njharman

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by njharman 6y ago
If your server is done 20 times in 10 min, replace your incompetent eng, ops, service provider. A feature that protects from ridiculously unlikely problem is no feature. It is over engineering
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by njharman 6y ago
Fuck typewriter. Use a typewriter font and laser printer.
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by njharman 6y ago
I doubt it. "retail" investors have too much money the bigger investors want to extract from them.
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by njharman 6y ago
No it's not! The parent listed other phones as options, not "do without a phone". Following your weird examples the parent's comment is like saying you don't have to buy a *Ford* car, or a *Carrier* AC. There are ma
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by njharman 6y ago
There are lots of things that are still illegal even if both sides agree to it. Slavery for instance. Also all the things covered by consumer protection litigation, which top commenter is probably thinking of. The conditions/clauses of
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by njharman 6y ago
A disincentive to continuing the activity the class action suit was brought for. In theory, class action lawsuits are either or both 1) compensate victims 2) "force" company to stop activity society deems "bad" Victims c
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by njharman 6y ago
Judging what is and is not misinformation must always be in the hands of the people. Never the hands of authorities whether those be government or corporate. Why must fight all censorship. Because once you allow "a thing" to be ce
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by njharman 6y ago
It is a metaphor for disposable product culture and that corps would focus on profits and only profits, if it doesn't make money throw it out / destroy it. (A fear that has arguably come to pass). Triggering the self-destruct is s
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by njharman 6y ago
good audio makes Bigfukingvalue money. good audio so the masses can experience what their representatives are really like, makes no one money. There are individual exceptions, but by and large, things happen in the world because it's
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by njharman 6y ago
Tv news is entertainment. Not news. Bread and circus political distraction has never gone out of style. Sports reporting makes perfect sense.
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by njharman 6y ago
They can. But won't. Why allowing (socially as in bad PR) any censorship is bad. Otherwise you get where we are at. What the mainstream deems bad is silenced. What transient outrage seems bad is silenced. What authorities convince the
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by njharman 6y ago
Rtfa. It says and agrees with the exact straw man you are invoking. Namely run on your own stuff and not on someone else's platform.
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by njharman 6y ago
The true mission of Elons brain interface. Save us from our thumbless future.
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by njharman 6y ago
Search youtube. You'll see firing examples of state of the art. Couple years is long tine.
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by njharman 6y ago
Most simulations, games, everything that isn't generating cryptography does not need security in it's random. For most domains secure random is a niche, not universally applicable.
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by njharman 6y ago
If you absolutely need your data its not only on one device.
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by njharman 6y ago
Man, SCSI daisy chaining did this, what, 30yrs ago.
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by njharman 6y ago
Yeah, its not like you access to and the sources of all versions of Python. No proprietary vendor has ever revoked licenses, pulled downloads, version or timebombed binaries, stopped support for eol products, auto upgraded, etc. Yes open-so
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by njharman 6y ago
> own a company No "owned the publicly traded shares of a company". Those shares are almost certainly non-ownership, voting shares. And if they are it's possible/probable that founders/investors/others hold
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by njharman 6y ago
Read the SO TOS. Probably can't legally include that unless SO gives you license. Thanks to the 197? Law that provided automatic copyright the instant anyone says or does anything copyrightable. I'm sure SO TOS states by using thi
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by njharman 6y ago
I keep confusing QEMU with the extended memory manager thing I used in 80’s, which is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEMM
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by njharman 6y ago
I have no rich friends to protect, but I still think short sellers suck. I don’t think they should be banned but they fucksure aren’t deserving of compassion or concern when their gambles backfire. People defending short sellers are likely
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by njharman 6y ago
Ww2 death was much more spread out due to disease, famine, genocides in Asia and total war perpetrated by Stalin and Hitler. Most WWII deaths were not soldiers. Only the US and lessor UK proper concentrated in young men. Now WW1 with Spani
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by njharman 6y ago
I’m less surprised by fires (lots of underground / surface coal and gas fires around world). But holy shit -50C! That’s flipping cold. My education has failed me, I had no idea Earth got that cold.
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by njharman 6y ago
No such thing as average person outside statistics. We see what people do every day. We don’t need experiments to show us. Just pay attention.
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by njharman 6y ago
I’m 50, so lived through it. But still wonder how companies operated, how did anything get done? Without computers and automation. Similar how did people learn things or know what is happing in world before the internet? I’m seconds away fr
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by njharman 6y ago
I tend to think of it in terms of bugs or less so, feature addition. Weighted by likelihood of bug. If there is bug, will someone have to fix it in one place. Or, remember it’s in 7 places. If later I DRY.
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by njharman 6y ago
Faster code is not fine. Faster code should only be written after finished product is shown to be too slow for purpose and after profiler has shown which parts of code are worth optimizing.
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by njharman 6y ago
Rack space ain’t free
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by njharman 6y ago
The iconic lore is enough! And a reboot EV means chance it is well made and overpowered.

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