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by dstroot 6y ago
Is it April 1st already?
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by dstroot 6y ago
Good book - recommended sci fi if you are into that sort of thing.
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by dstroot 6y ago
> ... can a democracy with no independent, local press be considered a democracy still? Expanding this question: can a country where the government lies to its citizens, and withholds information from the press, and actively seeks to dis
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by dstroot 6y ago
>Agreed. I saw it as a general lament against over-engineering. I don't think the point got lost in the super specific example... Redis also comes to mind.
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by dstroot 6y ago
Fisher from that era is great stuff! That model goes for about $2k today. https://picclick.com/Rarest-FISHER-X-1000-TUBE-INTEGRATED-ST...
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by dstroot 6y ago
Special fish died
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by dstroot 6y ago
That is brilliant. Thanks mate.
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by dstroot 6y ago
Can someone comment on Blunt vs. Tailwind?
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by dstroot 6y ago
It might be an interesting question to ask why bootstrap couldn’t be mostly classless. I remember learning Bootstrap and thinking it was silly I had to add class=table to a table.
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by dstroot 6y ago
I don’t think “===“ means what you think it means.
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by dstroot 6y ago
I wonder why everyone believes so strongly we will create a viable vaccine. The FDA has never approved a vaccine for humans that is effective against any member of the coronavirus family, which includes SARS, MERS, and several that cause th
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by dstroot 7y ago
This is the right question to ask. The majority of Bootstrap should work fine.
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by dstroot 7y ago
“ The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthro
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by dstroot 7y ago
Zoom deserves a lot of animosity for its privacy issues like sharing data with Facebook. On the other hand I am mystified by all the security hype. Yes I might be able to guess a Zoom meeting ID, just as if I might guess your phone numbe
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by dstroot 7y ago
Title should be “The rise of fact checking”
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by dstroot 7y ago
Boeing 737 Max
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by dstroot 7y ago
So very well said.
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by dstroot 7y ago
> Cop directing traffic by hand at an intersection. That’s going to be really challenging. Good one!
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by dstroot 7y ago
Thanks for that. Law firms have a document management system. You will no longer work there if you don’t use it. Companies use email and SharePoint primarily, maybe OpenText. There are specialized contract management system available but n
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by dstroot 7y ago
This! I am highly interested if anyone has any suggestions.
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by dstroot 7y ago
More than possible. Highly likely.
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by dstroot 7y ago
AWS just introduced Kendra to do the same thing. They will likely suffer the same concerns. Google had a search appliance that I thought was a brilliant idea but never got much traction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G
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by dstroot 7y ago
Express server, React client, Typescript. Not exactly modern (expressjs came out in 2010) but a good "all js" simple architecture.
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by dstroot 7y ago
Can you share more information about how you created an HTTP endpoint? Or code? Glancing at the docs I only saw a command line or C bindings.
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by dstroot 7y ago
This
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by dstroot 7y ago
Like many of the commenters I heavily used asterisk 10 years ago. Seeing comments like “can’t believe it’s still around” leads me to believe something better came along. Did something better come along? I’d like to play around with someth
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by dstroot 7y ago
Can someone explain the DDG business model? How does this company make money? How am I as a user being monetized? At least I understand Google’s approach.
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by dstroot 7y ago
Cost, quality, and speed. Pick any two. You can’t have all three. There are several modes of delivery. Some projects have fixed delivery dates because it’s externally imposed. For example a regulatory requirement. Some are internally impose
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by dstroot 7y ago
It will be interesting watching how all this plays out. As others have noted the liability math has certainly changed. Enough to bankrupt one of the largest utility companies in the country. One the other hand this is also a political sta
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by dstroot 7y ago
Tax is money we contribute to a collective fund and then we elect representatives to spend it for the common good. With me so far? The people who contribute the most should have a proportional say in how it’s spent. This is “fairness”. Nume

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