Slothrop99

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by Slothrop99 2mo ago
I'll just caution that new things are often over-built to some degree. Then "engineering" is often how much margin they can squeeze-out while still hitting their warrantee targets. General Motors built an ignition switch for
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by Slothrop99 2mo ago
IMO the real "fun fact" is that supposed "IP monopolists" like Microsoft and Oracle's lawyers are apparently totally fine with this stuff. So obviously people are going to take their lead and not get legal advice f
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by Slothrop99 3mo ago
I'm listening to the Giants on the radio, and it looks like the data feed is about one pitch behind. (I suppose for gambling reason.) It would be neat if there was some way to sync a stream with the animation.
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by Slothrop99 3mo ago
Obviously way too easy to take over these 'orphaned' packages if it can be done in an automated manner. GitHub/NPM/etc doesn't have this issue, they need to stop equivicating. Sounds more like an anonymous FTP site.
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by Slothrop99 3mo ago
If I understand, the malware is installed via npm from some subshell. But yeah I totally believe you have a detailed review of every package-lock.json and etc.
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by Slothrop99 3mo ago
Oh you totally got me, tips fedora .
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by Slothrop99 3mo ago
Why do you feel that most christian sects cannot decide they are heretics? We're not talking about some Lutheran Synod politics BS, they have this whole fantasy/scifi book and theology. Obviously it's a free country, so they
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by Slothrop99 3mo ago
Nah, from a more intellectual protestant tradition -- they were not fighting doctrine and I remember at least a couple of those from Sunday sermons. None of that remotely resembles the Book of Mormon, so honestly you are just really shitty
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by Slothrop99 3mo ago
Well, the New Testament (what Christians care about) is entirely set in the historical first century Roman Empire [0], all places are accurate and known to exist. The Book of Mormon postulates some fantasy world perhaps not unlike Middle Ea
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by Slothrop99 3mo ago
> aggressively rebrand That had to be 20 years ago? Not that anyone likes the cable company. As a comcast customer, their core internet service seems really solid. It comes in through some sketchy 1980s cables installed by some company
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by Slothrop99 3mo ago
> although the reason is unclear to me Not at all complicated, you don't get to add another book to the bible and claim to be the same religion. I grew up in a very liberal christian church. Their take on mormons was "really ni
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by Slothrop99 4mo ago
I'm a normal person who watches sports streams and maybe 2 years ago I downloaded a torrent of some art movie. My ISP is Comcast. How does your advice apply to me?
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by Slothrop99 5mo ago
Were they? Sounded like they stuck with some terrible old version of OpenOffice ("brokenoffice"). Users don't really care about the OS, its the apps.
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by Slothrop99 6mo ago
Maybe I didn't look hard enough, but there's no obvious switch to "just turn off all the legacy stuff, thnx". Also, there has been a huge amount of churn on the tooling side, and if you have a legacy app, you probably do
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by Slothrop99 6mo ago
Just to be pedantic, those characters are in 'ANSI'/CP1252 and would be fine in a varchar on many systems. Not that I disagree Win32/C#/Java/etc have 16-bit characters, your entire system is already
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by Slothrop99 7mo ago
And there are many tons more providers who will be happy to take your money while promising to spam google. TFA prob ain't exactly legit, eh?
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by Slothrop99 7mo ago
That's because the article is slop.
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by Slothrop99 7mo ago
His brother said he had a CPAP machine in his jail cell. (EFTA00113460)
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by Slothrop99 7mo ago
Just pointing out - a lot of snowy areas are very aggressive about plowing (and salting). For most people this is probably like "don't drive tomorrow" and not some need for knobby snow tires.
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by Slothrop99 7mo ago
Just to add, a lot of the midwestern USA is very swampy.
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by Slothrop99 8mo ago
Yeah, from the pictures of the underside I saw, it looked like a very solidly-built car. (Makes me considered buying one after they the depreciation curve.) Still its a big $$$ segment for everyone else.
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by Slothrop99 8mo ago
Ford dropped sedans, they still have plenty of SUVs and other trucks you can buy.
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by Slothrop99 8mo ago
"Rug merchant"
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by Slothrop99 8mo ago
Ignoring who makes it, this kind of gimmickmobile usually sells well for about a year, and then everyone who wants one has one. It was never going to be a tentpole.
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by Slothrop99 8mo ago
S you can understand, because sedans are dead. But every other US auto company is making big profits with large SUVs, so I don't get dropping X. Agree with other posters who say whatever you think of Musk, Tesla styling has gotten very
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by Slothrop99 8mo ago
> Baker Electric type of stuff In the 1920s, a lot of auto startups had a unique idea. Then they got crushed by Henry Ford's and GM's production lines. And then the depression. The Model T was a farm car. 50% of the population
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by Slothrop99 8mo ago
While that is true, the new car market has narrowed to the point where most of the buyers want something overpowered for their money. The most popular cars are actually buying these when they are 10+ years old. (I śaw recently that the USA
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by Slothrop99 11mo ago
Just to be clear, I mean to venerate Bernstein for earning his 3letters, not to trivialize him.
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by Slothrop99 11mo ago
Great to see some 3letter guy into this. This might be one of those rando things which gets posted on HN (and which doesn't involve me in the slightest), but a decade later is taking over the world. Rust and Go were like that. Previous
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by Slothrop99 11mo ago
> one minimum-wage sysadmin The internet assures me there are loads of these underemployed Unix/networking experts just sitting around waiting to set up your infrastructure. But in my experience, these people are actually really dif

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