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by handrous 5y ago
I don't think many tech folks, even in Missouri, are among this guy's voters, and the ones who are, aren't turning "blue" over this (they're probably in it for religious reasons, i.e. abortion). Meanwhile, he&#
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> The governor probably believed he had a leg to stand on here, because I'm sure that's exactly what his people told him. My money's on this being purely a political decision. And for that, considering who it is and their
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My spouse is a teacher and has practically made a game of "which low-status jobs would match my current benefits-inclusive income, while never making me take work home or making me deal with kids' mental health issues, which is in
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> The US needs to stop using public facilities (schools, the military, etc) as white-collar welfare and hire more people that actually care. Ignorance is forgivable but when combined with a steadfast opposition to personal growth it beco
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> Firefox gave me a confusing popup window on the first start after updating. It didn't explain what "colorways" are. I closed it. My #1 reason for using Safari, despite its kinda sucking in a lot of ways, is battery lif
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> And we don’t really tolerate this type of what I would say are one-size-fits-all tools anywhere else in our lives. Oh my god, yes we do. Overwhelmingly, yes, that's the norm for tools. Very few people give a shit what color their
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> Maybe when Mozilla finally kicks the bucket in a few years, someone will start something else that isn't just a Chrome fork. I hoped for quite a while that Servo was the beginning of something that would become the Phoenix/Fi
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I can just about guarantee it's a less-well-known term than "theme", as far as theme's usage to signify changing or customizing the colors of software. As in, way more people who aren't nerds will see "theme&
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The only way I've been able to make sense of Mozilla over the last decade is to figure they've been taken over by several interests that don't align with a bright future for the browser, for the company/foundation, or
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It's way more jargony than "theme", which has been used for color themes since at least win 3.1 and is fairly well-known in that sense among the general population. Meanwhile, I'd never heard of "color ways"
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> You mean like the [insert ticketing system] board? Why do we have to waste time talking about stuff that's already being tracked? This doesn't fully excuse it, but the more closely management is watching team-work-coordinatio
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I've been at a place with PM-driven standups. It was fine because: 1) If the team was like, "our team on this project is tiny and we all sit next to each other, so we don't need them", or "we'd rather do Slack
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> Also, no daily meetings (unless culture has changed since I was inside a while back). I can confirm that the big management consulting firms are selling modified "agile" processes to the MIC and the US military itself. I susp
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Worst ones I've ever had, the dev manager was also still doing some dev work, mostly not on the company's main product, but other crap, but was in on the stand-ups and set the tone for it being a "moan about how hard your w
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Meanwhile, I'm constantly realizing that something I remembered didn't happen in Slack or Email or the issue tracker, but on a call, so now I have to hope I thought to take notes, in the moment, and then go find them, when calls a
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I think that'd be hard to navigate, as far as negotiating with the services you're re-selling. For one thing, they're services, not one-off purchases, so it requires an ongoing relationship. For another, lots of these compani
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It wasn't incapable then, either. Clearly. But this takes some of the heat off them, and discourages Egypt from permitting—or encouraging—non-conventional anti-israel forces within its borders, or abroad, even as its domestic politics
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> Why would 2FA of all things be the critical issue? Tech savvy people should understand and use hardware security keys at this point to be securing their cloud accounts in general. Yeah, sure, should be. Meanwhile I've yet to actua
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Yeah, I think these days I'd find FreeBSD a better fit than Linux. I'm... increasingly kinda over Linux. Red Hat's continuing political success in pushing projects it (more or less) steers toward de facto standard status,
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OK? The US aid arrangement is also part of the whole thing, though. [EDIT] Oh damn, when did Jordan rocket up the list of US aid recipients? I gotta start keeping up with geopolitical shenanigans again, I'm clearly behind the times. Bu
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I have fine motor control that is, at least, not worse than average. I nonetheless have to turn off all the fancy "3d click" stuff on Mac trackpads, or else my click-drag-drop operations go from ~100% success to more like 40% succ
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They're also pretty cheap ($15-30), powered fully over USB—no extra power cable like in the old days—and they're tiny.
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Israel and Egypt both being top recipients of US aid is part of the peace arrangement. Egypt is by far Israel's strongest neighbor, militarily. No coalition of neighboring states has any chance defeating Israel without them, so the US
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What gets me is letters written by normal people, from the 19th and early 20th century US. Not authors, not statesmen, not business tycoons, not military officers—workers, minor bureaucrats, enlisted soldiers. They tend to read as very &quo
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> What do you like best about Homebrew? Some of its advantages are, in a sense, unfair, because it doesn't manage my OS or its most vital pieces, which is part of why it's never, in nearly a decade, broken my system the way any
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Which of those can proxy TCP, as opposed to HTTP? Haproxy can.
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There's a huge jump in cost and operational style, to go from two nines to three, because it means you have to have 24/7 support coverage or an on call rotation (and good alerting, or else it's for naught) for nights. Two
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> Homebrew is old and it needs to be replaced. It has served its time. Counterpoint: I've spent serious time (years) with, oh, six or seven package managers, in a couple decades of using package managers. More if you count Flatpack
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> I still cannot understand what is wrong with name "Fedora"? Nothing whatsoever to 95+% of people, but perhaps 5%, most of whom one might describe as "very online", have decided to strongly associate it with a certai
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criddell is wondering what thing in common Fedora and Win11 had that made switching to either of them preferable to just sticking with Win10, I believe. As in: why not just stay on Win10, unless it was lacking something that Win11 and—app

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