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by hapless 8y ago
I host my email on a vanity domain with an obscure tld. It's fine. The worst thing about weirdo TLDs is weirdo registrars, not validators or typos.
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by hapless 8y ago
If Hertz or Avis attempted to use public space to park their inventory, local residents and city officials would pitch a fit. Public parking exists for the benefit of the public at large, not as a cost-saving measure for rental firms. The
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by hapless 9y ago
71% of the market is "almost no one" ? Who do you expect to investigate tobacco products, if not the institute of tobacco control at America's #1 medical college? edit: also, if your "high power mod" still uses a ni
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by hapless 9y ago
The nichrome heating elements in vapes have been proven to leach considerable amounts of manganese and chromium into your vape fluid and vapor. https://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2017/study-toxic-me...
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by hapless 9y ago
Rental markets and real estate costs are only loosely coupled. A tidal wave of cheap money does drive up costs. Most home purchasers have a fixed budget to spend on a home, whether that money pays down interest or pays down principal. Low
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by hapless 9y ago
The MTA is already budgeted for 32 billion in new capital acquisitions across the next five years. City revenues are 93 billion annually. The City government could easily fund the extra 5bn/year out of the general fund without any hink
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by hapless 9y ago
The main thing that changed was an explosion of cheap money to borrow, and high construction costs to pay with it. ALL real estate, everywhere in America, including places that are in no way bound by land, has exploded in cost against infla
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by hapless 9y ago
The grand bargain is impossible, not due to NIMBYs and zoning conflict but rather because more funding for the MTA won't help a damn thing. The MTA has repeatedly been caught lying to the public about their finances, hiring ghost emplo
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by hapless 9y ago
It could raise my wages. Being a doctor was a rather modest middle income wage until the AMA came along to raise barriers to entry.
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by hapless 9y ago
The U.S. used to have extensive short-haul rail, even inside cities. That's how cargo moved around back in the era before inexpensive motorized trucks. I suspect the reason it disappeared is that rail sidings are large and expensive c
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by hapless 9y ago
Truck companies avoid this kind of thing because it's expensive to maintain pools of short-haul drivers at either end of the transport link. If you are willing to assume those costs/risks, you can already send freight by rail, wh
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by hapless 9y ago
IRIX, like all SRV4, has a perfectly adequate package manager. In the SGI case it is called "inst"
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by hapless 9y ago
Privilege separation is also a nice feature, but it is not the same as MAC. I would have much greater confidence in an OpenBSD project that included lomac or capsicum.
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by hapless 9y ago
It's a matter of defense in depth. OpenBSD robs you of one of the layers that is standard on every other operating system in the world: Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, even Windows.
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by hapless 9y ago
It's also not permitted to do that. Again, that's the point of mandatory access control. It doesn't matter that you have uid=0, you do not have the granted capabilities to do new things.
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by hapless 9y ago
So that a root compromise in one service does not escalate to the entire server. As a concrete example: my personal mail server (on a modern operating system) has its SMTP handling in a separate process from mailbox serving. If the SMTP pro
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by hapless 9y ago
I wouldn't entrust my email to an operating system that lacks mandatory access control. OpenBSD is a fascinating project, but it is _decades_ behind the state of the art in security.
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by hapless 9y ago
Confusingly there was also a windows 95/nt compatibility environment released for win 3.1 -- the win32s subsystem. Many, if not most, applications written for win95 or NT 3.x APIs could run on windows 3.1. https://en.wikipe
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by hapless 9y ago
Yes.
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by hapless 9y ago
To be fare, $0 up front and pay for usage used to be called "time sharing," in which the mainframe you buy time on is located on someone else's premises. Only large and deep-pocketed users opted to lease a mainframe for their
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by hapless 9y ago
Tobacco industry is made up of wholly legal and aboveboard business enterprises with many happy users. They have a long history of malicious behavior, but it is not, on the face of it, wrong to take such a job. But I still might avoid it, m
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by hapless 9y ago
It's illegal. Working for people who break the law for money is generally considered to be unethical. Even if you, personally, feel OK about it, ask yourself what would happen if a prospective (future) employer found out about your ac
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by hapless 9y ago
These guys are working with an Amiga vendor who has done a series of designs around the Applied Micro PowerPC 440 series SoCs (systems-on-a-chip). The block diagram clearly indicates an SoC. (IBM POWER, the fast PPC chips, are not SoCs!)
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by hapless 9y ago
Specifically, IBM had no real roadmap for the PPC 970 series (G5), and could not offer pricing that matched Intel.
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by hapless 9y ago
The best part is that the hurricane's tailwind shaved 40-odd minutes off the itinerary.
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by hapless 10y ago
Universe and multiverse disabled by default.
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by hapless 10y ago
It was either CMS (a single-user UNIX-like commonly distributed with VM) or VM/IX aka AIX/370 (an IBM-flavored SysV, but almost totally unrelated to the other AIX products.)
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by hapless 10y ago
Back when the author took his medication more regularly, the project was called "LoseTheOS" and it was similarly popular for its interesting features. Terry's online behavior has grown increasingly odd, but he project's
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by hapless 10y ago
DC, Chicago, Austin, and Denver absolutely have booming tech industries. And rising costs of living to match. It should not surprise anyone that wages in other top-tier cities match the Bay Area.
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by hapless 10y ago
Economic opportunity is tied to location. Those are the facts on the ground. A $10k signing bonus in exchange for putting yourself in a more vulnerable position will not change those (unfortunate) facts.

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