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by manicdee 6y ago
My walled garden respects me as a user, but I am the kind of user the walled garden is maintained for.
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by manicdee 6y ago
How do you go about preparing a PR for an upstream if all the code is magically in your own version control system? And then how do you separate site-specific patches from bug fixes and new features for the upstream?
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by manicdee 6y ago
What about git submodules?
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by manicdee 6y ago
The way the US chose to address accidents in rail was to armour plate their rail cars. In Europe they worked on better processes to ensure trains don’t run into each other in the first place. The erosion of technical capability in rail is d
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by manicdee 6y ago
Funding for archival services is hardly politics. Commenters anywhere are going to bring up “the good old days” in relation to anything. This is called “being human.” Your personal conclusion doesn’t fit the facts presented in the article:
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by manicdee 6y ago
They buy you time to get out.
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by manicdee 6y ago
After reentry the next most dangerous part of the entire launch/return process is likely landing at sea and being rescued by helicopters or ships. So I will be holding my metaphoric breath until the astronauts are delivered from SpaceX
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by manicdee 6y ago
Fences and lockable doors or gates are one thing the company can do.
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by manicdee 6y ago
Executive Summary: Unilever uses multinational status to dodge litigation for failure to protect workers.
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by manicdee 6y ago
An i3 laptop has more Intel silicon in it than just the i3. It also requires more energy, which means larger batteries, which means more dollars.
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by manicdee 6y ago
… because of the specialised hardware and the tiny video resolutions supported.
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by manicdee 6y ago
If you want to work on your ultimate phone environment as a hobby, there is Android. If you want things to work just the way they are with the fewest surprises and least amount of finagling use Apple. I use macOS instead of Linux for this r
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by manicdee 6y ago
Cool story bro. Meanwhile in the real world we are not all born psychopaths with the privilege of only working with people like us who like us. In addition we live in the same world where “only following orders” is still a thing: so one per
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by manicdee 6y ago
I can’t help but feel free speech absolutists are the same species as economists, all believing that every human is a rational actor with perfect information. The Orion Welles “War of the Worlds” recital should feature more in the discussio
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by manicdee 6y ago
Not enough. What are the penalties for entities misusing my information provided to them by Google?
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by manicdee 6y ago
Dream width is where people go to post stuff that isn’t allowed elsewhere. So while explicit imagery is not the norm, nor is it normative, it’s not unusual and is to be expected.
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by manicdee 6y ago
It already does work like this with Facebook and Twitter controlling which posts are displayed for you. The enforcement works better when you aren’t aware of it. Being covert means you don’t protest so loudly.
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by manicdee 6y ago
Given the information available to the user there is simply no way to understand what is being done. You might be able to guess or use insider knowledge to film in the blanks but someone who is not a Google employee in a privileged position
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by manicdee 6y ago
All the problems on Mars are resolved through engineering. The problems on Earth are the result of humans thinking their egoes are more important than the life support system of the spaceship they live on. Eventually the people problems wil
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by manicdee 6y ago
That's part of the joke.
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by manicdee 6y ago
Tests aren’t going to stop the virus. Self-isolation, social distancing, proper hygiene are going to slow the virus down. To implement those properly requires paying low-income workers to stay home. A vaccine will stop the virus, but we don
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by manicdee 6y ago
The people you need to retain are the good ones who left because working conditions, pay, or management style were not worth it. The good people will be leaving when things start going bad, the people you are left with at the end are the on
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by manicdee 6y ago
Pretty sure Discord already has processes in place for dealing with legal processes. A few crackers isn’t going to increase their workload which is likely reporting on dozens of child abuse, sexual abuse, stalking and harassment cases a mon
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by manicdee 6y ago
Or the crackers provided “confirmation” to the journalists based on what false information had already been fed to investigators.
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by manicdee 6y ago
What are your recommendations for better UX?
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by manicdee 6y ago
My iPhone 6 is my daily driver. You should try using it before telling people it doesn’t work.
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by manicdee 6y ago
Every problem you mentioned with a Jira is some decision your IT folks made. The same every time I hear people telling me how awful the software is: they complain of autocratic workflows, forms being slow, forms being complex and having so
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by manicdee 6y ago
Mass political unrest, another pandemic, combined with overpopulation leading to complete collapse of food systems.
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by manicdee 6y ago
What they don’t know doesn’t keep them up at night.
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by manicdee 6y ago
In what client server situation does it make sense to use pickles over JSON/YAML?

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