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by macksd 6y ago
I would support treating ex-cons as a protected class where you can reject candidates for specific roles for specific reasons but can't just discriminate against anyone with any history. History of theft? Okay, let's not leave you
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by macksd 6y ago
Yes it seems like a very flawed assumption to assume that the other uses of linseed oil would make flaxseed oil a perfect candidate. I've never tried it. Personally I just use canola oil but it can leave a sticky residue as the author
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by macksd 6y ago
This is the same wave of nostalgia I felt a little while ago when there was a post about the Digital Mars compiler...
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by macksd 6y ago
Look, I'm more willing than most to agree that forcing a medical procedure on the masses is a terrible idea. I'm even more willing than most to agree that not every vaccine will have a sufficient cost/benefit trade off for ev
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by macksd 6y ago
I don't disagree, but I've seen other open-source companies view the tarball as their source release and I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if you could at least make enough of an argument to get a judge to go along with i
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by macksd 6y ago
My degree was actually called Information Technology and I will say that it has proved to be a really good degree for me. It was essentially a CS minor with some different classes on networking, security, system administration, hardware, pr
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by macksd 6y ago
>> I would have thought that the GPL ensures that the customer can then freely redistribute them I'm actually surprised Red Hat has typically shipped SRPMS in bulk to it's customers. I think it's rare that customers wou
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by macksd 6y ago
I think this is one of those cases where one might say the customer (or user, in this case) is always right. But there are always customers who will just find something to complain about, and often (like when the product is a free community
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by macksd 6y ago
It's definitely interesting if the concept is new to you, but there's quite a lot of work on this done already, decades ago, which should be known to those who care about securing airgapped machines. Here's a good place to s
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by macksd 6y ago
That was also my impression from several high-profile instances of journalists being arrested this year. Here's one specific example: https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/29/us/minneapolis-cnn-crew-arres... .
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by macksd 6y ago
I've had a lot of problems crossing the borders between Colorado and neighboring states, presumably because my Colorado plates are considered probable cause that I'm smuggling marijuana. It's always "oh I thought your ta
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by macksd 6y ago
I think the bigger concern in this case is that we don't know. And the overwhelmingly strong historical case for vaccines that exist doesn't really apply that well here since it's a pretty new approach of essentially doing ge
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by macksd 6y ago
It isn't entirely the typical anti-vax nonsense or outlandish conspiracy theories, though. mRNA vaccines are entirely new and I don't believe we've had even traditional vaccines start getting used outside of trials so quickly
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by macksd 6y ago
Trump threatening someone does not imply they needed to be threatened.
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by macksd 6y ago
What reaction is appropriate when police use lethal force inappropriately and then get away with it? That's already an extreme if you ask me.
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by macksd 6y ago
> I don't like private companies getting to decide what's truthful and what's not, but it's not like the US government is doing a better job If the responsibility has to lie with either one (to police other people&#x2
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by macksd 6y ago
Makes sense. But what changed in practice that made scenario 2 more likely?
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by macksd 6y ago
>> I think I understand RHEL and I think I understand Fedora, but I never got the appeal of CentOS. A lot of the appeal of RHEL is being the de facto industry standard. CentOS also gives you that, just without the support contract, wh
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by macksd 6y ago
The original CentOS founder already announced his intention to do exactly that. I believe it's going to land here: https://github.com/hpcng/rocky . The thread about the CentOS Stream announcement yesterday had refe
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by macksd 6y ago
Would normal maintenance have prevented this? My understanding from the initial reports is that they were unable to identify any flaw or anomaly in the steel cable that snapped that would have indicated the problem ahead of time, and that i
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by macksd 6y ago
In the case of Hadoop's S3 connector, this could eliminate this entire directory, plus its tests, plus a bunch of hooks in the main code: https://github.com/apache/hadoop/tree/trunk/hadoop-tools&#x2F
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by macksd 6y ago
Yes. In fact I spent months working on a system to workaround all the problems it caused for Hadoop: https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/current/hadoop-aws/tools/hado... . We had a lot of automated tests that
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by macksd 6y ago
Ok - so in an embedded browser how do I know with high confidence my credentials are being sent encrypted to the right authenticator? If that functionality isn't part of the web, then I don't subscribe to it.
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by macksd 6y ago
I think this is good. My big concern with OpenID was that, beyond it's technical security, it was training users to enter very valuable credentials (like their Google account that they probably use for bank emails, etc.) all over the p
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by macksd 6y ago
One could also say the same of anything exposed on a shared network, or anything that has a USB port, because those have been the vectors of many attacks too. There's a spectrum of risk people are willing to take and this provides anot
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by macksd 6y ago
This refers to tasks that trust each other, not tasks that are trusted in general. For instance workloads on a shared server from 2 different users. It's for isolation for each other to mitigate side-channel attacks.
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by macksd 6y ago
Many of the suggestions I'm seeing are the polar opposite of how this thread started. When you're remote you miss a lot of context. Overcommunicating in writing helps address that. Eliminating information or not expecting people t
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by macksd 6y ago
That was my first thought too, but if I think I might go septic soon, I'm gonna take that risk. Additionally, I believe if the imprint codes match on a commercial product, you can be reasonably sure it was forced to go through all the
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by macksd 6y ago
It goes both ways. I can see what you're saying, but on the other hand I look at the sheer panic some communities experienced at the fear of running out of toilet paper and the anxiety people have over what might come next, and I just
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by macksd 6y ago
You don't need a prescription to buy antibiotics that are sold for pets, like fish. And you can buy antibiotics that are sold for pets that happen to be the same as the antibiotics manufactured for humans.

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