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by quesera 11mo ago
That used to be the argument for Windows over Linux. FreeBSD has always required far less tweaking or maintenance than Linux, though.
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by quesera 11mo ago
Linux has turned haphazardry into a strength. This is impressive. I prefer FreeBSD.
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by quesera 11mo ago
The truth is that FreeBSD doesn't want casual users, though. The Linux (Ubuntu, etc) install experience leads to a usable desktop. Heck, the installer disc boots to a usable desktop. Also no unsophisticated users even know the name o
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by quesera 11mo ago
iOS presents me with "Dial NPA-NXX-XXXX" and "Cancel" options in a bottom-raised dialog, when I tap a tel link. I don't recall doing anything special to make this happen, but I wouldn't put it past me.
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by quesera 11mo ago
> intercept the DNS requests and serve your filtered stuff. How do you get from a malicious DNS response to a browser-validated TLS cert for the requested host?
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by quesera 11mo ago
I have no idea what your point is. AFAICT, you intentionally goaded this thread into a dissection of WASP-vs-white, which serves zero purpose except to give you a chance to espouse something which you still haven't done, but strikes
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by quesera 11mo ago
Seriously, what the hell are you talking about? I'm not antagonizing anyone, except possibly you (and in ways I have not been able to figure out -- What's your damage, Heather?). If "white people have done bad things" is
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by quesera 11mo ago
I have no plan. I didn't create the label. And it's not a robustly defined sociological group anyway. It's just a popular label that got applied to real and very visible thing. Musk was born in South Africa under apartheid. D
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by quesera 11mo ago
WASP was always a pejorative way of saying "established white European-ancestry American aristocracy". It never applied to poor white people. It is just a label for the most common and most established phenotype in early America,
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by quesera 11mo ago
You appear to be on some kind of crusade here. I don't understand it, or your goals or intentions. We can agree that racism is stupid and boring. But it's still real, and has had a great deal of influence. If you think I'm pr
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by quesera 11mo ago
That's as WASPy as WASPy gets. It's not important that the specimen is an active Protestant. The point is that their ancestry (with some decent adjacency to: white, anglo-saxon, protestant) landed them in a place of general privil
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by quesera 11mo ago
Your point is kind of boring though. If OP had asked "why do white people hold most of the wealth in the US", the answer would be the same: Because they arrived (first) with superior technology and made slaves or serfs (or corpses
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by quesera 11mo ago
I guess it depends on the original poster's intention. If your point is that people have colloquialized "WASP", and that I fell into your trap, then OK you got me. :)
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by quesera 11mo ago
> I can’t think of a single WASP billionaire though Gates, Buffett, Musk ... all spring to mind. White certainly. Anglo-Saxon doesn't mean much more than "of western/northern european ancestry" any more. Protestant
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by quesera 11mo ago
FWIW: When I was in undergrad, the students who showed up only for exams and sat in the back of the room were not cheating, and still ended up with some of the best scores. They had opted out of the lectures, believing that they were ineffi
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by quesera 11mo ago
The Synthetic Human Resources Universal Handbook is in a binary format which is not understood by Organics, but seems to be useful sometimes.
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by quesera 11mo ago
Typically, these sorts of things are located in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard'. So, it makes sense to always start there.
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by quesera 11mo ago
> Makes sense that an LLM that doesn’t have any sense of truth would just stuff that in there As it turns out, that phrase was most likely added in a human review-edit. Along with the typo. This is not an argument against LLMs lacking
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by quesera 11mo ago
Can you do more than complain? All of the books I have read on this list (which is nearly all of them) are entirely worth reading. But I'm always looking for more and better stuff to read, so please give us a few examples that you beli
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by quesera 11mo ago
I think Quintilis and Sextilis were renamed to July and August, in honor of Julius and Augustus, respectively.
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by quesera 11mo ago
> losing a lot of weight then gaining half of it back The trick, of course, is to repeat the process as you asymptotically approach your goal. Zeno's paradox of mass.
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by quesera 11mo ago
> It's insane that my personal blog is more secure than my bank. It's insane to imagine that that is true. :) Seriously though, if banks and their customers were being defrauded by superficially poor password/MFA hygiene
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by quesera 11mo ago
Is speciesism more defensible than racism?
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by quesera 11mo ago
NFC can't be skimmed. EMV can and sometimes is, and magstripe skimming happens all day every day.
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by quesera 11mo ago
Beware of nginx 444 if your webserver is behind a load balancer. The LB will see the unresponded requests and think your webserver is failing. Ideal would be to respond at the webserver and let the LB drop the response.
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by quesera 11mo ago
A young field can be immature, regardless of age. E.g., I would regard computer science as a very young field.
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by quesera 11mo ago
This looks like something that's been around forever, but it's the first time I've seen it. xkcd://{{derive_from_context}} It's a great idea. I've created (or copied) at least half of these output formats,
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by quesera 11mo ago
Right, and I can construct theoretical models where this works well! But they're all ripe for abuse, and that makes them politically untenable. As a layperson in such social matters, I'd guess the real-world abuse rate would be so
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by quesera 11mo ago
> I could probably get by on 10-15% of the minimum wage Your math might be wrong here. Federal minimum wage is $7.25/hr, so if you have a FT job, that's $14.5K/yr, or $1200/mo. 10% of that is $1450/yr, or $120&
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by quesera 11mo ago
> What if the government had other jobs that paid food and shelter? They do, various and sundry, e.g. making license plates. I'm being glib, which is probably unforgivable under the circumstances, but people do this . Sometimes i

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