pookha

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by pookha 2y ago
The 737-max was aeronautical malpractice that Boeing tried to band-aid with software. https://spectrum.ieee.org/how-the-boeing-737-max-disaster-lo... And the fact that they wanted to spend nothing on the software and then r
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by pookha 2y ago
Dr. Barry Marshall intentionally drank a culture of bacteria to give himself a peptic ulcer and then cured himself, as part of his study. And had to do this because he was ostracized by academic orthodoxy and funding machinations. They woul
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by pookha 2y ago
Maybe replacing containers...I had a better developer experience and a better overall quality of life when I deployed war files into a servelet container (tomcat). I wasn't patching operating system vulnerabilities across a jagged sea
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by pookha 2y ago
It's easy to blame CrodStrike because they're the ones to blame here. They lit a billion system32 folders on fire with an untested product and push out fear mongering corny marketing material. Turns out you should be afraid.
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by pookha 2y ago
Section 174 went into effect in 2022 and it seems to have had massive ramifications based on the data: https://layoffs.fyi/ I can't see how the US can maintain a healthy tech sector with this still in place.
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by pookha 2y ago
LOL this is exactly what happened to me. I was at a pool with the gradual slope into the deep-end and I fuckedaroundandfoundout and drifted down the slope. It's probably my most vivid memory. I tried screaming for the life guard but li
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by pookha 2y ago
Frying pan wasn't the way to go with a grizzly. There was a group of collegiate wrestlers that managed to survive a violent predatory grizzly attack. Bear was trying to eat them. https://abcnews.go.com/US/wyoming-c
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by pookha 2y ago
Maybe he's changed, but he was real entitled in Seoul back in 2007\08. Guy from the band RUX -- who owned a punk club in hongdae and a tiny DIY record company -- tried bringing him over and he was an elitist princess. I can distinctly
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by pookha 2y ago
Bizarre. Kafka wasn't engaged in Jewish politics in the 1900's. And that's not something lost in translation (he wasn't a Zionist). And when he wrote about his religion it was like this: "Prague. Religions get lost
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by pookha 2y ago
Disagree with everything you're trying to say. Terrorism has evolved into a doublespeak term used to describe your systems' quasi enemy...This was just civil disobedience and like any form of civil disobedience (that isn't di
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by pookha 2y ago
The moon has trillions of dollars in water, helium, and metals (rare earth, titanium, etc). It's an f'ing goldmine and controlling said resource will be something hostile authoritarian regimes (China) would seek out. There's
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by pookha 2y ago
One of the main motivations that kept me from wanting to get involved with drugs was the T.V show COPS. As a young child I got to watch REALLY high people from the bottom rungs of society (all races and all creeds) get flashlight interrogat
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by pookha 2y ago
They also converted old factories into these wild thrift stores and concert spaces (West Bottoms).
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by pookha 2y ago
LOL. I got screamed at by a lunatic because my three year olds trainrobber bandana wasn't covering her nose. Banding together has caveats.
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by pookha 2y ago
No such thing as Anarchy. I've evolved my view on politics, gangs, tribes and governments into a simple understanding that we're dealing with systems at-large and those systems will always be expanding to fill the known universe a
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by pookha 2y ago
Pretty nuts. The entire chinese population lives in a state of perpetual formation and "harmony" with the crony capitalist thugs that operate from behind the curtain. And this is just another case of crony capitalist bullshit. It&
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by pookha 2y ago
I like it. Reminds me of BMI. It's easy to slip into the warm soothing waters of alcoholism and not even realize it. Knowing that killing a six-pack every three days is on scale with alchoholism can keep you honest with yourself. You c
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by pookha 2y ago
Aren't most these European cultures all heavily descended (genetically and linguistically) from the Western Steppe hunter-gatherer horse tribes? Those guys got into Greece just like they got into the UK (probably sooner in Greece). The
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by pookha 2y ago
"distributing power evenly" is the classic reign-of-terror trope. Hell is always paved with good intentions and if you want to abandon unplanned order (our society) and build some utopia where a "the adults in the room"
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by pookha 2y ago
You don't have a historical or realistic understanding of warfare. The aim of warfare has always -- and will always be -- to break your enemy's will to fight. Sometimes that involves capturing and holding territory, but those are
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by pookha 2y ago
LOL this was the same argument they used against the printing-press.
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by pookha 2y ago
When I was a youth I was given PAXIL by a corrupt psychiatrist that had gotten paid off by a highly dubious pharmaceutical company that would later get sued for fraud by the US government. Their published research was horseshit (they manipu
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by pookha 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaggy_dog_story
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by pookha 2y ago
Publishers are going nowhere. Who else is going to pay politicians millions for their ghost-written "memoirs"?
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by pookha 2y ago
Eggs aren't fertilized (no roosters :|). If you really want to get down to the ugly truth of eggs, you're essentially eating chicken menstruation...And there's no ethical problems when it's in a backyard or the chickens
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by pookha 3y ago
I'd love to take a 70 year old Chinese victim that lived through the great-leap-forward and culture revolution and to get their honest perspective on this. They managed to live through starvation and wide-spread Maoist violence to witn
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by pookha 3y ago
Could that be from Lectins (red beans, black beans, lentils)? https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/anti-nutrients/...
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by pookha 3y ago
Not always that simple. I have a giant doberman. I no-shit threw a frisbee for this doberman 72 times yesterday (and ran with her three miles). She gets more exercise than the sheltie I had as a kid that ran leash-free in the country. And
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by pookha 3y ago
It was mostly always like this. You might go back further, but since 2008 I've been dealing with google snake-oil. They sold a customer I worked with a "search appliance" in 2007 that was more or less a paperweight. They pack
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by pookha 3y ago
Software Developers (humans) are the horses, the models are the mechanical cars, and the analysts and business experts are the drivers. Software's only job is to empower the end user, and that's exactly what these models are doing

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