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by hguant 4y ago
There are general guides to the first two weeks - FEMA has several publications about this [0]. You don't need to go full prepper or SERE for that period of time - just get a water filter and some freeze fried meals, or have a pantry w
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by hguant 4y ago
>If you started from scratch, there isn't really any easily accessible coal left. I don't think this is strictly speaking true - certainly not for the US. I believe the majority of US coal production (according to wikipedia at
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by hguant 4y ago
>Brooklyn's agesim is much worse than Silicon Valley Is that a Brooklyn/hipster thing, or a NYC finance culture thing seeping into the tech world?
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by hguant 4y ago
Reddit had a big shift recently when they had their mobile first redesign - it's made the website subjectively worse to HN types...and has massively increased its appeal. That, combined with the deep algorithmic shifts to the front pag
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by hguant 4y ago
1. Handwashing is water inefficient compared to a lot of dishwashers; if this is something that's important to you, a device like this makes ecologic, if not necessarily economic sense 2. Dishwashers are expensive to people not on tech
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by hguant 4y ago
AWS instances don't pay for themselves /s...mostly
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by hguant 4y ago
This was also a (secondary) feature in Stephenson's _Anathem_; their equivalent of the Web was so full of viruses, artificially intelligent spam, and what we'd now call disinformation (and network effects of that disinformation) t
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by hguant 4y ago
The protocols on the wire are different than what's documented especially for older SMB servers - Windows "released documentation" on some of the protocols because they were being reversed, but the docs are flakey or incomple
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by hguant 5y ago
This is due to an international agreement post world war two (the 1944 Chicago Convention on Aviation) that agreed that fuel and maintenance parts necessary for _international air travel_ would be exempt from tarrifs and all taxes, barring
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by hguant 5y ago
Yeah, I used to get very pissy about everything in windows being stashed in the registry but...how is that different from everything being hidden inside systemd, or in a /etc/config file that is silently changed by services?
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by hguant 5y ago
This is huge. There's a YouTuber I've been following for a stupidly long time, and if he recommends something, or even is sponsored by someone, I'll check them out. Same thing with acoup.blog - if there's a book recommen
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by hguant 5y ago
TDD gets pushed because it creates great, easily trackable metrics one can gesture to as evidence that a) your code is good and b) that you're doing a good job and should be paid more. It makes developers happy because it translates th
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by hguant 5y ago
It depends on your field. If you're a services company (as in, consulting and subcontracting) you're dead in the water unless you have a sales team day 0, even if that sales team is just the founder working over time. Those places
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by hguant 5y ago
You just successfully moved the goalposts by redefining what "going to a march" means...and even then didn't address how "all the examples" don't count. Even then, showing up for a mere two blocks still involve
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by hguant 5y ago
New account Poor grammar Blames Ukrainian self determination for the war. This is a shill propaganda account
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by hguant 5y ago
Just ignoring all the murders in Hungary and Poland as well. They're a shill, it's fine.
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by hguant 5y ago
...what kind of revisionist nonsense are you trying to make up? Like this is objectively false and comes across as tankie propaganda that belongs on Reddit.
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by hguant 5y ago
Unironically yes
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by hguant 5y ago
I think, while this might have been the perception up until a few weeks ago, the invasion of Ukraine has shown the world what a true "bully" on the international stage looks like. There will always be cloistered individuals who th
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by hguant 5y ago
Talking before this; hey what's our plan if Russia invades? Ok, what about if Russia does a "small" invasion? Etc. "Informal" in that they're not producing anything that requires a vote or action from member pa
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by hguant 5y ago
Wall Street Journal - there's a quip from someone that when he wanted to read things he agreed with, he opened Jacobin, when he wanted to know what was going on in the world, he went to WSJ. Being based entirely on serving money anchor
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by hguant 5y ago
You're not wrong, but Microsoft was in a position where they could invest over a period of _many_ years, if not a bit more than a decade, to get to a point of 53% market share. I don't think fb/meta has that kind of time - Mi
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by hguant 5y ago
I don't think it will be lucrative for fb because Microsoft is already working in that problem space, and has been for a while. They were working on it via Xbox Kinect back during the Xbox 360 days, and merged that into HoloLens suite
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by hguant 5y ago
I think the sheer amount of data being transferred off of our various devices completely shocks the average, non-technical user. There's an assumption that unless you explicitly send something out, or actively make a post - something t
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by hguant 5y ago
I, like a lot of other nerds, play Magic the Gathering[0], specifically cEDH[1]. This process really speaks to my deck building process - after coming up with my archetype, color pie [2], and win conditions, I grab everything that I think c
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by hguant 5y ago
So first of all you're responding to what you want to read, not the actual content of my comment. I said that the friend of mine in question was a self described hard Leftist, and that he was big in leftist oriented Twitter. I made no
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by hguant 5y ago
...no the surface lesson is that lazy heuristics produce habits that provide the illusion of certainty without any rigour backing up those beliefs; the outcome may correspond with reality but the process getting you there isn't rationa
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by hguant 5y ago
I went to high school with a guy who is big in the self described Left-wing journalist Twitter. I remember very distinctly watching an article - well, the ideas core to that article - he'd written percolate from New Republic to The Atl
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by hguant 5y ago
US National Security, and the groups moving within it, are not monolithic. Different groups and agencies have very different policies regarding how to deal with journalists specifically. DoD has been very up front - it's pay to play, a
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by hguant 5y ago
It's The Verge; they aren't really well known for giving a shit about technical accuracy or fact checking.

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