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by kbar13 6y ago
you can close land borders just as you can close air borders. the threat model is average joe unknowningly carrying the coronavirus on their vacation / business commute, not some special op team sneaking into the country.
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by kbar13 6y ago
sex work should be legalized and regulated, just like marijuana. sex work and porn has been a reality since the beginning of time, and making it "illegal" and letting it fester in dark corners is unhealthy. without proper educatio
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by kbar13 6y ago
doesn’t wanna meddle in other countries affairs but he will comment on american companies moderation decisions... ok bubba
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by kbar13 6y ago
looks like pikaso is a tool used for screenshotting tweets for usage on sites / other marketing. and this is a demo / marketing for their tool
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by kbar13 6y ago
can you clarify what you mean by bone seeking? i have a very rudimentary understanding of radioactive materials
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by kbar13 6y ago
people very often need to setup their own WAP because cellular providers sell metered connections on the order of GB/month, whereas comcast (the most prevalent ISP in america) meters at TB/month. in addition, not every device curr
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by kbar13 6y ago
i dont think anyone is arguing that grocery stores should run their own delivery service. the problem is that these delivery drivers / gig workers should be getting benefits and fair wages for essentially working full time jobs.
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by kbar13 6y ago
i dont understand this focus on litter on the streets. yes clean streets is wonderful but i dont rank it anywhere near freedom of speech and social equality or something like standardized healthcare in importance. my hunch is that "cle
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by kbar13 6y ago
if you read the twitter thread we see that uber was spending 10x more money than they should have on ads simply because they weren't auditing where their money was going towards. so there's evidence that people (incl uber, a marke
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by kbar13 6y ago
being able to play video games and alt tab into writing and testing code during queue times is huge for me
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by kbar13 6y ago
weird sarcasm aside rewriting python in go makes sense in this scenario because it’s a stable language that supports cross compilation. ruby doesn’t have the same guarantee
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by kbar13 6y ago
i think the idea is that k8s does away with having to glue all those pieces of infra together, not that you lose understanding of how it all works together. part of the headache with managing infra is that it rots over time... things come a
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by kbar13 6y ago
i felt the same way 25 hours in... don't worry you'll start hitting really bad bugs. especially in the last few mainline missions
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by kbar13 6y ago
funny how cyberpunk's woes are basically the inverse of NMS lol... no man's sky's tech was mostly there, but there was no content. there's a good amount of story and voice acting in cyberpunk... but the tech to support i
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by kbar13 6y ago
sf property tax is 1.2
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by kbar13 6y ago
to me it just reads like the person who wrote it was proud of what they've done
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by kbar13 6y ago
best buy has also greatly improved their selection in inventory. about 10 years ago when i was building a pc the best buy store by me in NJ would only have a couple options for RAM, hard drive, gpu, and they would generally be no-name or lo
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by kbar13 6y ago
as an avid IRC user in the past... discord and slack added considerable value in the form of built-in search history, voip/video chat, integrations with other platforms and games. IRC was a great tool during the 90s and early 2000s for
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by kbar13 6y ago
binning i guess?
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by kbar13 6y ago
as a software dev who went for air before the current gen of pro macbooks with hardware esc, dont do it the air is really sluggish for anything but the lightest of tasks. there was even extremely noticeable latency using gmail.com
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by kbar13 6y ago
engineer-speak for dropping requests that are less noticeable to users when dropped in order to give services room to recover
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by kbar13 6y ago
Also writing bespoke REST clients for every single endpoint is just a huge waste of time and error prone since there’s so many ways of doing everything. One of my biggest gripes with REST APIs is having identifiers in url path instead of in
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by kbar13 6y ago
providers like this dont migrate data for no reason. there was probably a bad drive in the array or something, or some other known defect, so they are opting to migrate off the host before things get worse
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by kbar13 6y ago
yeah hardware issues happen, it's unfortunate but it happens on a very regular basis. backups are important
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by kbar13 6y ago
2020 and 3 of top 5 economies in the world are Asian and you are still saying developed vs undeveloped countries. Update your biases please.
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by kbar13 7y ago
so they implemented a triggerbot irl. gamers rise up.
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by kbar13 7y ago
think renaming a software library is hard? try changing units of measure!!!!!
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by kbar13 7y ago
yes as i said, word of mouth is an important part of growth. but word of mouth doesn't just happen out of nowhere. discord knows their market, did their research, and did tons of work behind the scenes in marketing, partnerships, devel
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by kbar13 7y ago
what's surprising about discord's privacy policy? it seems pretty straightforward. we can push open source alternatives all you want but the truth is that these alternatives don't do a good enough job with the most valuable p
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by kbar13 7y ago
past a certain point you want your provider to do more and more for you (more features). like you mentioned, AWS is complex but they do pretty much everything for you. I've built systems that are just glued together AWS services.

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