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by iso1210 5y ago
And the far east is also full of knock-off products, what's your point? Nobody is stopping Moldovan alcohol producers from making sparkling or fortified wines, they just can't pretend its something else in the hopes of conning the
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by iso1210 5y ago
Florida Orange Juice, Vidalia onions, Idaho potatoes, and of course the "Made In USA" stamp.
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by iso1210 5y ago
Lets assume you can make a trainer in exactly the same way as Adidas do, can you stick Adidas on the side? No, it's a trademark. That's effectively what PGI is, and unlike patents and copyright, trademarks have a direct benefit to
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by iso1210 5y ago
But the thing is, what if you produce a Big Mac with the exact same ingredients and recipe at O'Donnels burger joint? The customer gets the exact same thing, only made somewhere else. Still that's OK, I slap "Made in America&
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by iso1210 5y ago
If systemd was just a replacement for starting scripts that would be one thing. when you have to run "systemctl disable systemd-timesyncd systemd-resolved systemd-networkd" to start to get back to sanity, that's not init
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by iso1210 5y ago
Ouch, what on earth does "log out" even mean? What a terrible way to run any computer other than maybe a single user laptop.
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by iso1210 5y ago
Maybe there are, but that doesn't help me. The systemd way seems to be "one tool of complexity 40 to 50 things" rather than "50 tools of complexity 1 each doing one thing". When you only need 10 things, you only nee
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by iso1210 5y ago
service myserver restart /etc/init.d/myserver restart Seems the traditional order to me $ service myserver status $ service myserver reload $ service myserver restart makes perfect sense when tackling a
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by iso1210 5y ago
I suspect many sysadmins, certainly the ones who complain about syslog, were quite happy with init.d Traditionally developers would write code and packagers would package them into a distro specific rpm/deb -- including the init script
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by iso1210 5y ago
It's iconic, but there were many more subtle gags The IT Crowd popularised "have you tried turning it off and on again"
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by iso1210 5y ago
You live in a country where people modify their vehicles to deliberately cause more pollution - and not just CO2 emissions, but local particulates that do immediate damage to your community. Appeasing that mentality is not the solution.
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by iso1210 5y ago
Back before things like home video was a dot on the horizon, shows were shown once, and tapes cost a fortune
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by iso1210 5y ago
They don't want to damage the international distribution arm of the BBC (used to be BBC Worldwide), which runs channels like BBC America and BBC World (not World Service radio, or world service TV), and sells programs like Doctor Who t
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by iso1210 5y ago
I've been looking at music over the last year or so, bits of basic music theory. As a child I had no idea how linked to maths it was, and how much easier music is once you realise that it's just applied mathematics and touch typin
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by iso1210 5y ago
Smallest nuclear bomb (not dirty bomb) made was 23kg, literally suitcase size. However if you have one and want to use it, you're probably better off sending it in on a shipping container or truck (or commercial or private plane)
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by iso1210 5y ago
I'd love to know if they've ever been tested in reality. If succesful (especially as a first strike), you could theoretically launch from a high apogee using cold gas to adjust your heading, and have plausible deniability.
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by iso1210 5y ago
> Do you just open new terminals all the time and never go back to the old ones Yes. If I'm in a firefox window looking at an email, I'll hit alt-enter, do my task, possibly one of several open windows (I often end up with 4 qu
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by iso1210 5y ago
Do services like airplay and other bonjour based protocols work?
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by iso1210 5y ago
If I share my email with tailscale that's sharing data between me and them, no third party involved. If I use an OAuth integration I'm involving a third party Some people use a third party email provider, but chances are they aren
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by iso1210 5y ago
Isn't the tailscale work more to do with authenticating hosts than the network. You trust all communication decodable by a trusted public key. That still allows malware on a trusted end device to connect to you, but then if you've
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by iso1210 5y ago
However in situations where you have say a Juniper SRX scrambling both source and destination ports on both sides of your nat, the birthday intersect is 2^32 rather than 2^16. With a Cisco ASA or Fortigate which tends to keep the same sourc
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by iso1210 5y ago
That's not productivity
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by iso1210 5y ago
== killUnusedTerminalsAndBC.sh == This kills off any open bc instances I have, and then any open rxvts I have which aren't running another program After a day or so I can easilly have 100+ rxvts in the background, some of which are run
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by iso1210 5y ago
Why would the higher corporate taxes in the US encourage that? Cushy low strsss jobs and enjoying life are more likely in Europe thanks to social safety nets, which is great - means that 80% of the continent gets to have a nice life, rather
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by iso1210 5y ago
Tungston rods. Would you even detect the deorbit burn?
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by iso1210 5y ago
America really wins in marketing and consumerism - especially when appealing to the American consumer
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by iso1210 5y ago
So farmers in China have benefitted, rich boomers have benefitted, the environment has suffered, and working americans are going nowhere.
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by iso1210 5y ago
How do "high taxes" crush a company? Do companies say "Right, I'm not going to make an extra billion this year because I'll be taxed at the EU average 20.7% tax rather than the US 21%"
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by iso1210 5y ago
> Remember the John Hopkins coronavirus dashboard making the rounds last year? No. I've seen good stuff from ft.com, ourworldindata, gov.uk -- all 3 are from the UK.
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by iso1210 5y ago
Quite. Musk is so unusual and venerated by many because he's different to the normal US billionaires who seem to want to squeeze the world and get new yachts. Bezos is doing blue original as a money sinking hobby. Ellison buys yachts a

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