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by electric_mayhem 2y ago
Funny you should say this– I'm working on that right now. :-) I've had a complete Mazda 3 badge set from Fleabay in a drawer in my garage that I ordered when he first started skewing right. I picked those because, if you squint ri
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by electric_mayhem 2y ago
I bought a Tesla in 2019 - back when it was the Eco conscious car nerd choice, and before he started skewing right. I liked it so much I got solar for my house from Tesla, along with multiple powerwalls. Frankly, the car has been an embarra
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by electric_mayhem 2y ago
The UNIX philosophy (about which there’s a book by the same name by Michael Gancarz, and which I highly recommend) Is that each tool should do one thing and do it well. The old school init styles, whether BSD or SysV, adhere to that philoso
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by electric_mayhem 2y ago
At the risk of getting too meta, I feel like lots of folks will get the gist of Julius and check out from the article… …missing the twist. So as a TLDR, I’ll say that Julius is a peer of the author who is polished but uncomprehending, often
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by electric_mayhem 2y ago
How does this distinguish itself from fwknop? https://github.com/mrash/fwknop And what have you got to protest against DoS attacks on your packet inspection mechanism?
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by electric_mayhem 2y ago
I don’t have an authoritative source but a mentor of mine who was a navy seal has trotted out those exact words quite frequently over the years.
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by electric_mayhem 2y ago
Came here for the 90s shareware game from Ambrosia for the Mac. I guess this is cool too though.
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by electric_mayhem 2y ago
Sounds like you and I are in violent agreement. Though I dislike that you seem to begin with halfway lumping me in with the lot you go on to describe. I’d offer one other dark pattern in the overall dynamic. Some folks, rather than being in
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by electric_mayhem 2y ago
It makes perfect sense. The system is working exactly as intended. Rigged for the absurdly wealthy against everyone else on the planet. Laws (and consequences for breaking them) are for us, not them.
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by electric_mayhem 2y ago
Really? I remember I expected Europe to try the appeasement nonsense that only emboldened the precious century’s fascist expansion effort. I was surprised and delighted to see any level of resistance, even if it’s only to enable Ukraine to
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by electric_mayhem 2y ago
I read a book a bit ago about deglobalization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_the_World_Is_Just_t... It makes a good case for, among other things, that once the US stops enforcing order on the seas, globally,
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by electric_mayhem 2y ago
I’m open to your idea, but can you explain in technical terms why a wasm sandbox is invulnerable to the possibility of escape vulnerabilities when other flavors of sandboxes have not been?
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by electric_mayhem 2y ago
While cool, technically… From a security perspective today I learned that TrueType fonts have arbitrary code execution as a ‘feature’ which seems mostly horrific.
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by electric_mayhem 2y ago
I read this book at a friend’s recommendation in 2014 after nearly a decade of frequent episodes of debilitating back pain (also diagnosed as a her herniated disc). Gave it an honest try because I figured I couldn’t lose- Either at home or
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by electric_mayhem 2y ago
First impression: nifty. Having sat with it a few minutes though, why would I choose this over the classic: https://core.tcl-lang.org/expect/index or any of its analogs such as: https://pkg.go.dev/githu
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by electric_mayhem 2y ago
You’d lose that bet. Source: I was there
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by electric_mayhem 2y ago
I’ve seen ICs lose promotions they were on course for and get wrecked on their bonuses for losing track of a single $50k/mo cluster in AWS and leaving it running though unused. At a FAANG company. So, ICs who sweat that kind of waste a
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by electric_mayhem 2y ago
Not sure why you were down moderated for pointing this out. Facts is facts.
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by electric_mayhem 2y ago
I’ve been doing infrastructure for 27 years. Around a dozen years ago, my business was designing building and supporting physical infrastructure for startups. One company was humming along nicely on $4000 of used hardware and a $2000 a mont
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by electric_mayhem 2y ago
I don’t get telemarketer calls anymore. But when I used to, I turned it into an even more fun game that you described My goal was to waste as much of their time, and as little of mine, as possible. Hi, this is so-and-so from DIRECTV. We’re
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by electric_mayhem 2y ago
So you’re saying there’s a tremendous allowance to be made for quality to diminish further before you feel like it’s a real problem?
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by electric_mayhem 2y ago
Do you want Skynet? Because this is how we get Skynet.
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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
> What is it about public transit in the US that it is so... bad? Massive money and entrenched behind preserving a car-based life. Car companies, auto workers unions, railroads can siphon off funds from promised improvements to cover def
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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
How exactly do we opt out?
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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
It’s literally simulating a neural network. How much of your 5-sense experiential memories and decades of academic book learning are you bringing to understand my reply to your post? How many gigabytes do you think that’s equivalent to?
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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
I learned from another commenter on HN when a post asks low-effort questions where the answer is common sense or implicitly understood, it’s most likely a bot or troll or shill. Best not to engage with them.
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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
Well, shit. It was fun while it lasted. Sorry future generations.
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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
Explain like I’m 5 how the answer isn’t deceloped nations going balls to the wall on planting trees and bamboo?
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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
Tangentially related, their maxiseries Taken was also excellent. Difficult to learn it even existed given that an action movie franchise which used the same name pretty much crowds it out of search results It’s another one I ended up gettin
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by electric_mayhem 3y ago
Agreed that the SciFi channel miniseries of Dune is top notch. There’s also a Children of Dune miniseries with the same cast. Catch is when I wanted to watch it last these couldn’t be streamed anywhere legally. So I bought them on dvd from

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