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by siffland 7y ago
Come on scientific evidence means nothing (that was sarcasm). Issues here in the US are you have one political team saying it doesn't happen and you have another telling people the world will end in 12 years. You have a ton of news o
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by siffland 7y ago
I dislike CaMelcAse as well, but to each his own, I have stuff backed up from my windows machine on my BSD machine that has spaces and uppercase i leave it in case i need to restore. It does not mean you cannot take it seriously. MacOS is
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by siffland 7y ago
I am confused, they are angry what the American government has done to them. What were they supposed to do. Canada will not let them reenter, they had been denied entry to the US so it is not like they were going to just release them to ru
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by siffland 7y ago
Back in '96 or '97 i found a pager dropped on the ground (they were pretty expensive back then), it was at night so i took it and called the lost and found number on the back. I was on the phone for about an hour and finally got
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by siffland 7y ago
I have this issue as well. People will show up at my desk to get something done. Yes it should be in some sort of ticket, but then they are in a queue and might get another admin, so if they just show up they will probably get their stuff
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by siffland 7y ago
I would guess in some positions, like those requiring clearances, that it is more important to have cleared employees there when needed than micromanaging if they are working 40 hours per week. You wont keep most employees around for part t
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by siffland 7y ago
A huge problem with ticketing systems is then management uses it to track all productivity. We had a ticketing system and one guy in our group had between 60% and 80% more tickets than the rest of us. So it would seem we were all slackers,
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by siffland 7y ago
Your right I used to have a Nexus tablet, it was great and well supported, until it kept running out of space. I require something with a microsd card slot, i travel to a lot of places with zero internet access and any information or media
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by siffland 7y ago
Looks groovy, but my 2 year old LG is stuck at Android 8 with Security updates stopped in January. I wish android hardware was better supported for the long haul. I would even go as far as saying i would pay yearly for android maintenance
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by siffland 7y ago
We need more support for nuclear, especially research for Thorium-based reactors. I am all for green energy, but until that can become a reality worldwide we need something that can generate a lot of electicity with as little waste as poss
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by siffland 7y ago
I have been using FreeBSD since 1999, a great OS and i love it, at work i am a Linux system administrator. One of the huge reasons people use FreeBSD is simply licensing. If you dont want to release any source code simply build your custom
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by siffland 7y ago
I am probably misinformed, but i thought the amazon buring was allegedly due to making more farmland?
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by siffland 7y ago
Awesome. Always ask for a call back number. My dad was in his late 70s and fell for stuff like this. I beat the notion into his head, if in doubt ask for a call back number. If they they refuse to give it, it is a scam....period. 7 years
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by siffland 7y ago
Even at 22k, that is a lot for most people. Online it says the LEAF can go 150 miles for around $4.80. Your payment would be around $375ish a month with at least $100 for insurance (probably more). Why would most people do that when they
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by siffland 7y ago
I work IT and have the same issues, coworkers dont want to learn new tools. This is a huge issue, if your employer wants you to learn a new peice of software, that is your job. It annoys me here at work, i go home and watch videos, downloa
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by siffland 7y ago
in 15 years when everything is online, mazagines will become a retro item and will be in again, like records and cassettes.......for a short while.
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by siffland 7y ago
It would be nice to see the long term expected prices of EV's vs gasoline powered vehicles. Currently you can buy a cheap gasoline vehicle and years of gas for the cost of an equvilent EV. Also i read all this gloom and doom about lit
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by siffland 7y ago
If i am going to pay to read an article, then there better be no tracking cookies, no sharing with 3rd parties and no ads on the page of the article i am reading. If not i might as well read the same content on another site.
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by siffland 7y ago
So is it a 'deployless' software model, in a 'serverless' environment¿ sorry i could not resist.
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by siffland 7y ago
I have been part of 12 data breaches, that i have been informed about, in the last 5ish years. I read about it and then move on at this point. I have a sick feeling credit monitoring with insurance is going to become the norm, just like h
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by siffland 7y ago
I wonder what the percentage difference is of people getting copyright strikes vs. copyright ID claims. I do hear far less about strikes themselves, i would assume (big assumption on my part so i might be wrong) if a video had a lot of vie
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by siffland 7y ago
I agree we should have more nuclear power in the US for the current time. It is just expensive to get a power palnt with all the regulations, but they are needed to help prevent disaters. And with the research into Thorium-based nuclear p
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by siffland 7y ago
Yes, we do get desensitized to climate change. At least here in the US. On one side we have Trump saying it does not exist and a huge base following it and on the other we have AOC saying the world will end in 12 years and a huge base fol
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by siffland 7y ago
"the culture and way of life will be passed on to the next generation." In certain states, fathers take their sons to KKK rally's to pass on their "culture and way of life", does not make it right.......
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by siffland 7y ago
We had the entire power to our building knocked out by a squirrel, one of the admins got a picture of it fried on the ground after it fell. Took the power company about 4 hours get power back to the building, one would think it would be a
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by siffland 7y ago
Do you think this could happen in the U.S. with all the regulations? Do you think either Ukraine or Russia could put that much manpower together to handle an event like that today¿
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by siffland 7y ago
If you are running a business then always have a good disaster recovery strategy. Split services between cloud providers and make sure your backups are good and offsite. You can do this all with opensource software if you dont want to pay
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by siffland 7y ago
Some open source clones are great, "Bust A Move" on the SNES is fun, but the open source clone "Frozen Bubble", come one who has not spent hours with that game......
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by siffland 7y ago
Wonder how many stones the Hayabusa spacecraft weighs? Perhaps i will have the answer within a fortnight.
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by siffland 7y ago
Put it back in context: It's unsustainable. Trump's broader trade policy is protectionist. The US has become overly reliant on China, add on their Belt and Road Initiative, and we should be taking a more aggressive stance. Trade

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