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by skookum-skuad 6y ago
Exactly. It seems like corporations are using the pandemic to ostensibly "protect workers" as an excuse in order to save money on paying workers. If customers blindly accept this sort of BS when there is no risk, then they're
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by skookum-skuad 6y ago
Says a dude who wants WikiLeaks closed and condones killing Assange.
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by skookum-skuad 6y ago
Yuck. The only way out of dependency hell is to disallow it by allowing multiple versions/different configurations of side-by-side packages and GCing non-leaf packages. This pattern of "only one global package for everything"
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by skookum-skuad 6y ago
Who cares? I had the full NT 5/W2k codebase and have seen the NT 4 codebase. 3.5x is such a Windows Vista between 3.1 and 4.0.
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by skookum-skuad 6y ago
It's interesting that Michael Moore is constantly promoting Anchor, which is owned by Spotify, like it's some nonprofit, benevolent savior. I guess it's to be expected when he says numerous measures to meaningfully combat cli
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by skookum-skuad 6y ago
X is fun for the next 4 days. If you're not on it, you're uncool and don't jump on whatever is popular because it's popular. X = Email# IRC# ICQ AIM Yahoo Messenger Friendster MSN Messenger MySpace Flickr Orkut Google Ta
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by skookum-skuad 6y ago
I saw this and similar projects a long time ago. The problems include: the weird shape of living in a tube, not being at ground level, and hazmat/toxic aviation materials throughout. Seems more like hipster "recycling" imprac
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by skookum-skuad 6y ago
In the SF Bay Area, you are (or were) able to see peacocks roaming about the Picchetti Winery near Cupertino. And I would be careful around these types of birds because they are equipped similarly to cassowaries: they can kick to kill.
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by skookum-skuad 6y ago
Yep. TL;DR = extreme executive summary Intro = introduction Same number of letters, but different meanings It's not a big deal, but the armchair lawyer in me cringes and throws an OCD tantrum when spelling, grammar, semantics, and ling
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by skookum-skuad 6y ago
I skip ssh-agent and use gpg-agent instead, which does both ssh and gpg agenting. Combined with monkeysphere, I store ssh private keys in gpg rather than in the encrypted ssh format.
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by skookum-skuad 6y ago
Remember how much Sunnyvale and Mountain View firefighters and police make. There was quite a list comprising tens of millions in salaries. It might be fine if the cities can afford it compared to their other liabilities. Ideally, they want
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by skookum-skuad 6y ago
Summit is a public charter school system, comprising many schools, and is not a government-run public school per se. It likely means the local parents were fed-up with their particular school/s being poorly run or maintained, and used
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by skookum-skuad 6y ago
Daily: Ca 1200 mg + Mg 80 mg + vitamin d3 6000 IU (150 mcg) + k2-7 100 mcg. No kidney stones and minimizes osteoarthritis/porosis.
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by skookum-skuad 6y ago
Anecdotal, unscientific nonsense. UV is no bueno.
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by skookum-skuad 6y ago
- STAHL (truck bodies) - Ginsu knives - Kirby - RediVac fall under Berkshire Hathaway's Scott Fetzer. Interestingly, Snap-off (also known as Snap-on) still owns itself regularly. That may or may not be a Good Thing™. And moar AvE teard