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wannacboatmovie
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Why would a manufacturing company - who is clearly having manufacturing problems - pivot to a remote-first culture? What problem would that solve? It's hard to build airplanes in your driveway, but I can't say that I've t
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Designing an airplane and producing a prototype isn't terribly difficult and many thousands of companies have done this. The tricky part is designing the massive manufacturing apparatus around it that can produce them in volume (ask El
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wannacboatmovie
2y ago
Because they don't deliver to mailboxes on the curb opposite the driver in a LHD vehicle?
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2y ago
I'm curious, how do duplicates make it to the front page? My experience in submitting links that are less than a year old, the submission gets rejected and you are pointed to the previous submission.
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2y ago
Not to be critical, but the homelabs I find truly impressive are the objectively unpretty ones. Those that resemble the OpenBSD build system - a menagerie of servers haphazardly racked in a basement, Ethernet cables strewn about, and a ques
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2y ago
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/dirty-wash-compan...
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wannacboatmovie
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This discussion is about deli meat. Are you implying that Frank the Farmer down the road making baloney in a bathtub is "healthier and tastes better" than processed deli cuts made in a USDA inspected factory? Not excusing what hap
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2y ago
People live under the delusion that OS X was "100% new" when in fact it was warmed-over NeXTSTEP from 1989. Most of them probably have never seen or heard of a NeXT workstation. To reinforce how much people hate "100% new&quo
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You left out the important part: abandon the Rosetta-like system a mere few years later once you've lured them in, then fuck everyone over by breaking backwards compatibility every OS release. Apple really has the "extinguish"
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> Seriously, nobody does this. Sorry to hear your privileged existence never had to rent a car last minute and drive 13 hours, Steve Martin and John Candy style. Because I certainly have.
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> My own personal DNS does not resolve to any Google/Facebook products, reducing profiling This is incredibly silly. If you smashed your computer with a sledgehammer you would also be unable to access those documents. Do you stop th
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2y ago
> As usual, I wanted to check if any firmware update is available Updating HDD firmware is something you do to resolve a very specific problem, not ... just because it's available. People are blind to the fact that updates can and d
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2y ago
We are supposed to believe Google hires some of the most brilliant minds on the planet, but I've yet to see evidence of this. YouTube has been unusable for years and is only getting worse. When one of your flagship products is unusable
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2y ago
They do exactly this if they intend to grow into a well-rounded, functioning human. This attitude is how we end up with individuals at 40, alone, hoarding cats, and having no functional social skills. Dating is necessary to develop skills t
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Making a fart juice developed by the U.S. government [video]
(msn.com)
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> Next, you’ll say with a smirk, that they need their Mac laptop to write their novel in a coffee shop. To be truthful, that's about all they're good for. Macs are media consumption appliances. If the market wanted "better
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2y ago
Moving the goalposts and splitting hairs. The fact remains the open source model allowed an imaginary person, operating on behalf of a threat actor, to obtain privileged commit access to a widely used open source project without any vetting
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Your argument is a model that does no vetting of contributors whatsoever, which resulted in the catastrophe that is the topic of discussion, is better than a hypothetical company which is full of compromised developers that have free reign
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Extremely large beverage holder...bubble dome...a horn that plays "La Cucaracha"...
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mini_httpd, merecat, [a-z]httpd (choose one), OpenBSD httpd is nice but not portable. Your OS likely has a a built-in web server. Hell, Microsoft shipped something called Personal Web Server with Windows 95/98 nearly 30 years ago. Stop
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Attack of the Repo Men (2003)
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Static web servers have been a solved technical problem for going on 25 years.
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Normies don't understand Mastodon, which incidentally make up 99.999% of a utility company's customers.
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> it's high time we in the tech world led out in refusing to participate in a platform that deliberately locks its content up behind an auth wall. Maybe the tech world should stop using bots to rape and pillage user-generated conten
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No, that has been replaced with the thing where you leave the towels on the floor if you don't want to have usable towels the next morning.
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Holy shit, there are hotels that still do housekeeping every day post COVID? Please name names, I want to stay there! Even better if there are ones that still do real room service where someone wheels a cart into your room, not leaving a ba
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> Contrast that to programming. A single "<" instead of "<=" could be the difference between totally fine and billions of dollars of damages. I fail to see the difference between a misplaced operator and a mispl
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> Is there any path for software engineers to reach this level of accountability and norms Potentially controversial stance here, but most software engineers are not engineers. They study computer science, which doesn't include cour
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Newsflash: Apple doesn't care. I've reported malicious apps. Provided detailed evidence, etc. Their security team told me to fuck off. So I went back to my daily life... At least I can say I tried. Security doesn't matter; it
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Anyone else click this thinking it was a story about securing Certificate Authorities?
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