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My WordPress Slack Ban(linuxjedi.co.uk)
134 points by hodgesrm 2y ago|80 comments
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The coolest and most surprising part is that the tar pits are still there! Apparently the seeps have been there for tens of thousands of years. [0] (Fun LA tourist activity: jump in yourself and contribute to the fossil record.) I was simil
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> We want one thing, and one thing only: "When this fails, in a way where we can't fix it using documentation, experience or the support forums", we need to be able to call someone. Everything you're offering below th
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> I don't know where people got the idea that vaccines prevent all infection, transmissions and symptoms. They were never about that. If you can achieve it, fantastic! But not all pathogens are this easy. Well the COVID vaccines wer
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But he was also famously reasonable at times when most people would have been just mean. [0] He had a complex and conflicting personality. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeqPrUmVz-o
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Kellie's article is a well-written and reasonable response to mean-spirited bullying. It makes me wonder why a lot of people think it's good to have Silicon Valley companies run by trolls. Is that really the way to build success
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It's not anti-trust in the case of smaller acquisition targets. There are also fewer strategic acquirers in some if not all markets. For example, if you built a good product 10 years ago on top of an open source project, there were a n
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It sounds as if you used your own algorithm for pre-aggregation into the schema you showed. Did you consider using a materialized view to populate it?
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I saw this talk in person. It was delightful. My favorite part was the stories of helping random people who contacted him to help fix things like car electronics. They found his email from the OSS license acknowledgments, which apparently a
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Can you provide more details on what problems your project solves and how it works?
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The Montgomery bus boycott specifically targeted racist laws on segregation on public buses. [0] I don't see how you can get much more specific than that. I think there's a better argument around the approach of Act Up, which focu
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> But even if they were actually destroying art, their point is that many extractive industries are actually destroying the environment and killing off whole species... How does trashing art actually solve the problem? It just makes peop
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This sounds like the same engineering ethos that brought us the Titan submersible disaster.[0] If there were more professionals looking seriously into geoengineering, maybe this kind of cowboy operation would not be happening. [0] https:&#
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> There is nothing wrong with the LLMs, you just have to double-check everything. That does not seem very helpful. I don't spend a lot of time verifying each and every X509 cert my browser uses, because I know other people have spen
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Electronic Warfare Spooks Airlines, Pilots and Air-Safety Officials(wsj.com)
3 points by hodgesrm 2y ago|0 comments
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Perplexity.ai looks a lot better. Thanks for the link. (edited: typo)
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No disagreement with that. My expectations were not high--but I was still surprised how bad it was. There are absolutely no guardrails.
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> Two main risks arise... First, the abundance of fabricated “studies” seeping into all areas of the research infrastructure... A second risk lies in the increased possibility that convincingly scientific-looking content was in fact dece
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Plus there are books where you just want to immerse yourself again and again in the story: Raymond Chandler's novels, Lord of the Rings, William Gibson's Neuromancer. Sometimes books are just fun.
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Sounds as if you might not have dealt with corporate litigation. There's no need for courts to issue subpoenas. Lawyers can issue them too, and for practically anything. If you don't respond they can issue a motion to compel in co
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Let's take an example: protecting a car. There are countless possible attacks on the software that runs automobiles, but the most common attacker goal is to steal the car. That means you want to protect the paths to that goal, regardle
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> Feels like most of this could have been solved by either hiring storage industry experts or just acquiring one of the major vendors. VMware tried something like that with vCloud Air [0], which attempted to build a public cloud on the E
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Thanks for a very informative article. It would be interesting have more detail about how EBS achieved a strong culture around quality and system resilience. Maybe a future post?
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That seems like prosecuting the police for a crime committed by someone else. How does that change incentives in a productive way?
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> People are shocked by laws which abrogate and abuse their human rights... You'll want to avoid signing any NDAs then. They virtually all have a clause like the following which says that parties may divulge information in response
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Who is the alternative vendor for travel to low earth orbit after SpaceX? It is not going to be Boeing from the look of things.
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This could be just faulty memory but my impression is that Driscolls was better 15 years ago. They are pretty heavy into optimization for the market and constrain growers to follow very exacting standards for product. [0] [0] https:/&
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It depends where you live. I'm in the Bay Area and strawberries are definitely not disappointing. In fact for several months of the year they are like food out of the Garden of Eden. You can recognize when they are in season by the u
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> how common is it for venture funds to buy bulk cloud services for use in startups they own/invest in? Outside of this article, I've never heard of it. In fact it seems kind of illogical because VCs don't necessarily know
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Munich tried switching to open source (from MS Office) back in 2003.[0] It was a bit of a rough road, though I suppose no more so than many rollouts of software to enterprises. SAP implementations are a case in point. [1] [0] https:/&

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