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by zo1 2y ago
HOA's can actually work really well, they just seemed to have taken a horrible turn somewhere in the USA. "HOA"s in South Africa are called "Sectional Titles", and they're pretty reasonable. They allow for (if
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by zo1 2y ago
The one nice perk about the state of things atm in python is I can very easily filter out devs by their choice of python IDE (or lack thereof).
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I also don't think people realize how much money, effort, time, very smart (and well-funded) individuals are working on making those odds. They have access to decades worth of data, all the stats, and are entirely un-emotional or cli
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by zo1 2y ago
And yet, here is Godaddy doing the same thing: https://www.godaddy.com/en-ph/hosting/wordpress-hosting Or a recent hosting provider I interacted with in a 3rd world country: https://client.absolutehosti
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by zo1 2y ago
This is 85% of what the Mozilla foundation and it's group of companies did. It may not be exact, but to me it rubs me the exact same way in terms of being a bait and switch, and the greater internet being 100% powerless to do anything
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by zo1 2y ago
Another example, although less palatable, is beggers. Not the obvious poor kind but the ones that approach you at a parking lot or gas station, with some sob story while being dressed relatively neat and not "hobo" like. They abus
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by zo1 2y ago
There is also 3: putting a big bounty out signals other very smart and ingenious security researchers that Arc is a lucrative opportunity to make money. Till now it's been "safe" in relative obscurity so not a lot of people f
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by zo1 2y ago
Until this individual comes back and responds to at least a few of the questions/comments, I don't think we should even pay attention to this marketing-dept-written post. They basically want this to go away, and answering any ques
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by zo1 2y ago
Most official documentation is awful, and just an API reference. It's (almost) like asking someone to learn english and then pointing them to a dictionary. And that's because a lot of devs think it's perfectly dandy to just p
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by zo1 2y ago
Not true at all. I'm a tech person, understand it all and the implications, and I'm not being a doomer about it. The more people faff about and fight for privacy as a misguided absolute, the less discussions we can have about ethi
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by zo1 2y ago
Celery is an over engineered pile.. Rather move lower down the stack, with your first step being Kombu which powers celery under the hood. It's oddly "configurable" so if you need to optimize and adjust connections this is wh
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by zo1 2y ago
Marketing... These not-so-famous-yet Chinese firms have picked up what the West has been doing and are trying to cut out the middle-man. Essentially the West's MO has been to buy cheap no-name generic stuff from china, have them colore
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by zo1 2y ago
I once had my nationality "leak" just by the specific addition I chose when ordering a specific hamburger-like dish at a food-stall. Something akin to choosing to put mustard on a hot-dog kind of situation. The person looked at me
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by zo1 2y ago
Maybe for you, or others: But I have some past stuff that applies to the ACE score, and absolutely no-one knows about it. Not my spouse, family, previous partners, friends, psychiatrist, counselors, and my children certainly never will. I
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by zo1 2y ago
I know it's small, but want to point out another thing Amazon bait and switched (not exactly related to your comment, but I guess it needs to be shared). We ordered Amazon Kids tablets few years back (they're actually awesome and
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Not OP, and yes they "hid" it that way too. But I got the distinct sense that they removed it many years ago for certain websites (and more and more over the years I guess till now). They probably had some sort of flag on their an
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by zo1 2y ago
That's the whole point of journalism. Right now, they gave neither the facts that the GP wanted, nor the context and understanding that you may need to be comfortable enough to judge it's reasonableness within the context of the s
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I blocked the TED channel on YouTube a few years back as it was getting bad. They first diluted their "brand" or quality with TEDx, and it's been downhill since as they've been scraping the bottom of the barrel and tried
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by zo1 2y ago
Maybe I'm missing something... If the data doesn't come from the employer, then how does the "payroll" company get it?
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by zo1 2y ago
Hey let's not pretend like it's better in the world of Linux/Unix/etc. Now that is one hot mess of everything, just as much as Powershell. It's just those have things we're used to, and kinda learned to (mostly
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by zo1 2y ago
I just did a few calcs for here in South Africa, and the prices you mentioned are about 2.1x as much than what it costs to get an UberX/Go trip here. Or the same price as what I'd pay for a "luxury" Uber Black ride. This
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by zo1 2y ago
I really have to push back against this "design document" stuff. Unless you're writing some sort of uber-complicated, mission-guidance-systems-level code with multiple standards and audit compliance and and and, then you don&
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You are talking into a void following this line of reasoning. There is no logical consistency in the context of a state and all the myriad of terms and concepts in its wake. That's by design and everyone that's brought up under it
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Just knowing what is OAuth vs OAuth2 vs OIDC is a nightmare on itself - and even when you know, you don't really know or know what is actually deployed/implemented and what "flow" (wtf?) was used. The whole ecosystem suf
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Cave Generation in Deep Rock Galactic(store.steampowered.com)
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To be honest, "engineers" in the physical sciences generally have a much easier and predictable time than programmers. Is that perhaps a fault of programmers, very possibly (nevermind, definitely our own doing). The reason I say t
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Looks like the end-goal may just be that we have an alternate, freer internet that you can only access via non-government-approved satellite feed. @Elon: Start putting your actual servers up in order next.
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> "The topic is not taboo. What's taboo is invalidating the lives and existence of other human beings just finding a voice and a place in the world and figuring it out. After all if it's a phase, or a social contagion, it&
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At some point we need to "tell" people to adjust. The "effectively infinite, at any time" tap of electricity that's subsidized and enabled by an all-encompassing government needs to stop. We've been effectively
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Awesome project OP! Especially the power comparison. Who would have thought that you can achieve 1kW of energy from 1m2. On a side note and in a similar direction. Would it be feasible to make a solar concentrator that heats a molten-salt r

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