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by the_biot 4y ago
I'll never understand why YouTube allows their ads to be trivially bypassed like that, instead of just making them part of the video stream. It would ruin YouTube for me, so I'm not complaining.
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by the_biot 4y ago
I once started an open source project where one facet was interfacing with, and even embedded firmware for, proprietary hardware. I went for the GPL precisely because vendors would otherwise use the software without giving back patches, c
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by the_biot 4y ago
> If I remember my computing history correctly, Google ended up acquiring and eating Usenet, becoming Google Groups. Usenet was a distributed set of news peering relationships, exchanging posts via NNTP. There was nothing to acquire, so
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by the_biot 4y ago
And I bet doing that would also avoid what happened here -- account suspension for some unknown reason, but likely content related. If your content is encrypted, they can't drop you over it. Of course at that point you're not usin
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by the_biot 4y ago
It seems archaic at first sight, but it's really not a million miles off from what I see in spam.
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by the_biot 4y ago
> IMO this is another example of a company taking established trust in a franchise and exploiting it for a cash grab. It's a franchise. There is no aspect of this which is not a cash grab.
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by the_biot 4y ago
> My friends and I have all made a pact that we will vote Republican until the Dems come more to the center, no matter how horrible the Republicans candidate is. I would recommend making an exception for Republicans who deny Biden won th
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by the_biot 4y ago
"here is what possibly led to its sudden departure from HBO Max", followed by a referral to a tweet from an actor, who is speculating. Article has no facts whatsoever.
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by the_biot 4y ago
> You're saying that participating in the hiring process means you don't trust everyone else participating in the hiring process? If someone that reports to you does an interview, and you then follow up by interviewing the same
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by the_biot 4y ago
That's pretty amazing. The hiring manager's judgement wasn't trusted by his manager, whose judgement was in turn not trusted by his manager. None of these people delegate! You can twist this all you like, but that is not a fu
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by the_biot 4y ago
So the implication is that some resellers buy up gigantic amounts of components, to take advantage of the massive markups on them that people are prepared to pay right now. Course, if the price/supply on them drops to normal levels the
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by the_biot 4y ago
Regardless of how it's not uncommon these days, and even acceptable to some people, 5 rounds of interviews is insane . One round, possibly with several people, should be enough. If it's not enough, that means the wrong people wer
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by the_biot 4y ago
> has anyone ever sat down to watch an RS/6000 boot? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7bN1hYqD7Y The ridiculously glacial boot, which ended in a system artifcially crippled by license restrictions, not to mention th
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by the_biot 4y ago
Those do indeed show that the whole woke/CRT movement is a bunch of racist nonsense, but not that race and sex relations have suffered because of it. Those are really really broad statements to make, and near impossible to prove or dis
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by the_biot 4y ago
The Russians have been jamming GPS frequencies routinely for years, and apparently pretty much continuously in the Ukraine war. Also consumer drones can carry almost no weight, certainly not anything genuinely heavy like a shell. And let&#x
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by the_biot 4y ago
Those are really broad conclusions. Do you have numbers/facts/studies to back them up? It's my gut feeling as well, but gut feelings and personal anecdotes have no place in rational debates.
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by the_biot 4y ago
There are alternatives: at least peertube and LBRY (sp?). They're just not popular.
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by the_biot 4y ago
I'm pretty amazed they called Russia. It wasn't clear to me at that time that Russia would become an out and out gangster state, even if the economy had turned into an oligarchy by then. It wasn't until some years after Putin
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by the_biot 4y ago
Right, because all white Americans are racist! Subconsciously! Gee, I wonder on which side of the woke debate you fall? Has it ever occurred to you that the certainty with which you express your views actually comes across as very arrogant
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by the_biot 4y ago
I sincerely hope that / means + not =
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by the_biot 4y ago
I just hope they take Don "pandering propaganda" Lemon off the air. Hard to take them seriously as a news source when you see that show.
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by the_biot 4y ago
Would you want your employer to have full control of not only your income, but also the roof over your head?
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by the_biot 4y ago
She was positioning herself that way years ago, with the book and lots of press etc, before it became widely accepted that Facebook was a pestilence upon the world on her watch. I think that ship has sailed.
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by the_biot 4y ago
There's a setting (annoyingly non-persistent) to make it try out plurals and some variants, but it's buggy. This could be so much better with a few fixes and tweaks, but the author appears to have abandoned it immediately after la
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by the_biot 4y ago
It has been a source of frustration for me for some time that Business Insider, a cheap tabloid of no news value, has the occasional scoop. How can that be! Horseshit articles like this are reassuring, somehow: once a tabloid, always a tabl
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by the_biot 4y ago
You should write this up, sounds pretty interesting.
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by the_biot 4y ago
It's pretty amazing how Apple does incredible stuff on the down-low, without lots of marketing. Their Google-street-view-like feature is just an unobtrusive link that says "look around" or something like that in their maps ap
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by the_biot 4y ago
Holy shit, what a bunch of nonsense suggestions! SGML, React, S3? You just put the whole thing behind an nginx (which it likely already is), and have it serve up the static content from a local filesystem, while routing your dynamic stuff h
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by the_biot 4y ago
I have to disagree with that. One obvious example is Google, who made a fabulously reliable and fast machine out of cobbled-together ultra cheap commodity hardware, and conquered the world with it. That was in the 90s, and their way of doin
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by the_biot 4y ago
As opposed to one assigned on the basis of a self-declared MAC address? I find it much more odd -- if not surprising, particularly in the pager era -- that the whole thing, every component of it, was completely locked in to one vendor. Not

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