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by xnyan 4y ago
As far as I know, police are are the only government employees in the US with a strong union and lobbying effort. Salary can get relatively high, especially with overtime and side benefits of employment like moonlighting as private security
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by xnyan 4y ago
This is an absolutely serious question: 1) What is your model for humans living around each other that does not involve mandatory contributions towards societal costs and 2) What are some examples of nation states you admire without an orga
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by xnyan 4y ago
With remote work I find myself with a little more time to go to lunch, or out to dinner, or other things that involve spending money in the community around me I didn't have time for when I was commuting.
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by xnyan 4y ago
>This doesn't support the idea that their objection is to selling the material. It's an unrelated concern. Does Apple restrict adult content in anything besides the various marketplaces it owns (applications, media, advertiseme
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by xnyan 4y ago
Let me start by saying that I think Apple does have a long history of being up their own ass regarding "frivolous" uses of their products, aka video games and porn. Apple has no issue with people viewing or making adult content wi
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by xnyan 4y ago
AHK was my introduction to programming. I’m a bad speller and I wanted certain common errors I made corrected automatically. I had a very basic but fully functional program in literally minutes. I spent the next few days adding features, an
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by xnyan 4y ago
ApppleScript was an amazing foundational part of what made the Mac so great, but unfortunately Sal Soghoian was pushed out of Apple, the Mac automation team ended, and the new future of Mac automation is an iOS application. It’s by no means
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by xnyan 4y ago
>You don’t need to have highly-regarded lawyers advising you to know this, but SBF had (at least) two: his parents, who were with him in the Bahamas. My experience has been that working with family or very close friends often nullifies o
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by xnyan 4y ago
2nd in command is a great position to be in when defecting to the government, but probably not scot-free. Expect a year or two in jail vs 3-5 for SBF.
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by xnyan 4y ago
>owners renting out their condos doesn't turn it into an apartment building. Apartment and condominium are not mutually exclusive. Condominium only refers to the way a building is owned, if most or all of the units in a condominium
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by xnyan 4y ago
Yes, frequently. It's not uncommon at all where I was raised (US South). We can talk to my father, or almost any member of his congregation, about how a national ID is a government plot to identify, control and harm the faithful.
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by xnyan 4y ago
Native support for systemd was added in september. Still waiting on real USB passthrough, it’s the last thing on my list that keeps WSL2 from being my main development environment. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline&
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by xnyan 4y ago
The only real remaining problem is low level hardware access. MS developed some very clever workarounds for giving WSL2 access to the GPU, but what about everything else? For example, USBIP is great in many situations, and MS has worked to
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by xnyan 4y ago
There's a gui for viewing events, but you probably want to use the cli for debugging: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administrat... If you're learning, start with the official windows d
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by xnyan 4y ago
>The UK law bans anything sold primarily for inducing psychotropic effects You may have misread, but this is not correct. The act claims to ban substances that are _only_ used for their psychoactive effect. From the act: "The act on
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by xnyan 4y ago
>alcoholic I think that's the keyword here. The behavior you're describing does sound very dependent, but those dependent on alcohol are a minority. I don't have numbers on capsaicin, but I'd be comfortable betting th
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by xnyan 4y ago
If they are not needed for core functionally, why are they part of the standard? It's not just IT departments not able to grok v6 that's the problem, IPv6 implementations are a total crapshoot in terms of quality. Some are great,
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by xnyan 4y ago
The industry will not transition to v6 unless: 1) The cost of not doing so is higher than the cost of sticking with v4. Because of all the numerous clever tricks and products designed to mitigate v4's limitations, the cost argument st
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by xnyan 4y ago
> I have to search three different things before I can find it I've had the same problem; Microsoft has been changing the keyword that triggers the audio input/output control panel, but the official and unchanging (so far) name
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by xnyan 4y ago
When our c suite decides on an ad campaign and tells our artists to draw normal humans, those people have 3 legs or upside down teeth exactly 0% of the time. Humans have many many limitations, but with every model I’ve tested there’s a set
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by xnyan 4y ago
With the help of huge amounts of cash and other support from the United States. This is also why Japan and South Korea recovered so quickly. South Africa did not get a Marshall Plan.
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Windows sandbox overhead is quite low. I've played several games using it and the performance hit is in the low single digits, typically 2-5% in my experience. It's complicated but IMO virtualization seems to have less opportunit
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by xnyan 4y ago
>A vocal community has been calling out the blatant scams and corruption for years. The information was readily available to anyone doing even the most basic due diligence. Successful scams are like successful cults, nobody has ever join
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by xnyan 4y ago
Yep, it’s just a matter of setting headless=false and it can launch a normal firefox/safari/chromium exe. You can even have it attach to an existing instance of your personal browser (via the debugging protocol).
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by xnyan 4y ago
I didn’t know there were programs that payed that well. What field did you study?
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by xnyan 4y ago
I use MacOS, iOS, Linux and Windows, and only one of the above has never shown me ads. At one point MacOS and iOS were on the list, but now like Microsoft they push their own services (apple news, appletv, icloud, etc) and also like Microso
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by xnyan 4y ago
I just moved into a role where I see the REHL bills. Total cost per license is more than what we pay for windows server, which was shocking to me.
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by xnyan 4y ago
An alternative that actually performs quite well is Multimedia over Coax (MoCA). Cost has come down quite a bit too, a pair of 2.5Gbps adapters runs about $100. In a situation where you're renting, or a two story house with no good way
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>My entire panel is only good for 150A of service, so I am wondering if I could even fill up a battlefield match before my main trips. Keep in mind, while the US uses 120V at the outlet, virtually all residential service is 240V (typical
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by xnyan 4y ago
There's not exactly a right choice of voltage per say, it's more of which tradeoffs you are willing to accept. Nothing is free, and higher voltage means more noisy, complex, and expensive SMPS power supplies. Solving for the probl

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