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by marcus0x62 2y ago
In the late 90s/early 2000's, I would hear voice telephone conversations in central offices quite frequently. (Nobody was spying on purpose, or even paying much attention to what was being said. It was incidental to troubleshootin
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
I’ve been typing these comments on my phone. But, in any case, I don’t parse “democrat” as an epithet. You are looking for things to be offended about.
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
So “Democrat” is now an epithet . Please get help.
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
That's one option. Another option is to reject that either major party offers a sane choice and vote for a third party.
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
I'd love to have that choice. Neither the Republican nor Democrat party in 2025 offers me that.
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
> I may be old fashioned, but it actually does matter who is right. Because reality is a thing. Is that a position you hold consistently? Is there anything you believe that you wouldn’t be swayed on when presented evidence to the contrar
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
Q.E.D
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
(Also a deep-red-state resident like the GP.) The way I look at Trump/MAGA is they took over an ineffective, sclerotic Republican party that spent 40 years talking about “family values” while selling off the productive base of the coun
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
I’d love to see a link to some chat logs demonstrating this if you have any you’re willing to share.
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
Be that as it may, I don't think most LLMs have figured that out yet. Claude AI: > My knowledge cutoff date is the end of October 2024. Chat GPT: > My knowledge cutoff date is June 2024.
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
The practical implementation of this (at the time) was ADSL, HDSL, IDSL, and SDSL. Those technologies all took one or two copper pairs, and terminated them on a DSLAM (or similar device in the case of HDSL) instead of on a telephone switch
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
Turbochargers date back to the 1920s, and I'd rather troubleshoot a modern EFI/GDI system than a carburetor any day of the week.
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
https://archive.is/CtjJH
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
I agree this is unproven conspiracy theory BS, but there are a great many conspiracy theories being espoused in this post. I’m curious why it is only this one you saw fit to call out?
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
A friend got taken in by a Ponzi scheme operator several years ago. The guy running it was known for taking his clients out to lavish dinners and events all the time.[0] After the scam came to light my friend said “if I knew I was paying fo
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
Some of them don't even start on a month boundary, or even on the same day every year. Cisco, for instance, has a fiscal year based on a retail calendar[0]; their fiscal year ends on the last full week in July. 0 - https://
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
Ah, yes, that noted bastion of health disinformation and conspiracy theories, Yale. I guess it isn’t technically wrong to refer to the linked researcher as an influencer, as her 336 publications have been cited 43,649 times.
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
I totally believe you could find examples of insurance products that have increased in price 4x over the last 20 years. I have a harder time believing that obstetricians were paying $1m/year in insurance premiums 20 years ago (the cla
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
I have no problem debating people who have positions grounded in reality and who appear to be acting in good faith. In this thread you’ve: * Instead of addressing the substance of brudger’s argument[0], you attempted to tone police his com
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
> Many people do think it’s a thing, though. See my links to past threads, where I am far from alone in my opinion. See also various Linux Distributions’ rules for maintainers. Against my better judgement, I read through the first thread
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
They used to charge $600 for the service. The way I found out about them being owned by a PE group is that a friend, who is a radiologist (like for people,) took his dog in and they needed to do an xray. Cost: $500. What he gets paid for do
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
I don't "keep" doing anything - this is the first and only time I've ever replied to one of your comments, nor have I said anything that a reasonable person could construe as conflating legal obligations and social etiqu
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
Correct. The relevant social etiquette here is "don't look a gift horse in the mouth."
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
Or -- stay with me -- they have the option of running their public project in the manner and with the level of effort they want. If you don't like that, you are free to run your own projects according to your own standards.
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
My first (knowing) run in with PE-owned businesses was with my local veterinarian. We’ve used them for years, and always had good experiences with them. Over the past few years, I noticed prices increased substantially, which I attributed
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
> Will you find it to be different? Yes. > Honestly, ground meat is ground meat. What makes you think ground chicken is "quite different"? Because when people who don't sell chicken nuggets have looked closely, they hav
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
There are many variations of this story out there. A few: * Interview with Bill Yeager https://www.networkworld.com/article/847852/lan-wan-router-m... (of note: gives credit for the early hardware architecture us
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
You’ll find the “ground chicken” in a typical industrially produced chicken nugget to be quite different than the ground meat found in a traditional Italian meatball.
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
Maybe we'll end up with a state where typical computers have a CPU, a GPU, and a QPU to solve different problems.
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by marcus0x62 2y ago
> But you could also argue the airline industry is fairly concentrated. That's great and everything, but I don't see what it has to do with what I wrote: even given infinite competition, the risk to the public from an improperl

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