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by rekabis 4y ago
We should really remove all warning labels, and let evolution pour a little bleach into the shallow end of the gene pool. We’ve bubble-wrapped far too much of humanity, especially in western societies. And while everyone is entitled to thei
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by rekabis 4y ago
Holy crap: > “Whenever I had any doubts that something happened, I was told by the therapist that this was because I had multiple personalities, that my dad had programmed me this way,” Parker said the court record of his recantation. Th
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by rekabis 4y ago
Holy Christmas, that was one heck of a roller coaster ride.
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by rekabis 4y ago
This is where I feel copyright should slam face-first into a brick wall: if the company does not make a micro bus freely available to purchase, they cannot object to anyone else imitating it. A company’s copyright of a product should irrevo
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by rekabis 4y ago
> What extra up front cost? The Macbook Air costs $799 at BestBuy. Only if you go with the absolute lowest specs. Which means you cannot upgrade them and will have to chuck that MacBook Air much sooner than any Windows laptop because it’
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by rekabis 4y ago
Thanks to the user-hostile and inherently insecure nature of Windows, it takes me nearly 16 hours to comprehensively lock down, disinfect, and largely neuter any install of Windows. I mean, the actual install takes about a half hour, and sl
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by rekabis 4y ago
> Never buy an ink printer though. That advice holds. With traditional ink printers, yes. With the new tank-based printers? No. That advice no longer holds. Tank-based printers separate out the tank that holds the ink from the nozzle t
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by rekabis 4y ago
> Most people selling their printer are doing so out of frustration due to paper jams or other nonsense. Consumer printers? Sure. Highly likely. That stuff was designed to be disposable. Business-class or Enterprise-class printers that h
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by rekabis 4y ago
HP used to be so good in terms of printers. I still have a 4050DTN that can take overstuffed cartridges that will do 20,000 sheets at 5% coverage. I think I’m on my third cartridge in 20 years and two degrees. It needs some maintenance such
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by rekabis 4y ago
Gear doesn’t matter, but inadequate or insufficient gear will crimp your ability to take a great photo something fierce.
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by rekabis 4y ago
> He enjoys accumulating money If a monkey at a zoo hoarded all the bananas such that all the other monkeys there were starving, scientists would be examining that money down to a brain dissection to see just what was wrong with it. Mean
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by rekabis 4y ago
“Red tape is painted with the blood of innocents who died before those regulations existed” - probably the best way to state it in a pithy manner.
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by rekabis 4y ago
> You shouldn't try to bring others down to feel better about making more, you should see what they're being paid and realize you are worth more. This. The company is probably generating oodles of profit. Any profit whatsoever
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by rekabis 4y ago
I have been talking of a Net Worth tax for some time now. Start at a value that is truly eye-watering for your average citizen, one which the lower-99% will never reach in their lifetimes. Say, for argument, $10M. Implement an algorithm tha
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by rekabis 4y ago
Has anyone gotten around to cracking HP firmware in the same way that John Deere firmware is being cracked?
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by rekabis 4y ago
This company sounds like an extreme outlier. About the only companies I still see doing it this way are the ones whose employee count can be done with two hands, and without re-using fingers. As in, single-digit employee count, maybe low
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by rekabis 4y ago
Strange how so many of these smart and skilled business owners fail to appropriately pull themselves up by their bootstraps. Isn’t that what they always tell “the poors” to do?
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by rekabis 4y ago
A maxed-out Mini is pretty much half the price of a Studio Max. I wonder which one ends up being a better long-term purchase, in terms of obsolescence and OS support.
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by rekabis 4y ago
Why any copyright at all? Humanity did perfectly well building modern civilization without it; it’s only been within the last couple hundred years that we have had copyright to any degree, much less it’s innovation-stifling modern format.
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by rekabis 4y ago
/r/AgedLikeMilk
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by rekabis 4y ago
In any large enough population, there will be people who hate themselves for having the attributes that make them a part of that population. This is why Jewish or even Black neo-Nazis exist, even though that ideology actively seeks to suppr
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by rekabis 4y ago
If it’s Google, here is hoping you have a war chest in the several tens of millions of dollars, if not hundreds of millions. It’s not that you don’t have a case. I pass absolutely no judgement from that perspective. But rather, unless you a
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by rekabis 4y ago
> Half the country worships the police as long as they aren't hurting them personally. You sound hyperbolic, but you are actually entirely correct: “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups w
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by rekabis 4y ago
> Zuck mentioned that in an earnings call and rather than assigning himself any responsibility said that those people were unregretted attrition and lazy parasites who were just collecting a paycheck during the pandemic. Wow. What an eff
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by rekabis 4y ago
Why not both? Actual practice is invaluable. Would you hire a lorry driver that had only ever studied the theory of driving, and never actually got behind the wheel of a truck? But certifications do two things: One, they cover the material
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by rekabis 4y ago
What bugs me is the framing of the salesman as a “petulant child”, and then telling him, > You never sold yourself to the people with whom and through whom you had to work. The one problem being that old aphorism of “you can bring a hors
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by rekabis 4y ago
When the foundation to almost every company’s long-term success is the people it has hired, eviscerating those ranks of people indiscriminately is a really great way to have loads of institutional knowledge flee and the job become much, muc
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by rekabis 4y ago
> Like learning the joys of debugging missing semicolons. Any modern IDE built within the last 20 years would not only highlight where a semicolon was missing, but would also be able to tell the difference between a semicolon and a Greek
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by rekabis 4y ago
Patents are an evil that has only ever retarded economic progress, and made the vanishingly few fantastically wealthy at the expense of the majority. Copyright - aside from the ability to say “I made this”, and the ability to prevent others
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by rekabis 4y ago
The one full-backup restore I did on my wife’s system - after her MacBook Air decided to fry its storage (it was obsolete anyhow) - went perfectly. 23Gb of personal files (she’s not the data pack rat I am) came streaming back down inside of

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