dannypgh

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by dannypgh 3y ago
If the tickets cost $50, there's no way anyone would have thought "this is a good idea." But they charged so much people who could afford to pay for the tickets assumed competence. Parallels with the Titanic are obscene...
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by dannypgh 5y ago
I think the separate QA before release step I bet was mostly killed by modern methods of software distribution. It's true that automated testing is great, but let's be real: automated tests have existed for many decades, and certa
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by dannypgh 6y ago
This does not sound right to me. If you're talking about GFS, that's been gone for a decade, and was not a filesystem as far as the kernel was concerned.
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by dannypgh 6y ago
I am Black. I'm not ignoring the other Black people posting, I'm just letting the audience know they don't speak for all of us. We are not a monolith. I don't particularly care about blacklist/whitelist (as there&#x
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by dannypgh 6y ago
I don't appreciate my psychological safety being referred to as "nothing... at stake... of any real value." I know that's probably not what you intended, but I've reread it several times and that's how I'm
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by dannypgh 6y ago
I don't view any of this through the lens of changing our language for language sake. I view it through the lens of trying to rectify the injustices of slavery and legalized discrimination, and the inequality that permeates our society
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by dannypgh 6y ago
I appreciate knowing my colleagues have virtues. How is that doing nothing?
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by dannypgh 6y ago
I'm a black engineer who disagrees with you. I appreciate seeing colleagues and peers make an effort, however small, however symbolic, and that helps motivate me to ignore bullshit and continue working in a team and company where i&#x2
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by dannypgh 6y ago
This is not about the feelings of processes. It's about the feeling of engineers who have to work in this environment. Names are arbitrary; why not pick a better name that isn't tied to scars in our society that have not healed, a
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by dannypgh 6y ago
These hypothetical scenarios don't "flesh anything out a little," they distract from the real world in front of us. It's very obnoxious when as a real world person with a real world request, I hear "but what about [
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by dannypgh 6y ago
I think in the scenarios where the military decides to no longer respect civilian rule (a coup), it's not particularly hard to occupy the Treasury and the mint.
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by dannypgh 6y ago
> One thing that makes SCOTUS interesting is that they have no enforcement mechanism. It's mainly only tradition and respect for the institution that causes people to follow Supreme Court rulings You're underselling this, I thi
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by dannypgh 6y ago
The worst cases of people losing their shirt tend to be people speculating with options, and it's definitely up to the broker what options trades (beyond those secured by cash or securities) they want to permit their customers to do. T
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by dannypgh 6y ago
If it didn't work with process substitution, that's not likely to work either. I'm guessing it is trying to seek, or running a stat first to check filesize or similar.
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by dannypgh 6y ago
I would suggest things that use the hydraulics analogy, like this: https://ece.uwaterloo.ca/~dwharder/Analogy/
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by dannypgh 6y ago
All 57 members of Buffalo's emergency response unit resigned in protest of disciplinary actions taken against the men who shoved a 75 year old man and then walked over his body while he bled from the ear. https://www.washing
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by dannypgh 6y ago
I agree that fines are not ideal, and I think these are interesting discussions we need to be having to think of better solutions, but I also want to be clear that fines are several orders of magnitude better than jailing people (and I thin
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by dannypgh 6y ago
You cannot incapacitate multiple people with a taser (once the rounds are in the first person it's unavailable to be fired again) and there were multiple cops there. If the threat of a taser is a threat that warrants lethal force in se
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by dannypgh 6y ago
It's really just one bad apple. Unfortunately the apple is the police and it's everywhere and armed.
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by dannypgh 6y ago
> The economy depends on peace and geopolitical stability Well, we're boned.
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by dannypgh 6y ago
Laws are passed by Congress, policies are created by the executive to define things left unspecified by law, pursuant to broader powers granted by Congress. Policies that aren't laws carry the same effective force of law, but they can
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by dannypgh 6y ago
> Post US Civil war, we encoded a set of rules that on their face did not discriminate on race. But their effect was basically to prevent black people from voting and enjoying their civil liberties. The laws about voting (poll taxes, gra
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by dannypgh 6y ago
In the late 90s on efnet's #computers we used to say "don't get a maxtor, just write your data to a dead fish instead. It's cheaper, and you have about the same chance of reading your data back." I am curious as to
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by dannypgh 6y ago
I think this just means employers will still have incentive to hire people to be employees (as then they benefit from the employee's growth), rather than contract out work to firms which may reassign or replace the (now valued, experie
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by dannypgh 6y ago
I doubt you've got a good data stream about sell-by dates, tho - the old and new have the same UPC generally. Maybe OCR of sell by stickers? And this doesn't help things that don't have dates, like produce.
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by dannypgh 6y ago
bash.org isn't curated; linking to it doesn't seem worse than linking to twitter.com? I'm sure a lot of things on bash.org are awful. And this is coming from someone who is on the opposite side of you for A, B, and C.
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by dannypgh 6y ago
It's been about 12+ years since I've regularly dumpstered food, but my experience is that more food was being thrown out before (but maybe not much before) the sell-by date than after. I think the issue is that of given the choice
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by dannypgh 6y ago
> heard someone refuse to buy eggs because they farmer got them from her own chickens OK, I'll bite- where else could a farmer get [chicken] eggs from besides their own chickens?
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by dannypgh 6y ago
I'd assume a lot of the losses would be the same across all devices - e.g. GSM and associated preprocessing will result in dynamic compression in a uniform way regardless of placement, no? It's an interesting idea but it seems lik
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by dannypgh 6y ago
> Emacs and Emacsspeak in particular. Emacs is the richest text-based user experience out there; My naive expectation is that non-visual editors like ed and ex would be easier to use than visual editors like emacs and vi, but I'm cu

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