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by nimbius 4y ago
Ah absolutionists. Either we can all drink bleach or we're trapped in some orwellian hellscape of ruination to succor a distant memory of the time we could huff the sweet ichor of airplane glue in peace. We as a society generally need
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by nimbius 4y ago
mmm, yes, the 'legacy business model' of demonstrably competent business decisions at the interest of shareholders that produce quantifiable return on investment and further industry growth through innovation strikes again.
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by nimbius 4y ago
this disclosure was spurned by recent federal legislation that required it. Im a full cynic on the disclosure, so be warned. - these prices, as negotiated between insurers and providers, were already well known inside the industry. so muc
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by nimbius 4y ago
daily reminder: the standard password manager is pass. https://www.passwordstore.org/
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by nimbius 4y ago
as someone who vacations regularly throughout mexico (tijuana, rosarito, mexico city, chihuahua and baja amongst the destinations) i find these sorts of comments silly at best. there is no "mexican civil war" there was the Crister
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by nimbius 4y ago
github has had more than fifty outages this year alone, and has a rocky history of recourselessly banning users from countries that are sanctioned by the United States. switching to github makes no sense if "The WebKit project is int
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by nimbius 4y ago
>In the US or UK media orgs generally has very little to fear in terms of actual punishment, but they do have to make a very real calculus over whether they're serving the public interest. not true. media organizations that do not
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by nimbius 4y ago
if you think thats ridiculous I once got a two month script for opiate painkillers after my wisdom teeth were removed. "just in case" was the excuse as well. pretty pathetic when most of the discomfort was easily controlled with
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by nimbius 4y ago
the elastic container service definition reads like an absolute funding pitch and i love every word of it.
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by nimbius 4y ago
when John Willis explained it in 2016 devops had enormous potential for the initiated. id guess maybe 10% of anyone who says 'devops' does anything remotely close though. devops in 2022 means if youre a dev, youre expected to know
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by nimbius 4y ago
former inmate here. I remember having to discharge nearly 30 grand in bankruptcy my second day out of the klink because I couldnt honest to god afford anything. I'd moved back in with an old roommate and was going to trade tech school
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by nimbius 4y ago
I feel like there's a fantastic irony that Biden, the senator whos legislation was responsible for exempting student loans from bankruptcy almost entirely, has now come to recon with biden, the president who's forgiveness legisla
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by nimbius 4y ago
"whats up its ya boi xxKingOrca200 back at it again about to rudderprank this boat sponsored by nord SeaPN you know how we do. shout out to the beluga tier supporters and the silly fishhead bro's in the pod dont forget to like su
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by nimbius 4y ago
ah yes, George hotz, the baba yaga of startup leadership
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by nimbius 4y ago
eh for cars maybe, but an automatic test for your commercial drivers license to operate a tractor trailer comes with some pretty severe restrictions. they're nice for day drivers like the beer trucks and FedEx mules but regional and o
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by nimbius 4y ago
the General was quoted as having said this in in 2014. As many predicted correctly: "metadata" has become profoundly more difficult to collect in 2022 for those willing to invest the time and effort.
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by nimbius 4y ago
>If anything, America is lagging behind the trend. America is in the unenviable position of having banked their entire postwar modern infrastructure on cheap oil, miles of superhighways, and the internal combustion engine.
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by nimbius 4y ago
note that this is nginx.com, the division of F5 networks that was purchased largely to staunch the bleeding from nginx, lvs, haproxy and other open source load balancers. the purchase was made in the same faith as oracles acquisition of my
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by nimbius 4y ago
correct indeed, my bad. I've been in gitlab all weekend
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by nimbius 4y ago
exactly this. Microsoft will always heel to the short leash of US sanctions because the losses for them are tangible: billions in government contracts. gitlab isn't bought and paid for, so forcing the issue only stands to win them PR
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by nimbius 4y ago
call me a skeptic, I've worked in the auto industry as a heavy engine master tech for over 20 years, but the same luxury manufacturers who can't make a v8 that lasts longer than 60k miles without a recall or major defect are not
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by nimbius 4y ago
sort of offtopic but it reminds me of the first auto shop I worked in. I just got certified on a new laser alignment tool and had a chip on my shoulder for almost a week, until an old timer manually dialed in an alignment that checked out
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by nimbius 4y ago
there have been, according to the github outage history page, more than thirty this year. Microsoft's slowly making the case for hosting a gitea or gitlab on a dedicated server.
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by nimbius 4y ago
sounds like a lack of proper QC and insufficient or the wrong grade of oil was added...but, home compressors are this weird sealed monstrosity that can never be properly serviced without a byzantine amount of hacky gizmos anyhow so... ¯\_ (
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by nimbius 4y ago
i apprenticed on armstrong and milwaukee tools and can confirm about 15 years ago they spun off a cheap Chinese line that was complete garbage compared to the USA line. good enough for tightening the occasional bolt but fell apart under da
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by nimbius 4y ago
ah the venerable license plate. welcome to the 21st century. parking garages, theme parks and malls routinely do this as well. entering a private parking lot is surely criminal trespass, but most cops dont care so long as your trespasser
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by nimbius 4y ago
a read the piece as a barking tantrum. that they, a company so magnanimously capable of eschewing everything from taxation to even cursory efforts at regulation could be tricked into delivering a very public, very negative publicity event
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by nimbius 4y ago
as someone who fishes the Atlantic twice a year, the wisest advice I ever got was to replace your line every year or two, especially if its left in an unconditioned room or in the sun.
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by nimbius 4y ago
It feels like the root-cause of the decay and ruin is, by the end of the writing, a total lack of qualifying competence in leadership or government. the bungling amentia is so agonizingly glaring as to lead one to question if it, as the ca
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by nimbius 4y ago
A cynics take awaits you, however, if you consider scientific research an organism of sorts then this makes complete sense. since most legislated spending at the congressional and senate level is only ever expediently approved if it is in

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