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by hylaride 11mo ago
Also, outside of the supremely wealthy Canadians, very few go to the US for private care. There is a medical tourism market to Mexico and other parts of Latin America for elective surgeries and uncovered treatments for some chronic conditi
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> You learn lessons over the years and this is one I learned at some point: you want to work in revenue centers, not cost centers. The problem is that many places don't see the cost portions of revenue centers as investment, but sti
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by hylaride 11mo ago
> Tell me why I must use it without resorting to 'you will be unable to access IPv6 hosted services!' or 'think of the children!?' -- both emotional manipulations. You probably don't see it directly, but IPv4 IP
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by hylaride 11mo ago
Linus Torvalds was recently on Linux Tech Tips to build a new computer and he insisted on ECC RAM. Torvalds was convinced that memory errors are a much greater problem for stability than otherwise posted and he's spent an inordinate am
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by hylaride 11mo ago
I almost completely agree with you, but IPv6 isn't going anywhere - it's our only real alternative. Any other new standard would take decades to implement even if a new standard is agreed on. Core routers would need to be replac
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Not to get into a flame war, but 99% of my issues with systemd is that they didn't just replace init, but NTP, DHCP, logging (this one is arguably necessary, but they made it complicated, especially if you want to send logs to a centra
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From the people I know that studied at places like Harvard and Yale (which since I'm Canadian isn't a huge sample size), I've been told that there are essentially two different streams of undergrads there - those on legacy ad
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As a Canadian, for all the faults of our healthcare system, the fact that I don't have to stick with a job to maintain healthcare for myself or my family is a massive amount of freedom I take for granted.
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For Ukraine, war deaths would likely be a footnote compared to emigration when a new census is eventually completed (I don't mean to sound cavalier, but am trying to put things into perspective). An estimated 20% of their population h
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Your arguments are irrelevant at best and whataboutism at worst because the Japanese were specifically attacking the US Navy as they saw it as a threat to their own expansion plans - which were far worse than anything the US did, even compa
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From a pure safety point of view, it's easier to deal with older, but well-understood products, only updating them if it's an actual safety issue. The alternative is having to deal with many generations of tech, as well as permuta
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by hylaride 11mo ago
Years ago, I watched a documentary called "Cocaine Cowboys". It was about how Florida went from a sleepy state to a drug-fuelled boom as cocaine started to show up and bring in tons of money over the 1970s and 1980s. They interv
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by hylaride 11mo ago
It makes sense when you think about it. If you made a huge capital gain and then "lost" it in Vegas how is that different than "losing" it via other means? Also, if this wasn't the case, it'd be a massive, gap
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by hylaride 11mo ago
It happens in fashion going both ways for a variety of reasons, though with fast fashion it's all so intermingled. Many rock bands with working class roots "bring up" styles (like the newsboy cap), but also lower classes try
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by hylaride 11mo ago
Their customers are advertisers, not users. By the looks of things they love them.
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I'll answer because some people are probably genuinely curious to some of these. > 1. What happened to the deadly radioactivity? It mostly decayed out. Generally speaking, 8 half-lives mean that it's essentially decayed to &qu
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by hylaride 11mo ago
Strictly speaking people should be using multiple keys so if a device is lost/stolen, you're not left high and dry. Ideally one per device, especially if they don't support some kind of secure enclave. I keep one in a yubike
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Satellite signals are low power and rely on line of sight. If he's properly in the woods, especially surrounded by hills, the trees could become a hinderance.
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> Is there even a case where more RAM is not really better, except for its cost? It depends. It takes more energy, which can be undesirable in battery powered devices like laptops and phones. Higher end memory can also generate more he
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The incentives are also all over the place. The shipping industry uses a lot of labour from "poor" countries, but on bulk shipping the labour costs are often a rounding error. The main issue is, of course, working conditions. A
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by hylaride 11mo ago
Tragically, it's the same with modern software development and the growth of technical debt.
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IIRC the biggest issue with the jones act is the supply of US-built vessels, which are expensive, the current fleet is aging and, outside of defence, there's no real domestic shipbuilding industry anymore. This also means that domesti
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I think this is mostly the correct take. Perl's strength is that it was really good and quick and dirty one-offs, especially with text manipulation. This made it particularly popular with UNIX sysadmins and sometimes network admins.
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With even the SP500 being super concentrated in AI-exposed companies, probably a combination of bonds and foreign equities. But hedging does mean being OK with watching any (perceived or real) bubble madness continue. I wanted to put all
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Ever literally blow bubbles? You never really know how big each one will be. My biggest worry is that what will be left standing after all of this is the organizations that are quietly all the AI slop everywhere, be it the normal web or Yo
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by hylaride 11mo ago
> Dial-up, has better latency, since their is no packet-switching. So it is slow, but not laggy. It was laggy as there was buffering and some compression (at least for later revisions of dial-up) that most definitely added latency.
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Yeah, but dial-up was slow, laggy, and what 95% of people used to access the internet in those days. Real-time gaming was not fun with anything that used it. I grew up in a rural area in the 1990s and was no match for people that started
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This is why you ALWAYS have a proposal ready. I literally had my ass saved by having tickets with reliability/redundancy work clearly laid out with comments by out of touch product/people managers deprioritizing the work after at
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To be fair, there was not much Dell could do as their PERC cards were all rebranded Adaptec and later LSI. Adaptec was the gold standard for ages, but I assume was enshitified somewhere along the way. The long term result was that the ent
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> Long time OpenBSD fan. Used it as my daily driver for years before standardizing all computers at home to macOS. I still think about going back to openBSD one day, but it's no longer very practical as a daily driver. It's onl

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