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by blcknight 5y ago
This was my primary way of accessing the web in the early 2000’s. Juno was a free dialup email service and that’s all I had access to.
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by blcknight 5y ago
The booster going around now are the same as the first shot, they are the same effectiveness (which is still very high) against the Delta variant. After 6 to 8 months, neutralizing antibodies wane so this ups them again. The multivalent boo
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by blcknight 5y ago
This could just be titled “Nearly half of all new people are women!”
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by blcknight 5y ago
Who is he? Jim? Jim came from Red Hat (it’s two words btw)
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by blcknight 5y ago
I don't think bare metal means what you think it means.
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by blcknight 5y ago
mgmt config is written in go and has a lot of interesting concepts.
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by blcknight 6y ago
Out of anyone, Nissan I think has a better chance to become a dominant EV player, they've got a decade of experience with the LEAF. They were running a bit behind, but Ariya looks a lot more mature than the id.4.
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by blcknight 7y ago
Slip & fall claims are a big liability for stores like Stop & Shop. One avoided per year pays for Marty.
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by blcknight 7y ago
What? You realize it’s relatively mainstream thought among US politicians that key escrow and law enforcement access to encrypted data is something they want to exist? Germany is far more privacy conscious than the US. This is one politicia
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by blcknight 7y ago
I did not get any email but my github is showing dozens of failed login attempts over the last 3 days.
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by blcknight 8y ago
HN itself is unsubstantive.
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by blcknight 8y ago
Google is a steaming pile of dinosaur dung these days.
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by blcknight 8y ago
Broken: <html><body><h1>400 Bad request</h1> Your browser sent an invalid request. </body></html>
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by blcknight 8y ago
What?
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by blcknight 8y ago
What fresh hell is this
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by blcknight 9y ago
And it’s not even open source. They don’t follow the development model that so many of its users who are responsible for its success do.
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by blcknight 9y ago
It's a last defense, it's still a smaller herd than everyone
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by blcknight 9y ago
Although maybe in now wrong. It seems some have video lectures now.
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by blcknight 9y ago
Am I the only one that finds OCW conpletely underwhelming? Lecture slides and notes which make up a lot of the content isn't very useful to me without the lectures. Stanford has a few classes with all the lectures on YouTube. During m
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by blcknight 9y ago
AFAIK both Fedora and Ubuntu support it.
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by blcknight 10y ago
It's signed by the DoD CA.
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by blcknight 11y ago
That's not the only downside, this basically kills the possibility of innovation. They're basically solidifying the position of MC and Visa in the market forever, and make it hard for someone else to come in. So far the U.S. hasn&
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by blcknight 11y ago
Eh, the bitching over credit cards is tiresome. Cash is expensive for businesses too - they have to pay to transport it securely, keep it safe, deal with cashiers' errors, etc. And at the end of the day, cash consumers spend less tha
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by blcknight 11y ago
Ruby example is not very idiomatic. Give File.open a block and it'll handle closing it. Instead of flushing the file every time, you could just set file.sync = true once. Also, if one was going to use the ensure block, use nil? not &#
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by blcknight 11y ago
I hope someone from Instagram sees this, that's just insane.
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by blcknight 11y ago
Um, this was like 6 years ago.
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by blcknight 11y ago
Is been around for ages and is part of the kernel. NSA has a dual mission of protecting national security information and also collecting intelligence. This was developed as part of the former. It's not like they have direct commit to
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by blcknight 11y ago
I'm somewhat disappointed this has nothing to do with Gopher. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29
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by blcknight 11y ago
Quality engineering. It's Red Hat's term, as well as a few other software companies, but its QA.
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by blcknight 11y ago
It's exceptionally clear for anyone even remotely familiar with RHEL or Bugzilla. It's not mean for any joe's consumption anyway, this is a work tool used by developers and QE...

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