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541.
by thwarted 6y ago
This is the trend because the existence of the brand's website as a multi-seller marketplace is considered more valuable/higher ROI than the actual direct selling of items. And that's a reasonable view considering most of wha
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by thwarted 6y ago
> It turns out that programs can bind their listen address to just ::, and the kernel will still allow connections from IPv4, with the address mapped to ::ffff:0.0.0.0/32 -- outbound connections use the same notation. This is only
543.
by thwarted 6y ago
How is this related? rwmj is asking what makes this is a challenge, not asserting that all the possible electric vehicles have been built.
544.
by thwarted 6y ago
> When we first started we didn't mind the bullshit so much because we were too dumb to realize how much there was. … > Oh, by the way, it's December, so we need you to watch that 45 minute security training video again s
545.
by thwarted 6y ago
The "Chats" under "Important" is a gmail tag/label for the messages that are archived into your gmail account from the messaging app. Messages sent in Google Hangouts on my own domain today show up in my email under
546.
by thwarted 6y ago
> ironically is in itself a sort of sloppy analogy of the kind he just denounced I read it as that being the point, that analogies are sloppy, reasoning by analogy is sloppy, and look at how this sloppy analogy is intellectually bankru
547.
by thwarted 6y ago
And you need to reinvent what glibc does with nsswitch.
548.
by thwarted 6y ago
> I has never been clear to me why you need such service as long as /etc/passwd is world readable. And you access that using the POSIX getpwent(3) family of functions, which glibc wraps to honor nsswitch.conf. accountservice
549.
by thwarted 6y ago
Companies use college as a filter because it's difficult to assess proficiency during an interview and they'd like some way to cull the wheat from the chaff, and avoid wasting time talking to and hiring charlatans and posers. Mean
550.
by thwarted 6y ago
The projector can transmit images any time of the day or night Is there some limitation of image recording and transmission technology that I'm not aware of that this needs to be called out?
551.
by thwarted 6y ago
It's good that people had jobs and science and technology was advanced. It's bad that it was done under the auspices of war and creating machines for killing and destruction. It's good some of those machines didn't get u
552.
by thwarted 6y ago
The librarian analogy is a little stretched, but I do expect librarians to properly put fiction books in the fiction section and nonfiction books in the nonfiction section.
553.
by thwarted 6y ago
Insects are stronger in number. That you kill one that is biting you or buzzing around your head doesn't matter.
554.
by thwarted 6y ago
If MS Office was truly cross platform in look, feel, and operation, then finance people who insist on using Excel wouldn't also insist on using Windows just to use Excel. All those specialized tools can get away with having completely-
555.
by thwarted 6y ago
Imagine if major OS platforms had a common UI framework that any language can produce a UI This has been attempted a number of times, both in the browser and without, and it always comes down to people complaining that the widget set isn&
556.
by thwarted 6y ago
Inability to move forward has less to do with IETF/RFC/public standards than it does with email and SMTP, to use your example, being heavily entrenched. Anyone can come up with a new way of doing something, but it's a walled
557.
by thwarted 6y ago
"You could do it if you really tried" is not the same as "no excuse for you not to able to do that". It's a sad state of affairs if the exchange needs to be "please share your situation with me so I can know if
558.
by thwarted 6y ago
"Don't encourage anyone because they might not be able to do it" is the shittiest and most toxic attitude I've ever heard.
559.
by thwarted 6y ago
But worse than a real revision control system like git in every way except UI (although I find Word's track-changes and comments interface and presentation to be really clunky and maybe as user hostile as so many say git's CLI UI
560.
by thwarted 6y ago
No worse than putting data in comments. The CDDB format was notorious for putting track length and some other details in comments, and a fully supported parser then had to be smart enough to extract data from them
561.
by thwarted 6y ago
Maintaining the mock is scaffolding, just of a different type.
562.
by thwarted 6y ago
You went through all the effort of having a manually configured fleet of machines and the thing that's daunting is solved with this?
563.
by thwarted 6y ago
This is already a solved problem and ssh provides the solution. If you have a fleet of machines, you better be using config management to manage them. And you should be pushing out the public key that's on the device you use for remote
564.
by thwarted 6y ago
> There just is no evidence that people of different languages think differently. Languages are used to express ideas. We have debates on this very website about the expressiveness of languages, how expressiveness of language enables
565.
by thwarted 6y ago
This point reveals an angle that is rarely recognized: what needs responding to is not the mass amount of speech that comes from automated bots, for automated bots won't listen to the response. What needs responding to is the people wh
566.
by thwarted 6y ago
It's not the content of the speech itself that is weaponized, it's sheer volume of speech that needs to be responded to that makes it weaponized. And the volume (amount) of speech that must be responded to is so great that even th
567.
by thwarted 6y ago
Apparently, including themselves. How much of deferring to someone else to make "the right decisions" is looking for someone to blame other than themselves when something goes wrong?
568.
by thwarted 6y ago
This is true, but I'm referring to the "copy your files and rename them with a date" or "FINALrev.FromJoe-20200105-Updated-NEW-27" in the filename, not the bad implementations of tools (the GP comment didn't ta
569.
by thwarted 6y ago
> I don't think it's the kind of thing that should (or even could) be taught to teenagers. This makes no sense. It all depends on the goals of the teaching. However, it's probably more meaningful for more people to be ex
570.
by thwarted 6y ago
A dollar is worth one dollar, literally by definition, set by the US government.

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