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by rekabis 7y ago
> Only strong legislation will apply pressure and even then the regulatory framework needs to have teeth. But… but… but… that will lead to _big gov_ and _overregulation_ and (gasp!) _socialism!!_ How can capitalism possibly survive under
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by rekabis 7y ago
> Also I have a fair amount of agency to see something that would make people's lives better and pitch it as a thing I'd like to work on. You’re clearly not working on their military-contract Terminator-drone program… …Unless “
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by rekabis 7y ago
The “hopeless list”, no. 3: “If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you’re the asshole.” This pretty much sums up my impression of these hiring managers that crank the bar sky-h
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by rekabis 7y ago
I would roundly disagree. If you find an unexploited niche and effectively corner it, there are still opportunities out there. Just look at Bitwarden. It started out as a free and truly secure answer to password managers that were cross-pla
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by rekabis 7y ago
> used a rotary phone to navigate a phone menu That’s impossible. Rotary phones use pulse dialling exclusively, but phone menus/trees require the tone dialling of push button and touch-screen phones. I have never heard of any phone
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by rekabis 7y ago
There is a classic 60s/70s era rotary phone, vaguely similar to a princess phone, where the dialling mechanism is inside an extra-beefy handset. Not a lineman’s phone, but a regular consumer’s phone. If a unit like this could be shoeho
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by rekabis 7y ago
How is it that everyone involved in the trial isn’t held responsible for their actions in it? If a prosecutor withholds evidence that can exonerate a defendant who is later convicted and executed, when that evidence comes to light the prose
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by rekabis 7y ago
What a lot of people completely miss is that a deep and comprehensive understanding of the “cascade” part of CSS will make preprocessors like LESS and SASS almost completely functionally worthless. Why? Because by utilizing the cascade corr
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by rekabis 7y ago
How is this an issue? The carrying capacity of the planet, excepting mass-implemented, ultra-high-tech, ultra-compact vertical farming that hasn’t been invented yet, is just 2 billion at 1st world levels of living. If we permit enough wild
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by rekabis 7y ago
Password reset involves a separate table to record user’s requests to reset, which also acts as an audit log of attempts (successful or not). As for eMail verification, you create and store a verification ID when the account gets made (I us
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by rekabis 7y ago
Oh god yes, everything here 100%. This is why I don’t have a PushBullet account - because they don’t offer the option of non-3rd party auth. I have no problem snubbing any other service out there for the exact same reason, no matter how com
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by rekabis 7y ago
> the true Ithaca always was and is within you. This is what so many people miss. You need to be internally motivated to reach your Ithaca. Being externally motivated will make you forever unrequited, forever wondering if what you have
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by rekabis 7y ago
On the one hand, the author is taking the high road. Good for him. He has principles, and sticks by them. On the other hand, you are completely and utterly correct. There are people in the publishing industry that should have never been all
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by rekabis 7y ago
This… is supposed to be difficult stuff??
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by rekabis 7y ago
Wow. A PhD, actively teaching, and this dribbles out. Such is the wharrgarbl of the far left. I bet this paper is very popular among the more woke SJWs.
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by rekabis 7y ago
Talk to most any climate scientist that has a decent to good overall grip on what is happening (including the actual actions of humanity to correct the issue), and they are (often) well past the “stark raving terrified” stage, and well into
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by rekabis 7y ago
This is… _sad_. I mean, if there is no other choice because restoration of the building is no longer technically feasible, fine. But just to throw up something bigger and newer? For shame.
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by rekabis 7y ago
However, out of that list of four, Apple is the one that I have seen being “least evil” with me and my data. Google dropped their “don’t be evil” motto for a very damn good reason, and the safety of their own app marketplace is a fucking jo
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by rekabis 7y ago
This is still so easy to circumvent. If it is purely by domain, switch away from google.ca and use google.com to get the results you need. If it uses geolocation of any kind, use a VPN that allows you to switch between endpoints, and use an
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by rekabis 7y ago
> It’s unrealistic to advise parents to eschew processed food, breastfeed longer, …, or perhaps put children on the Paleo diet Uhhh… why not?? These are things that can be done without parents being wealthy or having a SAHP. More whole
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by rekabis 7y ago
And the really scary thing is that anything above +8℃ has a very real chance of flipping the planet into a Venus Scenario. Recent work has shown that the Earth sits at the very inner edge of the solar system’s habitable zone. As the sun ha
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by rekabis 7y ago
Second bullet point: recommend using “strong opinions weakly held” ( https://medium.com/@ameet/strong-opinions-weakly-held-a-fram... ). Always be ready to review any opinion you have in the face of new evidence. In fact,
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by rekabis 7y ago
I would get this in a heartbeat if it had dual (non-USB) NICs. Would probably make a great border router.
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by rekabis 7y ago
Those that are denied look to be people who are hard to intimidate and/or control. Government loves its backdoors in crypto. Perhaps visa denials are revenge by the government for not putting back doors in, or building too secure of a
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by rekabis 7y ago
I know some people who have lived past 80 without regretting it, but they invariably share a few basic features: their lives are filled with constructive things to do (even if those things are not always enjoyable), they have an internal pu
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by rekabis 8y ago
Can confirm - using the base version to post this comment. Now posts are a different story - you can’t publish a post from Octal.
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by rekabis 8y ago
This is a glorious example of where the truth is hated simply because it’s inconvenient and utterly fails to support the sociopolitical narrative. The reaction of the far-leftists to evidence like this is what has pushed me clear out of the
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by rekabis 8y ago
Apollo, FTW. It has my vote. Grabbing content to quote is still a problem (it sits beneath the bottom bar, probably a negative padding issue), but otherwise I have no complaints.
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by rekabis 8y ago
I have been using the same web browser, in terms of codebase, ideology and heritage, for over a quarter century now. NCSA Mosaic -> Netscape 2, 3, 4/4.78, 6 -> Firebird -> Firefox -> Waterfox. I have run other web browsers
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by rekabis 8y ago
Wow, that was some really toxic shit, there. Glad you got out.

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