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by fapjacks 6y ago
Yeah.
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by fapjacks 6y ago
I'd just like to add something to put this out there for anyone in this position: Traveling the world is a lot easier when you are young, and you can travel the world a lot more cheaply than you think. The first because one of the bypr
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by fapjacks 6y ago
> Could you provide an example of such a barrier? I did mention more than one example in the first sentence of my reply: CS degrees and certifications. > Since software is utterly lacking anything resembling a formal qualification bar
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by fapjacks 6y ago
Yeah, that's exactly what I thought, too. It is just one of those weird cultural artifacts that when someone says "tech support" we automatically conjure this mental image which is both not really technical and not really fla
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by fapjacks 6y ago
Anybody who's done hiring will attest that "formal barriers to entry" (i.e. accreditation via certifications and degrees) say very little about a programmer's ability to produce valuable output. Hiring would not be &quot
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by fapjacks 6y ago
Have you ever considered working technical support? As a lifelong generalist programmer, I never imagined I would work in a support role beyond what every programmer at a startup is expected to do, but I was persuaded to cross over by someo
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by fapjacks 6y ago
I also had no issues connecting to a few different networks, including Freenode and EFnet.
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by fapjacks 6y ago
I think this is happening in order to identify specific people who can be demonstrated to have some sort of link to other, unidentified instigators that the feds are after (e.g. linked via drone or bodycam or other footage showing interacti
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by fapjacks 6y ago
What you've done here is demonstrate why Cloudflare cannot be trusted: You do not get to decide for the rest of the internet which use cases are valid and which are "bonkers" -- you probably just thought to yourself "Oh,
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by fapjacks 6y ago
We can start with DNS ANY queries. Cloudflare lied their way through this whole process, with the claim that CF were just following standards, when in fact it was exactly the opposite: Not conforming to the standard while simultaneously pus
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by fapjacks 6y ago
I agree, and maybe to help you out here, I'll suggest that whenever you use the word "should" as in a value judgment, ask yourself what footwork you need to do in order to make it happen. Merely suggesting it as as a value ju
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by fapjacks 6y ago
I do appreciate the sarcasm, and to your point, here's a bit of gallows humour in return: Allowing someone else to dictate your reaction to words is literal mind control. We cede control of our minds to those other people when we don&#
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by fapjacks 6y ago
Hello, this isn't Reddit, and ad hominem attacks are not welcome here.
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by fapjacks 6y ago
Got any examples this that don't conflate conservativism with nazism or white supremacy?
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by fapjacks 6y ago
And herein lies the problem: Having pushed the purveyors of "unacceptable ideology" (whatever that may be, decided by whomever) into the black market, we now have made confronting it (by letting our value judgments stand to reason
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by fapjacks 6y ago
... Except for some people, though, right? I have an idea how you feel about the guy refusing to sell (decorate) the gay marriage cake (not trying to be pithy here, just tried to do a bit of footwork before replying). Do you absolve that gu
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by fapjacks 6y ago
Cautionary personal anecdote: DAVx5 has a nasty habit of completely hosing my entire contacts list, even when I wasn't using it in the foreground. It was even more insidious because several times this happened while I was actively usin
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by fapjacks 6y ago
> No, because any world in which such a trade was acceptable is not a just or fair world that I would want to live in. You have to reason at multiple levels. But in the same way that the universe is under no obligation to make sense to y
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by fapjacks 6y ago
Yeah, you're talking about gatekeeping the means of disseminating information, which is another way of saying that there are things should not be said. This is a fight as old as the species and completely unremarkable in that context.
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by fapjacks 6y ago
Class action? Like, on behalf of consumers? I can't think of any off-hand. Cases on behalf of Larry Ellison, however...
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by fapjacks 6y ago
This reply (a version of "if you don't like it, write your own") is the most heinous and disingenuous reply out of the space of possible replies. The sum of time and work required to do that is completely unrealistic: Apple
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by fapjacks 6y ago
She is one of my favorite hackers and role models. I always learn something new and fascinating when I read one her posts.
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by fapjacks 6y ago
Wow. So considering the edge case in which something contributed to this universe gets popular (consider a novel which becomes a screenplay), what would prevent this entire concept from becoming a minefield of asinine copyright litigation?
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by fapjacks 6y ago
Yeah, it's great news for engineers living in places where people don't pay more than a dollar per day for food. "Eat the rich" is one of most unintentionally-ironic phrases ever muttered.
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by fapjacks 6y ago
The city (major suburb) I used to live in has done this with all the intersections that lead into the city, effectively making it impossible to enter or leave the city without them having a record of it. I know they are able to scan license
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by fapjacks 6y ago
This is an interesting system. I have worked with this technology on large and small scales, and it's a lot less accurate than you'd think. You have no hope of sending a police cruiser to check out a single gunshot based on the ou
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by fapjacks 6y ago
Ohhh boy, do I have some bad news for you...
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by fapjacks 6y ago
I have special insight into this situation (including both companies named within) and it is exactly as the article implies. These people are printing money on the backs of regular (unsuspecting) people, and nobody asks questions because of
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by fapjacks 6y ago
I know what your risk-management matrix says, but there's a whole world out there to explore, buddy!
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by fapjacks 6y ago
I used to experiment with a Hercules MVS (my first real computer job was sysop at an institutional datacenter with an MVS) on my eeepc on my second tour in Iraq. Doing convoy security, of course we never had any network connection of any ki

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