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by farisjarrah 6y ago
Prison Industrial Complex lobbying https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/04/28/...
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Why base6 is the best way to represent numbers(seximal.net)
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by farisjarrah 6y ago
You can export your Google contancts fairly trivially: https://support.google.com/contacts/answer/7199294?co=GENIE....
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by farisjarrah 6y ago
The Honda dealership in my town charged me $19 for a Covid Cleaning Fee.
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by farisjarrah 6y ago
I like seeing arguments like these and then I go and see people do stuff like this where people get Debian running on Kindles: https://github.com/kathamer/DebianKindle Whenever there is locked down hardware, invariably
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by farisjarrah 6y ago
Switching out batteries in Formula E has been problematic up until this point from a technological point of view, so much so that in Formula E they simply have 2 cars and when the drivers pit they hop out of the first car and into the secon
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by farisjarrah 6y ago
In the long run, I'm very much hoping that this makes governments and organizations accelerate the development of RISC-V.
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Croudsourcing the Value of 'e'(twitter.com)
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by farisjarrah 6y ago
I disagree that Google is building a better browser then anyone else can build. Extension support on Firefox is better then Chrome for my use case and Firefox containers are orders of magnitude better then Chrome profiles, in my humble opin
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by farisjarrah 6y ago
Are there actually more of these Tao of Programmings? I would be interested in reading more of these.
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by farisjarrah 6y ago
The problem with this argument is the assumption that everyone gets a facial scan and the computer processes the data all the same, in order to recognize whether the individual is recognizable or not. How can we be sure that that data is no
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by farisjarrah 6y ago
Is Apple's app store actually protecting you from anything, or do you just get the illusion that its protecting you? Although the situation has gotten much better the past couple years, its still not uncommon to find apps on the app st
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by farisjarrah 6y ago
We went from building VM's with ansible on AWS to everything being on GKE. Previously if we wanted to build out a whole new stack it could be a multiple day endeavor, now on GKE I can build out a whole new GKE cluster in a matter of ho
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by farisjarrah 6y ago
I have been hitting up friends/co-workers/family members and doing Zoom/Google Meet/Microsoft Teams/Discord hang out sessions. Basically anything I would do with those friends in person we just try to get in online.
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by farisjarrah 6y ago
With a codebase as large as iOS its highly unlikely that all 0days will ever be fully patched. Apple is constantly iterating on their code and introducing new features(and bugs) and security engineers are always coming up with new methods t
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by farisjarrah 6y ago
The other side of the spectrum is that Linux is easier to use and more accessible then ever. Ubuntu, Elementary OS, Manjaro, PopOS, and Linux Mint have made linux more friendly then ever to "average" computer users, and each day m
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by farisjarrah 6y ago
I donno, I am inclined to agree with the spaghetti code connotation. Humans are insanely adaptive, flexible, and efficient, but there are some serious design flaws. Here are some examples of a few things I could see improving: The need to i
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by farisjarrah 6y ago
This isnt really a finished product that they are comfortable selling to the general population. I actually feel like they are doing a pretty good job of setting customers expectations. From the order page for the pine tab I see these discl
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by farisjarrah 6y ago
This project seems like its the farthest along in this endeavor on linux: https://github.com/umlaeute/v4l2loopback
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by farisjarrah 6y ago
Hello, just out of curiosity, is using the NFS Client Provisioner Helm chart necessary anymore for normal kubernetes deployments? My company was using it, but it became a bit of a hassle on GKE for our team, as we found that A) if you tried
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by farisjarrah 7y ago
Did they actually establish a clear pattern of malfeasance? To me, a DevOps dude, it seems like they simply did not pay attention to security and privacy and focused on making features as easy to use as possible. Many security experts will
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by farisjarrah 7y ago
Entering your birthday is one of the main methods for account recovery for legacy systems like schools, hospitals, government websites, etc. It's stupid and many companies have moved away from that, but it was definitely more of a thin
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by farisjarrah 7y ago
Windy is really great and they seem to try to foster a great community. They have weather apps for android or ios https://www.windy.com/
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by farisjarrah 7y ago
I agree with you. I live with a women who is 70 years old and a women who is 65 on chemotherapy and only has 1.5 lungs. I tipped my Costco delivery person $50 yesterday for the luxury of me not having to go out and potentially expose those
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by farisjarrah 7y ago
I get around this in GCP by having a script that spins up a brand new project whenever I want to play around with stuff. When I am done playing around with things, I have a 2nd script that deletes the project and thus all the associated res
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by farisjarrah 7y ago
Competition in any space is extremely valuable. If for whatever reason uBlock Origin went away tomorrow there would be a void to fill. Furthermore, competition drives innovation. A separate project may figure out a better or more efficient
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by farisjarrah 7y ago
I've done this in a team in the past and we just put the encrypted keepass database in a private github repo. It mostly works out fine, the only pain in the butt is everyone needs to ensure that they pull down their repo and make sure
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by farisjarrah 7y ago
I was pretty bummed out by Kontena Lens shutting down, but I definitely sympathize with their struggles. They made a really fantastic product and gave it away for free and then they couldn't sustain development costs according to their
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by farisjarrah 7y ago
Does simple have to equal easy? An abacus is very simple, but its not easy to do advanced mathematics on it without prior training.
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by farisjarrah 7y ago
Self driving hardware is far cheaper then 200k these days. You can turn a Honda Civic into basically Tesla level self driving for like a grand with comma.ai

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