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by tristor 2y ago
This is a very sad day. Along the way in my life and career I had a brief stint building custom computers for other people, and I spent quite a lot of time getting into overclocking for myself. Those journeys and my interest in computer h
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by tristor 2y ago
It's for public safety / law enforcement use cases. ID cards like driver's licenses have a barcode on them, they can read the barcode in their police software to look you up and get your warrants, driving record, etc and dig
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by tristor 2y ago
Given historical precedence, it's almost a certainty that it will not stay at that level, but regardless the context of my response was someone basically saying that high net worth individuals wouldn't have a problem paying the ta
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by tristor 2y ago
This is almost certainly untrue. The issues is that at any asset level, the tax itself can force a sale, which forces realization of gains. Whether that is on-balance more than the value realized is another question, but it definitely cou
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by tristor 2y ago
Yes. It's very common to collateralize a loan with the total assets of the company, and often with personal guarantee on top of this for small LLCs without significant assets or credit history.
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by tristor 2y ago
> IQ is only a narrow specific type of intelligence biased to western education indeed I see this claim a lot, but what is even meant by "western education" here? IQ tests show similar results in most countries that have &#x2F
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by tristor 2y ago
I am really surprised by all the negative comments in this thread about FreeBSD by people who seemingly use Linux and think this is an appropriate way to behave. There are many reasons why someone might use BSD, and it has several specific
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by tristor 2y ago
I put on insect repellent every time I go outside during the summer, but I have split my time living between Texas and Colorado, both of which have wells of endemic mosquito-borne illnesses (unfortunately). Besides mosquitos though, I am m
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by tristor 2y ago
I did a very in depth amount of personal research about insect repellent in preparation for a long-term trip into an area of the world where Zika, Dengue, and Malaria are all endemic. To summarize my findings I would say the following: 1.
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by tristor 2y ago
Setting aside the larger issues with Peloton's business, this particular move is something that comes due to poor product management. Having strong product sense is exactly about knowing what psychological effects product changes will
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by tristor 2y ago
Yes, that is why it was invented, as I alluded to. LDAP was an alternative to DAP. DAP is part of the X.500 standard, LDAP is not. LDAP when it was first invented was built to access an X.500 directory. That is no longer a base requirem
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by tristor 2y ago
Similar experience, except I have never worked professionally writing software as my primary task. I've always stayed in operations/systems roles or other periphery roles, and now am a PM. I am constantly amazed at how many &quo
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by tristor 2y ago
Active Directory is not based on X.500 and LDAP was directly created as an alternative to the DAP standard that is part of X.500. While X.500 is a precursor to both of these things, and influenced both of these things, and both of these thi
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by tristor 2y ago
Saw a lot of people get nailed by this in the Framework community. On the flip-side, if you eschew Microsoft products completely, I've had a really good experience (for the most part) using Secure Boot with custom keys on Linux on my
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by tristor 2y ago
During the mid-early part of my Ops/SRE career I had a senior who was a mentor to me. I noticed as we dealt with outage after outage he was always calm, cool, and collected, so one day I asked him "<name redacted>, how do y
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by tristor 2y ago
I like the technology here, but at the same time I feel like they've been on this trajectory since the beginning. It's just another VC-backed company using open source for marketing, without any legitimate desire to actually be o
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by tristor 2y ago
There are just three primary reasons why public sector digital projects fail, although you can break them out into a myriad of more detailed reasons/examples: 1. Competency Gap: Public sector organizations don't have the right peo
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by tristor 2y ago
I have helped a company do something like this in the past. My advice is go for it, but understand that there's going to be some landmines. The biggest benefit is that you likely have a stronger understanding of your needs than any th
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by tristor 2y ago
Air Travel, and in general Transportation as a sector, is society-critical infrastructure and should be held to different standards than Joe's Barber Shop.
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by tristor 2y ago
> America has a burgeoning beer culture, but much of the country is still a beer desert where the only widely available beers are pasteurised lagers. This would have been true decades ago. It hasn't been true anytime recently, even
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by tristor 2y ago
> This isn't meant to be a nationalistic point, but America has a relatively undeveloped beer culture; beer is often kept and served very poorly and drinkers rarely notice. You are extremely incorrect on this point. I think this is
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by tristor 2y ago
They've already managed that, just buy any of the low-cost LED replacement bulbs in any major store made in bulk in China. They don't put proper heatsinks on the power circuitry driving the LEDs so it eventually fails, especially
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by tristor 2y ago
What annoys me about this is that due to recyclability they are going to replace the borosilicate glass formula with one made off soda-lime glass. Soda-lime glass is significantly less durable in heat/cool cycles, and part of the poin
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by tristor 2y ago
Specifically in the context of fermentation, if you manage to get fermentation started correctly /prior/ to the formation of bacteria colonies, that food will be safe to eat because fermentation creates an environment of competiti
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by tristor 2y ago
That would be true if these issues were discussed in rational terms, but unfortunately because it's predominantly political, it means rational terms are not the basis of these discussions. That is presupposing either point A or B is e
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by tristor 2y ago
I use Markdown constantly, every single day, and I have tried multiple times to switch to RST and failed. Ultimately the reason Markdown works the best for me is that it gets out of my way. I can just type, I don't have to invest sig
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by tristor 2y ago
I don't claim to be an expert, just somebody with thoughts and opinions. It was a response to someone saying I was uninformed. I am not uninformed, I am well educated on the topic. Like most people, I am not an expert in most things,
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by tristor 2y ago
> This is preposterous, and frankly quite uninformed. I actually studied moral philosophy in a relatively well-respected institution (although I did drop out prior to getting any form of degree). Nothing I have learned about the world h
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by tristor 2y ago
> But for the people I know, many would sooner end their own lives than doing something that distasteful. You bring up jail in the same breath you say that. The plural of anecdote is not evidence, and you've provided equal weightin
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by tristor 2y ago
The problem is those people are trying to intellectualize animals. Humans are animals. We, presumably, have free will. We, presumably, have rationality. While these traits make us higher order animals, we are still animals, and the law

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