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by hylaride 2mo ago
Fun fact, there is a long standing exemption to the unreasonable search and seizure protection laws if you're out on a boat (it may only be on the open ocean and Great Lakes, though IANAL). One of the earliest Supreme Court rulings es
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by hylaride 2mo ago
It's a tragedy that most English classes don't have field trips. Going to an actual Shakespeare play would probably change many people's minds than having to direct it in book form. What clicked for me was after being forced
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by hylaride 2mo ago
I'm not saying the noise pollution concerns aren't real, but these are often the same people who had "concerns" with 5G. Most datacenters I've been to around the world are barely noticeable. Most of them are in ware
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by hylaride 2mo ago
More than the raw speed was the fact that the error checking, buffering, and compression on dialup added anywhere from 150-400ms to your ping RTT. You could disable a lot of it, but results could be mixed depending on the quality of your l
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by hylaride 2mo ago
It can be a demand problem. People/companies aren't going to spend the time optimizing (including compilers/code) if there's no payoff that's greater than the delta for an arm chip. That being said, demand from and
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by hylaride 2mo ago
My understanding is that RISC-V needs both economies of scale AND chips that are manufactured at the bleeding edge fabs (smallest dies, etc) which is a lot more expensive. It's a chicken and egg problem as there's not (yet?) dema
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by hylaride 2mo ago
Solar panels don't necessarily get the most power at noon, as it can depend on what angle they're at if they're static (eg on a roof). Ideally you would want it facing the sun in the afternoon (especially if you don't h
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by hylaride 2mo ago
Other than some GC issues, meaning we had to give it more memory than we'd otherwise like thereby making them a bit more expensive, it's mostly been fine. The key to ephemeral java is keeping scope limited and not using it when c
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by hylaride 2mo ago
There are edge cases where GC issues can crop up, in particular specific "serverless" models (eg AWS lambdas) where the JVM can get "paused" between executions and GC doesn't cleanly run, causing memory to trend upw
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by hylaride 2mo ago
Most modern scanners know the backported versions for the major vendors (ubuntu/debian/rhel/alpine), but it was definitely an issue a decade ago.
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by hylaride 2mo ago
It's also hard to predict how much money will be burned going down wrong avenues. The internet was the future, but it took a lot of failed companies to eventually land on a sustainable model that brought us the giants we have today. Ra
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by hylaride 2mo ago
Stress, PTSD, and overwork can and do aggravate mental health issues. All of these are probably hitting these people - probably at the same time.
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by hylaride 2mo ago
> You should revist your stance on unions and start by reading up on how they work and what benefits they confer. Assuming you are not in the 1%, a union almost certianly would benefit you. It is a way of equalizing the playing field whe
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by hylaride 2mo ago
I was canned early last year. Looking for a new job was mostly fine. It wasn't insanely easy like 4 years ago and I had to network a bit, but there very much is still demand for qualified people. Would suck to be in this market as an
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by hylaride 2mo ago
This is essentially a story about front-line traditional desktop support/sysadmins at a public university. It's not going to be the same story at much higher paid shops where workers often have equity, good benefits, and the marke
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by hylaride 2mo ago
> That also means if they sold it right now at that $20k "loss" then they effectively paid $333/month plus upkeep to live somewhere for 5 years! This also ignores the costs in buying/selling, including agent fees, law
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by hylaride 2mo ago
Home ownership comes with costs, too. There's maintenance, taxes, etc. It can also be a prison, as many people who locked in at low interest rates are learning. If they move, a lot of them will have to reset their mortgage rates and
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by hylaride 2mo ago
At a previous job circa 2008-12, we were a sun shop and moved from spark to x86 Solaris. It screamed at sustained, high-concurrency loads and our workloads benefited from the trinity of Solaris' threading, ZFS tiered storage, and zone
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by hylaride 3mo ago
I was briefly a network admin way back in the early 2000s. Core ISPs were playing (often petty) games with BGP routes back then for various reasons (eg forcing sub-optimal routes via AS padding unless downstream ISPs paid up). For awhile
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by hylaride 3mo ago
I'm not defending it, but these countries host US bases.
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by hylaride 3mo ago
You're right, I misremembered. HP was conned by a British guy named Mike Lynch.
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by hylaride 3mo ago
Kevin O’Leary is a grifter and he should be completely ignored. He literally got rich conning HP (though they were stupid for going ahead with it). That being said, there is a lot of actual buildouts happening right now. The question is h
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by hylaride 3mo ago
Recently the US gov't had Microsoft shut down an ICC judge's work email account. The threat is very real of more serious shenanigans (though I personally think the risk of backdoors introduced to any other software they use is ju
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by hylaride 3mo ago
The problem with subscription music is that the streaming platforms have no incentive to get you to discover new music - you're already paying either way. Before Apple Music, when it was just the iTunes Store, Apple introduced iTunes G
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by hylaride 3mo ago
You can't occupy territory with drones (yet). You will need people and moving people in a drone-infested environment will mean protecting them with armoured vehicles. Yes, these vehicles will need enhancements and other new tech to c
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by hylaride 3mo ago
The Dutch auction wasn't all that smooth, with Google having to adjust prices at the last minute. Most results show that it didn't really produce all that much of a benefit over a traditional IPO, where (the issuing company) at l
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by hylaride 3mo ago
I don't subscribe to the "China is just to big and important to fight" arguments. Countries that peg their currencies distort markets, mask problems, and eventually that comes crashing down (see also Asian financial crisis,
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by hylaride 3mo ago
I'm not sure if the NT IP stack was ever BSD, but many of the windows 3.11 and early 95 (before Microsoft natively added support) were from the BSD stack, or at the very least re-implemented the BSD socket API (Most famously Trumpet Wi
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by hylaride 3mo ago
Outside of a handful of American cities, public transit is mostly used by the poor, which can include a lot of "undesirables", and many people used to their "quiet, safe" suburbs feel deeply uncomfortable around the poor
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by hylaride 3mo ago
China's got its own set of economic problems that they're masking. Their domestic economy is stagnant and they're trying to keep factories pumping out stuff. Since their domestic economy isn't biting, they're flood

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