outoftacos

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by outoftacos 9y ago
You can abstract away the Pi and updates as easily as the cloud abstracts away everything. 90% of AWS users can't even figure or don't care about out how to distribute across multiple availability zones, much less data centers. Tw
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by outoftacos 9y ago
I haven't traveled abroad in a couple years, so I'm not sure exactly how this works, but I would be unable to contain my laughter if some CBP cop asked me to unlock my phone or laptop. Is this something that actually happens nowad
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by outoftacos 9y ago
Great read, at first I thought it was just a puff piece but the ending is a great insight into the filter bubble that folks with that amount of money and power live in. He can't handle any criticism or line of questioning that dares to
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by outoftacos 9y ago
He's also 100% correct, Twitter should be de-listed and treated as a utility. It's too much of a public good to get gobbled up by Google or whoever.
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by outoftacos 9y ago
The other angle which I haven't seen much written about yet (hint hint aspiring journalists) is I personally know a good number of the mid and high level employees at these companies, and they are becoming increasingly disillusioned by
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by outoftacos 9y ago
The piece doesn't really articulate a problem, if anything the reverse is true more often than not: management chases short term performance numbers to the detriment of the long term success of the company and long term shareholders. I
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by outoftacos 9y ago
You mean like desktops? That are unplugged? How many of those do you think are sitting around? How old is the version of Windows on them do you think? If your recovery strategy is "drive as fast as you can to the thrift shop" then
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by outoftacos 9y ago
Yeah I still think the NYT has the best science coverage out there, but business and tech has become such a joke over the past 20 years it's not even worth checking.
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by outoftacos 9y ago
This is par for the course for the NYT, the noble corporations are painted as heroes keeping us safe from the dirty wildlings who are about to topple the wall any day now. They do the same thing with many (large) companies, the State Depart
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by outoftacos 9y ago
I worry a lot about how these megacorps will treat "collaborators" vs "non collaborators" in the coming years. Obviously you can't just outright buy everyone, but they seem to be increasingly abusive towards technol
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by outoftacos 9y ago
We have a "Department of Defense" as well as one for "Homeland Security". Cognitive dissonance is a funny thing.
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by outoftacos 9y ago
"Solution" wow, just step back a second here, I never signed up for advertisements AT ALL, much less background CPU miners for shady schemes. Solution is the last word to use, there is no problem first off and malware is not how y
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by outoftacos 9y ago
This article is terrible, full of opinion and hearsay. Why on earth did it shoot up to #2? I get that if you're invested in all these awful coins you want others to buy in too, because otherwise your coins are worthless, but still.
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by outoftacos 9y ago
How many decades of writing representatives and wasting votes will it take before people wise up? Clearly this isn't working, time for a new strategy.
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by outoftacos 9y ago
Yeah they tried to throw Struts under the bus but actually just confessed to criminal negligence. I don't think they are competent enough to realize how damning this press release is. This company is finished.
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by outoftacos 9y ago
Oh god, now they're trapped in the endless useless growth demand cycle. Too bad, I enjoy supporting a few artists on there and it's just a matter of time until this hurts them.
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by outoftacos 9y ago
Sure, but adding GA to a page is what I meant by copy/paste, this still happens everywhere outside of the build process. Then of course marketing needs to add 10 other things and they can't figure out whatever hip new build tool s
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by outoftacos 9y ago
Only if you're old enough.
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by outoftacos 9y ago
This seems like a very promising idea, especially since every site nowadays loads 12 scripts that were copy/pasted from eight different sources by six different developers all over the page, and each one just blocks everything no matte
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by outoftacos 9y ago
It's nearly 2018, I think we're all pretty tired of the "just joking/trolling" line. "But he's not really racist" is even worse. Just stop. I don't care how deep you are into which edgy internet
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by outoftacos 9y ago
I hope more public security shaming like this happens, consequences and lawsuits be damned. This is getting too tiresome, we've been tolerating incompetence and bad management for too long.
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by outoftacos 9y ago
The only viable path forward now is to dissolve these three agencies and reform how we manage identity and credit in the United States. It might take a few years, but shareholders and employees of these three companies should start making o
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by outoftacos 9y ago
That was so satisfying to read, it's rare that I come across a voice angrier than my own in the New York Times of all places. Makes me think there is hope this world won't fall apart after all.
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by outoftacos 9y ago
I've never really worked at a place where we had any spare time for open source project development, nor time to opine on the social issues of the day. Must be nice, but I feel like a very small, privileged few actually live in that wo
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Experian sends advice email to customers, wants you to know they aren't Equifax(i.imgur.com)
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by outoftacos 9y ago
You should see Denver. It was like The Shining.
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by outoftacos 9y ago
Yes I can contrive examples in any language that are nightmarish. Fortunately we manage to muddle through somehow, at least those of us who have work to do in lieu of walking through trivia to prove how smart we are to other hackers.
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by outoftacos 9y ago
You cannot be fiscally conservative while constantly demanding unlimited funds for your population. Come up with an intellectually honest term instead. Ditto with Texas, Alaska. Maybe "welfare queen states"?
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by outoftacos 9y ago
I am still unsure as to how any of the credit bureaus exist legally at all, I never consented to having all my eggs in those three vulnerable baskets. Why is this my problem all of a sudden? I get that consumer protections in the US are not
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by outoftacos 9y ago
I abandoned chrome two years ago, I had no idea it had gotten that mad. It's worse than the IE6 days, my god.

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