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by teh_klev 4y ago
I follow a FB group where the topic is the International Brigades, many of the discussions and posts are about the Spanish civil war, though not exclusively. Race, national origin, sex and violence are freely discussed and the group doesn&#
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Original article on GQ instead of this Business Insider re-heat: https://www.gq.com/story/leg-lengthening
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> Lacking the shame Never be ashamed. Sweet Tooth[0] is an interesting novel. It's about how the (British) MI5 involves itself with artists to promote anti-communism in the 70's. The novel opens itself up to to discovering Fran
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> “US pulling X from Y’s orbit” has been happening around the world since at least the 70s It's been going on for far longer than that and pretty much since the late 1940's.
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> I'm almost 100% positive that Microsoft uses HAProxy (open source or commercial license I couldn't tell you) to power App Services on Azure. I think you'll find they're using ARR and not HAProxy for the "batter
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At least things didn't completely escalate. Tangentially, these exchanges reminded me of "Computers Don't Argue": https://www.atariarchives.org/bcc2/showpage.php?page=133
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I never got on with Winamp and switched to foobar2000 after getting hold of a fairly early release (pre-v0.3) sometime in 2002. It's been my mainstay audio player ever since.
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These are "Little Penguins"[0][1]. Apparently they have a lifespan of ~6.5 years but there's quite a few of these that are exceeding that expectation quite well. [0]: https://www.nationalaquarium.co.nz/conserv
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Kodak is still a functioning company making stuff.
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> You want someone with skin in the game Isn't a salary enough? As soon as you start involving "skin in the game" players then you're starting to cede control of your company. Run with an employee doing these tasks. I
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> I would recommend finding a co-founder who has similar ideals but can handle the parts you don’t like doing, and has business experience Why does this need to be a co-founder? You can hire people as employees to do the daily "busi
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> devs apply for roles featuring languages they actively don’t like Then that's their problem, not the employer's fault. If you know what stack is being used when applying for a job, and you despise said development stack, then
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I'm sure it's very nice, but for my own limited usage I couldn't justify spending more than GBP40.00 or so on a microwave oven. The one I bought a ~5-6 years ago has a mechanical timer and makes a single satisfying "ting
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> No worries, I did this a few years back and the process took a while but I got the money. " No worries ", that's perhaps fine if you have access to large amounts of cash or credit to fund replacement flights whilst you w
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For all the myriad of settings on these things, on just every microwave oven I've owned, the "power setting" is always set to High and I just dial in the time in minutes. Mind you I mostly use it for microwaving frozen peas a
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> It's actually ridiculous to surf the web without an adblocker. Obviously for this audience. But two of my buddies didn't even know such things existed and were truly grateful when I introduced uBO/Privacy Badger to them.
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I kinda tire of this sort of comment. I lived/worked through the EEE phase of MS back in the 90's, for good or for bad, but ultimately every large scale vendor wants to own the current "hot" space with their vendor speci
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I appreciate your comments. Maybe time for me to update my docker chops and see what this brings brings to the table, if anything.
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> Does it support docker running on MacOS M1, or Raspberry Pi? Not at the moment, from the article: "We have focused on the Linux-x64 image deployment scenario for this initial release. Windows images and other architectures are ke
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Can you explain what's "half-assed" about this solution?
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This is excellent Matt. Have been following the activity on Twitter this week and it's been a lot of fun.
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> It definitely looked like a GEM app. I don't know if it could actually run under GEM From my own memories, circa ~1986 I got introduced to Ventura Publisher and it definitely ran under GEM; GEM/2 seems to ring a bell. We were
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For the benefit of anyone treating this comment with any seriousness... The UK Fire Service last took nationwide industrial action in 2002 and the strike lasted for two days. In 2004 there were a handful of wildcat actions that fell out o
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> to strip him of his powers. The thing is he has no powers. Even if/when he becomes king the "powers" of that role are purely ceremonial, even if enshrined in law and what paltry bits of a constitution we have in the UK.
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> Mossadegh's party also called for the assassination of the Shah during this time. Going to have to insist on a citation for that claim. > Isn't Johnson declaring himself the leader of the nation autocratic behavior? But si
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That's quite the re-writing of history there. The Shah removed Mosaddegh from power in 1952 but re-instated him almost immediately due to pressure from pro-democracy supporters. The Shah was then exiled after a failed coup attempt by o
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> Part of the justification for that refusal is that young people will allow death-marches. Where I work the young team are sticking hard to their contracted hours (nothing wrong with that). It's the seniors that pull the extra (but
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> Code maintenance is hard and requires experience and familiarity Exactly and also knowing when to be conservative about changes and when to be a bit bolder. That takes experience and trust.
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I wonder if the founders realise that "dolt" is slang for a "stupid person"?
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> Some of them are terrible. "Release the ropes" (lifeboat) for eaxmple, as well as others, only mean something if you already know what they mean. Yes but the intended audience isn't the general public, it's going to

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