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by nofinator 1y ago
Previous discussion (4 years ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27453800
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by nofinator 2y ago
I've also been happy with Groups.io. A local community moved there a few years ago when Yahoo Groups shut down. The downside is that to get more of a Facebook community experience with a calendar, files, and subgroups, you will probabl
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by nofinator 2y ago
Aha. I was surprised to see that ~30% of web pages loaded by Firefox were still not https. A 6-year-old graph would explain why!
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by nofinator 2y ago
They've bumped this support info to a blog post that's linked from their home page: https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/statement-on-falcon-content... It includes PDFs of some relevant support pages that someone
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by nofinator 2y ago
> Supposedly these happened because Snowflake made it impossible to mandate MFA What's crazy is that Snowflake made MFA enforcement available only 5 days ago.
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by nofinator 2y ago
Very neat! I love how you can do an entire paragraph. For example https://erikdemaine.org/fonts/tetris/?text=%7D6G6C+8%40%3F%3...
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by nofinator 3y ago
If you're looking for a visualization, a YouTube team of VFX artists did some neat ones last year in this video: https://youtu.be/J-K2yeQylCk
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by nofinator 3y ago
I'm just surprised they aren't making you send a physical letter via USPS. Some companies require that. Here is PayPal's process for example: https://www.paypal.com/us/legalhub/useragreement-full#tab
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by nofinator 3y ago
a.org is an odd one. It's just an HTML form input that doesn't post anywhere, but it became a curious rabbit hole on r/hacking a few months ago. https://www.reddit.com/r/hacking/comments/16yrggi
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by nofinator 3y ago
+1 for how great the Snowflake t-shirt is (ranked #3). I wore it a lot during the COVID era, and the poly blend is still soft and has withstood a lot of washing and drying. When we signed onto Snowflake in 2019, a week later a surprise HUGE
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by nofinator 3y ago
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
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by nofinator 3y ago
I don't want to be the "did you even read the article?" guy, but I do recommend you all read the article or get more context about this first before posting what could be considered a economic/political "hot take&qu
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by nofinator 3y ago
The government has been reducing spending since all the COVID support in 2020 and 2021. At its peak, government spending was over $7 trillion, which was over 30% of GDP in 2020. It appears to be trending back to the pre-COVID ratio: ~20% of
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by nofinator 3y ago
Time (yes, Time Magazine!) actually had good coverage of this: https://time.com/10228/obamas-trauma-team/ Here's one good excerpt: Dickerson quickly established the rules, which he posted on a wall just outsi
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by nofinator 3y ago
Ironically, this reminds me of a story (folk tale?) about Von Neumann himself. A colleague told him about the Two Trains Problem ( https://mathworld.wolfram.com/TwoTrainsPuzzle.html ), and Von Neumann replied with the correct
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by nofinator 3y ago
Did you research the Citizens Climate Lobby before replying to the comment about it? It is not at all like your characterizations.
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by nofinator 3y ago
As someone in their 40s, the Slate article he links to was fun to read. There's a discussion of it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36402076
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by nofinator 3y ago
> YP says it’s best for him not to run anything with sudo any more today, handing off the restoring to JN. Then in the post-mortem about lack of backups: > LVM snapshots are by default only taken once every 24 hours. YP happened to ru
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by nofinator 3y ago
We do the same and it works well. We prefer a handheld keyboard/mouse to control it. We've tried several and the Lenovo N5902 [1] is our favorite by far. It's also useful to have the Unified Remote server [2] running on the m
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by nofinator 3y ago
Yes, the ZIP on Google Drive owned by one of their engineers is weird considering they have a pretty active GitHub presence of open source projects, though it does use an Apache license like their others. Perhaps Databricks suspected anothe
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by nofinator 3y ago
I've been using Today Weather on Android ever since Dark Sky was killed off there. It looks nice, lots of different data sources, and the $7 lifetime Premium Version is a good price.
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by nofinator 4y ago
The rest of the sentence is relevant though (emphasis mine): "This lawsuit also marks EFF’s commitment to stopping the current trend that seeks to privatize aspects of the carceral system for profit *as well as strip privacy away from
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by nofinator 4y ago
It's noteworthy that American Airlines has taken the hardest line against blocking AwardWallet, too [1]. https://yourmileagemayvary.net/2021/12/21/is-this-the-reason...
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by nofinator 4y ago
Slushygate? > "a series of incidents in which Wilson and other officers assaulted pedestrians by throwing beverages out of unmarked patrol vehicles, sometimes filming their exploits" Double FFS. What a scumbag bully.
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by nofinator 4y ago
Thanks. I also love Wikipedia's Timeline of the far future: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future
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by nofinator 4y ago
Plus the whistleblower was at the head of Uber's push into Europe, the Middle East and Africa. All the horrible stories I've read are about those markets. But the comments here seem to be about American taxis!
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by nofinator 4y ago
This 2021 article strikes me as mostly a straw man and a veiled sales pitch. It's rare that a Gifted Program simply gets eliminated due to inequity with no replacement. The school district almost always proposes an alternate program to
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by nofinator 4y ago
FYI, there are some DuckDuckGo bangs (shortcuts) for this too. For example, if you wanted to search for Hacker News, try: !searchr Hacker News OR !ddgr Hacker News
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by nofinator 5y ago
Glory to Arstotzka
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by nofinator 5y ago
If you forget what all those system directories are for (/bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, etc), another useful command is "man hier". It's a reference page for the filesystem.

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