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by null0ranje 4y ago
I agree with the sentiment, but local papers are dying. My hometown paper is still locally owned, but I suspect it will be bought up by Gannett or some other national outlet soon. As it is, the paper is ~90% AP Wire stories anyway.
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by null0ranje 4y ago
I'm guessing that in almost 100% of those cases, the decision to make an app vs a web site are not being made by the developers.
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A new bill would ban anyone under 16 from using social media(washingtonpost.com)
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by null0ranje 4y ago
This is probably the best way to think about it. DEI departments seem like they would have the opposite effect: they become an adversarial entity within an organization. Integrating those goals into the organization as a whole seems like
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by null0ranje 4y ago
I used to listen to Planet Money, but it’s devolved over the same dumbed-down drivel that dominates NPR these days: “Money has always been used to buy goods, but did you know you can also use it to buy services ? Here’s some pop culture re
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by null0ranje 4y ago
I’m assuming you’re talking about some sort of automation/AI that litigants could use. This is a terrible idea for lots of reasons. Civil litigation is complicated, messy, and situation-driven. Lawyers are expected understand all this,
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by null0ranje 4y ago
It also reduces the amount of commercial office space GSA has to lease/manage.
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by null0ranje 4y ago
That's what happens when "cybersecurity" is taken over by the management consultant class.
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by null0ranje 4y ago
> Unlimited PTO is a negative signal to me honestly, and would put me off a job. This is exactly my experience. The last company I worked for with unlimited PTO did everything to prevent folks from using it. It's one of many negati
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by null0ranje 4y ago
My code certainly blows up all the time.
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by null0ranje 4y ago
I want podman to be a drop-in replacement, but it just isn’t there. I’ve wasted more time running down random errors I podman, so much so that I’ve switched back. Maybe in another year or two…
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by null0ranje 4y ago
One of the big things keeping me from going down this road is the need to carry around a phone for 2FA purposes. Is there anything that can fill that gap?
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by null0ranje 4y ago
> NIST is announcing that SHA-1 should be phased out by Dec. 31, 2030 Looks like it'll limp along for a while yet
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by null0ranje 4y ago
It’s the insurance company’s problem. /s
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by null0ranje 4y ago
When I go into the office, it's 90 minutes by commuter rail (with very limited service hours) plus another 30-45 on the subway (when it's not on fire), then another 15-20 minutes walking. Each way. I'm mentally wiped my the
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by null0ranje 4y ago
I’ve let my subscription to the Atlantic lapse. The writing quality and topic selection are closer to a second-tier college newspaper than a serious journalistic publication. Most of their talented contributors are mostly gone, and the curr
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by null0ranje 4y ago
> In the US, spam is protected speech, but as always, no company is required to give anybody a platform. Commercial speech in the US is not protected speech and may be subject to a host of government regulation [0]. The government has b
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by null0ranje 4y ago
I don't think solar panels or windmills are a trick, but I think OP was referring to "net zero" initiatives, which are not much more than accounting scams. Most carbon credits, if even verifiable, don't involve reduction
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by null0ranje 4y ago
> The last place I worked had 25,000 people on its main campus. Three gyms, three coffee shops, four cafeterias and more square footage than the pentagon. I interviewed at a place like this, with all the in-site amenities. They were part
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by null0ranje 4y ago
And highly susceptible to jamming.
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by null0ranje 4y ago
It seems like it's just automating middle managers and gamifying the appearance of work.
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by null0ranje 4y ago
I feel like the lack of an MFA alternative is what keeps me from dumping my smartphone entirely.
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Montgomery County to offer rebates for private security cameras(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by null0ranje 4y ago|0 comments
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SpaceX fires workers who criticized Elon Musk in open letter(washingtonpost.com)
9 points by null0ranje 4y ago|9 comments
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by null0ranje 4y ago
Or to train itself, to the worst possible outcomes: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/03/micro...
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by null0ranje 4y ago
When we accept that people who's job title is "futurologist" are full of it.
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by null0ranje 4y ago
Elixir was a gateway to Erlang for me. I hadn't heard of Erlang before I started writing in Elixir, but all the discussion of why Elixir was so great revolved around Erlang and the BEAM. This lead me to Joe's distributed systems
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by null0ranje 4y ago
Congress, mostly.
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by null0ranje 5y ago
> How has the military (US, or other) historically managed to recruit and retain their medical corps, or the Army Corps of Engineers? Has there just not been a situation in modern memory where there weren't doctors sufficient to kee
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by null0ranje 5y ago
The entire article had an odd vibe to it. Either the crime didn't actually happen, or it's just a distasteful example of turning the victims of a felony into a marketing opportunity.

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