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by giaour 4y ago
There are plenty of roles for civilians in defense and other civic functions. Assuming you're in the US, take a look at the US digital corps (basically USDS for recent grads): https://digitalcorps.gsa.gov/
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by giaour 4y ago
3-4 years is very short as far as software lifespans go. Software libraries that are 10-15 years old are commonplace in both open source and at FAANGs, and some industries practice "extreme longevity": any domain where you wouldn&
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by giaour 4y ago
And if you're in a position where you have to manage petabytes+ of logs using on-prem hardware, SSDs are probably a small part of your overall budget!
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I bought through a local business. If you're near DC, buy a chair from Cubes2u!
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by giaour 4y ago
You can sometimes buy used/reconditioned chairs at a hefty discount. My current office chair (a Haworth X99 advanced seminar chair) was about 10% of the original retail price, and the same outfit sells Herman Miller chairs for a couple
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by giaour 4y ago
When people complain about the cost of excessive logging, they are almost certainly not thinking in terms of how much a drive costs. Services like CloudWatch are an excellent way to burn through money, though it's usually the time seri
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by giaour 4y ago
I haven't had mine that long, so I can't speak to the long-term issues already reported in replies to your comment. But overall, it seems worth it so far. My partner and I put off buying an automatic box for years because of sti
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by giaour 4y ago
The litter robot scoops automatically after the cat uses it (plus a configurable delay), so it helps with the smell, too. It also has a ton of useless features (eg, it tells you how much your cat weighs each time they poop), but overall it&
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by giaour 4y ago
A Litter Robot 4. Automated litter boxes are easy more expensive than I thought they would be, but you just can't put a price on not having to scoop
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by giaour 4y ago
Your doc was probably referring to purchasing semaglutide from a compounding pharmacy, which is usually in the $200/month range (depending on dose). Compounded versions don't typically come in the user friendly "injection pen
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by giaour 4y ago
> What you seem to have discovered are client-side vulnerabilities that would require direct network access to the client machines to be exploited We don't know what a user has installed on their local machine, so a bank mandating t
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by giaour 4y ago
Your experience was not the sum total of the incident. There was indeed a partial outage: https://news.yahoo.com/twitter-down-thousands-users-downdete...
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by giaour 4y ago
> Wasn't twitter supposed to stop working by now? They are still functioning, despite the layoffs. Maybe it worked? I still expect it to stop working gradually, then all at once. Saying that the fact that Twitter hasn't collaps
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by giaour 4y ago
I don't think we're disagreeing so much as making unrelated points. I'm arguing that if someone modified a Honda Civic so that it could fly and then said, "this is an airplane now, so I don't need to register it as
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by giaour 4y ago
Is the ICO is an illegal confidence scam because an ICO is a genuinely novel thing to do or just because the issuers were criminals? I would argue for the latter. Assume a non-criminal company filed the correct paperwork to issue a bond, se
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by giaour 4y ago
I found Nicholas Weaver's argument in [0] that a DAO governance token is conceptually indistinguishable from stock to be pretty compelling. Similarly, how is an "ICO" conceptually different from issuing a corporate bond? Lega
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by giaour 4y ago
Banning crypto would probably be self-defeating, but applying existing regulations to crypto would take care of most issues. If we could collectively stop pretending that a financial instrument is unprecedented just because it's done o
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by giaour 4y ago
I can't tell if your comment was made in earnest or meant to troll, but yes, the #1 problem with crypto is that it assumes it can solve a human problem with technology alone.
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All those gray areas also happen to be the only way for defi to interact with traditional markets. I think an important implication of your argument is that your entire economic life needs to happen in the crypto economy (from getting pai
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by giaour 4y ago
> Crypto is big enough to be called its own asset class now. I'm not sure this is true. Crypto is certainly a big pile of assets, but it seems (to my non-expert eyes) to be an amalgamation of corporate bonds, stocks, futures contrac
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by giaour 4y ago
Popeyes.com does the same. Is really convenient, and I appreciate not having to trust a chicken chain with anything more sensitive than my email address.
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by giaour 4y ago
Authentication is (usually) not that complex, but identity and authorization are. I've seen plenty of institutional regret when each application has its own pool of users and an internal authZ system.
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by giaour 4y ago
Sounds a lot like Wuphf: https://theoffice.fandom.com/wiki/WUPHF.com_(Website)
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by giaour 4y ago
There are plenty of users for whom having to write configuration in JSON is a significant barrier, either because they find the syntax obtuse or because they want things like comments, multiline strings, or expressions. Using a DSL can be a
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by giaour 4y ago
They will have poisoned our asses with poisonous gasses.
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by giaour 4y ago
No, you get some free usage in perpetuity
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by giaour 4y ago
AWS Lambda and Azure Functions both support timer triggers and probably round down to $0/ month if your job only runs for a few seconds an hour
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by giaour 4y ago
> Maybe the argument is or should be about who is on a plane rather than where the plane might be. Well, that's not public information. Private jet owners can loan it out to friends (according to [0], Taylor Swift does this often)
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by giaour 4y ago
That is not sufficient. Is getting arrested a "public engagement"? Is appearing as a defendant in court?
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by giaour 4y ago
https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/... is a relevant FAA regulation. US civilian aviation rules require that an on-craft transponder emit altitude and location information so that oth

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