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571.
by toast0 5mo ago
> I looked at the Bending Spoons employee handbook, and they openly admit that employee performance is evaluated on "making an impact". To me, this means adding pointless features for the sake of getting better ratings. I work
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by toast0 5mo ago
Ticketmaster's job is to take the heat for ticketing (high prices, BS fees, sketchy reselling, etc), but funnel enough money back to the producing parties (artist/event, venue, promoter) that nobody is going to go through the effo
573.
by toast0 5mo ago
Eh. I still listen this way. I subscribe to a streaming radio provider in my genre, and there's also a local high school station that plays my genre of music most of the time. It's much better than what I've experienced with
574.
by toast0 5mo ago
25 years ago, my italian grandmother was the same way. No command center, but still wildly anti-immigration; probably stoked by the news. She immigrated as a child, technically naturalized twice (she was naturalized through her fathers natu
575.
by toast0 5mo ago
They probably didn't independently come up with the idea to steal cables or catalytic converters either. It's all word of mouth. But if half your buddies get shot [1] or jailed when they steal cables for drugs, it probably doesn&#
576.
by toast0 5mo ago
> Not a single one of those times was there a) anything truly actionable for me to do about it[0] or b) a single negative impact to my actual life. In anyway. At all. My wife has had someone rent an apartment in Oakland and open bank acc
577.
by toast0 5mo ago
Took twenty years in Afghanistan (but only ten for the Soviets).
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by toast0 5mo ago
It's pretty hard to protect outside plant with security guards. Burying the outside plant helps, but only until those who would steal cables figure out how to operate a backhoe. It's also pretty hard to bury cables that lead to th
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by toast0 5mo ago
A sturdy stick makes a decent enough baseball bat if you're hitting a light enough ball. It you can scrounge up a tennis ball, they work pretty well for street baseball. Don't need gloves, bases can be whatever you can agree on. O
580.
by toast0 5mo ago
Which company has dozens of class A networks? The only one I'm aware of with two is HP who had 15/8 and 16/8, but I think they returned at least a significant amount of that. BBN/successors may have held multiple class A
581.
by toast0 5mo ago
I'm not a judge or a competitor, but I feel like a little bit of cheating on the rules is within the spirit of the game. Especially if it a) it makes it more obfuscated and b) it wouldn't have fit otherwise.
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by toast0 5mo ago
> But the problem is, my son is unruly. If I put him in the library, most likely he runs around and messes things up, which ends up we leave early without doing anything. Some potential ideas to explore. Take what you want, leave what yo
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by toast0 5mo ago
adding on the the sibling, what argument to clone allows me to set the fds of the child? AFAIK, you either share the FD table with the parent, or get a copy of it. If the parent has 1 million FDs open and the child doesn't want most of
584.
by toast0 5mo ago
posix_spawn addresses the need from userspace. Under the hood, it's still doing more or less a fork/exec, with the baggage that comes with it. A syscall would be nicer.
585.
by toast0 5mo ago
Oh I see. I guess your zygotes have developed more than mine. I think Google may have coined or at least popularized the term zygote for this in Chrome and Android, Chrome documentation [1] says: > A zygote process is one that listens
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by toast0 5mo ago
The zygote pattern[1] is a great optimization to deal with the cost of forking, but IMHO, being able to inexpensively spawn a carefully tailored process regardless of the size and scope of the current process would be better. I would guess
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by toast0 5mo ago
My understanding is that courts usually require actual constitutional federal regulations to exist for Federal Supremecy to apply. But this is just cooercive regulation through barely related funding. I believe that's generally legally
588.
by toast0 5mo ago
Given the price at the register is $X across all payment methods, I prefer to use my card that lets me pay 0.96X 30 days later. (I don't know what discount you can get from UK rewards cards...) I hope that rewards cards go away, becaus
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by toast0 5mo ago
Right in there now. On the plus side, I'm near sighted, so I don't need two sets of glasses, I can just take my glasses off. Usually only happens when I'm tired. Bifocals are probably in my future though. If I want to do circ
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by toast0 5mo ago
Autofocus is very nice for photos, especially when it works. Autofocus in moving pictures isn't so great. It might be nice when you're not filming, but while filming, a focus change should really be intentional; auto focus isn&#x2
591.
by toast0 5mo ago
I'm not sure I believe your example occured, but where exactly are homeless people supposed to be voting? How are they supposed to get whatever form of ID you think they should present in order to vote? California does count ballots sl
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by toast0 5mo ago
I live somewhere with two nines of utility power reliability, I mention that to say everybody's backup (or lack thereof) is well tested. I've got UPSes on most of my computers and a standby generator that pops on after about 10 se
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by toast0 5mo ago
server ipmi includes serial over lan, which can work ... it's helpful if the console settings for early boot match the console settings for OS boot, and there's no standard for sharing them, so that's a bit of a mess... and t
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by toast0 5mo ago
Trading in lots of 100 hasn't been required since I dunno, the 90s? Assuming you're in the US there are several competent brokers that sell fractional shares. Any broker will do lot tracking and cost basis calculatioms for you, th
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by toast0 5mo ago
No, IPv4 doesn't have the concept of addresses that are scoped to a particular interface. Rfc3927 which standardizes the use of 168.254.0.0/16 for ipv4 link local was published in 2005, mentions scoped addresses but does not offer
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by toast0 5mo ago
You could join the Order of the Engineer and refuse to do things that would not be compatible with your understanding of the Obligation of an Engineer [1]. Of course, that doesn't stop your employer from asking someone else to do it an
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by toast0 5mo ago
I'm great at recognizing faces, but I'm pretty bad at remembering who they are. If this was offline only and the UX was reasonable, I might consider asking people I know if I can take their picture so my glasses can help me rememb
598.
by toast0 5mo ago
Ugh, group chats. Even if I want my kiddo to participate which I'm not 100% sure I do, there's nothing that works for all the kids. Some of the kids don't have a phone number, so SMS and other things that require a phone numb
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by toast0 5mo ago
Depends on how the database engine sets up the join. I've seen queries where the join ends up spilling into a temp table and it takes a lot longer to do it that way. IIRC, this can happen especially if you've asked the database en
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by toast0 5mo ago
> If you see SQL where someone wrote a SELECT and is then using a cursor to loop through those results and do other queries, you've found the person who is still thinking imperatively. To a first approximation, yes. But 'client

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