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by jt2190 3y ago
Link to the declassified “Simple Sabotage Field Manual” document at the top of this article: “The Art of Simple Sabotage” (2019) https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/the-art-of-simple-sabotage...
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The answer is right here: > Public pools are costly for cities to maintain and insure. > Cities also have struggled to staff pools with lifeguards. High-school and college students have more summer job options and are less likely to p
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Text only version: https://lite.cnn.com/2023/07/22/business/public-pools-extrem...
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The complaints here make it sound like the tourists hold all the power and the locales are helpless to stop them, but the reality is that tourism is two-sided: Locales actively try to attract tourists, and tourists decide to visit. If the l
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Ah. Mandatory for the insurer to offer, not for the patient to do.
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I think this is the Pitchbook report they’re reporting on: “PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor 2nd Quarter 2023” https://pitchbook.com/news/reports/q2-2023-pitchbook-nvca-ve... > Takeaways include: > Raising cap
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My larger point is that a code review can only happen after the programmer has changed some code. For anything that is flagged during the review it’s fair to ask: Was this requirement known before the programmer started writing code, and
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Pasting this here for context: > Climateprediction.net is a volunteer computing, climate modelling [sic] project based at the University of Oxford in the Environmental Change Institute, the Oxford e-Research Centre and Atmospheric, Ocean
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> The goal is to make sure that multiple people working on a codebase have at least some idea of what's going on in every corner of it. If that is truly the goal, shouldn’t the programmer have that information before they start
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I’m not sure what you’re taking issue with, as that’s his point: If the founder did not require someone else’s “approval” to take the position of CEO, why should, say, a developer believe that they need “approval” from their organization to
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> … [Extreme Programming (XP), an early “agile” method] involves a lot of design, but does it in a different way than established software processes. XP has rejuvenated the notion of evolutionary design with practices that allow evoluti
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> And many of those costs have a nasty tendency to remain hidden until they suddenly don't, and at that point, people often already expended inordinate amounts of resources on them. Any business that employs software developers know
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by jt2190 3y ago
This history is not quite correct: HTML was defined in SGML originally, and that did not support self-closing tags. Pulling in a DOCTYPE header and validating with, say, the W3C validator would flag self-closing tags.
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This is because the technology of the time severely limited the number of available channels. You’ve enumerated only three, but there weren’t many more than that. Clearly there are more than three points of view, so these laws helped balanc
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It’s illustrative of the level of effort required for humans to resolve the “real or fake” question. We’re about to see an explosion of AI-generated images and other content on the web. That said, a thoughtful person can easily estimate tha
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> The back-ports into existing RHEL releases are what Red Hat is trying to make harder for people to consume outside of a Red Hat subscription That’s an interesting detail. Thanks!
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This issue has gotten a lot of attention on HN lately, but I'm still struggling to wrap my head around it. If anyone can clarify my understanding I'd appreciate it. My understanding is that Red Hat Enterprise Linux can be thought
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Ad-free link: Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen “We are wasting up to 20 percent of our time on computer problems” https://di.ku.dk/english/news/2023/even-though-our-computers... Origin
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> … I don't agree with this sentiment. Not the parent poster… I’m unclear what sentiment you’re disagreeing with: Are you inferring that velcrovan is against tinkering with niche distros?
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Yes. A lot of commenters here seem to be unaware that the Wagner Group had become uncomfortably powerful for Putin even prior to the Ukraine conflict, and that the incorporation of Wagner soldiers into the Russian Army is a clear signal tha
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Yes. And just like you’re implying, it has nothing to do with the beer quality itself (which might even be better now that they’re owned by Sapporo [1]) but some other criteria like “being cool”. [1] Note that I said “might be better [qu
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“Rational Unified Process” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_unified_process
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> People aren't really "smarter" just because they write incomprehensible code. Go reread what I wrote: I never made that assertion.
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> … they just make simple code which I can understand with a glance. That locks the team into “as smart as me, but no smarter” and doesn’t really scale beyond very small teams and very rote work. One person rarely has all the ability plu
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The founder of Boston Beer Company (brewers of Sam Adams) has talked about how beer drinkers now want to try one of everything and are endlessly moving from label to label, whereas in the past drinkers would settle on one brand and stick wi
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Source: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Consumer advisory: "Your money is at greater risk when you hold it in a payment app, instead of moving it to an account with deposit insurance", June 1, 2023 https://www.cons
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What users want and User stories (in the agile iterative software sense) are different things. At their best user stories represent problems to solve for the end user, but rarely have I been able trace back a user story to something tha
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> “I swear I’ve read these instructions a hundred times but I just can’t seem to remember them”, Star complained. > Arti replied. “Let me guess: You’re rocking 102 neurals. Those won’t retain any material from Kilimanjaro. Not license
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> Removing content from platforms is a way for streamers to avoid residual payments and licensing fees. > “Much like syndication of Hollywood’s yesteryear, streaming services must pay for the right to host a title,” explained Brandon
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Streaming services are removing movies and shows: It’s Strictly Business(cnbc.com)
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