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by oarsinsync 10mo ago
Alternatively, companies hire multiple subject domain experts, and pay them handsomely. The experts believe they've been hired for the value of their opinions, rather than for being 'yes-people', and have differing opinions t
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by oarsinsync 10mo ago
> What tangible benefits have you reaped from IPv6 that simply weren't possible on IPv4? Personal networks: Globally unique addressing. That then lends itself to not needing any kind of split DNS for services, or worrying about addr
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by oarsinsync 10mo ago
Extremely well. You don’t need an account to have a unique fingerprint that will eventually tie to an identity somewhere, and data brokers exist specifically for this purpose.
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by oarsinsync 10mo ago
> Anonymity-by-crowd is the point Only for IP based trackers. Any webpages embedding facebook/twitter/microsoft/google trackers have already deanonymised you through a variety of fingerprinting techniques. This includes if
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by oarsinsync 10mo ago
Curious what you’re doing that requires more than 16 SLAAC-enabled subnets (or a lot more non-SLAAC enabled subnets)
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by oarsinsync 10mo ago
The user experience differs for proxies. System wide proxy configuration doesn’t actually always work system wide. A VPN tends to have more success in encapsulating all application traffic (or all desired application traffic, if you’re so i
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by oarsinsync 10mo ago
I'd like to give those people the benefit of the doubt, and state that I believe they don't start out intentionally trying to damage children. They're simply trying to maximise their own earnings, and don't give a shit a
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by oarsinsync 10mo ago
A small bend radius means it can have a tight bend. A large bend radius means it has to be a big bend. A 7.5mm bend radius is really small. You can bend that stuff pretty tight before you create a problem.
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by oarsinsync 10mo ago
> > Trivially consequential: Somebody relates a story about an anonymous, random person peddling misinformation based on photos with false captions on the internet. Whether I believe that specific random person did has no bearing on a
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by oarsinsync 10mo ago
Don’t forget another group, permanently disenfranchised, who are working to barely live. They are the unsung heroes of our society, who for a brief year or two recently got celebrated as key workers, got claps and applause, and then forgott
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by oarsinsync 10mo ago
> It is also about autistic person having complete emotional meltdown ... because something was not exactly to his/her liking. This usually happens when the person's needs have been repeatedly ignored, either because the person
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by oarsinsync 10mo ago
> And have you called a large company for any reason lately? Could be your telco provider, your bank, public transport company, whatever. You call them, because online contact means haggling with an AI chatbot first to finally give up an
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by oarsinsync 10mo ago
> Unfortunately for Linux, the recent ram price increases are reason not to move (if thinking about a new pc). Can you elaborate on why high RAM prices mean Linux is less attractive? Do you believe a usable Linux environment uses more RA
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by oarsinsync 10mo ago
> > - You can’t set alarm on a certain date. > I have some alarms for specific dates, do you mean a single use alarm? Are you using a third party app, or the built in Clock/Alarm? The built in clock alarm lets you set alarms f
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by oarsinsync 11mo ago
It's the equivalent of outsourcing your job. People have done this before, to China, to India, etc. There are stories about the people that got caught, e.g. with China because of security concerns, and with India because they got greed
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by oarsinsync 11mo ago
> ignoring the fact that it's one example versus a list of examples I posted It’s the root example, of which many of the examples of your list are derived from. Debian is the daddy.
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by oarsinsync 11mo ago
Check out the Debian website. Slicker than it used to be. Still not slick.
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by oarsinsync 11mo ago
ISO9660 has support for something that resembles hard links - IE, a file can exist in multiple places in the directory structure, but always point to the same underlying data blocks on disc. I think XISO is derived from ISO9660, so may have
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by oarsinsync 11mo ago
> > State sponsorship can include the state looking the other way. > So all attacks anywhere are state sponsored? There's a difference between a deliberate decision to look away, and unawareness through lack of oversight. You
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by oarsinsync 11mo ago
> I certainly don't trust free providers What does this mean in practice? Do you remove the free providers from your OS & browser trust stores? Does this mean you get warnings every time you visit a site that uses LetsEncrypt (a
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by oarsinsync 11mo ago
> Non-deterministic doesn't mean random or unpredictable. That's like saying the weather forecast is useless because it's not deterministic or always 100% accurate. I don't know where you got 'useless' from.
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by oarsinsync 11mo ago
https://futurism.com/openai-use-cheating-homework Between your comments, and the report above, I suspect you, and most people you know, aren't students.
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by oarsinsync 11mo ago
> LLMs are incredibly beneficial ... today. LLMs sometimes can be incredibly beneficial ... today LLMs sometimes can be incredibly harmful ... today Non-deterministic things aren't just one thing, they're whatever they happ
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by oarsinsync 11mo ago
> Essentially the same as giving alcohol to kids at home. Is it? A bottle of vodka, rum, wine, beer, is very obviously what it is. A lot of these gambling games are disguised as games, that just happen to have elements that are heavily d
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by oarsinsync 11mo ago
Tragically, when you are organisationally impaired from saying 'no', this is the only way (besides, you know, quitting and getting a new job). It's absolutely soul crushing when you're motivated to do a good job, but hav
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by oarsinsync 11mo ago
> Why waste anyone’s bandwidth on this? The conditional was: If my boss forces me to review it > As maintainer of some open source projects, there are no circumstances in which... ...you would force yourself to do anything that you
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by oarsinsync 11mo ago
> If my boss forces me to review it, then I do so and start quietly applying for new jobs where my job isn't to spend 10x (or 100x) more time reviewing code than my coworkers did "writing" it. Another equally correct appro
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by oarsinsync 11mo ago
Huge respect to the author for the details that have gone into this. I'd spent a week hammering at a Claude max 20x plan to try and build schengen 90/180 rolling window + tax residency in a couple of countries tracker... and that
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by oarsinsync 11mo ago
Assuming there is a long enough straight before the next corner
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by oarsinsync 11mo ago
Summary of some of them can be read at https://lwn.net/Articles/452865/ Debian’s debate page can be read at https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/initsystem/systemd

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