hi-v-rocknroll

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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
Unrealized futurism predating both in magazine form was Popular Mechanics and Popular Science hype of Moller skycars as the original goat, and virtual reality being a close second.
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
Vaporware hype.
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
Just another brick in the wall.
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
Ideally, only sufficiently sturdy homes should be allowed in risky areas. The absurdity of the current situation is subsidizing risky behaviors of people who choose to live in hazardous areas and socializing the inevitable costs onto everyo
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
Procedures make money, and a nonzero fraction of dentists are all about selling more procedures and add-ons that offer negligible value because they want $$$.
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
It goes back much farther than that as it's a practice of successful business people since time began. One much older example of it in written form would Napoleon Hill 1928 "Lesson 9: The habit of doing more for than paid." W
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
Reminds me of a plot of device of the 90's movie Shooting Fish where they were scamming businesses selling an AGI computer but were actually controlling responses with a human in another room.
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
While some people argue for verbose, semantic-meaning variable and function names, I believe taking this to the extreme is counterproductive, especially for internal code that could otherwise be far more terse. Like antipatterns in Java, C+
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
No, you're being unreasonable because that's not the goal at all. The goal is to minimize variations while still allowing the possibility of variations that traditional distros like dnf/RPM Fedora/RHEL disallow without j
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
Insurance and regulatory hurdles are far higher than contracts selling future electricity customer purchase agreements and likely to doom almost all new nuclear projects in the US as they have for the past 50 years. I don't see why an
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
> This term has lost whatever meaning it ever had if we're using it to refer to binding contracts. If a technological solution is optimistic and remains vaporware possibly forever, then it maybe "virtue signaling" is if th
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
I'm still a little worried about the toxicity of graphene-based products that they might turn out to be another "asbestos".
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
It should supplement and facilitate improved office dynamics and less interruptions rather than supplant interaction with proscribed, transactionalized objectification of people. Not everything more efficient should or has to be dystopian.
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
Jerks and dorks disrespect others, with the differentiator being intention. If they don't get the hint, then it's probably time for a teachable moment or assertion of boundaries.
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
This is an excellent idea. A similar approach, simpler, and cheaper solution for a non-open cube/offices environment is a microcontroller-controlled Andon stack with color-codes for "focusing/DND", "working", &
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
The gold standard deep and certain vulnerability remediation requires A/B test exploit sample code. You're really going off into the weeds about other concerns rather than covering and ensuring known flaws don't exist than ca
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
Worrying about dying by meteor impact is a waste of life because you can't do anything about it, and so is this. Internal locus of control has boundaries of what is and is not worth worrying about. And this clearly isn't except fo
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
Anything can be stolen given unreasonable dedication, but that's not the point. The point is to deter by making it not worth messing with. Unlocked QR wheels will be stolen or vandalized in most major US cities in an instant.
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
This is a "Unabomber"-style prescription to the problem. The problem isn't shared libraries and the solution isn't static linking everything because that's wasteful for repetitive binary code duplicated N times cons
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
Unlocked QR wheels and seats get stolen and vandalized. QR should generally only be used where transportation space is limited or for stationary security, but otherwise prefer permanently-installed ones at the expense of having to carry a w
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
Rim/v-brakes just need proper adjustment, replacement pads when worn, and clean rims. They're also much easier to control with finesse than disc brakes which tend to lock and require brake fluid and pads service. In rain though, I
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
Back in the day, even on a low-end steel Miyata mountain bike, I had to have QR wheel and QR seat post keyed locks because of theft. They consisted of an epoxy-coated offset plate with a hole at each end and a miniature luggage lock. In gen
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
This belongs to a category of rabbit holes of the human condition that are entirely pointless to argue or worry about.
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
The reality is that it's a slim gradient cabal of uber rich vs. everyone else. Everyone who isn't obscenely rich should seek solidarity to end the tyranny of and oppression by this group of greedy, selfish, antisocial criminals.
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
Turbo was all about slowing down a 486-/Pentium-class machine to work with programs and some ISA cards that required a slower CPU and/or XT bus speeds.
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
Real hardware is still necessary to verify functional equivalency and correctness. Also, there's no way you're going to emulate an interlaced or noninterlaced analog SVGA display, especially the sounds of mode changing, tearing, p
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
Within the next couple of CCC there will be a talk: copying and cloning everyone's nearby DDL with a long range NFC attack. On the balance, even Apple's implementation seems like a privacy invasion nightmare for the minor benefit
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
Not necessarily. The problem with clipboard audits using version number matching alone is they don't account for patching. The proper way to do a vulnerability audit is by building and running code under test in sandboxed environment,
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by hi-v-rocknroll 2y ago
A hypervisor (software) approach is one way to accomplish it far cheaper and much more configurable and reusable than having to rely on dedicated hardware. VMware's virtualization method of x86_64 fault tolerant feature runs 2 VMs on d

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