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salawat
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salawat
6mo ago
>Turbos no longer mean you have to sacrifice fuel economy for performance (unless you have a lead foot). That's incorrect. Virtually every turbo'd gas car runs slightly richer than stoich to use the unburnt fuel to manage temp&
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6mo ago
>The primary purpose of surge pricing isn't to maximize profit, it's to increase supply. Your thinking is overly rigid here. An action can be multiple things at the same time. Uber's incentive is to maximize transactions p
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6mo ago
It's almost as if freedom only exists for those with the money to hire lawyers to make it happen. Farmers are basically screwed in that their location at the bottom foundation level of society really ties their hands in what they can g
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6mo ago
You will. Especially as it becomes more and more uncomfortable for people as they are forced to try to rationalize away their part in all of this. Don't think of it necessarily as a cop-out, but a sign that the person at least has eith
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6mo ago
What you're describing was a norm back in like the 90's, but disappeared in the ought's/10's when companies decided the user actually being kept abreast of what their machine was being asked to do clashed with the
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salawat
6mo ago
Don't you mean morale? Businesses are basically amoral by desi....ooooooooh. I see what you did there.
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6mo ago
>Well, first of all, them giving you the key doesn't prove they kept it. From all I know, it is discarded, not stored. Intelligence community has a maxim: evaluate adversaries on capabilities, not feelings. If you get the key from
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6mo ago
Then you shouldn't have made it. No government will refuse to turn around a decisive advantage against it's own people to secure itself.
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6mo ago
No. No it isn't a win. We need to grow beyond this stupid anachronistic concept that "just because you speak to a Third Party" there is no expectation of privacy. Humanity works as a result of third-party communication, and
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6mo ago
Government decides not to make it's own ability to make a case and use what you do against any more difficult. More at 11.
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6mo ago
Here's the thing. Now you're putting wear and tear, no matter how slight, on your device, you aren't being compensated for. Furthermore, you're opening yourself to legal exposure where your drives and data could be seize
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6mo ago
I refuse to work for places that resort to vendor lock-in. Compete in good faith or fuck off. I encourage any Junior to accept the same attitude, and to do everything to divest yourselves from places that do so. Stop supporting C-Suites tha
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6mo ago
Yes, yes. We know. The business environment can't be arsed to maintain it's own integrity by actually building out the capacity they want to charge for. Everyone hides behind statistical multiplexing until the actuarial pants shit
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6mo ago
Your society and your status within it are predisposed on making money. They are taxing your ability to leverage them for a leg up through new tooling. Their interests are to maximize or maintain the relative disparity between their value e
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6mo ago
That's not real engineering mate. That's God Complex rationalizing it's own continuing to do what it's always done while everyone else drops like flies. You'll know Software Engineering has started to turn into real
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6mo ago
Uh, no. That you believe that is more indicative of your proclivities than anyone else's, and also indicates the people around you are such that haven't challenged you to disabuse you of the notion. It isn't normal. It isn&#x
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6mo ago
It has always been that way. Literally the only distro that encourages an update process with the requisite effort you should be putting in is Slackware. You should be reading the source code you build. You should be building from sourc
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6mo ago
Nice! I'd thought about doing something similar, but never went so far as to get where y'all are at! I got about to an LFS distro that I was in the process of picking apart GCC to see if I could get the thing verifiable. Can'
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6mo ago
There's a reason the tech industry is said to be rapey. Such fundamental misunderstandings of consent likely do not ultimately stop at the digital.
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6mo ago
>Just spent the last week or so porting TheRock to stagex in an effort to get ROCm built with a native musl/mimalloc toolchain and get it deterministic for high security/privacy workloads that cannot trust binaries only built w
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6mo ago
Shhhh. Don't correct your enemy while they are busy making mistakes. Just smile and wave.
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6mo ago
You know, I took a second look at it, and weirdly enough, I can't vouch it for some reason. That's odd . Grats to the good folks across the pond though! May we be so lucky when next our transition is scheduled!
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6mo ago
Not to rain on your parade, but the proper, traditional filename would be README. I know the AI bro's are too cool for school, but trust me; README is where it all started. README -> notes to another programmer Manpages -> notes
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6mo ago
Ah yes. Let's trust civic engineering to a man who ran a company that had front-line workers using piss bottles to keep up with quotas. This cannot possibly end badly.
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6mo ago
As opposed to dead people because no one is hiring to pay people to participate in a market they've been evicted from?
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6mo ago
Thinking too small. Look at the opportunity cost incurred by over focusing the military on Iran. That's force and munitions not going to Ukraine, not usable to protect Taiwan, the extension of hostilities will be essentially the equiva
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6mo ago
Your analogy breaks down outside of an industrial food safety QA'd supply chain. What you're calling "poisoning" is what in industrial Food Safety is known as "introduction of an adulteration", where an "a
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6mo ago
...The absolute last thing I'd want to do is feed AI companies my proprietary codebase. Which is exactly what using these things to scan for vulns requires. You want to hand me the weights, and let me set up the hardware to run and s
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6mo ago
>If a company were actually serious about managing the risks it'd be some relatively quiet role reporting to someone responsible for operations like a CTO, COO or head of product. Maybe part of the CEOs personal staff but not an exe
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6mo ago
The community may very well feel ashamed of here, dang. I've been here in the good times, and to be frank, even before I made an account in 2017, I'd lurked for a long time. Recently, I've personally come to recognize an etho
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