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by toast0 15d ago
This administration keeps trying to intimidate the Fed into lowering interest rates, which makes me believe it holds that as important, and they keep claiming there isn't inflation regardless of reality. I don't think they really
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by toast0 15d ago
> He said those things. Believe him. He says a lot of things he doesn't do though. Beleiving him is a bad heuristic and so is disbeleiving him.
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by toast0 15d ago
> Donald Trump can end this at any time if he wants. I'm not really sure that's true. The US is no longer a credible negotiator. I'm not sure negotiating a peace would necessarily end the situation immediately.
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by toast0 15d ago
Have to do the install to get paid for the ad click, right?
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by toast0 15d ago
> I guess it's dead in the water for posix on account of fork being CoW? If that's the only issue, it's avoidable for most use cases. Lots of processes that fork are doing fork/exec to run a helper program. If they kn
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by toast0 15d ago
> Decker insofar as I can tell is one of the suits who ran Yahoo into the ground. I don't think that's really right, but it's hard to tell. In my mind, as someone who was there from 2004-2011, things were going ok while sh
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by toast0 15d ago
> He then went on this site, and placed incriminating comments under posts discussing that, without discussing it with his lawyers. As I recall, some of his posts indicated he was knowingly posting against the advice of his lawyers. Alth
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by toast0 16d ago
> This is cool; because with most cars you can't do anything. Put it in neutral and push it, if the wheels are still operable and the slope of the road is favorable? > NOTE: If low voltage power is unavailable and the windows are
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by toast0 16d ago
> As you say, even at 90 seconds, it's clear to all involved parties that the customer is pwned or malicious. It sure is --- but an ISP would want to observe the traffic themselves, and if it's a 90 second attack every so often
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by toast0 16d ago
I live in a city with a population of ~ 25,000, and we have I think 10 bank branches, 1 credit union branch, a different credit union ATM (they closed their branch but left an ATM), and a gas station ATM. We've got Chase, BofA, Wells F
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by toast0 16d ago
At least my attitude is the legal limits are low enough that 'just one drink' is going to be over the legal limit (this is almost certainly not accurate, but it's my attitude; additionally when I drink, it's usually a mi
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by toast0 16d ago
I watched some old driver safety films on DVD a while back. The attitudes were way different, the message on drunk driving was "you probably wouldn't be legally drunk for two, maybe three beers, but your reaction time will be
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by toast0 16d ago
> double-ended USB-A cable. Decades ago, I purchased a usb external hard drive case with a usb-a for the connection to the computer. Returned that pretty quick because eww.
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by toast0 16d ago
> Are there any unionized game studios that continue to produce highly acclaimed games? In order for that to happen, a game studio that is currently producing highly acclaimed games would have to unionize. All of your examples seem to be
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by toast0 17d ago
> The wear-and-tear on the road from the sheer volume of cars alone makes them cost more to us as a society than busses. That doesn't really math, because axle weight is a large factor in road wear. There's details and it doesn
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by toast0 17d ago
> Another thing to consider is your credit card rewards cash back etc are really trading your privacy for a little rounding error worth of discount in comparison to using cash. How much privacy really? If I get mostly $20s from the ATM,
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by toast0 17d ago
I don't play the points game, I use a cashback card. I use a cashback card, because most merchants will charge me the same regardless of payment method, and getting a 4% discount (+ time value of money) is the lowest cost to me. If I u
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by toast0 17d ago
I don't quite understand your post, but is your question why don't the ISPs of the sources of the abusive traffic sort it out? The distributed nature of DDoS means each participating host isn't sending that much traffic, an
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by toast0 17d ago
> I cannot imagine any reason why somebody would want to use RELEASE for production. I used FreeBSD at Yahoo and WhatsApp, using RELEASE at both. I'm sure there were some times where some groups were running other than RELEASE (and
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by toast0 17d ago
There's several listings on eBay. The listings for laptops are in a range I'd consider... The tricky bit is usually there's a proprietary connector for the specific laptop, but I recall taking a laptop cd drive for another pr
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by toast0 18d ago
> The unstated reason is that indian transit is expensive, though I fail to believe its cheaper to go from mumbai to marsaille and back to mumbai. IMHO, it's not that hard to believe. a) Every hosting provider I've looked at pr
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by toast0 18d ago
> So, if one were to keep software up to date on their TV, I presume LG is like most vendors and stops issuing updates for older models after a while. It's pretty hard to keep software up to date when the vendor stops issuing update
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by toast0 19d ago
100%. Debuggers are nice when you can use them, trace logs are nice when you have them, clean repros are nice. But lots of bugs can and should be found and fixed by inspection of the code, inspired by a reasonable observation. Depending on
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by toast0 19d ago
> A decent part of that is probably important to be working on the day of a football match. Otoh, if they only need the servers to run while guests are attending matches (and other events), it looks like they do about one event a week fr
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by toast0 20d ago
> without situational awareness, there is no good default behavior for a simple dead man handle on a hundreds ton train. Depending on the train system, engines to idle, medium level braking is probably a reasonable response if there is n
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by toast0 20d ago
> Dashpots and snubbers are not used much as emergency devices. They are for repetitive use. When you desperately need to dissipate a lot of energy, but collisions are rare, expendable devices are usually used. The article shows a pile o
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by toast0 20d ago
The tenth amendment provides that the federal government has only the enumerated powers and everything else is for the States or the people. It doesn't limit the States to enumerated powers. I looked a bit in the early morning to see w
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by toast0 20d ago
I think for etcupdate etc, you should be able to get that info from /usr/src/UPDATING For port upgrades, I dunno if it applies to CURRENT, but pkg seems to work? I usually read the release notes for each release, which keeps
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by toast0 21d ago
Surely google has telemetry when their sandbox is escaped? (Only mostly /s)
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by toast0 21d ago
I wish I could put gps tags on things after they go missing...

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