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901.
by salawat 2y ago
Your e-bike shouldn't be limited. You should get on that.
902.
by salawat 2y ago
And my bloody computer is potentially trying to make god-blessed network calls before the OS has even loaded, and before my machine even provides the bare minimum human interface, you want me to navigate cryptography? The trusted computing
903.
by salawat 2y ago
You don't need to do your signing locally, it is possible to build your network around a build machine that does the signing for you. That being said, SecureBoot has always been security theater for anyone that isn't a major OS ma
904.
by salawat 2y ago
You know, it's kind of funny, but it seems like most businesses are not interested in doing things "right". As doing things "right" is time consuming, hard, and cuts off avenues to "innovate". "That&#
905.
by salawat 2y ago
In fact it was lobbied in order to disinclude software engineering from it's purview in most states.
906.
by salawat 2y ago
>Everyone's being pointedly vague and I guess that's necessary to an extent to preserve internet anonymity (or maintain a reputation, if your professional work is tied to your HN account) but it is frustrating as someone trying
907.
by salawat 2y ago
How about... Paying them? Look, maintaining test case management infra, integrating with your SDLC, and dealing with your management and development group constantly trying to gaslight, ignore, ostracize, or downright abuse the testing team
908.
by salawat 2y ago
It's the same picture... Only thing different is the implementation details.
909.
by salawat 2y ago
...Because there are no shady accountants or lawyers more motivated by a quick buck to be made, with the wherewithal to stay reasonably distant from anything blatantly capable of blowing back on them. Surely.
910.
by salawat 2y ago
You ramping up your skills will do nothing for you if a machine can otherwise be delegated your job due to the overhead of human worker vs. just owning a machines output. Not having to negotiate is extremely valuable to a business owner. Ma
911.
by salawat 2y ago
In education, the goal is internalizing to the individual the knowledge required for them to bootstrap into a useful, contributing member of society. Things like composition of written works, organizing one's thoughts into communicable
912.
by salawat 2y ago
The essence of civility is having the means, motive, and opportunity to delete someone/something from the calculus of life with violence, and choosing not to do so. That is to say, anyone slaughtering one another have abandoned all pre
913.
by salawat 2y ago
Nah, what you're missing, at least in the U.S., is that the last 100 years or so have basically been a gigantic society scaled, Ponzi experiment w.r.t. things like Social Security. The entire system works, as long as population growth
914.
by salawat 2y ago
Wrong question. Correct question is why is private equity chasing medical practices above all else. Bet you the answer is that's where the less constrained money extraction is.
915.
by salawat 2y ago
Beautiful. A reminder of how things should be.
916.
by salawat 2y ago
I think anyone who says they've disappeared is a numpty incapable of seeing passed their nose.
917.
by salawat 2y ago
Political parties differ only in stated platform on a poster they pay lip service to. You have to look at their actions, and if you do, you will recognize that both share a single overarching goal. The accretion of power at the highest leve
918.
by salawat 2y ago
>the government has no way of directly linking identity with the online activity. I am so tired of the naivete that just because something isn't direct somehow translated to "we're safe from the possibility of". Espe
919.
by salawat 2y ago
>I think it's all right if you're used to the notation. Higher mathematics in a nutshell. >Of course you should, where would be the fun in that? Also higher mathematics in a nutshell. Narrator asks: Who should we put in char
920.
by salawat 2y ago
>becoming an amateur lawyer and spending dozens of hours reading and comparing T&Cs between apps to choose which one to use (until they change the T&Cs again of course, which they'll do without notifying you) This right here
921.
by salawat 2y ago
Quality Assurance tends to be the proper title. Yes, there is a hierarchy, from junior to senior staff, etc... Most positions will be largely ignored or accused of gaslighting the moment the truth starts to become organizationally inconveni
922.
by salawat 2y ago
Which I'm sure the arbitrator will bend over backwards to make available to you, and you can surely investigate/sue to force discovery while you're in the midst of Yet Another Lawsuit, err arbitration, right? Get real.
923.
by salawat 2y ago
Ya build one power producing nuclear reactor in your basement and suddenly everyone has an opinion on how you should spend your free time.
924.
by salawat 2y ago
Believe it or not, Farnsworth, (inventor of the principles making Television possible) had no intention of it being used as an advertising or propaganda tool when setting out to figure out the problem. That's very much a "what peo
925.
by salawat 2y ago
America will get what it deserves regardless of how high you set your expectations. It'll always fall short. Shooting lower to compensate for something you already know is going to be pulled down anyway is just going to miss.
926.
by salawat 2y ago
Pretty much. Quick things to stash for later for brushing up on those subjects in particular: https://www.vanderbilt.edu/unity/2021/04/07/civics-101-keep-... https://www.greece-is.com/lea
927.
by salawat 2y ago
>This is an astute comment; we are in the social media era of elections, probably have been since 2016. No it isn't. In the U.S., we were consciously doing it wrong because the Greek system failed for the specific reasons that are
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by salawat 2y ago
It isn't really accepted anywhere, but there is a group of people who will make it their goal in life to get up to any shady practice to try to shortchange or dodge their local host polity to their ultimate advantage. The tax dodge,
929.
by salawat 2y ago
The type of person who cannot draw a line of semantic equivalence between papers and files on a computer, is uniquely devoted to entertaining a level of obtuseness it is hard to seriously entertain. On par with people who think that "A
930.
by salawat 2y ago
Also curious on the QA bit. Inquiring minds would like to know more.

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