TheRealDunkirk

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by TheRealDunkirk 2mo ago
Good grief! I can count at least 6 logical fallacies in your 3 sentences.
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by TheRealDunkirk 3mo ago
You're trying to follow an out-of-date map. Our technology-infused growth of the past 50 years has produced more widespread mental illness and psycopathy than someone in the 80's could have even imagined. At this point in our soci
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by TheRealDunkirk 4mo ago
Does your place review every line of every update patch note? Do you think you would catch this implication?
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by TheRealDunkirk 5mo ago
> the larger economy hasn't failed It's only a matter of time until Social Security starts to fail, right after we've paid all the boomers their full benefits (and just in time for me to be eligible), and then they'll
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by TheRealDunkirk 5mo ago
Companies are already following a bunch of standards like SOX, SOC2, HIPAA, etc., and documenting their adherence to checking all of the boxes, but incidents still happen every week.
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by TheRealDunkirk 6mo ago
When a megacorp funds a network of non-profits to lobby a bunch of politicians, draft legislation, and tell them to take it to committee, that can happen without much visibility, especially when it's been orchestrated at the state le
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by TheRealDunkirk 6mo ago
You literally blamed these moves on US religious prudishness, and then said that they were only about surveillance. Which is it? Just kidding. We all know it's nothing more than surveillance and control, and you just have an anti-relig
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by TheRealDunkirk 7mo ago
I'm sorry, but what!? Right back atcha. If you'd have bothered to have looked at the chart in link I posted, you'd have seen that market share of "consumer compute" for Windows was 26% as of 10 years ago. You'r
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by TheRealDunkirk 7mo ago
I've said this for years. The amount of money Microsoft makes from the OS apart from corporations is a rounding error. What little they do make is from preinstalled systems, and, honestly, when was the last time you knew someone that w
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by TheRealDunkirk 1y ago
I was converting all the views in my Rails app from HAML to ERB. It was doing each one perfectly, so I told it to do the rest. It went through a few, then asked me if it could write a program, and run that. I thought, hey, cool, sure. I get
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by TheRealDunkirk 1y ago
At some point, doesn't humankind rise up and demand that our governments stop... you know... actually fucking us like this? After all the trust-busting at the turn of the century, we're right back in another golden age of robber b
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by TheRealDunkirk 1y ago
Just more proof that the merger/acquisition should never have been allowed in the first place.
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by TheRealDunkirk 1y ago
Sorry, but what's "bogus" about benchmarking your specific workloads? What benchmark do you think he should have run?
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by TheRealDunkirk 1y ago
I had no idea, and I've been a "Rails guy" for 15 years, and keenly interested in high-profile successful Ruby projects for a long time. Even clicking through to their actual site from the source repo page, I had to surmise w
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by TheRealDunkirk 2y ago
<Microsoft clears its throat and glances around nervously...>
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by TheRealDunkirk 2y ago
Tron 2.0 was great, and another game that has been lost to time. I got the Steam version working with a hack many years ago, but I doubt it would still work. That's another one that could use the same treatment as this version of NOLF!
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by TheRealDunkirk 2y ago
Per?... month?
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by TheRealDunkirk 2y ago
For years I've said that if you could take corporate purchases out of the Gartner numbers, you'd see that Apple was better than 50/50 when it came to personal use. I sure would like to see an updated version of that dataset.
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by TheRealDunkirk 2y ago
The amount of effort apparently required to satisfy all the checkboxes around "a cheap PC and Microsoft 365" is astounding. My Fortune 250 laptop runs 3 different security "endpoint" products, and literally dozens of s
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by TheRealDunkirk 2y ago
I'm also squarely GenX. While studying mechanical engineering, one of my roommates was in psychology. He said "we" didn't need sleep. He said one of his professors told them that. I said, "But we ALL do it." He
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by TheRealDunkirk 2y ago
In our modern world, every last vestige of trust is being abused. Government bureaucracy is an increasingly-visible problem, and a lot of it is insulation to protect lobbied interests, but some of it is a good-faith reaction to the way vari
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by TheRealDunkirk 2y ago
> Then you can look how much of the signal has truly been affected by your 1000 bucks silver speaker cable. I have a friend who has spent ridiculous sums of money on audio gear. Like, he's in his 50's, and still lives with his
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by TheRealDunkirk 2y ago
It would appear that neither party actually does anything to change the rate of CO2 emissions. https://x.com/ChrisMartzWX/status/1854161121193714102
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Apple Removes Ability to Run Unsigned Apps in macOS 15.1(lunduke.locals.com)
38 points by TheRealDunkirk 2y ago|19 comments
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New iMessage feature allows children to report nudity to Apple(theguardian.com)
1 points by TheRealDunkirk 2y ago|0 comments
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by TheRealDunkirk 2y ago
TFA says that the motive is unclear, but that's not particularly true, is it? I mean, there are several, very predictable results from this, among which surely must be the objective(s). This leaves a pretty narrow trail to follow for w
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by TheRealDunkirk 2y ago
> Software engineers have to be the most melodramatic lot in existence. They have nothing on gamers.
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by TheRealDunkirk 2y ago
Treating corporations as "people" for policy's sake is a legal decision which has essentially killed the premise of the US democratic republic. We are now, for all intents and purposes, a corporatocracy. Perhaps an even bette
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by TheRealDunkirk 2y ago
At least LinkedIn is simply banal. Google training their AI on Reddit is actively malicious.
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by TheRealDunkirk 2y ago
A friend of mine has trouble running a very important vendor application for his department. It stopped working some time ago, so he opened a ticket with IT. It was so confusing to them that it got to a point that they allowed him to run Mi

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