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by fargle 3y ago
my wife and me, having successfully* raised teens to adulthood and with a 15 year old daughter still in the house, here's my opinions. caveat: i don't need from 80 people who never had kids as to why i'm wrong. you'all
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by fargle 3y ago
> I guess there is a ton of knowledge about previous planes floating around. You don't do it from scratch, do you ? Well, derivative designs bring their own problems. Also a double edged sword. Making significant mods to a complex s
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by fargle 3y ago
as another engineer from another company, i'm sad to relate that i see point-by-point the same things with different names of course. i sympathize. it's sad to see the cancer, the nepotism, the grifters that move in on the now wea
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by fargle 3y ago
I agree with the sibling comments, but let me add a few ideas. Let's not even worry about the bureaucracy, safety regulations, etc. for a "Skunk Works" phase. The safety and reliability stuff is even harder, but just the firs
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by fargle 3y ago
It's absolutely not easy to build an airplane. It's incredibly difficult to build an airplane, especially a completely new design. It's absolutely impossible to do that at the same time as making one that will last 30-50
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by fargle 3y ago
the point i was trying to make is that that this article totally ignores the personal responsibility of the idiot. when something bad happens, everyone say "why did this happen? what could we do to prevent it?". while it's tr
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by fargle 3y ago
> evidence of PCP, alcohol, and cocaine. Robinson also had a history of reckless driving ... and the takeaway is that the automakers should add governors to their cars. For shame, mfgs. For shame. Not like you can pin this on some drug-a
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by fargle 3y ago
For the Quiz: how do we know this is FAKE NEWS?: a) doesn't fit the narrative b) unpopular with progressives/influencers/fads/fashion c) expresses viewpoints supported by large "ignorant" majoriti
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by fargle 3y ago
got it now. thanks. i mentally blocked this noise at the end of the article as ads, noise, idk. CRAPPY journalism, btw.
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by fargle 3y ago
no. no it doesn't. are you hallucinating or is some dark pattern showing us different articles?
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by fargle 3y ago
> What amazes me is that any grown up person thinks it is a good idea to update vehicles as if they were telephones What amazes me is that any grown up person thinks it is a good idea to update telephones as if they were software and n
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by fargle 3y ago
Why would M$ pay for what it gets for free?
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by fargle 3y ago
the author wanted it to be position-independent (PIC), so it works no matter what address the .text segment is loaded to and run. This example uses a fixed symbolic reference ("string:") and is the normal way to do it. The trick i
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by fargle 3y ago
alias damnit=sudo
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by fargle 3y ago
this is exactly why we're never getting full self-driving cars, whether or not they are actually safer. no manufacturer is going to take on strict liability for 100,000's of auto-driving cars let loose in the hands of legally
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by fargle 3y ago
i can vouch for the orangecrab. if you want an ECP5-based FPGA board, it's great.
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by fargle 3y ago
That was a good read and a stimulating argument. And it's true, but just don't go believing that it's ever been different, or ever will be. And it's not the end of the world. First comment: I think the South Park clip wa
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by fargle 3y ago
I think this is Jeff Atwood's 2012 blog post: https://blog.codinghorror.com/please-dont-learn-to-code/ I think Jeff's position is better argued and more correct. I have seen all too well what a mess people ma
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by fargle 3y ago
https://archive.ph/0OiTL
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by fargle 3y ago
what that "skin in the game" means is that you are participating and take on some of the risk. "why it is a requirement" has nothing to do with the law, the whims of "the founders", etc. why it is a requirement
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by fargle 3y ago
sadly this is indicative of the mindset of IT. instead of fixing the problem (buy more 3COM PCMCIA cards), just develop a bureaucracy and inefficient culture built around preserving the broken system. complete with secret police and witch-h
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by fargle 3y ago
on #5 - you can certainly move your DNS zones to a proper registry/DNS service company for between around $0 and $10-$20 (for all 6) a year. This will let you have complete control of MX and all other records, and you can still use wha
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by fargle 3y ago
The ACTUAL writeup: https://www.qualys.com/2023/10/03/cve-2023-4911/looney-tunab...
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by fargle 3y ago
and yet... here you are discussing it. ;) discussions are a two-way street. if you aren't getting it, then how do you expect someone else to "get" your position? "The whole problem with the world is that fools an
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by fargle 3y ago
i have a fairly simple policy. if you send me unsolicited email, i will actively boycott your company. not just for myself, but anyone and anywhere i have influence. i have significant influence in my very large companies product choices, a
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by fargle 3y ago
what?!?! why would you use a UUID for this? A version 4 UUID does have about 122 random bits, so it could work OK for this use case. But firstly, it's unnecessarily short. And secondly, why ? FFS, WHY? Why not just use a random number
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by fargle 3y ago
wait! did this just this violate Betteridge's Law of Headlines? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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https://archive.ph/Xhq4K
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as you said: public
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by fargle 3y ago
Hogwash: > Picture a Lego castle, an intricate structure where replacing a single component often necessitates dismantling large portions. Now envision a bag of marbles, where elements can be effortlessly swapped in and out. The go

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