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by rekabis 9mo ago
I wonder if this is also affecting the responsiveness of O365 mobile apps as well. Like, not their ability to interact with cloud services, but their ability to respond to the user’s actions in the first place. My wife has had a work iPad w
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by rekabis 9mo ago
Faith and belief are the cornerstones of all evil: • Belief asserts things as truth entirely without evidence. This lack of evidence is an intentional feature, and not a flaw. • Faith asserts things as truth despite copious evidence to t
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by rekabis 9mo ago
I… missed that. Thanks.
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by rekabis 9mo ago
Oh, ggoooooodddd I got f**king lucky. 4×4Tb Samsung 990 Pro for a RAID-10 array, $399.97 CAD each on Amazon this last fall. It now looks to be out of stock at almost $800 CAD apiece. And I wouldn’t doubt that it’ll double again before sum
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by rekabis 9mo ago
> You can try to consolidate people into fewer towns and smaller areas, but human mobility is not infinite; some people will be stuck in decaying towns, rotting away in despair. This is a red herring. Look at Spain and Italy, where dead
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by rekabis 9mo ago
…At least it’s not a subscription. But $11.99 CAD… yikes. Would like to see a highly-limited base version that is free, and a pro paid version. Of course this complicates development, but it lowers the barrier to interest. At this point
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by rekabis 9mo ago
Re-framing the logic of the app can also help. For example, in your example is there any situation where there is an invoice that has not been paid? In the vast majority of shopping cart systems, that would be a hard NO. There would be an O
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by rekabis 9mo ago
As someone who has worked with computers since 1982, been on the Internet since 1988, on the Web since 1992, and in the IT industry as a developer since 1997, I see AI as having five intractable issues: 1. How AI use erodes skills in the su
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by rekabis 9mo ago
> For single homes, if only 2% of all homes being sold are owned by investors, releasing those would at most increase the supply by 2%. For the last time, I AM NOT ONLY TALKING ABOUT CORPORATIONS. I am INCLUDING those INDEPENDENT INDIVID
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And then there is flour, which when measured by volume can exhibit massive differences in actual amounts depending on how packed said flour is. Which is why you can easily tell the difference between an expert baker and an idiot by whether
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by rekabis 9mo ago
> My wife does not like when I solve problems instead of just acknowledge the problem and say "that's a shame/sad/terrible", but I can't help it, we as engineers are wired to do solve problems, not just ackn
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by rekabis 9mo ago
> I finished reading the Bible. It resonated with me in a way nothing else had before. Interesting. Reading the bible did nothing for me. Understanding the bible is what turned me into a hard atheist. I have yet to find anything more i
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by rekabis 9mo ago
> And it’s nonsensical that if you got rid of all of the investors who only own 2-3% of the supply, Either you are sealioning, or you genuinely can’t comprehend the written word. Time and time again you keep hammering on this point, whic
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by rekabis 9mo ago
>Why is rental property evil? Profit margins on all inelastic essential goods are fundamentally evil. A mansion for a single person isn’t an essential inelastic good. A Bachelor suite or basement suite for a single person _is._ Water in
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by rekabis 9mo ago
IMO anyone holding more than 5 rentals is doing so for the purpose of investing; of having a revenue stream well above what is needed for mortgage purposes. Why? Because if you take the traditional route of living in a place, and do so for
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by rekabis 9mo ago
A variation is already in the works: https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/jeff-... So satire is slowly being leveraged by the Parasite Class for ideas on how to suck even more blood out of the working
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by rekabis 9mo ago
> there is something morally wrong with being a landlord In the traditional manner, by upgrading through houses over a lifetime and holding onto the prior homes as “mortgage helpers”? No, not in the least. In the modern context, by buyin
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by rekabis 9mo ago
I would still do a job, but it would be something that is important to me. And $10M would require some up-front management and ongoing maintenance to develop an index-tracked revenue stream from it. I mean, aside from an initial disbursem
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by rekabis 10mo ago
No… we don’t want this. Think of it: industry cottons onto this idea, sets up entire server farms to make memory more efficient at lower cost, and then starts mining what is in memory for profit. The process accelerates and intensifies the
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by rekabis 10mo ago
I can’t think of a single account I have created using my gMail eMail address. In fact, I technically don’t even have a gMail account, as I log into my Google account using my personal domain eMail. This likely wouldn’t work with any other
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by rekabis 10mo ago
I agree with the statement of taste . What OpenBSD falls short in, however, are some vital features . Virtualization or Containers, for example. These are essential agents of isolation and portability that OpenBSD utterly lacks.
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by rekabis 10mo ago
Well, considering how RAM has jumped in price by 4× to 6× depending on capacity and form factor, at least this isn’t another RAM-gobbling Electron app.
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This reads as genuinely nightmarish. Our civilization is doomed if this is the future. Zero quality, zero resiliency, zero coherent vision, zero cohesive intent. Just chaotic slop everywhere, the ultimate Ouroboros.
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by rekabis 10mo ago
Maybe because it’s an Electron app? Sure, Electron does not come natively for iOS. But with tools like Capacitor, you can take a web app (even an Electron one) and package it for iOS/Android, adding native features and running in a nat
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by rekabis 10mo ago
I have a pair of Dell T7500 units for “slow and simple” self-hosting, and just snagged a trio of 1Tb/64Gb 2018 Mac Minis to join my own surplussed Mac Mini of the same vintage as single-purpose machines. I have a gigabit symmetrical SO
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by rekabis 10mo ago
I have a tendency to write at an above-average, technical level, so it’s already happened to me a few times on places like Reddit. Like, it takes just a quick look at my post history to disabuse anyone of that notion, but some people are ei
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by rekabis 10mo ago
JFC, what the hell is happening to Canada’s neighbour to the south?
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Then people need to coordinate. People with active SC accounts need to talk to people who can take ripped files and torrent them. I don’t have an SC account myself. But get me a file and I will gladly torrent it for others. Some of my torre
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by rekabis 10mo ago
> some sites mandate email/SMS 2FA Which should be made illegal on a national/international level. The only possible reason for that is sheer laziness or malicious ignorance. Full stop, end of story And I also include eMailed l
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by rekabis 10mo ago
> A 32-character password + TOTP can still be entered on a phishing website, e.g. if you happen to follow a fabricated link. …How? The password manager only permits exact links. If the URL does not have the UTF-8-identical characters to

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