Behind me: the recliner where I sometimes think or listen to music or read. Has a towel on it just in case. Cat likelihood while working: 55% Next to me: the windowsill cat tray. Cat likelihood while working | sunny day: 65%. Cat likelihood
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by dsr_ 7mo ago
Mars is only a few billion dollars of investment away from being quite habitable, and Mr. Musk should make plans to retire there along with his friends and senior execs within the year.
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by dsr_ 7mo ago
No, they think that the proposed datacenters are at best a fraud and at worst a ridiculously large electrical load for negative benefit.
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by dsr_ 7mo ago
You can automate passkeys, right?
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by dsr_ 7mo ago
Notably lacking in comparisons in speed, accuracy and costs vs KNN-hyperspace, Bayesian-updaters like SpamAssassin's SpamBayes, and traditional rules methods.
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The Wizards and the Sheep (2017)(critical-hits.com)
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by dsr_ 7mo ago
The methodology questions remain: does Forbes have a great method for identifying future felons? do future felons push harder to come to Forbes' attention? does being on the Forbes list unduly influence founders to commit felonies?
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by dsr_ 7mo ago
Reminder: companies don't go on PR blasts without cause. Being cynical about tech companies is always a good bet.
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by dsr_ 7mo ago
"Best available laptop support" apparently means 18/30 or 12/20. Pretty sure I would consider those both failing grades.
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by dsr_ 7mo ago
The average dog has slightly less than 4 legs; the modal dog has 4 legs. If you call a tail a leg, it's still not a leg, so no dogs have 5 legs. What the President believes is not, has not been, and cannot be the basis of law. If it we
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by dsr_ 7mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_J._Hemsley You're welcome.
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by dsr_ 7mo ago
There are certainly locations in the US where the standard of patient care -- ignoring cost -- is world-class. And there are certainly locatioms in the US where the standard of patient care is nowhere close to that, and would be easily beat
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by dsr_ 7mo ago
Interesting chain of descent: Walter Jon Williams wrote Hardwired, and R Talsorian Games based their tabletop RPG, Cyberpunk 2020, on it. That's the source material used for the computer RPG, Cyberpunk 2073. Meanwhile, WJW followed up
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by dsr_ 7mo ago
For people who are not aware: this is the same Hobbit as https://seclists.org/bugtraq/1995/Oct/28
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by dsr_ 7mo ago
In this article we see proof that the words people use to describe a phenomenon influence how they think about that phenomenon: what they expect, what they assume, how they reason about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by dsr_ 7mo ago
If they really wanted to do so, they could take the vinyl, play it with all the surface noise they wanted, and record that to CD so they could have the surface noise there, too. It would be the same surface noise each time, not getting wors
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by dsr_ 7mo ago
I am a professional in the information technology field, which is to say a pedantic extremist who believes that words have meanings derived from consensus, and when people alter the meanings, they alter what they believe. Using "thinki
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by dsr_ 7mo ago
Accept it in the spirit it was meant: if you have mental illnesses like this, you need treatment.
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by dsr_ 7mo ago
"Here’s the part that actually gets to me as a Developer Advocate. When a student gets a surprise bill, they don’t usually think “I missed a step in my cleanup.” They think “AWS secretly charges you even after you delete stuff.” They t
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by dsr_ 7mo ago
Only if the legal system allows itself to be changed. The present system in many countries is that criminal and civil codes are too large to be comprehended by a single person, too large to be changed rationally, and the processes too subje
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by dsr_ 7mo ago
Let's rephrase: Since nobody involved actually cares whether the code works or not, it doesn't matter whether it's a different wrong thing each time.
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by dsr_ 7mo ago
No, you'll always give up something. If you want to spend some time looking at critiques from someone with experience, I find JANG's Youtube reviews of both LEGO and non-LEGO brick toys to be well-balanced. We have differing opini
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by dsr_ 7mo ago
Sometimes it's 15 repetitions of one year.
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by dsr_ 7mo ago
I suppose they are looking for people who had not previously stuck their hand in the lawnmower.
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by dsr_ 7mo ago
As I said, if only you were providing more value rather than being a commodity, you could avoid all this.

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