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by tristor 2y ago
Research grants. That said, Harvard has the largest university endowment in the world, they'd be just fine operating at their current size off their endowment proceeds effectively forever.
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by tristor 2y ago
It is possible to to reveal the impacts of asymmetric routing through other tools, for instance ThousandEyes can do this by performing a time synchronized bidirectional trace (among other things it can do that MTR cannot). This can be very
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by tristor 2y ago
Honestly, most of this doesn't sound like a bad idea from a strategic perspective, although there will be a lot of pain along the way. Once we get down towards the bottom of the list, there are some items which are almost guaranteed t
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by tristor 2y ago
Perhaps I misunderstood something, but it seems those claims were supported by the evidence of multiple internal memos retrieved via discovery. Another commenter points out that this practice ended in 2018 due to Congress making it illegal
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by tristor 2y ago
Did you read the link that I replied to? Because in that link, what I am responding to, it EXPLICITLY says that the FAA changed the ATC selection process to exclude candidates based on demographics (being not diverse) regardless of their a
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by tristor 2y ago
No, they did not. They slowed down the CPU in order to reduce battery consumption via throttling, which changed the performance of the iPhone device to compensate for a bad battery. It's not the same thing, and yes they did get sued
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by tristor 2y ago
That's shocking and disturbing, and is pretty much a textbook example of exactly the type of thing opponents to DEI have been referring to for how DEI and Affirmative Action result in a lowering of the bar. They explicitly structured
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by tristor 2y ago
Stuff like this is part of why I stick with iPhone. The Pixel 4A stopped receiving security updates just 3 years after release, and rather than being direct about what battery changes were made and providing reasonable pathways for people
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by tristor 2y ago
> in a safe environment with minimal consequences and some guard rails The problem is that a public school, at least in the US, is /not/ a safe environment with minimal consequences, and it has effectively no guard rails. Your
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by tristor 2y ago
>"Average" people are the norm, the reality that "not average" people will have to deal with for the rest of their lives. > Learning how to co-exist with people who aren't like you is a universally valuable ex
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by tristor 2y ago
Because Javascript is a drug that makes developers stupid. It's almost trite at this point to comment on the obsession that Node has created with developers to reduce functionality to the smallest possible reusable parts, even trivial
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by tristor 2y ago
The last desktop I built was in 2011. I built an absolute monster at the time. I ultimately repaired it and gave it away to someone else when I moved 2ish years ago (at ~11 years of age) and it is continuing to function as it was for that
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by tristor 2y ago
I remember most of these games fondly. My favorite games from the old entertainment packs were Pipe Dream, Minesweeper, and Ski Free. Was really interesting to see the history here, and how slack time created an opportunity for valuable c
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by tristor 2y ago
> Did PG&E cause the fire? Yes. As I recall it, the fire was caused by downed lines that were energized during a dry spell, and the reason the lines were downed was due to negligence around maintaining the C-Hooks holding their high
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by tristor 2y ago
No, it's making people whole for real monetary and property damages caused by PG&E's negligence. It's the settlement of a lawsuit, because PG&E was negligent and caused damage. Whether those people rebuild in Paradis
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by tristor 2y ago
I think that's a bit of color on that, since those homes weren't worth $0 until PG&E caused a fire that burnt them down by neglecting required maintenance.
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by tristor 2y ago
I feel exactly the opposite. It's somewhat ironic as well, because socially I have and have had a reputation as someone who is both 'gadget obsessed' and 'bougie', but I don't think you can really be both. I
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by tristor 2y ago
John McCain, a Republican, famously voted to save the ACA during a time when the Republicans had a Congressional majority, even though his health was failing. He died shortly after the vote.
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by tristor 2y ago
> On the other hand, lots of people hate taxes. Try not paying your taxes, and you'll end up in jail. You seem to be making the argument that the law has a life of its own, which isn't entirely untrue, but case in point: While
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by tristor 2y ago
This was less interesting than I was hoping for, because it wasn't specific. It said I don't have a non-native English accent. Great, I already knew that. But I'm curious if it could place my regional accent in the United
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by tristor 2y ago
Great article, and very important things to consider. As a practice, I take my holidays at the end of each year to consider my career, my life, and my worldview. A long holiday is an opportunity to refocus from work to introspection, and
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by tristor 2y ago
> And I think the idea that "nobody gives a shit what the law says" is a statement that is... very, very incorrect. I would say almost the entire body of social science and moral philosophy (setting aside the replication crisis
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by tristor 2y ago
The entire argument for high CEO renumeration is that they take on total responsibility for all actions of the company. The buck stops with them. So, why do we think it's acceptable for that not to be the case when the company does s
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by tristor 2y ago
> This depends a lot on context you haven't provided. Most importantly - is this legal? Whether it is legal or not is irrelevant. You are entering into a conversation about morality. The law does not dictate morality, as much as i
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by tristor 2y ago
For sure, which is one of the big benefits of git + git tagging, but the issue is even if you know you received the same binary as someone else, without reproducible and auditable builds, you have no idea if that binary originated from the
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by tristor 2y ago
That rationale makes sense, and pretty much aligns with what I mean by a visual marker.
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by tristor 2y ago
This actually is useful, because it allows the symbols to visual indicators when reading currency figures and can be used in a programmatic way. $ becomes a start marker for the beginning of a currency figure where the most significant dig
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by tristor 2y ago
This is a nice idea, and one I also advocate for, however it's important to keep in mind that the idea of reproducibility relies on determinism. So much of what goes into a build pipeline is inherently nondeterministic, because we&#x2
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by tristor 2y ago
I've been doing photography as a hobby since I was a kid, learning from my dad who also did photography as a hobby. We've both won numerous awards, although I have not won as many as my dad, and none of them are particularly pres
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by tristor 2y ago
> I have known since before the election that Trump is planning to deport all of the immigrants. Agree or disagree with the policy proposal, that is not what Trump has been saying at all. I don't know if this is an unforced error w

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