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by rob74 2y ago
Resigning or being fired, like the USAID inspector general: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/11/trump-federa...
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by rob74 2y ago
Prosecution? Of the president who just last year got wide-ranging immunity from the Supreme Court? Or of his right-hand guy who allegedly does nothing without the president's OK?
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by rob74 2y ago
You don't need to be a genius to become president as a populist - you just need to get rid of any kind of morals (if you still had some at the outset).
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by rob74 2y ago
Doesn't have to be getting shot, but I'd say that the probability of non-routine calls that could disrupt your focus is much greater for police radio then for ATC, so it's good that OP chose ATC instead...
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by rob74 2y ago
> Dimon then complained of employees wasting time during Zoom meetings, and how headcount for JPMorgan Chase had ballooned by 50,000 in the last four to five years. “We don’t need all those people. We were putting people in jobs because
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by rob74 2y ago
Did I miss something? The RTO mandate is still there, isn't it?
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by rob74 2y ago
Her
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by rob74 2y ago
Are you telling me that you're against good clean American coal?! https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/03/trump-war-on... (BTW I agree with you, but the current political climate - and not o
909.
by rob74 2y ago
...but the one in Paris, Tennessee ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiffel_Tower_(Paris,_Tennessee... ) looks much more true to the original - although apparently none of the two replicas fulfills the purpose of a tower (
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by rob74 2y ago
> the IT infra for all companies must at least look like that of Amazon Well, thanks to AWS, the IT infra for all companies increasingly does look like that of Amazon - because it's Amazon's own infra. Except if they'r
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by rob74 2y ago
Ah yes, Paris, Texas - made famous by a movie ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris,_Texas_(film) ), which inspired the name for a (Scottish!) band ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_(band) ), whic
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by rob74 2y ago
The "advice" slide is great and probably uncontroversial, but if you add another factor into the mix, it becomes very hard to follow: most modern (web) development uses frameworks : Laravel for PHP, Next/Nuxt/whatever f
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by rob74 2y ago
> whatever administration is in power at the time. $50B effective military budget will finally be possible under the next democratic administration Do you think there will be a next Democratic administration? The way things are going,
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by rob74 2y ago
Or rather, fuck around and others will find out. I'm not denying some of USAID spending may have been "dumb shit", but some of it was also very important. But you don't have to take my word for it, how about the words
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by rob74 2y ago
I tried powerline networking for a while, but got so frustrated with the hardware (it disconnected randomly after a few days or weeks and failed to reconnect automatically - all the while hogging the WiFi although it didn't have an Int
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by rob74 2y ago
If you look at how incredibly thin standard telephone wires are, it seems incredible that with the right technology you can transmit up to 100 Mbit/s over a pair of them...
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by rob74 2y ago
That makes a lot of sense, but (mostly conservative) politicians still criticize many innovations because of their supposed effect on the (more or less) poor. Recent example: the 2023 reform of the Gebäudeenergiegesetz (Building Energy Law)
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by rob74 2y ago
Price parking at the market rate. Political competitor criticizes you for being an "eco-dictator" and promises a return to free parking. You lose the next election. Sorry for the cynicism, I'm actually for increasing the pr
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by rob74 2y ago
I don't dispute Musk's success as a manager - the problem is that, to achieve his vision, he turned each of his companies into dictatorships. That's fine (at least in the US), because you can choose not to work for him. But I
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by rob74 2y ago
And to have enough candidates for that, he's doing his best to make life on Earth as bad as possible for as many people as possible as fast as possible?
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by rob74 2y ago
Case in point: in Germany, there are occasionally "Durchgang verboten" ("passage forbidden") signs next to driveways leading to e.g. an inner courtyard. These are most of the time a sure sign that it's possible to t
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by rob74 2y ago
> Taking a look at a sample file listing shows a number of books which appear to be commercially sold rather than being released for free. "a number of books which appear to be commercially sold" is a bit of an understatement
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by rob74 2y ago
Microsoft expects to get fusion power from Helion in 3 years, so (if we are very, maybe unrealistically, optimistic) the wait won't be that long. Actually, seeing recent developments, I'm afraid the only remotely realistic chance
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by rob74 2y ago
If people are ok with "live and let live", yes. If not, there will be a lot of bickering ("why did they get an exception and me not?!"). Or senior management will be unhappy with their metrics ("we said three days
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by rob74 2y ago
"Kastle Back to Work Barometer"? Another company placing subtle suggestions that working from home is not really working? Of course, a provider of access control systems is also interested in keeping the office real estate sector
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by rob74 2y ago
The crackdown was so successful that some scientists attribute the even-warmer-than-expected weather we have had in the last few years to additional warming due to the lack of light-reflecting sulphur in the atmosphere ( https://w
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by rob74 2y ago
> “Nearly four billion years ago, an asteroid or comet flew over the lunar south pole, brushed by the mountain summits of Malapert and Mouton, and hit the lunar surface,” Kring said. “The impact ejected high-energy streams of rock that
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by rob74 2y ago
Actually I'm curious if there is some kind of representative poll among Tesla owners about whether their personal ethics still align with the company's (or rather, its owner's) ethics. I mean, this is the guy who as recently
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by rob74 2y ago
> Why can't Musk replace him? Because, like Trump, he values loyalty above all else? That's the reason why he reinstated that other guy who resigned after his extreme-right social media posts were unearthed ( https:/&#x2
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by rob74 2y ago
Yup, this looks like a mashup of all the "rewriting $PROJECT from $OTHER_LANGUAGE to Go" I've read along the years, so I wouldn't be surprised at all if it were AI-generated...

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