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by calgarymicro 2mo ago
No, they detected helium, which would be in the upper reaches of the planet's atmosphere (as on Earth); they believe there are other gasses lower down, but the helium is what's confirmed.
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by calgarymicro 3mo ago
If it becomes this easy then Secure Boot just becomes Vista-era UAC. Sometimes making the security bypass an intentional act that requires some knowledge is a good thing. Most PC users, were their bootloader compromised and they saw such a
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by calgarymicro 3mo ago
You can load your own Secure Boot keys and sign your bootloader yourself; as for why the Microsoft ones are preloaded, probably because they're the only entity that interacts with all of these OEMs and had enough leverage over them to
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by calgarymicro 4mo ago
> As long as it meets float and cap requirements Even with the CRSP indexes this was recently changed to make fast-tracking for these IPOs easier.[0] > CRSP indexes were also recently changed to better accommodate fast entry . . . Pre
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by calgarymicro 4mo ago
> The people living there continued to bring river mussel shells to the midden for hundreds of years after the dingo’s death. Hundreds of years? Damn, that's probably well more than most cultures would afford even beloved pets.
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Haiku boots to desktop on an M1 MacBook Air(discuss.haiku-os.org)
4 points by calgarymicro 4mo ago|2 comments
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by calgarymicro 4mo ago
Pretty funny it works on Apple Silicon before it works on a Raspberry Pi
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by calgarymicro 4mo ago
The prevents them from asking before extending an offer, but it seems they could (and should) have checked after.[0] > However, an employer may ask about criminal conviction(s) after extending a conditional offer of employment (the emp
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by calgarymicro 6mo ago
No, they mean Anti-Zionist Tag[0], an extension that is live on the Chrome Web Store and identifies anti -Zionists for the benefit of Zionists. [0] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/anti-zionist-tag/ek...
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by calgarymicro 6mo ago
> If . . . the replacement has a higher version number than the one in the SYSBCKUP directory, then the replacement was copied into the SYSBCKUP directory for safekeeping. This as well. I know there are a million ways for a malicious ins
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by calgarymicro 6mo ago
It doesn't say for certain, but assuming the version of this they settled on (restoring components after the installation finished) is what they shipped in the original version of Windows 95, then no, I don't think this could ha
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by calgarymicro 7mo ago
> Carr suggested the exemption should no longer apply to programs he characterized as being “motivated by partisan purposes.” I know the timing makes this seem cravenly partisan, but revoking an exemption like this could be motivated
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by calgarymicro 8mo ago
> upcoming updates to the weights will fix it Oops, the unaccountable algorithm eased when it should have tightened and Volcker Shocked when it should have eased. No prob, the weights will get tweaked and all will be well. Once the econo
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by calgarymicro 8mo ago
> The algorithm is to be tuned over historical data Because as we all know, when it comes to financial markets, past performance guarantees future results. Oh wait . . .
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by calgarymicro 9mo ago
No, they're referring to an error that pops up when you visit a page whose url ends in 'women-in-the-world.html'; you can click okay and still browse the page though :-)
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by calgarymicro 1y ago
That wasn't obvious to me, because in that case the answer to why this website wasn't created in previous years seems obvious - because USDS wasn't being demolished in previous years.
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by calgarymicro 1y ago
> The average taxpayer spends $150 and 9 hours a year on their taxes Not in a meaningful way for most people
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by calgarymicro 1y ago
> Ask yourself: Could this website have been written anytime in the last 8 years? No? It was authorized by the IRA, which was only passed in 2022. > Given where we are now, the stat I gave, and that only a small number of people are m
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by calgarymicro 1y ago
> we all see what we want to see Yup, and what I see is that Intuit, Inc. gave to exactly one PAC, that donates exclusively to R candidates. Tesla employees also overwhelmingly donated to Kamala Harris[0]; does this mean Tesla and Elon w
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by calgarymicro 1y ago
I'm not sure how much control the USDS that developed DirectFile (or whatever was left of it) had over that given the reasons that article cites for the confusion > The IRS deemphasized the program on its website, the report said, a
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by calgarymicro 1y ago
So (if we take your interpretation at face value) you could call it a 'presidential power grab', or maybe even an 'executive power grab' (if we stretch things and assume power is being transferred away from executive dep
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by calgarymicro 1y ago
> this just looks like a federal power grab A federal power grab from . . . the federal government?
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by calgarymicro 1y ago
DirectFile was a material product that had a 94% satisfaction rate.[0] Within the remit of this organization, if making filing taxes free and easy doesn't count as making people's lives better, then I'm not sure what does. [0
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by calgarymicro 1y ago
Interesting, thanks for reinforcing the point. I would note the two columns 'From Individuals' (which includes all employees) vs. the 'From Organization' column. Worth noting that the R-affiliated GOPAC is the only liste
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by calgarymicro 1y ago
Nobody in the Eastern Bloc was trading with the US very much; I was thinking more about other countries. North Korea would have been relatively unfettered within the Eastern Bloc, for example, same as most communist nations. Also, the direc
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by calgarymicro 1y ago
At the time this movie was being made I don't think NK was any more sanctioned than any other Eastern Bloc country, and plenty of other Eastern Bloc countries had little issue scraping together enough cash to pay westerners to do stuff
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by calgarymicro 1y ago
How's this project doing after it lost its founder and biggest contributor (Andreas Kling)? I see the commit history is still reasonably active, so it's not dead at least . . .
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by calgarymicro 1y ago
Ladybird is no longer part of the SerenityOS project, and Jakt seems pretty dormant; my understanding is that Ladybird is moving to Swift as an eventual C++ replacement.
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by calgarymicro 2y ago
Just run VSCodium[0]. Unfortunately there's no Xcode equivalent, of course. [0] https://vscodium.com/
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by calgarymicro 2y ago
This is common? Did the Biden admin halt all communications, grants, travel, etc.? NPR posts transcripts of their programs, do you have a link so I can see what they said?

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