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by aksss 7d ago
One thing to be careful of is email hosts that dump your account after x months of inactivity. Logging in once in a while is good, got burned by this once.
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by aksss 23d ago
Incremental domestic capital investment, good. The level of cynicism, shit-talking, and schadenfreude wish-casting in response to this is crazy. Start cheering on successes. Resist the deconstructionist mindset.
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by aksss 23d ago
Funny, wasn't getting the reference. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Mitchell vs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Mitchell_(gamer) THE (Col.) Billy Mitchell was actually a badass. Hi
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by aksss 23d ago
Can't reply to @shorel, but of course Azure is running Linux servers. It has nothing to do with being tied to a Windows ecosystem. Your choice to go with Azure probably has more to do with where you're getting value for cloud serv
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by aksss 27d ago
What, you don't like it proposing sha256 checksums and state enums for everything?? :D It does seem to have this predilection, but I find it calms down if I tell it to simplify for "this phase". Sure, we'll pick that up
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by aksss 1mo ago
That's not remotely what he's saying at all.
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by aksss 1mo ago
Very self-satisfied, and deservedly so. Like when you use that one piece of scrap wood in the garage you've been saving for this one occasion, or something from that drawer of metric-threaded bolts that just saves the project you'
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by aksss 2mo ago
Hey, I met Vint once at a conference - we were talking about some subsea fiber projects I was involved with. At the time he was working on interplanetary IP (IPIP? jk), which I thought was pretty stellar. Nice guy and very curious - qualiti
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by aksss 3mo ago
Something I hated about working in corporate America was surviving multiple leadership regimes, watching the same lessons being learned over and over, having to recount history to new regimes, it got really tiring, and particularly dealing
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by aksss 4mo ago
I remember these issues from earlier Surfaces. I was not impressed. Latest ones are pretty dope tho, IME.
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by aksss 4mo ago
If you have desirable skills, why does the business have all the power? If you don’t have desirable skills and yet remain employed, how could you expect otherwise?
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by aksss 4mo ago
Just being real here though, hiring flaky employees is enormously expensive. Every hiring manager / business owner would just as soon not waste their time on it. So there are these heuristics that have organically developed for how to
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by aksss 4mo ago
Globalization played (plays) a huge part in this timeline too. If I can outsource your job to a place that really does treat their employees as disposable, you should just be happy to be employed. And even if I don’t want to offshore, how d
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by aksss 4mo ago
How would you characterize the functional differences between the good and the bad companies that allowed for a great implementation of unlimited PTO? For instance, is it more overlap in job responsibility, less silo’d single points of fail
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by aksss 4mo ago
It reminds me of the Dilbert joke about asking to be put on 4-10’s and the boss replies why would I do that when I already have you for 7-12’s? With unlimited PTO, if you can only take it when there’s no work to do.. well in my business the
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by aksss 4mo ago
Taxi companies in most cities were exploitive oligarchies - it was textbook regulatory capture. Often their workers weren't any better off in terms of lopsided deals. And the customer experience sucked sooo bad. The smells, the illegal
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by aksss 4mo ago
A good habit to build is knowing when to abandon a session and start over rather than trying to correct. There’s room for correction but you can kind of smell when the whole discussion has become rotten and inefficient. Sometimes it’s just
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by aksss 4mo ago
I don’t think VS Code is remotely a replacement for VS/Rider. I use VS Code for a lot of things but for large and complex project sets the automation and features in VS are luxuries you really miss. It’s like going back to the Stone Ag
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by aksss 4mo ago
Interesting, for my part I would never build a data center (or underpin critical infrastructure) with Ubiquiti but I have a lot of it at blind remote sites and it works well enough - WAN failover, and they've built out a fair bit of do
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by aksss 4mo ago
"Project Gutenberg began in 1971 when Michael Hart was given an operator’s account with $100,000,000 of computer time in it by the operators of the Xerox Sigma V mainframe at the Materials Research Lab at the University of Illinois.&qu
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by aksss 4mo ago
> a more balanced version: <bunch of weedy ACLs, judgement calls, liability/> Too complicated and subjective, stinks of more risk. Also, I don't think it's dehumanizing it all (having been on the receiving end of it
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by aksss 5mo ago
Which isn’t to say government is bad as an institution.. just to say that we regard it with an assumption of good faith at our collective peril - it’s track record counsels the opposite.
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by aksss 5mo ago
"Ostensibly" is the mistake in your formula. Current events are replete with examples to the contrary. It's not equivocating to recognize that governments are organizations of humans, subject to the same limitations - the lar
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by aksss 5mo ago
corporate overlords? These are the state governments selling your data. The call is coming from inside the house. The sooner we realize that government is comprised of the same slithering slime of human greed and laziness, the more realisti
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by aksss 5mo ago
Narrator: "But it did neither." Honestly, we're better off with it than without it, speaking as someone with exposure to that industry's internals. That act drives a lot of good security practice within the organizations
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by aksss 5mo ago
You would prefer emotional and impassioned hyperbole? Arm waving and hand-wringing? Self-flagellation? Navel-gazing? Struggle sessions?
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by aksss 5mo ago
Classic Scorpion and the Frog tale, or the older Farmer and the Snake. https://read.gov/aesop/094.html
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by aksss 5mo ago
$0.60 + 2.25%. The excise tax is a fixed .60+ per gallon, going up July 1. The sales tax is 2.25%, and local sales tax some additional percentage.
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by aksss 5mo ago
Good for California's budget as well.
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by aksss 5mo ago
Drink some clarit with the valit over a good filit.

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