thescriptkiddie

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by thescriptkiddie 2y ago
The burden of PCI compliance is a lot lighter than you might think. You basically just have to fill out a bunch of forms, there's no inspection or anything.
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by thescriptkiddie 2y ago
We as a society very urgently need to ban the practice of "selling" licenses, but in the meantime we as individuals can and should practice civil disobedience.
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by thescriptkiddie 2y ago
Is that true? I've heard multiple podcasters complain that they can't get their shows off of Spotify and ask their audiences not to listen there.
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by thescriptkiddie 2y ago
If anyone is in the mood for getting nerd-sniped: I'm curious if it would be possible to see such a light from earth (or earth orbit) using any actually existing telescope, and if so how bright would the light have to be.
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by thescriptkiddie 3y ago
they may be referring to blindsight by peter watts
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by thescriptkiddie 3y ago
How can you "steal" a trade secret? Isn't the whole idea that you forgo any legal protection of the secret so that you don't have to disclose its nature, as you would have to with a patent?
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by thescriptkiddie 3y ago
I think an english interpretation which retains the original spirit would be something like: "the poorly cleaned" / "the well soiled"
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by thescriptkiddie 3y ago
This might be off-topic, but I'd like to use this opportunity to complain that basically every modern home theater setup has like hundreds of milliseconds of audio latency.
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by thescriptkiddie 3y ago
is there really no mechanical connection between the stick and the control surfaces on an airbus? that seems really dangerous.
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by thescriptkiddie 3y ago
This problem isn't confined to nuclear energy either. Just about the only thing our society is still able to build quickly and cheaply are roads.
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by thescriptkiddie 3y ago
using a mac is all about paying $15 for a program to change a setting that should have been a checkbox
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by thescriptkiddie 3y ago
damn, hue was the only smart home thing that wasn't total bullshit and now they've changed the deal
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by thescriptkiddie 3y ago
no sim slot lmao have fun explaining to your carrier what an esim is
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by thescriptkiddie 3y ago
Socialism doesn't mean no markets. In fact, no attempt at building socialism so far has ever done away with markets.
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by thescriptkiddie 3y ago
Engels' concept of the reserve army of labor does not refer to a specific group of persistently unemployed people, but to the idea that there must always be some significant number of people who are unemployed. In other words, a statis
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by thescriptkiddie 3y ago
Capitalism was not designed to create a mutually beneficial relationship between workers and owners, it was designed to make as much money as possible for the owners at the expense of the workers. Even if that means everything runs ineffici
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by thescriptkiddie 3y ago
Not every employee at a coop has to make the same wage.
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by thescriptkiddie 3y ago
No, they also get the profits.
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by thescriptkiddie 3y ago
I once had an argument with a guy who thought that fluoride didn't work, because if it did dentists would tell you not to use it. After all, why would they undercut their own business? My counter-argument that dentists just want to hel
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by thescriptkiddie 3y ago
This is extremely stupid. We have had electric trains for 200 years and hydrogen was not involved.
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by thescriptkiddie 3y ago
> Oh, you want routing? "Not my business", says React. Go add a routing library Great, now I have to sort through hundreds of different routing libraries and dozens of different build systems, and then do it all again when I ne
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by thescriptkiddie 3y ago
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:7b97c87435e91b6b38eee8fcc601c6588d44e89e
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by thescriptkiddie 3y ago
Nvidia is famous for having the worst Linux drivers. Linus himself told Nvida to go fuck themselves on stage.
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by thescriptkiddie 3y ago
Nvida literally doubled the prices of their entire product line overnight and then spent their entire GDC keynote talking about how AI was going to eliminate the need for game developers.
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by thescriptkiddie 3y ago
last i checked you can remove it but it will break things
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by thescriptkiddie 3y ago
There never was an incentive to innovate, unless by "innovate" you mean drive the cost of production down below that of your competitors.
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by thescriptkiddie 3y ago
> Iron oxide can also be reduced to iron using hydrogen > Altiro gets around this problem by adding a little natural gas This is transparently just green washing from the fossil fuel industry. There is no way that this will be an effi
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by thescriptkiddie 3y ago
> I'm shocked this isn't being done already It is being done already, and has been for over a century. It's just facebook boomers got it in their heads that it wasn't.
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by thescriptkiddie 3y ago
It's funny how the tories (and their counterparts in other countries) are always fanatically committed to austerity in every area except one.
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by thescriptkiddie 3y ago
> no sane country would want to help their adversaries to achieve stronger offensive capabilities The cold war was very much a one-sided affair. The USA may have seen the USSR as a military adversary, but the USSR did not see the USA the

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