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by sk5t 7y ago
> no-one would seriously advocate taking away all guns While I believe this to be true, virtually any sort of "turn in some of your guns" event in the USA would... not be viewed with any nuance at all. Even machine guns were m
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by sk5t 7y ago
Seconding your assertion that the AWB was ineffective. It barred certain cosmetic features--some malarkey about muzzle brakes and folding stocks or foregrips or whatnot. While doing nothing to diminish the availability of equally potent w
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by sk5t 7y ago
I didn't mean to imply any particular motive to the pro-gun / pro-2A camp. Like, I personally tend to think most live in somewhat rural areas, and value firearms as tools for self-defense and deterrence--in areas where there is z
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by sk5t 7y ago
In the interests of keeping things pari passu, how about implementing mental screenings as part of voter registration as well?
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by sk5t 7y ago
"Gun people" might be skeptical of the 85% number because there are already background checks, with which "non-gun people" by definition are unfamiliar. Is there something preventing the existing system from becoming be
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by sk5t 7y ago
> with the return of some simple political will Gun control is a "third rail" in many political jurisdictions in the USA. Many Americans will vote against any agent who would disarm them; those voters are unlikely to see disar
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by sk5t 7y ago
The benefit of seeing the word "toxins" is that the alert reader can be reasonably certain that the rest of the article or ad is baloney.
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by sk5t 7y ago
I’m probably going to pick up a Dirac Live streamer rather than puzzle over speakers in the future—see minidsp FWIW.
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by sk5t 7y ago
If you like Meg Myers, consider Veruca Salt before, and Dilly Dally after.
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by sk5t 7y ago
Well, it’s a perspective from tech outsiders looking down their noses on Apple, I guess. Macs had a role to play in the 90s, albeit the most interesting platforms were Unix and Linux.
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by sk5t 7y ago
It's a good mantra--just not a wish that is applicable to the foundation of XML as a tree/document thing that self-describes its encoding and is capable of including its own signature within itself. I mean, it gets crazy complex,
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by sk5t 7y ago
Sounds like a decision born of vanity and pedantry. "These VMs are too good, and the type systems too useful, to hell with them!"
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by sk5t 7y ago
> GUIDs are so much better it's not even a contest GUIDs require more storage, and are likely (definitely with v4 GUID) to lead to index fragmentation. Postgres requires an extension to do most useful things with GUIDs whereas SERI
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by sk5t 7y ago
It's impossible to read almost any mass-media article about real estate without leaving wearied by loaded phrases and unfounded conclusions. In what other sphere is a decrease in purchasing "fleeing the market"? Where are t
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by sk5t 7y ago
Would a wooden bicycle, with not-very-freely-spinning wheels, and a bone-jarring ride, be worth the considerable expense of purchasing? Would it even be better than walking and/or using a wheelbarrow? Doesn't the thing produced
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by sk5t 7y ago
So, I was sort of expecting this article to use recursion instead of a regular loop, but it was not to be, as the author went ahead and used a for-loop anyway and abstracted a bit of logic into a separate function. Silly premise overall.
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by sk5t 7y ago
A 3-button round DEC mouse from 1992 outclasses the Magic Mouse. Thing is an abomination.
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by sk5t 7y ago
Yes, and there are also hints of P.J. O'Rourke, I think, or perhaps a smidgen of more lighthearted Hunter Thompson.
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by sk5t 7y ago
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic, or if your tastes in software are extremely distinct from mine and most--comparing Aurora to Redshift? Pgadmin4, really??
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by sk5t 7y ago
Maybe we shouldn't take security advice from folks with no need for security that is obvious to them.
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by sk5t 7y ago
In a few years, you may look back and wonder, incredulously, that you ever felt a filesystem might not be a kind of database. Look into filesystems long enough, and you may start to view an RDBMS as a specialized kind of filesystem.
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by sk5t 7y ago
Use the most battle-tested, well-supported SAML service available, even if it's more pain up-front; something that documents what XML canonicalization and signature algorithms and crypto suites it supports, so you're not dead in t
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by sk5t 7y ago
Having worked with SAML, ADFS, etc., in substantial depth, I will opine that this article doesn't contribute above and beyond the same introductions to the technology from 10-15 years ago. It's just enough info to get a naive rea
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by sk5t 7y ago
I get the sense some of these posts are talking about devices connected directly to the building's supply wiring (not to a receptacle downstream of the circuit breaker panel). In the US all residential washing machines are 110V, as are
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by sk5t 7y ago
All-Clad (but not the HA2 line, I presume an MBA got their hooks into the operation) is still made in the USA.
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by sk5t 7y ago
Mobile devices (iPhones, probably most others?) randomize their MACs when looking for wireless networks, although that may not be enough to stop a determined snooper.
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by sk5t 7y ago
You've assumed malice where none was intended. Downvotes before self-redacting, nevertheless.
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by sk5t 7y ago
Another clever move by Texas secessionists in their strategy to make the state too unpalatable to deal with or in.
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by sk5t 7y ago
Interesting background - any story behind leaving IBM 18 years ago at the young age of ~33? As an aside, ultimate responsibility for IBM's corporate websites does not _sound_ very similar to the CTO role at a tech company.
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by sk5t 7y ago
Only 3.6 rontgens, not great, not terrible.

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