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by tokyobreakfast 7mo ago
The US Postal service has some of the most complex software in existence, including some of the most advanced handwriting recognition ever developed. The fact that mail gets to its destination when it does, as soon as it does, with overall
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by tokyobreakfast 7mo ago
Japanese have lactose intolerance, almost universally. They don't eat yogurt or dairy in general.
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
Yet they're all expendable because their chosen skills are not essential for society to survive. They could all disappear tomorrow and the web and everything around it would move on.
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
Some make less than new grads at AMZN with 0 YOE.
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
This industry is a race to the bottom and long overdue for a massive salary reset. There is no society on Earth where someone who codes JavaScript (poorly) should make more money than, say, a doctor. Yet here we are.
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
> No camera notch I'd consider this an upgrade. Does this mean we get screen real estate back from an abnormally-thick menu bar? The notch is one of the most bizarre 'innovations' to ever come out of Apple. Like designing
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
It's almost certainly because your customers are reporting your emails as spam by moving it into the junk folder which is training their systems. Once enough of your customers do this to cross a certain threshold, you are identified as
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
How much money was set on fire for Ukraine? Where does that fall in relation on the righteousness rubric?
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
I'd love to see this shoved into a Mac SE or Classic chassis with a replacement 9" LCD to match. Jeff, if you're reading this, make it happen lol. The old Macs really were the perfect form factor for a compact desktop compute
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
Serious answer: no. Requiring line-of-sight outdoors to a satellite does fuck-all in emergency situations, especially one you're trying to shelter in place from, likely underground. In the US, these broadcasts are localized, usually a
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
This is brain damage levels of decision-making. If you live in a portion of the US that has severe weather, a NOAA weather radio with the EAS alerting function is a mandatory addition to your home. It could be the difference between life or
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
> there is ample place to pass This is the same excuse a Prius driver would give whilst refusing to abdicate the HOV lane for an ambulance and yes I've sadly seen this scenario play out. Multiple times, in fact. Prius driver seems o
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
on second thought there is a difference between restoring critical infrastructure in times of crisis vs restoring bot infrastructure for indian spamming operations. choose wisely
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
> this would require human intervention that's the difference between heroes and ordinary employees who bitch about having to go into the office twice a month. same as the stories you hear of guys taking snow-cats up a mountain in a
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
This is for corporations too incompetent or too lazy to deploy Citrix infra, so they'd rather rent it from Microsoft As A Service . VDI can be very expensive so this could be win-win.
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
If you're doing any serious CAD work you really need a Windows PC, and better yet a config that is ISV approved and tested. Apple still quietly designing all their products on Windows these days? Not that there's anything wrong wi
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
This is targeting the elusive market segment of "companies who want to implement VDI, but are too stupid to deploy VDI".
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Target will stop selling cereals with synthetic colors by end of May(sfgate.com)
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
Generally when you murder 30k of your own people the civilized world doesn't let you get away with it.
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
Well that was quick.
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
It really isn't—it's all perception. Hegseth has a much more outgoing and public persona so it's more visible. Heck, can you even name the last 5 Secretaries that preceded him? I can't. The last one that was this widel
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
Your response came off a bit aggressive. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, though. It's been in use a really long time.
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
If you think a gender-neutral term used for decades within their own circles as a form of inclusive corporate-speak is "fascist propaganda" then I'm sorry to say you have serious issues.
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4339 The reason that no one involved in the game's development objected to the word "warfighter" is that the U.S. Defense Department has used "warfighter&qu
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
I feel like regardless of what answer or proof anyone gives you, you'll still insist it was invented three weeks ago.
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
"I learned the word a week ago therefore it is new." The term—and its use in the now-Department of War—dates back to the late 80s.
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
SpaceX's move-fast-and-break-things approach was lauded and NASA panned as being stuck in the past until <checks notes> the zeitgeist turned against Musk at which point the drones and tech blogs they read and write now view Space
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
Imagine one of the defense primes telling the DoW, "We won't build you these planes, they're just too darned lethal!"
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
"Google employees make demands of US Military from nap pods, ball pit." I assume by red lines they are referring to a life-sized tic-tac-toe game board painted in a hallway.
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by tokyobreakfast 8mo ago
www.defense.gov redirects to www.war.gov but I like how you refer to Wikipedia as the authoritative source to prove this functionally irrelevant and aggressive Reddit-style seething. The talk page on the linked Wikipedia article arguing abo

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