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by joh6nn 3y ago
"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." ― Stephen Jay Gould
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by joh6nn 3y ago
I encourage you not to be embarrassed and to simply opensource it. To err is human; anyone giving you grief because of bugs doesn't deserve the effort you've put in. And opening it now could actually bring assistance in getting th
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by joh6nn 4y ago
> once it is achieved, we might as well wrap our stuff up and leave. I don't subscribe to an achievement based view of life. I think the best part of living is enjoying a good view, appreciating the company of friends, etc. I don&#x
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by joh6nn 4y ago
I believe the following Isaac Asimov story best answers your question: https://archive.org/details/1958-02_IF/page/n5/mode/2up?view...
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by joh6nn 4y ago
If rents rise to a level that you can't find a home, aren't you by definition impoverished? Is there some aspect of this distinction that I'm not grasping?
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by joh6nn 5y ago
Ah, sorry, I definitely lost that context. Thanks for clarifying
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by joh6nn 5y ago
-n or --dry-run. Rsync has a TON of features, it is worth the time to thoroughly read the man page at least once
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by joh6nn 6y ago
4th paragraph of that Wikipedia article: "The name "homeownership rate" can be misleading. As defined by the US Census Bureau, it is the percentage of homes that are occupied by the owner. It is not the percentage of adults t
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by joh6nn 6y ago
For people down-voting this comment, note that it is a direct quote from the xkcd chart itself
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by joh6nn 6y ago
"no wireless. less space than a nomad"
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by joh6nn 6y ago
you're having it both ways in your comment here: if it's only superficial and doesn't actually change anything, then you can safely ignore it. it only matters if it is actually controlling how you think (in which case, it is
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by joh6nn 6y ago
right? maybe Op would care to give examples of software issues that have no social or political ramifications?
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by joh6nn 6y ago
serious question: how would you know?
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by joh6nn 6y ago
To me, this seems like a much more fragile and convoluted process than just having the buttons be on the machine itself. For one thing, the machine becomes unusable if there's any disruption to the network (wifi outage, dns issues, ser
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by joh6nn 8y ago
The number of times in my life that I have seen "this should never happen" scroll by on STDOUT suggests that it's time well spent.
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by joh6nn 8y ago
Interesting. Does this handle SSO at all, and if so how? Semi-relatedly, does it support multiple users?
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by joh6nn 8y ago
Per Brock et al, 2000, yes: the universe is shaped exactly like the Earth. If you go straight long enough, you'll end up where you were.
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by joh6nn 8y ago
Obviously that wage isn't sustainable. The good news is that the majority of people discussing wage increases are making good-faith arguments about sustainable increases, and are not asking for a (ridiculous) $12M/yr minimum wage.
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by joh6nn 8y ago
Yes, you already said that. You asked what would happen if their supply chain raised payroll (and therefore prices) by $1M/mo. And I answered that question.
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by joh6nn 8y ago
I didn't twist it to fit my beliefs: i presented a scenario that is actually more expensive than what it would be in reality and showed how even that would not be a substantial increase in cost, even if it was paid for exclusively by i
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by joh6nn 8y ago
Kraft-Heinz had $26.2B in sales in 2017, of which $9B was profit. They had 39K employees. If we naively assume that all 39K are minimum wage employees working full time all year, that comes out to a payroll cost of $1.2B. that's approx
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by joh6nn 9y ago
"has" is present tense. I think you meant "had"?
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by joh6nn 10y ago
the bash version might be technically faster, but i doubt it would be faster in any practical, meaningful way: most of the time spent in the script is waiting for input, or waiting for a command to return. that it need not depend on ruby is
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by joh6nn 10y ago
i actually ported this over to POSIX shell a few years back: https://github.com/joh6nn/shrepl afaik, it will work just about anywhere you can invoke a shell (i haven't tested it all that extensively)
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by joh6nn 11y ago
your logic is flawless
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by joh6nn 13y ago
selling our usage patterns is something that nearly every major site does. anybody who's displaying ads is complicit if not active, and Google is a friggin' ring leader. do you consider these major players to be malicious? these t
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by joh6nn 13y ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=define+malware "software that is intended to damage or disable computers and computer systems. origin: blend of malicious and software ." The regard that people hold for these piece
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by joh6nn 13y ago
as i said in response to another post, i hate adware and toolbars as much as the next person, but semantics is important: malware is malicious software. a toolbar that i did not intend to install, but is not malicious, is not malware.
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by joh6nn 13y ago
i appreciate your argument, but semantics are important. malware is software that is malicious. a toolbar that i did not intend to install, but is not malicious, is not malware.
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by joh6nn 14y ago
no, this depends on the implementation, and the length of the password you used.

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