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by xyzzy123 4y ago
One of the first "promises" (agility) of mRNA turned out to be a bit of a mirage. We have this wonderfully adaptable mRNA vaccine technology - but we've backed ourselves into a corner re: COVID-19 because it seems "origi
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
Agree on fundamentals - after all that's how it works now, you don't need FAANG for this. I do suspect that until it works "by default" for most users (without requiring any explicit configuration, backup or maintenance)
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
The device tends to be tied to an underlying "cloud identity" (apple id, google account, microsoft account etc). You can use that account to re-enrol / manage devices etc. Ideally people have more than 1 device enrolled to en
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by xyzzy123 4y ago
What happened in Sri Lanka was that the government ran out of foreign exchange and was desperate for something to cut. So they basically pissed in the air and told everyone it was raining ("great news: you're all organic farmers n
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by xyzzy123 5y ago
Ok you got me (I laughed) I'm just so sick of the container security shills; in particular I'm tired of people selling debian advisories with zero value add on enterprise contract.
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by xyzzy123 5y ago
If that matters why hasn't the internet exploded yet? Hardly anyone is doing that thing and it seems to not matter. People who panic only when they see $STUPIDLY_NAMED_ISSUE seem fine.
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by xyzzy123 5y ago
Canberra flagged, Tasmania exempted, Sydney and Melbourne upvoted.
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by xyzzy123 5y ago
Yes but I heard they were invented by a genius so that's something!
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by xyzzy123 5y ago
Nobody is missing 50w any more because that goes on their BOM as a bigger power brick. I can see this stuff where someone missed an incandescent or hasn't replaced a device in 10 years but really stuff has moved on and cost optimisatio
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by xyzzy123 5y ago
Hn commenters have quickly established that in theory it could be economically viable to talk with nature so we're all good here.
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by xyzzy123 5y ago
Unfortunately the median doctor is busy treating the median human.
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by xyzzy123 5y ago
That's not "idle" use... somebody wasted good money on those labour-saving devices. And they'll write a blog post about it too once they get around to fixing them! (I write this lovingly yet seriously as absolutely a vic
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by xyzzy123 5y ago
Agree, 500w of nothing is INSANE in 2022 are you sure. Please list brands.
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by xyzzy123 5y ago
A recognisable alien invasion happening in our lifetimes is... astronomically improbable. I think it would be reasonable to be initially skeptical. Certainly if I just saw it on TV, it seems most probable that the news has got it wrong some
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by xyzzy123 5y ago
Generally I think that's true, but I looked at youtube comments the other day and it seems like there have been some radical changes in the past few years. The comments are not really more informative, but they seem a lot less offensiv
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by xyzzy123 5y ago
If you have thick skin, live cheaply and have a high tolerance for administrative bull%5^ you can make it work. I've known a few long-term unemployed people in NZ who programmed a lot for fun. Not disciplined "open source as a job
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by xyzzy123 5y ago
I do wonder if the conflicts are truly fundamental, or whether they could largely be engineered around at a practical level (without abolishing any existing states). Put another way, is it a philosophical or a practical problem? Seems a
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by xyzzy123 5y ago
I don't think it's the identity of the characters per se, it's more subtle than that, a kind of fetishisation of identity? In Star Fleet the fact that someone happens to be a polygamous tri-sexual trans-species cat person sho
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by xyzzy123 5y ago
The thing that turned me off discovery was, why even go to the stars? You could have just stayed at home and been miserable there, instead. I would however, pay good money for "Star Trek: all David Bowie edition" where an entire s
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by xyzzy123 5y ago
Agree I think - the most common mistake people make is just not doing the work. The work means: Understanding the regulatory framework for your ecosystem (and partners), and maintaining policies that align with those requirements. Ensuring
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by xyzzy123 5y ago
I don't think that vibe was unique to drugs or the 60's, perhaps every generation gets that. For example, I feel the same way about the 90's Internet... It's hard to explain the optimism a lot of people felt at the time.
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by xyzzy123 5y ago
Most regulations require "reasonable effort" and a final judgement really only comes from an auditor / discussion with regulators. Honestly even that is often not final except in the context of one particular audit, "rea
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by xyzzy123 5y ago
The mrna vaccines have an impact on transmission / infection of omicron for about 4-6 months (there is longer-lasting protection against severe illness etc). This leads to very confusing debates, the "headline" stats used to
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by xyzzy123 5y ago
I dunno, you can reach the point of blocking rooted phones without malice, too. Like, they get an internal or external pentest (maybe as part of PCI), consultant has finding "hey best practice is block root / add obfusc / etc
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by xyzzy123 5y ago
You could give the parents some kind of benefit(s) proportional to the taxes generated by their children /ducks (Yes, terrible idea for a number of reasons, but the incentives would be aligned...)
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by xyzzy123 5y ago
It's hardly a secret, but people who live their whole lives with a relatively stable currency experience a very powerful illusion. I think it's fair to say that the crypto boom has greatly increased the general public's sens
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by xyzzy123 5y ago
Also team considerations. When you add an important moving part (all your devs will complain bitterly when it breaks and their work will be significantly impacted) you need at least 2 people who know how to keep it running at a minimum , a
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by xyzzy123 5y ago
Yes although it might be readable in the same way that autotools configure scripts are readable -- technically you can , but you probably don't want to, and if you need to then something has gone badly wrong.
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by xyzzy123 5y ago
The most useful kinds of tokenization will "anchor" the data to a specific platform, and allow you to perform common operations without slinging plaintext around. So it's a token and an interface , where the minimum interfac
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by xyzzy123 5y ago
AFAIK AWS have never increased prices on any specific product offering. Your overall point still stands, agree you have to have a plan for the day your vendor decides to put the squeeze on (and that can take many forms).

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