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by thombat 4y ago
They're relatively warm places so are conjectured to make a nice(ish) place for the quick rather than the dead. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_lava_tube
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by thombat 4y ago
The not-so-nice version of the Culture Minds working with people because they're interesting in a kind of goofy way?
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by thombat 4y ago
Or Google has sorted the results by how many advert placement sites you'll have been exposed to on that page before it's predicted you'll stop reading, so having the paydirt right at the end looks great, and it doesn't m
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by thombat 4y ago
Or it's a flunkey, trying to anticipate what will displease Kaiser Musk today. Pity that flunkey: guessing wrong will cost them the job.
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by thombat 4y ago
Mr Dumpty had something of Mr Musk's way with words in "Through the Looking Glass": `And only ONE for birthday presents, you know. There's glory for you!' `I don't know what you mean by "glory,&
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by thombat 4y ago
So the CTO is the Comedy(Tragedy) Orifice. I only wish this had been explained to me earlier in my career...
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by thombat 4y ago
Except that VHS was released after Betamax, so second & worse video quality won that time. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHS https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betamax
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by thombat 4y ago
Think different. Exactly the same as all your colleagues.
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by thombat 4y ago
Interesting article! So Brady took "an equity stake in the company and [got] a signing bonus in crypto", then went on to make advertisements even though "The NFL has banned cryptocurrency and NFT sponsorships for its teams&qu
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by thombat 4y ago
For optimal lifespan use it as a tour boat on the Dead Sea.
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by thombat 4y ago
But for true feature creep you need to discard this "planning" (just tell yourself you're deftly avoiding a waterfall approach), and just focus on adding that "one last feature and then I'm done". And then iter
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by thombat 4y ago
Don't stop there! It will need tiny householders to shovel the snow off when the accumulation is too deep, and for a stretch goal the cascading snow can induce avalanches. With enough feature creep you'll be able to declare versio
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by thombat 4y ago
That's the cousin of telephone hold music that interjects with a recording periodically, such as "We apologise for the delay; your call is important to us". All this does is repeatedly grab the caller's attention AND pro
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by thombat 4y ago
The evergreen explanation for actions from "Yes, Minister": > Something must be done! > This is something. > Therefore we will do it.
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by thombat 4y ago
If you had no other evidence to go on then yes, that would be exactly the FIRST assumption that you would work from. But then you might keep LOOKING for evidence and re-evaluate as necessary. Is Hancock doing this?
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by thombat 4y ago
Cling film does nothing to keep pests out: beetles & weevils go through plastic bags and I've had a persistent rat chew through 2mm of hard plastic box. More important would be retaining the protective atmosphere that perishables a
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by thombat 4y ago
In-Jokes are only ever going to be funny for those within that group; that's pretty much what defines them. Since I'm not in any Mozilla hacking group I wouldn't know whether it's so, or just a bit of silliness, but eith
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by thombat 4y ago
Where did the oxygen come from? Presumably can't be too readily available to avoid heading straight to a second water & carbon monoxide.
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by thombat 4y ago
And quickly they'll get deleted again: spam postings on SO are generally very short-lived.
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by thombat 4y ago
I'm a native English speaker and had no idea it was meant to be particularly funny or hip; I just assumed it was done kind of in-joke, common enough in FOSS. But it didn't seem very confusing since the next line explains: "We
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by thombat 4y ago
That was indeed a blast. Of the wondrous sums reported being transferred into EA, how much was actual cash, as opposed to promissory notes, FTX-backed coins, etc?
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by thombat 4y ago
The amount of the fine is explained in the bulletin you are commenting upon: "The amount of the fine was decided regarding the breaches identified, the number of people concerned, but also taking into account the efforts made by the co
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by thombat 4y ago
Minimising to the stray isn't so much the problem as remaining connected to the voice chat. Skype in this circumstance doesn't fully minimise but still has a little foreground window making it obvious that you're still on the
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by thombat 4y ago
Check out the LEO from 1951, the first business computer line, built not just for but by a chain of tea shops (cafés) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEO_(computer)
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by thombat 4y ago
And coming to Skype or Zoom or WebEx or some other competitor: a notification that "Unlike some of our competitors, we promise never to intrude into your calls"
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by thombat 4y ago
But how did recipient A get a personalised copy if the mail with that copy was sent to a list of recipients? Edit: WP has the Tesla story with the counsel forwarding his copy to everyone in a new mail (presumably trying to be helpful?) So n
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by thombat 4y ago
Most of the pre-Y2K programs I saw were dumber: their leap year test was simply "year mod 4 = 0". So they were going to falsely report a century as a leap year BUT were saved by the fact that the next century number was divisible
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by thombat 4y ago
"Reply-all" suggests that the same mail went to a set of recipients, but doesn't the watermarking strategy require each recipient to have their own unique copy?
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by thombat 4y ago
In British vernacular about a quarter of all common words can be used to refer to genitals and/or intimate acts, especially when said out loud with the right intonation. One time in London I lost my rag with a local colleague and snarl
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by thombat 4y ago
Matt Levine has an interesting take on this [0], basically that nothing in that Musk claims of their behaviour meets the specification of "cause" in their employment contracts, and further that the golden parachutes are a good thi

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