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by seabird 9y ago
The hysteria over these unnamed, unproven Kremlin hackers reaches a new high just about every day. $100,000 is absolutely nothing . Zilch. Nada. You can probably count the number of people that changed their vote because of that expenditur
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by seabird 9y ago
This article also mentions that a large portion of these cases seem to be Muslim. The obvious reasoning behind this is that the Middle East and its large Muslim constituency is one of the US' largest security concerns, and it has been
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by seabird 9y ago
This is a complete head-scratcher for me. I see no point in adding this complexity to the compilation process; if anyone has a good explanation as to the reasoning, I'm really interested in it.
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by seabird 9y ago
Because when it came down to it, the choice was between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Clinton is also a vile and despicable human being, and the fact that a big fraction of the US didn't like her opponent doesn't change that f
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by seabird 9y ago
IBM licensing can be absurd. Unless his university provided AIX systems to work with (and I can almost guarantee they didn't), its unreasonable to assume that an applicant would take the slowboat to licensing/software support cont
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by seabird 9y ago
You honestly did nothing wrong. I don't think Facebook is looking for UNIX admins/developers, nor are they going to find any for an internship. CS students with experience in AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, or FreeBSD are exceedingly rare. S
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by seabird 9y ago
Personally, I do. Homeless or approaching homeless is where you're getting to the point of unworkable. Until that point, you have options, even if you're not informed of them, and even if they're not quick, easy, and convenie
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by seabird 9y ago
I get it; a lot of people are dealt a shit hand and it's a given that nobody on this Earth has perfect foresight. The zinger here is that the writer is throwing stones in a glass room, and does nothing but prove the (misguided) point s
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by seabird 9y ago
The music industry is a scummy vampire industry that is desperately grasping at any life it can suck out of people that actually do something productive. We will undoubtedly see the RIAA fade to effectively nothing in the next few decades,
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by seabird 9y ago
I'm more than ready for this Russian hacking sensationalism to wind down. This is a conspiracy theory that's approaching the same level of ridiculousness as the one surrounding Obama's birth certificate; we have this entirely
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by seabird 9y ago
Windows hasn't been on the upswing since the early 2000s. According to this definition, the product has been doomed for over half its life.
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by seabird 9y ago
I'm sorry, but OnShape doesn't even come close. We don't even have to start talking about the functionality. The fact that there's no sane PLM options instantly kills it for corporate customers, and it will stay that way
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by seabird 9y ago
If "doomed" means a slow eventual death, absolutely everything has been doomed from the start.
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by seabird 9y ago
Windows is doomed as soon as: - there is a viable alternative to Microsoft Office on the desktop. This doesn't mean one that gets most of the way there; LibreOffice and company, Office on mobile, etc. don't quite cut it. Macro j
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by seabird 9y ago
It's not just blood, but that's a large portion of it. Flying out supplies really makes sense when you consider material that needs to be refrigerated (like blood). Rural African roads during wet season can be outright unusable;
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by seabird 9y ago
What I picked up was a sarcastic comment that would undoubtedly get your ass fired in any other position with a PR aspect. Is the officer overtly racist in his work? Maybe, maybe not, but we don't accept much short of perfect when it c
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by seabird 9y ago
The whole concept of "serverless" strikes me as a fairly stupid way of handling things. As much as we'd like to, it's impossible to separate absolutely everything from the platform that runs it. Although "serverless
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by seabird 9y ago
There seems to be a fundamental disconnect between the author's understanding of bias in AI and the actuality of it. Google's "Gorilla" incident was a result of bad training data. Recidivism scoring is the result of mul
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by seabird 9y ago
There's a difference between defeatism and and realism. A demanding family life can't really change in a way that's any less than serious and far-reaching; any recommendation in this department is hugely personal and runs dee
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by seabird 9y ago
There's not much you can do about a demanding family life (unless you want to prioritize work over it, which I wouldn't recommend) and getting older. Your options are limited for a stressful work environment, but you could try to
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by seabird 9y ago
QWERTY keyboards actually aren't the optimal layout. Dvorak is generally considered to take first place on that one. QWERTY was an arrangement that kept the hammers from jamming while still minimizing finger movement. Minimizing finger
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by seabird 9y ago
This might be a hot take, but "modern" user interfaces fucking suck. Current front-end web development is a folie a plusieurs where worse is better and outright nonsensical is the ideal. This issue affects everything from the de
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by seabird 9y ago
I appreciate the engineering and time people are putting into these projects. I absolutely hate the way this article is portraying these people's work. These are not "consumers who can't afford commercially produced powerwa
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by seabird 9y ago
This inconsistency completely rubs me the wrong way. There's nothing that pisses me off more than hearing people rail against a business's right to refuse service instantly double back when the company did something they like. The
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by seabird 9y ago
There's a net reduction, but that loss in the market didn't translate directly into tablet/mobile usage. Anecdotally, I would say that the home PC isn't gone, just less focused on entertainment. I've noticed a signi
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by seabird 9y ago
You need to slow down, big fella. By this same argument, all data processing by Google, Facebook, Amazon, and the like are all wasted resources. Burning CPU time on AI research is wasted resources. Using Excel is wasted resources. Bitcoin i
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by seabird 9y ago
I hope it collapses fast and hard. Advertising is a nearly worthless vampire industry that works to suck some of the life out of other useful services. If Cisco, Qualcomm, or Texas Instruments threw in the towel, their respective industries
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by seabird 9y ago
The zinger with the "post PC era" bullshit was that it was a ridiculous marketing/buzz campaign that attempted to completely eschew the reality that most people need something more than a compact touch screen device to effe
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by seabird 9y ago
The challenge of modifying the game is a problem that would have been mitigated by the game having a proper API. MCP was and is a crutch trying to minimize the underlying issue of the API being held off for over five years now.
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by seabird 9y ago
Don't get me wrong, he did a lot with what he knew. That doesn't mean his work couldn't benefit from a re-implementation from a team with a deeper understanding. You have to remember that Minecraft's world format, server

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