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by nativeit 2y ago
I've never needed the distributed nature of Kubernetes, but I dig the notion of using a spreadsheet as a control interface. Does anyone know of a similar paradigm for other sysadmin applications?
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by nativeit 2y ago
Let's assume your first assertion is true, and I don't necessarily concede that, but for the sake of argument. People frequently point out that Trump is doing more or less exactly what he said he would do, either explicitly or by
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How Rich Is Elon Musk? – Visualization of Extreme Wealth(engaging-data.com)
10 points by nativeit 2y ago|0 comments
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by nativeit 2y ago
It looks great, specifically for me. I can't comment on anyone else, but I have to imagine it's dysfunctional. I abstracted as many color and style options as possible to allow for a lot of variable-setting. I unreservedly apologi
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by nativeit 2y ago
HN Confessional: I wrote a custom theme for my server management software a few years ago that's basically just a rewrite of the stock theme's rather large CSS file. Among a little more than 1200 lines, I include `!important` 17
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by nativeit 2y ago
Slightly relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43306435 (“A Post Mortem on the Gino Case”: “Committing fraud is, right now, a viable career strategy that can propel you at the top of the academic world.”)
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by nativeit 2y ago
Is /sci/ on 4chan a real hub of traditional research and professional academia? I think I’d be confused by all the distinctions you anime fans are drawing here.
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We Are Here on Earth to Fart Around, Kurt Vonnegut (2004) [video](youtube.com)
1 points by nativeit 2y ago|0 comments
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by nativeit 2y ago
If spun off, why wouldn’t Chrome then be free to sell its default search provisioning back to Google?
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by nativeit 2y ago
Just to clarify, when I say "hostile to users", I just mean generally "less accessible than alternatives". I'm not making any value judgments about how we treat one another using said access, which I don't imag
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by nativeit 2y ago
I'm gonna give it up for that one. Nicely done.
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by nativeit 2y ago
This all sounds like the post-mortem justifications of a sclerotic executive suite.
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by nativeit 2y ago
Is it not incumbent on the company who hired the employees to ensure they are utilized sufficiently? Why imply it’s the worker’s fault for their own mismanagement?
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by nativeit 2y ago
My only complaint is that it doesn't encourage enough innate curiosity. I am disincentivized from clicking on some things precisely because their recommendation engine is so tightly wound that I'll get bombarded with really tangen
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by nativeit 2y ago
RIYL: Tom Scott's There Is No Algorithm For Truth [1] delivered to the Royal Society in October 2019. 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leX541Dr2rU
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by nativeit 2y ago
I'm in the midst of completing this using FreshRSS and a suite of open source apps that provide the capacity for making functional feeds of almost any kind of periodic content, supplied to me in chronological order, in a list of basic
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by nativeit 2y ago
There are entire genres of research devoted to this.
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by nativeit 2y ago
I understand the criticism that languages should be pragmatic choices they serve the strengths of the project at hand, but I guess I always found most projects boasting they’re written in a specific language or framework are doing so precis
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by nativeit 2y ago
I have noticed it’s frequently the only outlet for communication with developers and communities, which I find worryingly closed off and hostile to users.
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by nativeit 2y ago
Sure, it's a bipartisan bill. If Democrats wanted to stop it in the Senate, they could have. That said, the House is typically a more partisan and less predictable place. Shenanigans are always possible..but the US Congress has been la
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Surveilling the Masses with Wi-Fi Positioning Systems [video](youtube.com)
16 points by nativeit 2y ago|1 comments
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by nativeit 2y ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40492234 [the original paper+discussion]
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by nativeit 2y ago
I’m in the process of loading up my instance of FreshRSS with my MVP YouTube subscriptions, with plugins to allow videos to be viewed inline, sans anything relevant to politics or news. It will be the final algorithmically determined feed t
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by nativeit 2y ago
Can anyone take Dogecoin and Bitcoin and make a reasonably objective distinction between their potential utility and function, even if their respective cultural contexts were not involved?
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by nativeit 2y ago
Not for nothing, it is standard legal boilerplate. I just checked two randomly selected terms of service--one for ReadAI, the other for Google--and they both include a very similar clause with those exact parameters. That said, I'm not
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by nativeit 2y ago
> The so-called privacy paradox, well-documented in academic research, refers to the gap between the concerns people say they have about their data and what they actually do about it. Some 92% of American consumers have said they should
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by nativeit 2y ago
https://archive.is/PZEMN
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Apple UK Privacy Fight over Encryption Is Noble but Shortsighted(bloomberg.com)
5 points by nativeit 2y ago|2 comments
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by nativeit 2y ago
Weird coincidence...I live roughly 2-miles from Reed Gold Mine. This sounds like a lot of fun, I look forward to trying this out. I also have family who are geologists, we spend a lot of time vacationing near abandoned mica mines, and our h
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by nativeit 2y ago
Text-based communication, especially informal comment text, are obviously pretty terrible at accurately conveying tone and intent. I like to adhere to the “assume good faith” maxim whenever possible, although that’s increasingly difficult i

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