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811.
by stonogo 3y ago
I don't think CNN's reporting (such as it is) has materially changed. It was nearly half opinion-based shows from the day it launched. The only thing it excelled at was live or realtime reporting, since it was the first dedicate
812.
by stonogo 3y ago
No, since that's not too much higher than starting salaries for Python programming at a medium-sized research institute, and there's no clear career progression for COBOL programmers.
813.
by stonogo 3y ago
They're not proposing that plants changed. They're proposing that current frequently used carbon cycle models are off.
814.
by stonogo 3y ago
There are plenty of COBOL devs; they're just not in the American labor market.
815.
by stonogo 3y ago
Engaging in bad faith doesn't make you right, it just makes you irrelevant.
816.
by stonogo 3y ago
Sorry if I came across negative; it was more my intent to paint motivations as a positive thing. All these projects definitely learn from each other, and different priorities bring new approaches. I think it's how the industry moves
817.
by stonogo 3y ago
The guy was briefly a KKK member and carried snippets of The Turner Diaries around in his car. If you want to believe a maniac's claims about motivation that's your call. Other people choose to look past the babbling to try to d
818.
by stonogo 3y ago
I think people make projects like these because by the time they have need of the tools, they've already formed strong opinions about how those tools should work. Otherwise even Homebrew wouldn't exist, because pkgsrc already did
819.
by stonogo 3y ago
LoongArch is distinct from, but derived from, MIPS64. It's starting to look a little RISC-V-like these days.
820.
by stonogo 3y ago
The linked article differentiates cost of ownership and reliability. An unreliable car can be low-ownership-cost if it's under warranty.
821.
by stonogo 3y ago
The first two uses of the term are part of product names, not uses of the term itself. They almost immediately explain the acronym in the next paragraph, and give alert readers a tremendous hint in the very first sentence. I think they di
822.
by stonogo 3y ago
All machine languages are totally made up.
823.
by stonogo 3y ago
The container has to have holes through which to squirt the ink onto the page, and when ink is dispensed it is replaced in the container with air.
824.
by stonogo 3y ago
This targets a different class of imaging. It is meant to compete with equipment typically used to film movies, which cost significantly more.
825.
by stonogo 3y ago
I believe the comparison was to the class of camera. I.e. this is more for cinematography than photography
826.
by stonogo 3y ago
And snap doesn't address the fact that the server components that talk to the snap 'store' software is closed-source and only available from Canonical.
827.
by stonogo 3y ago
Care to name any?
828.
by stonogo 3y ago
And how many of them were punished for shooting someone? You've come up with evidence unrelated to the accusation. The accusation was that cops keep shooting people and getting away with it. The proper counterargument is to demonstr
829.
by stonogo 3y ago
"Hand-picked by so-and-so" used to have another name: "one of the good ole boys." Before that, in England, one was "sound." It's not a qualification, it's an anointing. So we have "handing out
830.
by stonogo 3y ago
Yes, generally. Especially if those randos are, for instance, me. RCS needs server coordination, and I don't want to use it if I can't bring that on-prem.
831.
by stonogo 3y ago
It is arguably the entire purpose of the managerial class to take responsibility for the times when organizational policy results in illegal actions. Wage theft is a well-documented (and well-litigated) example of management being held per
832.
by stonogo 3y ago
The company, at that point, is a collection of coconspirators. This is the fundamental difference between the executives of a company and other employees. The executives should be held responsible.
833.
by stonogo 3y ago
No, he didn't say it was his "best guess." He said, and I quote, “I feel very confident predicting autonomous robotaxis for Tesla next year. From our standpoint, if you fast-forward a year … maybe a year and three months, b
834.
by stonogo 3y ago
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1240754657263144960
835.
by stonogo 3y ago
DeWalt sells adapters so the 20V lithium batteries fit the 18V NiCad tools. You're still locked in, but at least your old tools keep working. It's part number DCA1820: https://www.dewalt.com/product/dca1820
836.
by stonogo 3y ago
In 1951 the Hanford reactors were making plutonium, not power. Only one of the Hanford reactors sold electricity, and not until the middle of the 1960s. That one went over budget to construct but operating costs were well under prediction
837.
by stonogo 3y ago
This isn't new tech, it's just a chat bot that triggers payments, with some light trademark infringement. The reason they're burdening their product description with twee jargon is because their target market is people who c
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by stonogo 3y ago
The US military does not use the SSN as a username or a password. They've had smartcards, even on Linux, as far back as 20 years ago or more. Users without smartcards have to go through 2FA with a username/password combination a
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by stonogo 3y ago
Sure, it's not hard. Notes inline, rewrite after. English (language not kingdom) Wikipedia has become a party organ* for whatever they call themselves, [ note: incoherent to assign partyship here given the footnote lack-of-definition;
840.
by stonogo 3y ago
I'll take a swing at that first paragraph: "Glamorous Toolkit (GT) is a mature notebook-style integrated development environment. Our goal is to make systems explainable by means of custom tools created for each problem. Glamorou

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