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by markstos 7y ago
Weapons don't have be sophisticated to be used as weapons. Even physical bombs don't have be sophisticated to be bombs. "It wasn't an armed robbery, it was just unsophisticated criminal behavior that happened to involve
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by markstos 7y ago
So name some names with specific examples.
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by markstos 7y ago
Typing this on an Ergodox EZ as well. I defined custom layers so that I can toggle a layer on depending on whether I'm using the keyboard with Chrome OS or Ubuntu Linux. This allows me to use the same shortcuts between the two OSes, wh
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by markstos 7y ago
Their velocity might have been slowed by figuring out how to manage 4,000 containers effectively. If they had dealt with managing concurrency effectively sooner, they would need 30x less containers-- 133.
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by markstos 7y ago
This is bad for frontend JavaScript being "open" for review, right? Companies will ask their developers to deliver WASM resources in the name of performance. As a notable side-effect, it will become harder to review how websites w
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by markstos 7y ago
As a dominant search engine and tech company, Google is also an established "party in power". If we want to re-balance power, we can redirect some outrage from Google to our own choices about the votes we make with our attention a
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by markstos 7y ago
No, they are supposed to provide actual leadership and expertise to lead an effort to protect the data.
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by markstos 7y ago
This still may be a step above Google's Android. Android now has Google-provided weather on the lock screen that can't be disabled. The only way for Google's weather service to show you the weather for your current location i
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by markstos 7y ago
I understand, but recall seeing literally zero "dumb" TV options at Best Buy at the size I was looking for.
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by markstos 7y ago
If I have a doctor's appointment in the middle of the day, I might add it to my personal calendar with full details, but I still need to add an entry to my work calendar to show I'll be out of the office, possibly with a generic t
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by markstos 7y ago
I'm glad to see Google is dropping their closed-source, "share a copy of everything you print with Google" service. Instead, they are doubling down on supporting open source printing standards and projects like CUPS. That&#x2
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by markstos 7y ago
My experience with the opposite of the author's. Cloud Print rarely worked for me and generated more work setting up and managing relative's newly wireless printers when the old method of direct USB printing worked reliability and
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by markstos 7y ago
I'm glad to see this one go. When you want to print from one device in a room to another, sharing a copy of the data with Google's servers halfway across the country seems like an odd and privacy-concerning way to accomplish that.
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by markstos 7y ago
For DevOps, yes. Systemd can be a simpler solution than say Docker for some applications.
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Link?
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by markstos 7y ago
This is an important point. Someone else is allowed to use the StackOverflow content and likely would if StackOverflow was turned off.
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by markstos 7y ago
Interesting that Google's syzbot found and publicized the flaw, possibly bringing it the awareness of bad actors. But at the time the flaw was not flagged as being security related and was thus not backported as a security patch. If Go
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by markstos 7y ago
Google was one party in that. The other was the person who choose to gave Google the content to post. When we choose to give content and power to a few, large, centralized organizations, that's on us.
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by markstos 7y ago
I thought the same thing, but I tried a split 40% layout and am typing on one now. It excels when there are long sequences of numbers and symbols, which are now within easier research. Pinkies are weakest, and on a typical keyboard there&#x
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by markstos 7y ago
Newspapers have had paid subscriptions with ads for a hundred years. Notice that so many newspapers are going out of business but the NYT is not.
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by markstos 7y ago
Every organization has constraints and in Intel's case they are constrained to only $70 billion in revenue.
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by markstos 7y ago
As a man, I had ads about custom fit bras follow me around the internet for awhile. This had nothing to do with my medical records. I read an article about a related company. Sorry, getting ads about medical products is not evidence that th
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by markstos 7y ago
Since Paul Graham is a vegetarian, I presumed the title was referring to a review of the book "How Not to Die". https://nutritionfacts.org/book/
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by markstos 7y ago
The article complains about not getting email when a timer-activated service fails. Like all software, if you didn't test it to work, why should you expect it to work? Cron can fail silently as well if don't set MAILTO. Not all se
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by markstos 7y ago
If you are not using systemd, it is not relevant.
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Worth reading just for the colorful puns.
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by markstos 7y ago
Uh, they just released $250 disposable ear buds. They replaced a trackpad that replaceable batteries that worked fine with a new model that has a non-replaceable battery. Apple seems particularly responsible for driving the demand for &quot
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by markstos 7y ago
I once hired a person despite the flag that he had been in something like 15 positions in 10 years. He treated us the same and bailed in about year.
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by markstos 7y ago
I grew up on a farm. We lived in a barn at first. I know this stuff. I hope you helped your mom set up 2FA after that. Would basic checks would you recommend that Google on top of offering a robust 2FA solution?
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by markstos 7y ago
One reason to have a camera would be to provide access to a parent or family member who is far away, perhaps even in another country.

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