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by nerdbert 8mo ago
I have been highly active in online technical communities since the usenet days in the 1980s and I have never once found myself in a situation where my opinions on sex or gender were solicited, interrogated, or judged. This really sounds li
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by nerdbert 8mo ago
Doesn't help with how often it is wrong, but if you preface every question with "terse answer please" at least you don't get the superfluous text tsunami and it sticks to the point.
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by nerdbert 8mo ago
Very similar to my experience. I never managed to either ask or answer a question on there. Everything I did was "bad" for reasons that were never explained to me in a constructive way that made me feel empowered to get a better o
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by nerdbert 2y ago
What if it is illegal to withhold the data during an investigation? Isn't the executive then committing a crime?
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by nerdbert 2y ago
> people, who do not want to pay for the leftist dreamworld Except that time and time again, it turns out that the "leftist dreamworld" is actually cheaper. Providing subsidized housing for poor people costs less in the long ru
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by nerdbert 2y ago
> why is rail treated so differently? Because there's a huge ecosystem that is substantially dependent on private use of roadways - car manufacturers, sellers, insurers, storage facilities, cleaners, and repairers; petrol extractors
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by nerdbert 2y ago
I suspect that's peanuts compared to all the subsidies and unaccounted externalities for car use.
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by nerdbert 2y ago
Then you've instead created sprawl which has huge ongoing costs in terms of resource and energy use, as well as disconnecting people and communities.
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by nerdbert 2y ago
> In particular, I don't understand how their results don't imply that human-level intelligence can't exist. I don't think that's what it said. It said that it wouldn't happen from "machine learning&quo
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by nerdbert 2y ago
> why does the JS ecosystem seem to have "more fear" than for example the Python ecosystem? Perhaps it's because so many JS developers - quite rightfully - suffer from impostor syndrome? It's the language with the lar
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by nerdbert 2y ago
> The glass bin we have in Amsterdam isn't one that you can even push broken glass into if you wanted - it's shaped specifically to receive bottles. It wouldn't take large shards of a plate window but it definitely can acc
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by nerdbert 2y ago
So is all this data scraped by creating fake frequent flyer accounts and then making new ones as each one gets banned by the airline? Doesn't seem sustainable in the long term. As soon as it starts to meaningfully impact their ability
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by nerdbert 2y ago
How would they have been able to see the content of a request from the router to AWS if it was HTTPS?
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by nerdbert 2y ago
If they intercepted it, then one must assume it was truly plaintext. Because if they were able to get access to the private key for Linksys's server certificate, that would be even bigger news.
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by nerdbert 2y ago
I have heard that in some markets the only way to get unlimited service from Comcast (with no monthly cap) is to use their hardware.
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by nerdbert 2y ago
And in many Muslim countries, drinking is a big part of the culture notwithstanding the religious dicta (or even legal penalties). Iran loves its wine. Indonesia loves its arak.
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by nerdbert 2y ago
Given the reliable correlation between an active social life and longevity, I'm going to mirror your bet.
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by nerdbert 2y ago
Leaving early sucks.
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by nerdbert 2y ago
However people don't live very long in India. In East Asia, where people do live a long time, you will be offered alcohol routinely. I'm not saying there's a causal relationship here, but I don't think that example works
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by nerdbert 2y ago
> Did people in the past make bread without sugar? They do it in the present. Greetings from Europe. I hold in my hand a loaf of cheap (€1.20) supermarket bread, which tastes perfectly pleasant. The little supermarket on my street moves
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by nerdbert 2y ago
Why would you ever do that? How do you know it is not compromised? Carry your phone (many people already do this on a daily or near-daily basis in 2024) and use that in an emergency.
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by nerdbert 2y ago
fail2ban has a lot of moving parts, I don't think that's necessarily more secure. I would trust the OpenSSH developers to do a better job with the much simpler requirements associated with handling it within their own software.
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by nerdbert 2y ago
One of my clients has a setup for their clients - some of which connect from arbitrary locations, and others of which need to be able to scripted automated uploads - to connect via sftp to upload files. Nobody is ever getting in, because th
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by nerdbert 2y ago
> There is no need for roads to be public infrastructure. It can be fully privatized and people be asked to pay for its use. (While entire compontent of taxes that go towards road building be returned back to the people.) We will have be
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by nerdbert 2y ago
They can be built much more quickly than nuclear plants and they take coal and oil out of furnaces right now, which is exactly what we need. That's nothing but good.
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by nerdbert 2y ago
Covered at length here: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57094295-termination-sho...
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by nerdbert 2y ago
Less bitcoin
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by nerdbert 2y ago
Only because Adobe forced them to by murdering Freehand in front of their eyes.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
There's all kinds of amazing new trains in Asia, there's ONCF's sparkling clean TGV from Tangier down to Casablanca, even in infrastructure-phobic USA there are some improvements and more on the horizon.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Passenger trains in the USA are slow and unreliable, so of course they struggle to find a market. If they didn't have to queue up behind freight trains trundling along at a bicycle's pace, things may be difference.

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