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by tbrownaw 2y ago
The physical environment things makes sense, but uplink contention isn't an inherent feature of office buildings. It means that someone goofed and underprovisioned your infra.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> * only situation dark mode is better than light mode is when you're sitting in a dark room with your screen as your only light source,* Also maybe if you set your screen brightness inappropriately high.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> behind Is it really a competition to see who can ban the most things? What's the prize if you win?
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
Would it be better for them to just ignore the rules if they don't feel that the rules make sense?
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
I believe there is an SNL skit on this topic.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
How long until we can get a proper countdown like some pedestrian signals have?
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> describe why they would use ZFS (or similar) for home usage Mostly because it's there, but also the snapshots have a `diff` feature that's occasionally useful.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> When I hear someone complain about the whitespace thing, it sends a message to me that they do not format their code well and just go willy-nilly on their indentation. That's quite the assumption.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
I assume that's evolved to mean something about opposing renewables these days?
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
You don't do fixes on a side branch and then create a Pull Request to ask someone else to merge it?
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
But this isn't a model is science, it's a model of what different kinds of academic credentials mean. Sure there's plenty of ways to contribute to society without publishing academic research, but that's not what a P
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> have no actual clue how they would replace the human in the seat with AI That's not how it works. It's not "your job is done by an AI now", it's "you have an AI to help with these specific tasks, so the
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
Is it really any more of an imposition than your employer wanting to be notified of you need to take bereavement leave or spend a few days in the hospital?
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
>> But of course what is the main problem then is they have 10 sick days in the year and >This leaves them fewer days later in the year to use in case of an actual illness or other personal emergency, like staying home to care for
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
The "being asked to use their personal/sick days" is the reporter's interpretation of having to go to the "My RTO" portal to set their status.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
That's not a "crutch", that's "I'm going to imply your lying while I pretend to be reasonable".
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
Yes but can everyone involved - both the original archeologists who excavated them and the people who bought them - claim ancestry from whatever ancient society made them, or at least the oldest traceable group to have resided on that land?
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> It's shocking how often the answer to "How come X changed?" is either the creation of the internet or the cost of real estate. Why is it shocking? The Internet is the current Big Thing that's upending everything t
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> Disclamer - I owned a restaurant that gave Pepsi products to customers who explicitly ask for a Coke. I have in fact heard "coke" used as a generic before. Just like google, kleenex, champaign, cheddar, ...
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
Is this about having application logic in multiple places, or having application logic co-located with the data? Does it make a difference if the procedures are database triggers vs being directly called by the application code? Would split
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> How many of those have had trouble sending mail to eg gmail? Had to set up SPF/DKIM/DMARC, then it started working again.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> Moderation isn’t censorship. Yes it is, it's just censorship that (most of) the people who would have heard whatever's being censored want.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> Attaching medical insurance to one's job is a market distortion caused by government tax policy. I.e. it enables one to buy insurance with pre-tax dollars rather than after-tax dollars. Also the ACA Employer Mandate[1]. Get rid
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> It's actually really weird, if you think about it, that point 1 should involve the network. We should be able to just call a function in one language from a function in another language. If you have two languages that both are n
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> About the size of a board game die Is there a standard size that most dice are? I've seen... I think from a quarter inch or so to a whole inch.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
Better according to whatever other preference function you started with, regardless of what it was.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> A superintelligent AI would want IOW, he thinks he's found a preference function that's strictly better than any other preference function, where if you want something else (you start with a different preference function) t
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> How microservices are still a default systems design architecture in anything but the largest orgs still puzzles me. A system that's made out of smaller single-purpose programs that are all made to be composable and talk to each
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> People are very capable of good design but are not given time to do good design. So they're only good in theory given infinite time, but not in the real world where someone's waiting to be able to use what they're work
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
422 unprocessable content (webdav) The request couldn't be processed due to semantic errors... perhaps such as not being mapped to a handler :-> I suppose from the right point of view that could also be likened to a reverse proxy no

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