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by rodgerd 5y ago
> and seeing Reddit involved feels like I'm watching a train wreck take place in slow motio I have yet to see reddit takes on this as awful as the ones right here.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
The person named in the suit was at Blizzard since 2004. This is nonsense.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> Less glib, this past year has taught me that a lot of companies are led by genuinely unintelligent people. There's a reason that "meritocracy" was invented as a term to mock the state of things. It's a myth. It was
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by rodgerd 5y ago
It's the editor equivalent of Word 5.1 for the Mac; the thing that people think of as being "just right".
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> I've tried switching to both Emacs and Vim It is an endless source of irritation that the fans of these editors are so relentless in their refusal to shut up and stop denigrating alternatives that people are left feeling that they
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by rodgerd 5y ago
It was even better working on a system that versioned files automatically so programs didn't need to re-implement these sorts of wheels continually. Dave Cutler was right.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Alas, a lot of people are. One of the reasons there's such a backlash against k8s - other than contrarianism, which is always with us - is that there are quite a few people who have their job and hobby confused, and inflicted k8s (wors
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> and they are increasingly more “Oracle” like in their approach. Ironically the Oracle cloud seems more price-reasonable (for now).
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by rodgerd 5y ago
I doubt that would make any difference. The problem is that swatting is trivial and risk-free. Phone networks make faking calls trivial, because spam callers want it to be. swatters piggyback on that to be able to swat you from all over the
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by rodgerd 5y ago
New Zealand ended up granting refugee status to a trans woman because of the violently hostile environment she was able to document in the UK. It's something that could crop up all over the show.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> I'm skeptical that a business would choose to go out of business rather that give raises. I don't think that you've met a lot of small business, owners, then.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
They have claimed in the past that they have technical measures to prevent the wrong people being targeted. If my memory of the reporting around the lawsuit by Facebook against the NSO is correct, the claims were pretty much rubbish - like,
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> Well, the book by Heinlein certainly wasn't meant to be dystopian It literally starts out by re-contexualising the ex-millitary putsch attempts in Weimar Germany as a Good Thing.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> I think. I dunno, I feel like I'm living in a future designed by folks who looked at Robocop, Starship Troopers, and a few other bits of dystopian sci-fi and instead of treating it as a warning decided that it would make a swell i
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Indeed - there's been research that backs up your position, but I'm afraid feels don't care about the facts.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Certainly the Steam surverys support the notion that the people who won't shut up about $1,000 graphics cards are very much a minority in PC gaming. They eat up all the oxygen in the room, but they certainly aren't the actual majo
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Yep. This is the problem - DoH (using Google or CloudFlare) is just privacy-washing even more intrusion. The aversion that companies have to merely being required to label their fuckery shows what a problem we have.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> An alternative to giving your money to one of the largest tax-dodgers on the planet is a $30 raspberry pi with "pi-hole" installed. Try to be more condescending, kid. It'll make your point so much more effective if you
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> do you not believe that the exceptional openness of either of those two platforms has an impact on places outside of them? Oh, there's definitely an impact. > Do you think there's no intangible benefits to you by these pl
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> We seem to have an autocrat in the making We already have autocrats in Facebook and Google. What they're fighting is an attempt to put them back under civil oversight.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
My tipping point was noticing that about 30% of my DNS traffic on my home network was Android devices calling out to tracking and advertising networks. Moving to iOS has dropped that dramatically, more than an order of magnitude. The fact t
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> roi ROI and it's cousin TCO should be useful terms, but it's been so twisted and bastardised that it's basically a useless metric. Everyone has some bullshit story that shows that if you give them millions now they&#x
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by rodgerd 5y ago
I am put in mind of the policy during the years when HP were a successful, growing company, that managers sat in open areas, while engineers sat in offices; the managers' work is being available to their staff; staff needed to be able
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> I'm hoping that this is the start of a trend away from the overly complex, overly engineered, big ball of mud that is Kubernetes The main problem with k8s in the real world is that too often it's being deployed by people who
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Also worth noting that at one point part of their Linux on Z brag book was Notes consolidation letting them run all of IBM on a handful of mainframes.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
"taxes are what we pay for civilized society" - Compañia General de Tabacos de Filipinas vs. Collector of Internal Revenue, 275 U.S. 87, 100 (1927)
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Attempting to do transactional memory (and, I've been told, the 1.2 kW power requirement!) was what sunk Sun's Rock processors.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
A very interesting and informative comment - thank you.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
More than a few programmers are incredibly cocky about "I can write code" turning into "therefore all problems are simple". It's not just managers.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
I, for one, cannot wait until Somalian pirates become nuclear-armed crime syndicates. I've always wanted to live in the worst bits of cyberpunk dystopias.

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