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FCC is claiming the power to control every aspect of broadband infrastructure(twitter.com)
3 points by emeraldd 3y ago|1 comments
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by emeraldd 3y ago
If you don't know the story... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darmok
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by emeraldd 3y ago
Home brew computers! The Magic-1 was one of my favorites to read about .. http://www.homebrewcpu.com/index.htm
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by emeraldd 3y ago
This has to be one of my favorite sentences in the whole page: > However, this does not mean that OceanGate does meet standards where they apply, but it does mean that innovation often falls outside of the existing industry paradigm. in
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by emeraldd 3y ago
Output to Stderr can also break things, particularly in dot files or from applications that tend to output meaningful information to stderr.
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by emeraldd 3y ago
ElectroBoom has entered the chat ... Seriously though, there's enough energy in those numbers to seriously mess you or your electronics up. It's not quite like a bottle of old nitroglycerin, but it's definitely enough energy&
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by emeraldd 3y ago
I honestly have to agree ... I tend to use cat because I don't always know what the next thing in my pipeline is going to be and frequently change out later steps in the pipeline. Putting the real first operation in place of cat means
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by emeraldd 3y ago
Neat! ... Here comes the hug of death in 3... 2... 1... Hope it holds up!
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by emeraldd 3y ago
> If your org treats accountability as "an illusion" then it's doomed to fail regardless. That was a reply to "...but for many the accountability of Scrum..." in the parent comment. There's an idea that Scru
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by emeraldd 3y ago
Scrum does not provide accountability. It creates the illusion of accountability while creating artificial touch points that effectively become the only time anyone thinks about what's going on. At least that's how I've seen
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by emeraldd 3y ago
You can mitigate both examples with appropriate internal API choices. Though the second is much harder to retro fit into an application as it grows than the first. For the email example, you build something with a similar API to what you wo
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by emeraldd 3y ago
Tandy used to have a humongous case like that you could put around a wide format dot-matrix/daisy wheel printer. The outer surface was painted that classic trs-80 grey and added a good 3~4inches in all dimensions around the printer and
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by emeraldd 4y ago
There's communication by interruption and there's observation. If you have a situation where there need to be hourly updates, there should be a person explicitly tasked with observing and noting what's going on to be able to
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by emeraldd 4y ago
The mainboard is the card and the part with the connectors is just a passive backplane.
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by emeraldd 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_gouging "Laws often include exceptions for price increases that can be justified in terms of the increased cost of supply, transportation, demand, or storage." IANL Based o
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by emeraldd 4y ago
Seeing the same thing in desktop Safari.
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by emeraldd 4y ago
Honestly, this is reminding me of Oracle after buying Sun.
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by emeraldd 4y ago
Agreed, this isn't about teaching. It's about people who stroke their own egos when they should really be instructing. The example comment doesn't tell you anything useful except that the commenter might not understand what t
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by emeraldd 4y ago
I wouldn't be surprised to find they're using a build tool chain that can't produce a universal build ... I've run into that before ...
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by emeraldd 4y ago
There are a few problems, beyond the one in the other comments that come to mind. (1) How are you assured to keep the proteins in the machine? (2) could this lead to a prion infection? My understanding of prions is limited so take this thou
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by emeraldd 4y ago
Those are fun little chips if you need a small audio power amp. Had the same thought when I pulled up the article.
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by emeraldd 4y ago
The moral here is that you and people in similar positions convinced everyone else that there was too much risk to go forward. Either by direct or, indirect action and implication. Sometimes, just seeing what your own team needs to feel saf
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by emeraldd 4y ago
Apparently the did, and the doctor had not heard of the procedure before.
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by emeraldd 4y ago
Realistically, the federal government (and by definition any government) is made up of people with their own self-interests. They will favor the style of "censorship" that keeps them in power.
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by emeraldd 4y ago
The mention of Roman Concrete is interesting. Was it that we forgot the recipe or didn't know what was special about the recipe in the first place? I can't find the article now, but I remember reading a while back that part of the
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by emeraldd 4y ago
If you think about it MMO strategies involve picking players how fit specific roles: tank - can soak up damage and keep the big bad focused on them dps - does damage to the target while healer - makes sure everyone stays "alive" t
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by emeraldd 4y ago
The text scaling/font selection seems to be bad.
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by emeraldd 4y ago
Would it be safe to say that A/B testing should only be used for things that can "afford to fail/be wrong"? I'm not saying don't test in other cases, but that this particular technique is not a good fit for sit
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by emeraldd 4y ago
oh, I see the link now ... ok in the article/page not the headline itself.
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by emeraldd 4y ago
This needs a little more explanation. I can't get chocolate from the current headline ...

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