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by mrslave 7y ago
I've worked on many integration projects for bad fit software purchases. Your comment reminds me of this: Why Enterprise Software Sucks https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21224209
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by mrslave 7y ago
2m3.673s; default config with loadable modules disabled; make -m 32. This is on a second-last generation 24C/48T Xeon (albeit a slower one) with all of the known speculative execution vulnerabilities mitigated except spec_store_bypass,
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by mrslave 7y ago
I don't share ideas with many people anymore. Even ideas, and especially not goals. Any negative people are out, which unfortunately is too many. The few that are trusted and have an analytical mindset are helpful for sound boarding, e
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by mrslave 7y ago
Alternative title: how to get an FBI file just by visiting one webpage
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by mrslave 7y ago
I have wasted my life.
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by mrslave 7y ago
Reminds me of "A Commodore 64 Is Still Being Used to Run an Auto Shop in Poland (gizmodo.com)"[1] though I was not able to afford such a luxury when I was young. Every decade or so I boot an old DEC Alpha. Last time I dist-upgrade
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by mrslave 7y ago
I heard a recent McDonald's CEO started at the fryer. No idea as to the accuracy.
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by mrslave 8y ago
I really respect your honesty. Many of us are not brave enough to share these kinds of serious life mistakes. Additionally, this is especially important when people formerly advocated something they later realize is wrong. In these cases I
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by mrslave 8y ago
To which model of motherboard dost thou allude?
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by mrslave 8y ago
You may still be right, and I agree with a lot of what you say, but it is extremely difficult to see clearly through the rose-colored glasses of low interest rates. And we have had very low interest rates for a very long time. I tire of thi
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by mrslave 8y ago
The out-of-print book East Minus West Equals Zero makes a case for exactly this.
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by mrslave 8y ago
What does cpuinfo display when the CPU lacks the cpuid feature?
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by mrslave 8y ago
1. Rules are good. They force creativity! 2. Did you know that the rules have allowed Skip Jack fishers to call it something else and you have been missing out on this healthy alternative all this time? Great conversation. You need to consi
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by mrslave 8y ago
Privileges and rights are the terms I was taught in place of positive rights and negative rights, respectively, in your link. I think they are better terms. Privileges impose an obligation on others. Rights do not. Positive right is ver
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by mrslave 8y ago
In case this is down for everyone and not just me: https://web.archive.org/web/20180925154624/https://www.hpe.c...
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by mrslave 8y ago
Smells like a MIPS processor? I really enjoyed this stuff at university. I work with very high level tools these days, informing business decision makers, and I don't regret the move up the value stack. In fact I have found that being
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by mrslave 8y ago
In the book The Hidden Persuaders (1957) by Vance Packard he describes research into failing pre-made products that revealed the buyers (homemakers) felt less self-worth if they weren't required to undertake at least some of the prepar
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by mrslave 8y ago
Thomas Sowell - Basic Economics An early chapter addresses this exact issue.
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by mrslave 8y ago
While it is interesting to discover that things we deem obscene are permitted, and sometimes occur, and that the occurrence of something as severe as a ten year old marrying their rapist is non-zero, it is very dishonest to discuss these th
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by mrslave 8y ago
Don't be Skynet?
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by mrslave 8y ago
Tomas Sowell's Basic Economics has a chapter on the failures of rent control, specifically addressing New York City (among others). These controls suffocate supply and now the owners of an artificially scarce basic resource have a lot
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by mrslave 8y ago
Is the problem with anarchists that they cannot stay together?
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by mrslave 9y ago
Everyone in this thread has a beard like Richard Stallman
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by mrslave 9y ago
> No software can provide the feel of moving a post-it note to the "Done" column. Physical data (pages) is also supposed to help memorization. I tear mine into little squares. Occasionally I throw them at my colleagues (very sm
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by mrslave 9y ago
More predictable cries of racism to censor politically unpopular ideas. What little I've followed of similar in the US has usually revealed less-than-racism, if sometimes somewhat off-color politics. And more frightening is the strong
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by mrslave 9y ago
Interesting. I would speculate the high average IQ is a more significant factor.
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by mrslave 9y ago
London Metropolitan Police already has an Online Hate Speech Hub with varying reports of staff (5-20?). This is in spite of admissions they do not have enough resources to respond to property offenses.
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by mrslave 9y ago
Virtue signaling heavily laden with Trump derangement syndrome. Thinks Twitter failing to discipline President Trump because he violated the don't-threaten-people policy over North Korean missile launches is a grave double standard. No
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by mrslave 9y ago
In addition to this article, from the vlog "Plunging Enrollment at Mizzou" < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7CHd-w02lc> : They can't pay all of the administrators that they need. need Also consi
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by mrslave 9y ago
SJWs have infected almost every aspect of our lives with Cultural Marxism and Political Correctness. Football was our last bastion of droll entertainment and, uh, hope & freedom to armchair quarterback and throw back some brewskies. Mic

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