klooney

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   by klooney 3y ago

   Saying that the Mensheviks predate the Bolsheviks is kind of odd- there was one political party, then they had a big fight and split in two. Menshevik literally means "minority" and Bolshevik "majority", that's how
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   by klooney 3y ago

   Hack's Bitstream Vera ancestry brings me back to installing Debian as a thirteen year old, a strong nostalgic pull.
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   by klooney 3y ago

   I never want to piss next to a man on a zoom call ever again.
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   by klooney 3y ago

   I mean, maybe they're better after a decade
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   by klooney 3y ago

   It's different being outside all day everyday from day 0 and being inside most of the time except for on the weekends. Plus, you know, we take lots of notes about cancer now.
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   by klooney 3y ago

   The two great regrets of my life are too much caffeine and not enough exercise.
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   by klooney 3y ago

   It's really only relevant if you have Big Business Problems and also don't want to pay Red Hat to solve them.
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   by klooney 3y ago

   They were, their electric cars have been pretty bad- super low range (110 miles), low volume production. Their new, competitive cars are based on GM's tech and battery stack.
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   by klooney 3y ago

   I mean, Adam Neumann owns a lot of the buildings and land. He was perfectly aware of the smart business model here.
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    by klooney 3y ago

    What kind of person specifically?
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    by klooney 3y ago

    Weird to put Ken Thompson down as in the Unix haters club.
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    by klooney 3y ago

    Especially since he's just spinning it up occasionally for a blog post. What is the point of this yak shave?
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    by klooney 3y ago

    I don't know where you live, but where I live it's an all under the table business, mostly done by people without papers, presumably for under minimum wage. It probably wouldn't pencil out to go straight.
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    by klooney 3y ago

    100HP cars are getting thin on the ground, now that Mitsubishi is out of the market. A Camry has like 200 HP now, doesn't it?
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    by klooney 3y ago

    You're too generous, that's over the 99th percentile. 95th is 6'2"- https://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/data/set2/chart-07.pdf It's fine if BMI breaks down at the 99.99th percentile, doc
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    The "Deaths of Despair" narrative is wrong(slowboring.com)

    2 points by klooney 3y ago|0 comments
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    by klooney 3y ago

    This is Singapore's strategy, although it's a little softer, since the government runs so much of the housing stock.
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    by klooney 3y ago

    None more foolish than the man in the grip of a desire to win an argument on the Internet.
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    by klooney 3y ago

    You can set up multiple 2FA- I have two yubikeys and a TOTP key registered.
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    by klooney 3y ago

    SSD, Linux, an Intel i5.
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    by klooney 3y ago

    Blocking the official Google Go proxy will work pretty well, go get will just fail by default. If someone works around that on a developer machine, it shouldn't matter, because release builds should still come from an automated system,
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    by klooney 3y ago

    I figure in 20 or so years the C and C++ cohort will age out, and the problem will get sorted.
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    by klooney 3y ago

    Go has a thing for that now- everything goes through a proxy ( https://proxy.golang.org ), and if you set GO_PROXY, you can send it through your proxy (Nexus et al).
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    by klooney 3y ago

    Web browsing is rough on my circa-2015 laptop.
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    by klooney 3y ago

    I haven't used Cloudformation in three years, how's it doing these days?
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    by klooney 3y ago

    Pension funds is shorthand for pension funds and other bulk investments for other people vehicles like BlackRock and Vanguard. A common complaint from people is that there's under ten entities that owns almost all of the major public f
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    by klooney 3y ago

    I think you're reading him backwards- he's pro YIMBY, and saying that they are bipartisan and successful, but annoying to highly online highly partisan types.
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    by klooney 3y ago

    They're much older companies.
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    by klooney 3y ago

    Older people, because the denominator has gone way up. Women, you know, it's complicated.
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    by klooney 3y ago

    The peacetime supply chain determines the possibilities of the wartime supply chain. You can't open a mine overnight, refineries are incredibly expensive and fiddly and require a lot of very specific knowledge, tool manufacturing capac