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by sbf501 4y ago
IMHO, anonymity takes a certain amount of unavoidable effort. If you're just chatting with friends, maybe you really don't need Signal. If you are whistleblowing a large corporation or a government, then it makes more sense?
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> When I was in high school back in 2004, I think this is the first sentence I've read about an internet encyclopedia that started with "Back in my day..."
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I never worked for a software group at Intel. And I started there in 1989. I'm not out to convince a non-believer like yourself. Just sharing my experience. EDIT: Intel certainly had a lot of dumb projects over the years, from POTS vid
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> you do every thing purely on merit, every decision is only technical? Yeah, honestly. The vast majority of my hard decisions I made were based on schedule and resources: having to kill things or move people around. The only "polit
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Point taken. My comment is a good example of "tech privilege".
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Mozilla had some interesting archetypes. I only recall two because I didn't work there, but they were Wizard and True Believer. They all seemed to be more apt archetypes than standard job progression ladders because they allowed for mo
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Since we're being anecdotal: I think that claim is jaded and angry, and makes me wonder what kinds of companies people have worked at. Honestly, I've only encountered this once or twice, and I've been a career engineer since
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by sbf501 4y ago
Yep. All I have is have anecdotal data. I believe desktops are on their way out. The trend has been happening for ~30 years. Even Android is working on virtual phone OS. The only applications I've encountered that need a workstation
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Who uses a physical workstation anymore? (Besides artists.) OP is suggesting a complete remote desktop for Office applications, like Video Conferencing. Ironically, for all the crap X takes, it could actually pull this off. Moreso for Wayla
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Also not OP, but I find the best way to learn a new language is to attempt a project using just the documentation. In my mind, the documentation for the language should provide methods, paradigms, and patterns required to think in that lang
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Is it access to the internet, or access to the internet through a gateway (other than the primary router)? That's a big difference.
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The best part about this is we finally have some kind of broad certification. Amazon has a similar process, but it is currently in its infancy. The process may not be perfect, but it is now in place, which means it can be augmented. I hope
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> why don't they do that anyway? Ever heard of a company called Apple? They raise prices all the time because they can. Same with AT&T, or banks ATM Fees, or gas prices. Right now gas prices are at an all time high, and so are g
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I was trying to fix a curtain the other day and cursed myself for not paying attention in 6th-grade Home Economics class. And not a month goes by when I don't hear my 10th grade American History teacher's voice in my head. Or my 8
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The more currency flooding the economy, the less wealthy the rich people are. Inflation occurs because the owners need to remain wealthy, hence prices go up everywhere. If it were possible for the top few to do with a little less, prices wo
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Nothing. The people that understand history aren't in a position of power, and the people in a position in power--most of them, anyway--don't need to remember, it works against them.
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> on a company which operates on free market. You probably shouldn't have based your argument on this statement, which is generally regarded as a myth. It is a myth in the sense that Apple exists in a free market: it is a near monop
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This is interesting because people will buy supplements that have no scientific basis for efficacy (biotin, mega-doses of Vit-C, St John's Wort) but they will deride homeopathy, which also has no scientific basis for efficacy. I'm
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I thought supplements were treated different than, you know, actual medicine. That's probably why. But I've wondered that myself, too.
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DeCSS was "cracked" because Xing accidentally included an unencrypted key in their firmware. The encryption wasn't cracked, it was subverted by poor security practices. If Xing hadn't screwed up, it may have been another
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MAP and AREA have been around since the 90's, but METER/PROGRESS? I never noticed those sneak into HTML. I've been using Bootstrap for ages. Cool. SUP and SUB I find don't work very well with glyphs, but work fine with s
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by sbf501 4y ago
My decision to pick a username that was taken on other sites has successfully improved my anonymity score!
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1975 edition, ftw! :) As a kid I read the set my parents bought cover to cover until I went to highschool. I had an opportunity to buy a very old set of these at a book store that was going out of business and having like a 95% off sale, an
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FYI current record is 9.58 by Usain Bolt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men's_100_metres_world_record_...
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Lawsuits work. Around 2003 I purchased a CPU from eBay with PayPal. It never shipped because it was a scam. My credit card company refunded my money, but PayPal demanded I pay them. I refused and they banned my account. It took almost a dec
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> How do you rest your fingers on the keyboard? Standard home-row position. Having to scoot my thumb over to square-loop is very uncomfortable because it naturally rests on the spacebar. It might be that I've been programming for cl
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Unless you have tiny monkeypaws for hands, ⌘-V is a painful gesture and doesn't make sense on any human hand. This is one of apple's major human interface messups. And I'll die on that hill. Ctrl on the far left of the keyboa
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It is slow because programming is like playing the guitar: anyone can do it, but not everyone SHOULD do it.
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Oh yeah, good point. I was conflating the DOE grant from years ago with the most recent investment in US semiconductors (which I personally think amounts to a shareholder bailout, hence my jibe).
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You provide such a wonderful list of factors that may/may-not have contributed to a this crisis that I went cross-eyed and drooled a little at the depth of the complexity. But isn't it a little ironic that you end by blaming the c

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