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by sverige 8y ago
An elderly lady comes into the police station crying hysterically. "I've just been mugged!" she cries. The desk sergeant asks, "Can you describe the mugger?" "Not really, he grabbed me from behind. I know he&#x
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The MCI hub in Colorado Springs in the 90s was like something out of a movie. And everyone that worked there seemed to think they were actors in a big movie. And the Northwestern Bell / US West / Qwest people were funny, too. Both
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> "Given that fundamental constraint, there are only three basic choices for network operators: ... 3. Run native IPv6 among compatible parts of their own network with some kind of tunneling or translation (i.e., converter technolog
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I would consider myself to be an expert of sorts on AA. I was a member for over 20 years, attended at least 4000 meetings, have read everything ever published by AA World Services (and even held private study groups with folks to discuss th
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That's the "I found a 15-year-old bug in our NIC" story that I'd love to read but which will probably never be told. And whoever designed the system is busy obfuscating that on their resume this morning.
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> it's now basically just an overcomplicated init script. That's probably the better way to express what I was trying to say. It seems really complex and rigid (and probably brittle?) for a script that's used basically to
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The last time I set up a Linux box, it used SysV init. I know there are others, but I was under the impression that SysV was sort of the default. It was kind of a pain as I recall, but not terrible. But I wasn't managing dozens or hund
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> And BSD people really should not complain about managing to much software in a single project. I'm not quite sure what you're referring to here. OpenBSD just keeps getting cleaner and simpler to manage, but I'll admit th
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Not trying to start a flamewar over systemd (I'm definitely more of a BSD guy so it doesn't matter much to me other than hoping Linux stays healthy), but just reading through this description of all the stuff systemd does made my
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I knew a girl in college who interviewed with the CIA but didn't get the job. I was so happy then and even happier now, though I haven't seen her for over 30 years. She was very pretty, Irish, Catholic, so fit the mold for the CIA
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This statement by Wang Yi is instructive. http://www.chinapartnership.org/blog/2018/12/my-declaration-...
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Not only did we go all over our little town by ourselves, if we did something we weren't supposed to be doing, someone would call our parents. Not the cops, not CPS, our parents -- which was far worse.
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I had an account for about a month in 2010 and deleted it because of the constant notifications for Farmville and some other game. That was my one and only flirtation with any kind of social media (unless you count HN as social media). Have
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> At major tech and media companies, promotion of progressive principles has become a matter of humourless, ironclad dogma. It's the "humourless, ironclad dogma" aspect that provokes the response of people like Pewdiepie,
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I think the lessons in negotiation to be learned would be better explained by showing how the many mistakes made by the Americans and the Brits in giving away too much to Stalin could possibly have been avoided, rather than showing how Stal
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Actually, Patton proposed marching the US Army to Moscow in the immediate aftermath of the Nazi surrender but was pushed out of active leadership, in part for suggesting that. For some reason, Americans (then and now) are a little defensive
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Apparently it stands for "anthropogenic global warming." Never mind the documented cases of data fraud, it's because "auto-didactic."
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AI Neural Networks Are Uncomfortably Accurate at Creating Realistic Human Faces(hothardware.com)
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Nvidia’s Scary AI Generates Humans That Look 100% Real(tomsguide.com)
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The basic nature of the instructions reminded me of talking to a guy I met in Charlotte who was mad about how young people today don't really know why editing text or photos is called "cut and paste." He was a professional p
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Whatever happened to the experiment to try to determine whether the speed of light is decreasing, rather than constant? [0] I can't seem to find any results on that. [0] https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article&#
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Ah well you can get the same experience in Amish country today in the U.S. Midwest. I pass a horse and buggy every couple of weeks at least; rider on a horse less frequently but still occasionally. It's best to drive slower. Most peopl
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Indeed, instead of "Medicare for all," why not "HIPAA for everything"?
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Yeah, my point was not to run the entire society that way. We have too much of that on the big issues. Rather, it's OK to have it on a small scale where it's basically harmless, like paying off some cop with a little vodka when y
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I am still amazed that after all this time otherwise smart people cannot understand that cryptocurrencies are simply fiat money with bad guarantors. Instead of the government of the United States or China or Britain or India or some other a
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> If not for the fact that the US&USSR were working like mad to find a way to destroy one-another, the cold war + space race was great for advancement of science. Armed conflict or the threat of it has been the driver for a big perce
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> in Russia it isn't blind straight application of Femida. Instead it is always personal - you can be accused of spying or given a private tour, especially if you have a bottle of good cognac and a high quality cold smoked salmon to
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Screen Time Changes Structure of Kids’ Brains, ‘60 Minutes’ Says(bloombergquint.com)
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Yes, but those people have an investment to protect. This article reads as an extended attempt to bully a writer who values her privacy into surrendering it to please people who have no real right to know anything beyond what she has alread
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Yes, those must be old photographs. And yes, there was some artistry involved in developing both the film and making prints. The demise of film and color processing is a tragedy. Sure, it was expensive, much more so than simply snapping d

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