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by nimbius 11mo ago
of the 193 members of the UN, only 12 (6%) recognize Taiwan as a country. the Kuomintang lost the war. its effectively the same as if the confederacy retreated to the Florida keys and China maintained a policy of deliberate ambiguity.
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by nimbius 11mo ago
it sounds like youre a victim of SAR (suspicious activity report) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicious_activity_report in most western countries it is illegal to disclose the nature of the SAR. they will simply en
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by nimbius 1y ago
i wonder if we're not conflating xray with terahertz radiation perhaps? the former being used by a company called corrections one that produces a horrifying whole-body X-Ray of a prisoner to detect contraband (certainly not healthy.)
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by nimbius 1y ago
I predict we will see a death of intel similar to the death of Chrysler in the next decade. Too little too late has been done to save it. it ran rudderless for 30 years under the hand of marketers and grifters who used stock buybacks and d
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OpenMaxIO: Forked UI for MinIO Object Storage(github.com)
185 points by nimbius 1y ago|40 comments
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by nimbius 1y ago
you can literally buy a used dell desktop that matches the spec for hetzner (8 core, 32 gigs of ram) for under 500 USD. Why wouldnt you just do that? As cloud marches on it continues to seem like a grift.
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by nimbius 1y ago
For anyone who wants context, here is the entire history of github "Issues" https://www.githubstatus.com/history seems like Microsoft can't keep this thing from crashing at least three times a month. At this
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by nimbius 1y ago
The bart is basically the crowning achievement of US public transit. As for the solutions coming from everyone's favourite bay Aryan Elon Musk, they are...somewhat lacking. You're probably not going to believe this but the Hyperl
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by nimbius 1y ago
This is a fascinating topic if anyone is interested from a historical perspective. The soviets had Beta-M powering more than two dozen lighthouses across the union at some point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta-M
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by nimbius 1y ago
China has more than 550 cities with high speed rail lines spanning over 40,000km. each with first class, toilets, and meal services. Or...you can buy an entire rail car, hitch it to the haggard burro that is Amtrak and chug along at pony e
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by nimbius 1y ago
anecdotal experience with the "open" office. When i was apprenticing long ago on my way to master mechanic, I worked for a luxury dealership in the midwest. The manager was the owners son (as per tradition) and he had just gradua
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by nimbius 1y ago
Giugiaro lost control on a tight right-hand hairpin between Cala di Volpe and Romazzino. this sounds like a cautionary tale of why octogenarians should have their license revoked.
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by nimbius 1y ago
If valve can escape the Microsoft store, it can handle a few payment processors. what would happen if Valve accepted Cryptocurrency? in turn, what might happen if valve decided to become a cryptocurrency exchange exclusive to the gaming com
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by nimbius 1y ago
its honestly not, but younger developers can be forgiven for assuming traefik is all you need. the learn-to-code camps really did a number on kids these days :( use DSR and 50% of your traffic is taken care of. https://www.load
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by nimbius 1y ago
the guy who tried to use fruit juice to cure cancer and routinely refused to register his automobile? the guy who never acknowledged his kid until a court forced him to pay child support? He outright lied to Wozniak over payments and shares
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by nimbius 1y ago
According to the Federal Reserve, for many years, inflation in the United States has run below the 2 percent goal. higher prices for essential items, such as food, gasoline, and shelter, add to the burdens faced by many families, especially
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by nimbius 1y ago
large institutions dont buy into gartner because its accurate or even reasonably current. Gartner is part of a risk management strategy for shareholders. its a brand and reputation that you can shove in front of any problem you might enco
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by nimbius 1y ago
yeah sure, but, did it enrich the shareholders?
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by nimbius 1y ago
recent developments in the C levels not withstanding, github has been a dumpster fire for quite some time now with no sign of improvement. https://www.githubstatus.com/history
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by nimbius 1y ago
These services are irreplaceable. once they are gone, they are gone. as for NOAA, China could decide to undermine the profiteering of weather in the US (as it did with AI using DeepSeek) by simply expanding the Fengyun satellite constella
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by nimbius 1y ago
this is essentially the story of capitalism as it always results in monopoly concentration and the development of industry cartels. before tech it was oil, before oil it was rubber and tobbaco. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by nimbius 1y ago
This is a problem the USA caused, and could easily solve, by dissolving the armistice and declaring an end to the Korean war. only seven countries are currently participating in the embargo and sanction of North Korea, (at the behest of the
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by nimbius 1y ago
> Who would have thought that they'd turn that research into algorithms that skim off surplus (from consumers and drivers)? Literally any educated adult whos ever read Marx, Engels, or Paul Sweezy. literally anyone whos ever turned
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by nimbius 1y ago
xfs. if GPL is a non-starter for you, youre missing the point of the open standard. apple already discloses a litany of various GPL it ships. XFS would be no different.
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by nimbius 1y ago
> There’s no forward secrecy. > User private keys are stored at X. things i would commonly give a pass for major companies were they not under the immediate control of Elon Musk.
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by nimbius 1y ago
maybe like 40 years ago? ive never understood where this comes from...its sort of the same argument machinists in the seventies had when automotive companies were building components with 15% nickel hardening out of dedicated normalizing a
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by nimbius 1y ago
no thanks. - the real-world performance of Claude makes it seem like a grift. - the real-world pricing of Claude seems to confirm this.
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by nimbius 1y ago
this is definitely not a tradition still practiced. if you want ice cream youd better hope its being served at the chow line (it absolutely isnt, unless youre on a submarine) or youre going to the Nexcom ship store to pick up a knock-off
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by nimbius 1y ago
the internet is no longer designed to be readable. it is designed to be profitable.
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by nimbius 1y ago
the sheer size of ipv6 alone means a lot of the 'old ways' get left behind. "sorting by ip" for example is eschewed in favor of router advertisements where hosts pick their own subnet delegations. one of the ways you tra

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