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by themafia 4mo ago
That's a rather narrow analysis. The larger point is that perhaps I don't want to negotiate a government currency and social structure in order to have shelter or to feed myself or to provide comfort. The people who attempt this
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by themafia 4mo ago
> The press and fan attention was deeply harmful to Terry and likely exacerbated his mental illness. What are you basing this on? Did you know him? This person you call a "circus freak?" > Whenever TempleOS or Terry came u
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by themafia 4mo ago
They didn't ask to be born and have never been given an opportunity to approve the society they're born into. The price of non-conformance is deprivation, punishment and incarceration. We should rethink this.
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by themafia 4mo ago
> Why hasn’t the economist of the world figured out a solution to this problem. They have. It's called insurance. The problem here might be the change in copper prices which possibly increased the value of the line and which were
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by themafia 4mo ago
> the number of page table entries This is not exactly fixed since you can vary the amount of memory each page maps with things like hugepages and the same process can run with different page sizes.
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by themafia 4mo ago
Laws can have bipartisan support or disapproval. So just because a law was passed does not mean "party politics" were involved, or that fealty to a president was the motivation. If you automatically think these things I think y
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by themafia 4mo ago
Unfortunately, there's always someone to blindly inject party politics into HN threads. So, is what you're saying, is that if the "other party" had a majority, this wouldn't happen? Or.. what are you trying to
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by themafia 4mo ago
> the AI-assisted version could have been deployed 10x faster. Prove it. > as someone who has spent more than 20 years honing their craft Proving it should be exceptionally easy. So.. why haven't you done it? Why is it always
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by themafia 4mo ago
> and you should always convert that to binary to optimize everything I disagree. I tried this once. Now you need a client access layer to touch the DB in any context. All your console tools no longer work well or at all. If they sho
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by themafia 4mo ago
> what purpose is there to hide one's identity? I'm not hiding it. It's on a plastic card that I paid the government to print for me. I'm happy to let them see that anytime they ask in relation to official business
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by themafia 4mo ago
We used to do this. Since we had so many to manage we actually got an IP based serial port multiplexer. https://www.digi.com/products/networking/infrastructure-mana... The downside is you now had to ask of any Ca
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by themafia 4mo ago
> If anyone complains about my verbosity or sentence structure — as they usually do, which is the reason I originally let the AI write the prose, among other reasons obsoleted by templating — they can go fuck themselves. You can write fo
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by themafia 4mo ago
Nearly the same experience. Had to fix an issue in a boot loader. It came down to improper setup of the memory controllers ECC engine. It would correct and ignore a single fault. If you managed to get two faults it would raise an except
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by themafia 4mo ago
> How long did it take rulers to go from fighting the printing press to using it for propaganda and their own ambitions? Probably the moment something negative was published about them. > The internet has just speed run that same cour
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by themafia 4mo ago
You just broadcast your voice to millions of people, became instantly archived in google and several other sites, all at zero direct cost to yourself, other than the monthly access fee. There is an obvious distinction. Finally I'd a
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by themafia 4mo ago
> Having never taught in a classroom or worked for even a single day in education, it’s a question I’m totally unqualified to answer. Yes, but, you attended a school, no? You are more qualified to answer than you think. > for the
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by themafia 4mo ago
> They’re meant to communicate some metric about the market. Is that why people spend time, money and effort creating and maintaining them? They're just broadcasters? That seems dubious.
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by themafia 4mo ago
The printing press was very much an invention /not/ at the disposal of the citizens. It analogizes poorly to the Internet.
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by themafia 4mo ago
> in effect the IPv6 version of ARP NDP. That's a discovery protocol not an elimination protocol. There's no guarantee that a link local address isn't available on multiple networks. > the OS will pick the one Linux w
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by themafia 4mo ago
> you have to identify which is which somehow The _routing_ system does. You have the same problem if you have multiple public IPs on a machine. Your local routing will not automatically return packets back through the address they cam
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by themafia 4mo ago
> to be assigned randomly from 169.254.0.0/16 Yes, but the question is, "what if an address in this range is assigned to _two_ interfaces at the same time?" Now your local routing information base cannot distinguish whi
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by themafia 4mo ago
SELECT excuse FROM ignorance ORDER BY snobbery DESC LIMIT 1;
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by themafia 4mo ago
I've never once had that happen. It's always straight to the unrolled article.
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by themafia 4mo ago
> The case against DNS for internal IT infrastructure In SOHO settings I might actually agree, but, this is where I think site administered and distributed multicast DNS was a missed opportunity.
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by themafia 4mo ago
> or the address has to change for some reason One annoying reason is you don't own it/have access through the owner anymore. > Sure would be nice to just update the DNS record to point to the new address. EC2. Elastic IPs
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by themafia 4mo ago
Eh. This isn't "AI" or language models masquerading as intelligence. I submit that this is actually the long tail of the internet and the decision to rest on the laurels of peer reviewed submissions rather than advancing th
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by themafia 4mo ago
It means Uber thinks they can sustain that level of expense. Whether engineers at Uber are representative of the rest of the work force is an easily debatable question.
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Why are there so many people who mistake simple anecdotes for actionable data? Why do the majority of businesses fail rather than succeed?
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Yes and when you start dropping them diplomacy ends. Do you have a position on whether or not the US engages with diplomacy often and effectively enough to avoid dropping munitions on the third world? Do you have a position on Iraqi &quot
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by themafia 4mo ago
The same peace they enjoyed for decades before the UN decided to court Ukraine for membership. They had balance of trade agreements, resource use agreements, and generalized peace. Can you elaborate as to why you seem to think this was i

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