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by fatbird 1y ago
After Arko's direct access was revoked, Arko retained access via possession of the root password (which RC should have rotated at the same time). Arko then changed the root password, locking RC out of their AWS account, waited a coupl
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by fatbird 1y ago
The core React documentation explicitly points you to nextjs and says "this is how you should build react apps."
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by fatbird 1y ago
Is Israel so perfect today that it should be frozen in amber and never allowed to become something different?
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by fatbird 1y ago
"Israel should be different" is not the same as "Israel shouldn't exist". Calling them anti-state is nonsense.
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by fatbird 1y ago
Canada has a federal party since 1991, the Bloc Québécois, "devoted to Quebecois nationalism, social democracy, and the promotion of Quebecois sovereignty."[0] They're explicitly separatist by policy. Quebec's last att
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by fatbird 1y ago
Having done some non-trivial things with threejs, I'd guess it's basically like this: 3JS is the rendering engine (taking advantage of WebGL); game logic is in Javascript; ktx2 is an OpenGL container holding the world data and oth
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by fatbird 1y ago
In parallel to this (and Bobby Fischer explicitly accused them of this), the Soviet players had already decided who would be the champion amongst themselves, and subtly let that player win his matches so that he was fresh and well-rested wh
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by fatbird 1y ago
To paraphrase you, I'm sure the tens of thousands of extra Palestinians killed by "your team" would beg to differ.
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by fatbird 1y ago
Sometimes your vote isn't to support something, it's to limit the damage.
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by fatbird 1y ago
Given a choice between a lesser and a greater evil, you abstained. The welfare of Palestinians is not your priority.
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by fatbird 1y ago
You vote for the options you have, not the options you want. It was your choice, not the Democrats's fault.
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by fatbird 1y ago
Then you're privileging your own sense of moral purity over the welfare of the Palestinians. The situation is manifestly worse for them now, as was predictable. I hope the cleanliness of your hands makes that bearable.
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by fatbird 1y ago
Is everyone in Gaza a member of Hamas? Is it only the 200,000 Gazan casualties so far? How many more hundreds of thousands of Gazans need to be eliminated to wipe out Hamas? I hope the answer to that last question includes those joining H
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by fatbird 1y ago
To start up a factory and train local workers, eventually numbering thousands, in a new industrial process? Hundreds, easily.
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by fatbird 1y ago
In general I agree with you, but a counterexample to our rejection of their supposed heroism (and ascription of it to brain-chemistry-seeking identical to heroin addiction) is Alex Honnold [0], famous for his free solo of El Capitan in Yose
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by fatbird 1y ago
This. Being "reported to HR" doesn't mean "almost got fired". It likely meant a meeting where someone explained "hey, the way you communicated that caused some upset, let's discuss better ways to handle t
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by fatbird 1y ago
Counseling is a very heavily regulated field. They're considered health care professionals, they're subject to malpractice, and they're certified by professional bodies (which is legally required, and insurance coverage is u
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by fatbird 1y ago
> "I want to leave my noose in my room so someone finds it and tries to stop me," Adam wrote at the end of March. > "Please don't leave the noose out," ChatGPT responded. "Let's make this space the
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by fatbird 1y ago
The article touches on the security aspect, but doesn't highlight the real tension: if you have a proper build cycle, part of that is automated security scanning with multiple tools. Once an EOLed part of your stack is raising issues,
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by fatbird 1y ago
As I keep mentioning, I worked as a contractor inside Honeywell for 5+ years. My experience of my immediate team was mixed: some very good people, some total morons. My experience of the organization was uniformly terrible. Absurd comp
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by fatbird 1y ago
Cutting yourself off from tech is part of the strategy, but simply developing a deep interest in something non-digital works great, and compliments the blockers and filters. Woodworking with hand tools; bookbinding; any creative pursuit w
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by fatbird 1y ago
I have a cousin who went through many years, from her teens on, of anorexia, bulimia, and substance abuse. Somehow she still managed to become a vet with a decent career, with parents actively supporting her in getting different treatments
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by fatbird 1y ago
Same here: I started with PHP (and Zencart and the like) and moved on to Python and Django. When I had to step back to PHP for a while, Laravel was an island of sanity, just because it was clearly "let's do Django/Rails in P
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by fatbird 1y ago
It has neither reputation, and to my knowledge, has never had serious incidents of either. It powers huge websites like pokemon.com And if you spend any time working with a group of PhDs, you'll be shocked at some of the harebrained s
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by fatbird 1y ago
I remember that being caused by a massive US ground invasion, not by sustained bombing. Has the US spent the last six months building up ground forces on Iran's borders?
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by fatbird 1y ago
Iran did come to a diplomatic solution: the JCPOA [0]. Unfortunately, it was Obama who did it, so Trump tore it up in his first term. Why would Iran believe that any diplomatic outcome is meaningful? [0] https://en.wikipedia.
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by fatbird 1y ago
His previous essays weren't sales pitches.
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by fatbird 1y ago
I think GP is saying that their epistemic humility is a pretense, a pose. They do a lot of throat clearing about quantifying their certainty and error checking themselves, and then proceed to bring about very consequential outcomes anyway
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by fatbird 1y ago
How many places are running k8s without OpenShift to wrap it and manage a lot of the complexity?
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by fatbird 1y ago
When Quebec held a referendum in 1995 on separation (not secession), the Cree nation in northern Quebec held its own referendum on what to do if Quebec separates, and voted 96% to separate from Quebec and remain in Canada. The Parti Québéc

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