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by rodgerd 5y ago
Punctures are much more of a problem for me - the roads are generally good, but tradies seem to love scattering nails, bolts, and other random bits of construction crap on the roads.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Isn't this the outfit associated with the "Emperor of Korea" who took over Freenode?
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by rodgerd 5y ago
There exists an area of study emerging in economics covering the effect of companies being directed by a small number of shareholders - for example, if the key stakeholders of all US airlines are (for the sake of the argument) Black Rock, t
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> I'm not quite sure where all the resistance to remote work is coming from. You are assuming that the people who make decisions are somehow more rational than anyone else.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
If it was actually someone in Facebook, their job is gone by now, too.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
It sounds that way: https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/09/former-blue-origin-e...
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> the main things I miss are the water cooler talk that greased a lot of wheels and filled in a lot of gaps I hear that because informal stuff can solve a lot of problems, or prevent it even arising, but at the same time, it papers over
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by rodgerd 5y ago
The interesting thing for me is that I deal with group 2, but I work in a place with multiple head offices, and they've been like that since the early 90s. Remote working, in the sense that very few medium or large businesses have a si
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by rodgerd 5y ago
The Google monopoly doesn't give a fuck.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> This is why I still use the console model with my gaming PC. I mean this is why I use a console as my first choice gaming platform.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
In one part because the false positives of picking up top players as bots becomes an issue.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> That said, high price killed off most of the legacy Unix vendors/products. High price and the differentiation. In the 90s I was working in publishing and publishing-adjacent companies that were throwing out their Unix environments
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by rodgerd 5y ago
More than just that; the block diagram and a lucid explantion of floating point mathematics that has lasted me for 40 years.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> Are the programmers at NSO group just the best in the world? Most people who are good at this are working for national security orgs, blue team in the private sector, or cash focused criminals. This is the relatively small group of peo
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> Apple should know who works for NSO Group. It should block every single account of every single person working for that org. Same goes for their families. NSO are suing Facebook - successfully so far - to force them to allow NSO staff
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Pretty rich when Jeff Bezos is attacking SpaceX on the grounds that Musk doesn't respect the law. Like, he's not wrong, but that's solid "takes one to know one" territory right there.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> Whitebox solutions can be adopted by corporations that can afford to have dedicated teams to maintain the software stack. Pretty much. Unless you have some remarkably top-notch people, this proposal is just security theatre. The chance
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> give a big middle finger to your customers with a skeleton human support crew? I mean that describes the situation today. The management involvement in Reddit is for the CEO to support ivermectin conspiracy and GamerGate subs.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Has one political party in India got a long history of using voting qualification mechanisms to exclude large groups of the population from voting at all? Because the US does: these mechanisms replay the old literacy tests which were used t
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> In the spirit of the author's desire to "get weird", I’m struck by how often people’s choice of programming languages (and tools, more generally) is from a defensive stance. "I want to get weird" is great for a
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> Where an app may have an "artist" field, classical music will have "composer" and then for the performers it will have "orchestra", "conductor", "principal soloists". For an opera all o
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Could you point me to the 10 Gb ports on the Pi 4?
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Port multipliers exist, and do work, but they are incredibly finicky. The precise set of combinations of HBA, multiplier, kernel driver, and drives can be a nightmare - once USB 3 became available and reliable I largely lost interest.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Customers may not flee, but: 1. Customers in e.g. the EU may push their reps to "do something" about two US companies controlling all e-commerce. 2. Customers frustrated that Mastercard have gone on the record as refusing to block
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by rodgerd 5y ago
They change in processor heart seemed to happen after people started making a lot of noise that Mastercard explicitly refused to block payments to terrorist and other awful groups, but keeps going after sex workers. I don't think the c
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by rodgerd 5y ago
For a long time Subaru held the unenviable position of being the most stolen car in the country that I live in. They started spraying microdots in the undercoat of their cars, which meant that every single part of the car was traceable. Mod
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by rodgerd 5y ago
One challenge for a lot of enterprise shops is an addiction to things like MITM middleware boxes, which often lag far behind, and long approval cycles for updates - demanding that software be repackaged for deployment and the like. The bigg
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Australia had a spate of house fires caused by Samsung washing machines whose electronics weren't properly waterproofed, shorted, and then burned. I have avoided Samsung products since then.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
This is true up and down the market. Here in New Zealand we've had a lot of squealing about "shortages in essential skills" from, I shit you not, cafe owners, bottle shop owners, you name it. We have restaurants who charge, I
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Have a look for Razer heatmaps; Razer do in fact run mouse and keyloggers that send your data to their cloud.

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