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by skissane 2y ago
> To our allies, yes and without a doubt. I don’t think most people in Australia are really paying that much attention to what is happening in the US. And the fact remains that Australia needs the US and doesn’t really have any other r
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by skissane 2y ago
The current SCOTUS majority isn't afraid to overturn 50 year old precedents. Given they overturned Roe v Wade , why not Train v City of New York too? But they don't strictly speaking have to overturn it, just limit its scope of
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by skissane 2y ago
144 isn't bad for a study like this, people publish studies with much smaller sample sizes I think there are legitimate reasons for restricting the sample on the basis of race/ethnicity and sexual orientation. It is plausible that
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by skissane 2y ago
> I think it was Microsoft FrontPage that had the most undigestible output at the time. I remember, a bit over 20 years ago, designing a rather complex web app using Microsoft FrontPage – I used it to mock up all the HTML forms, which I
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by skissane 2y ago
> It seems to imply that a vast amount of it is not browser-based, Given the number of CI pipelines I've seen which download package X and then install it, and do this every time the pipeline is run... I'm not surprised Yes, on
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by skissane 2y ago
> I believe we have pretty similar diagnostics and treatments to other developed countries I don't know. I remember reading an MIT PhD thesis describing how Kaiser Permanente does autism diagnosis [0] – and comparing it to my person
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by skissane 2y ago
You know, it took me ages to finally get this… first three letters of first name plus first three letters of surname. Does that mean I’m his login? (And the last three letters of his surname sound a bit like another word, but adding that to
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by skissane 2y ago
> I worked specifically on connecting COBOL system to a DB/2 database, and one thing was for certain: understanding the data format was the hardest part of the problem. But now you are shifting the goalposts: from getting readonly a
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by skissane 2y ago
> A former employer had a first letter of given name + last name (actually first 5 letters) convention for email addresses I once heard a story (possibly apocryphal) about a place which used a similar “first initial and truncated surname
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by skissane 2y ago
> Trump tried to make DOGE, and was slapped down by congress, When was he “slapped down by congress”? He signed the executive order establishing DOGE on inauguration day - obviously his transition team’s lawyers had drafted it for him in
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by skissane 2y ago
I think the difference is that I know that getting data out of mainframe COBOL systems is a long-known and long-solved problem, and I can list lots of different ways to do it (I mentioned a few, there's several more I didn't menti
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by skissane 2y ago
> The technology itself makes it impossible to give read only access to such systems. This isn't true. Mainframe COBOL systems commonly store data in VSAM files, or DB2, or IMS, or sometimes some more obscure non-IBM database (e.g.
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by skissane 2y ago
I also remember using MS-DOS 3.3 EDLIN in anger, on our home computer [0] when I was roughly 8, because it was the only general purpose text editor we had. (We also had Wordstar, which I believe could save files in plain text mode, but I do
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by skissane 2y ago
The “MAKE LOVE”/“NOT WAR” easter egg was in TECO for DEC PDP-6/10 machines. But DEC TECO was also ported to Multics, so maybe that was the Honeywell machine you used it on. But, for a whole bunch of reasons, I’m left with the susp
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by skissane 2y ago
> They should probably tell that to that pilot that died while Trump blamed it on "DEI". I thought Trump’s comments were about the FAA not the female helicopter pilot. Her name and gender weren’t released until several days aft
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by skissane 2y ago
> The context here is "democrats", so you'll see a much more skewed result if you filter for those people. Again, it depends on the issue. The 2023 Gallup poll I cited [0] found that 48% of Democrats opposed allowing trans
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by skissane 2y ago
There has been an ongoing dispute between the SSA and its OIG about what to do about millions of dormant accounts for which SSA lacks a date of death. [0] SSA OIG views these accounts as a risk and wants them marked as presumed dead. SSA ar
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by skissane 2y ago
> I'm not surprised. It's a neoliberal congress ignoring a platform demanding increasingly socialistic ideals. I don’t think “socialistic ideas” are what Warner was talking about. I think he was really talking about social and
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by skissane 2y ago
> Very few disagree with DEI programs and LGBT issues. Americans as a whole are close to evenly divided on DEI programs. A recent YouGov/Economist poll found 45% support abolishing DEI programs in education and government, 40% oppos
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by skissane 2y ago
> He said "over the top" not "extreme". Those two terms are not synonyms. They are different vaguely defined degrees on the same continuum; while “extreme” no doubt has stronger connotations than “over the top”, neith
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by skissane 2y ago
Maybe Warner’s diagnosis of the 2024 election is wrong-but that’s not my point. My point: it would be rather strange for leading Democrats to come to believe their party is being harmed by its own extreme element if that element was non-exi
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by skissane 2y ago
> There are some rather unhinged people on the left, sure, but they're basically just nutters on the internet, maybe a few activist groups, and things like that. They're certainly not the ones running the show Just the other da
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by skissane 2y ago
> The DOGE logo literally has a Nazi wheel for an O: If you read the link you provided, even a lot of people on r/EnoughMuskSpam are calling this argument weak - it is obviously an AI-generated image, and some subtle similarity betw
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by skissane 2y ago
> Elon is good buddies with a former Nasa director Who specifically are you talking about here? > I imagine conversations were had. It wouldn’t surprise me if Jared Isaacman (Trump’s nominee for next NASA administrator, an obvious Mus
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by skissane 2y ago
> NASA aren't rocket guys. This isn’t true. NASA engineers own the design and engineering of the SLS rocket. No doubt some of the detailed engineering work is given to contractors, as is the manufacturing, but NASA’s “rocket guys” o
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by skissane 2y ago
Speculation: Broadcom is now really two companies in one, the original Broadcom and CA Technologies. The CA Technologies side of Broadcom bought VMWare and are now applying all the classic CA Technologies moves to it. The original side of B
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by skissane 2y ago
The thing about slop, is if it is continuously improving slop, maybe one day it won’t be slop any more
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by skissane 2y ago
Better link to same post (Reddit doesn’t demand you login to read it): https://old.reddit.com/r/dotnet/comments/1isquvd/identityser...
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by skissane 2y ago
> I'm still not sure what any specific user of the word "woke" means, beyond the Ami/UK right using it as an insult, but I can't tell if it's generic or specific, critiquing something or just telling support
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by skissane 2y ago
> > random nobodies speculating in public (likely incorrectly), and people are repeating their speculation because they like how it sounds > That made me think of how Arendt described the pre-totalitarian mishmash of opinions and t

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