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by oldjokes 7y ago
This is remarkable, and impossible to predict from the Microsoft of 10 or 20 years ago. Satya seems to be the rare visionary CEO of a megacorp, instead of just defaulting to a defensive and reactionary stance like most other leaders.
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Airstrikes launched in response to cyber attack for the first time(cyberscoop.com)
1 points by oldjokes 7y ago|0 comments
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by oldjokes 7y ago
I tried to order a few boxes of hardwood flooring from Home Depot one time and despite being in stock at the store 20 miles away from me they somehow managed to outsource delivery to some local company that delayed delivery repeatedly becau
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by oldjokes 7y ago
No it's really not. Designing a system that changes the pitch of the plane automatically while relying on a single sensor that is known to fail at a high rate while working proactively to hide this system from pilots is beyond negligen
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by oldjokes 7y ago
The thing I don't understand is that if Boeing has been this bad for this long, as many reports indicate, how has nobody come forward to talk about it until these crashes? Zero whistleblowers? Zero people worried about safety enough to
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by oldjokes 7y ago
I read all about the DRM stuff but I figured that was just the awful standards boards being awful standards boards. I didn't realize what a true mess Mozilla had become.
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by oldjokes 7y ago
I have spent ~10 years using Firefox daily, tweaking the config and getting the addons set up the way I want. I was a professional web developer for most of those years. This is the first I have heard of Firefox changing my config settings
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by oldjokes 7y ago
They just stratified online shopping. Everything is becoming more and more stratified, from airline cabins to online content to education. I'd argue that copying this trend and tweaking the spreadsheets to extract money in a more fine
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by oldjokes 7y ago
So we're using an imaginary alien threat to justify massive military spending while literally destroying billions of dollars by just eliminating it from the economy through stock buybacks. Fictional times indeed. Just don't think
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The many human errors that brought down the Boeing 737 Max(theverge.com)
80 points by oldjokes 7y ago|43 comments
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by oldjokes 7y ago
I mean if you want to get into the nitty gritty details yeah I think the biggest waste of time of all was the years implementing and tweaking linked lists in C. Not sure who decided to define that as "computer science" at the time
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by oldjokes 7y ago
I feel the same way about much of Computer Science. So much nonsense was forced into my head as the "best practices", from OO development to Agile to cloud snake oil to crypto scams. And then on top of that it turns out the CPUs a
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by oldjokes 7y ago
Companies seem to have realized that security incidents are more of a public relations issue than anything else after Equifax. Just lockdown as much info as you can, limit anyone talking about anything, spin spin spin. No reason to be more
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by oldjokes 7y ago
We're brought up in this hierarchical system where you're told you're supposed to be churning through the meat grinder of competition and failure and growth every day or you're a worthless nonhuman waste of space. Most p
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by oldjokes 7y ago
You don't need to ask a bunch of questions and use waffle phrases, this is not a complicated space. Cryptocurrencies are a silly scam and people who love new scams gravitate towards it, most other people don't care.
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by oldjokes 7y ago
There's no need to be nasty and sarcastic.
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by oldjokes 7y ago
It's not just email, it seems like any service is at risk of being ignored through malice or just being too tiny it gets neglected if it doesn't help the walled garden somehow. At one point I heard a rumor that no human had worked
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3M to cut 2K jobs globally, lowers 2019 profit outlook(reuters.com)
81 points by oldjokes 7y ago|82 comments
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by oldjokes 7y ago
Tech has had many conscientious objectors, I've watched them come and go over the decades. Most of them drive trucks now. A few lucky ones became artists or writers, but mostly a lot of bad outcomes. One of these failed truck drivers e
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by oldjokes 7y ago
We had to shoot these "omg zombie" deer with CWD in our backyard in the 50s, just seems like nobody really measured it or panicked about it back then. Is CWD more or less prevalent than it was in the past? The article fails to eve
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by oldjokes 7y ago
Honestly I'd much rather have a bunch of dice rolls on incompetence than the current centralized, single point of control over the entire index. Google has been purging large swaths of data from the indexes and they won't say how
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by oldjokes 7y ago
Much less egregious behavior than this resulted in anti-trust action against Microsoft in the 90s. We are far past due to start working on breaking up these abusive giants.
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by oldjokes 7y ago
Are they just flat out teaching people how to be super deceptive and how to tactically play stupid in MBA programs nowadays?
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Big Tech's Big Tax Ruse: Industry Splurges on Buybacks(bloomberg.com)
3 points by oldjokes 7y ago|0 comments
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by oldjokes 8y ago
It's becoming hard to believe anything that Tesla puts out or Elon says. It is a real shame the $35K 3 turned out to be a lie, the amount of PR that phrase has generated over the years is on par with all of SpaceX.
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by oldjokes 8y ago
What this means is the rich get new roads, the poor don't. The cost of adding these lanes will be enormous, especially in tight areas where you may need to seize property or realign streets. Nobody will advocate for the poor areas to e
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by oldjokes 8y ago
> Milwaukee is where we will transition our AI 8K+5G vision into reality I've been reading and hearing a lot of nonsense in tech since the 1980s but this is really something to behold.
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by oldjokes 8y ago
It's sort of an open secret that google's data is not nearly as anonymized as they would like you to believe. I'm only familiar with how advertising data works, and I can tell you that many of their large customers know exact
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by oldjokes 8y ago
We're sort of making up this whole online spaces thing as we go. Whether you love them or hate them, the decisions Google made are arbitrary and were done behind closed doors by a very small number of people. Framing the question as &q
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by oldjokes 8y ago
Yes. I regularly see failures and weird issues that are technically "impossible" according to the spec in things like TCP/IP, HTTP, as well as higher application layers. And trying to convince someone like Google or Microsoft

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