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by rekabis 3y ago
In terms of formal definitions, a Computer Scientist is to a Programmer in the same way that a Mechanical Engineer is to a Mechanic. In that regard, you would never ask a Mechanical Engineer to change your oil or your spark plugs in the sam
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by rekabis 3y ago
What an excellent reason to rip that app out using Win10Privacy, and run with something more privacy-friendly like Thunderbird.
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by rekabis 3y ago
If Gabor Maté taught me anything, it is that all true addictions are the result of untreated/unresolved trauma. Unfortunately, not all forms of trauma can be treated sufficiently within a human lifetime to ease the grip of addictions,
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by rekabis 3y ago
There is a glyph for that: ™
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by rekabis 3y ago
Is it time to pull out the nuclear option? Firing due to union affiliation is illegal. Firing everyone on a bargaining team is obviously illegal. Time to bankrupt the company, such that most anyone with decision-making ability walks away _m
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by rekabis 3y ago
What’s wrong with a screenshot? Greenshot is my choice of Windows app for capturing just limited clips of the screen and either saving them directly to the drive or dumping into the clipboard for elsewhere paste.
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by rekabis 3y ago
Made a comment in the root of the article thread that is related to yours, in terms of overcoming your elderly client’s problem with something far more robust and reliable: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37861604
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by rekabis 3y ago
Definitely saved this article as a guide. But in terms of light switches, specifically - is there not a simpler way to turn lights on and off while keeping the physical wall switches as the fundamental source of truth? I’m thinking of a tra
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by rekabis 3y ago
Just starting my sixth decade on this rock and I don’t have any children, thank goodness. I lucked out in not having descendants that could curse my name for their existence. But I have a few hundred acres of difficult-to-find and easy-to-d
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by rekabis 3y ago
This is also being called a “never-nester”. As in, you never nest your own code more than three levels deep. There is one very well-made YouTube video on it, IIRC.
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by rekabis 3y ago
If they are “daring employees to quit”, who are we to disappoint them? Let those Parasite Class C-Suite troglodytes run the company all by their lonesome. I’m sure that’ll be the first time they actually earned their obscenely overinflated
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by rekabis 3y ago
I usually chuckle when larger (100+ computer-using employees) companies get hit by ransomware, usually because they have been nickel-and-dimeing their IT departments, treating them as cost centres instead of revenue centres, and generally s
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by rekabis 3y ago
Dumbphones are rare AF these days. Even most flip phones have Android under the hood, which is even more privacy-eviscerating than Apple. And while there are alternative OS options out there, most of them are “fat” operating systems that ha
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by rekabis 3y ago
Arrogance and entitlement tends to be directly proportional to the rarity of the job title, both within the company as well as within the industry.
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by rekabis 3y ago
> An issue that is not solved by either UUIDv4 or the proposed solution (random base58 strings) is indexing performance. Lots of languages are catching up to UUIDv7, which solves the indexing issue.
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by rekabis 3y ago
For the web, sequential ID attacks represent a significant problem in terms of a Resource Enumeration Attack. It gets worse when auth isn’t even in play yet (the user isn’t logged in, or doesn’t even have an account yet, or this info is mea
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by rekabis 3y ago
> If it continues for another decade, we can presume no young person today will ever be able to afford a home. You want to lay blame? 30% of all homes in the last year have been bought by speculators and rental investors. That’s right… o
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by rekabis 3y ago
It’s good that these kinds of instant-photo cameras are still available. They are essential not only in forensics investigations, but also any other field where photographic inimitability is required; where the photo itself cannot be interc
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by rekabis 3y ago
> you very much said so in words. Intentional or not, you explicitly said that only the worst or least competent employees remained: >>Grindr is hollowing itself out in terms of talent and it’s best employees, leaving only the sub-
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by rekabis 3y ago
> you have an active imagination, too active for your own good. Videos shot by residents of 24/7 honking ( https://youtu.be/cmL0ycjSIaU ) is not “imagination”. Businesses complaining about racist assaults ( https:&#x2
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by rekabis 3y ago
> Lol, you are over the edge. Most Canadians don’t share your position. Most Canadians see that TruKKKer QUANONvoy for exactly what it was: an alt-right, racist, ChristoFascist fringe movement protesting its slide into irrelevance and l
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by rekabis 3y ago
> and peaceful protests are the heart of democracy Peaceful protests? WHAT PEACEFUL PROTESTS??? The TruKKKer QUANONvoy wasn’t peaceful in the least. If I parked a big rig on the sidewalk in front of your home and blasted it’s horn all da
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by rekabis 3y ago
> that wasn't your original argument. Yes it was, there was absolutely no shift in subject matter between the two posts. “Hollowing out” is a thing that the company is doing to itself, and has (frequently) very little to do with its
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by rekabis 3y ago
What you used as an example is fully encapsulated by my use of the term “desperate”. Those chained to their job via the medical insurance it provides, or housing disruption, or family income stream, are indeed desperate for said insurance o
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by rekabis 3y ago
The convoy terrorized the residents of Ottawa with verbal & physical threats and 24/7 assaults of noise pollution for weeks on end, waved around swastikas and other paraphernalia of white supremacy, and demanded to replace the sitt
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by rekabis 3y ago
Nationalize anything “too big to fail.” If it’s too big to fail, it’s too big to be outside of the public interest and public control.
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by rekabis 3y ago
People will vote with their feet. These aren’t wage slaves on poverty wages, these are tech professionals that can - if they are good - get another job within a few short months if not weeks. Grindr is hollowing itself out in terms of talen
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by rekabis 3y ago
I just did a return to Amazon where I bought a pair of GFCI adapters for power cords, and got a children’s book of Christian devotionals instead. Doubly useless because both my wife and I are childless and effectively atheist. But that retu
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by rekabis 3y ago
Do these still come packaged with Chinese state-sanctioned malware that auto-installs itself from the UEFI/BIOS on every boot?
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by rekabis 3y ago
…WAT.

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