patmcc

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by patmcc 3mo ago
They should absolutely be forced to provide either a refund or a downloadable copy, this is absurd. It sounds like they didn't actually have the license necessary to be able to sell these movies in any reasonable way.
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by patmcc 3mo ago
Yeah; you can see some of the rationale here - https://savestandardtime.com/ (not affiliated, and they're a little wacky about it, but I broadly agree) - but the best argument is it seems to be better for sleep.
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by patmcc 3mo ago
Thankfully much smaller potatoes, but yah, I'm annoyed by it
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by patmcc 3mo ago
This is exactly what I mention in a sibling comment - an incredibly misleading survey is quoted here to make it look like there was overwhelming support. >>>More than 93% of the record 223,273 British Columbians who completed the P
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by patmcc 3mo ago
No the OP, but I'm also in BC and dislike this change. The change was made (partly) based on a bullshit poll of residents, that asked basically "Hey which would you rather do, use year-round Daylight Savings Time or keep switching
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by patmcc 3mo ago
I was being a little flippant there - but I think we've gone way too far in the "nuclear is risky" direction, largely because of Chernobyl, which was a) a very specific disaster caused by a perfect storm of bad decisions and
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by patmcc 3mo ago
SAT isn't a perfect IQ test but it's not bad for a first-pass filter. Nearly all who scored 1600 will be bright and nearly all who score 800 won't be. It's a bit like BMI. Yes, if you're Peter Dinklage or Arnold Sch
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by patmcc 3mo ago
Oh my god, yes, please. It should be 100 over the next 10 years but this is a great start. We should be cranking these out and building cities in the north with clean unlimited power.
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by patmcc 3mo ago
Yeah. I don't think they're gouging, I totally understand how expensive RAM and storage and GPUs are, but...oof. I just can't justify it as a 'fun' purchase.
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by patmcc 3mo ago
You sort of do; stop doing work above a certain volume, stop meeting deadlines. This will have consequences, which may include a) firing or b) better volume and deadlines, depending on a number of factors.
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by patmcc 4mo ago
I have my problems with this as well, but at least no one else already has root on my phone.
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by patmcc 4mo ago
They have my account and transit number and stuff, sure, that's different than my username and password for online banking. We print them out on cheques that can be (reasonably) safely given to my plumber. patio11/bitsaboutmoney h
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by patmcc 4mo ago
Why would you ever login to a sensitive account on a device you don't own and have root on? Like I trust my employer not to do anything shifty with my banking info, if I were to use it, but I'm not going to take that chance for a
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by patmcc 4mo ago
Always a bit illuminating to me how many exploits seem to so dumb I'd never even bother to attempt them. You're telling me I can just...ask for the password? And that works?
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by patmcc 5mo ago
If they have 5 minutes, sure. If they have 5 hours, they'll follow procedure.
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by patmcc 7mo ago
Because as a huge enterprise you want stability and ability to check the boxes you need to check far more than anything else. I'm at a medium enterprise and this is true. If I go with e.g. Atlassian I can get everything checked off
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by patmcc 7mo ago
Yep! We sometimes have a choice between the gold-standard and commonly updated open source solution to X and a two-bit hacked together proprietary solution that has 24/7 support at high cost...and we choose the one with support, becaus
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by patmcc 8mo ago
That still doesn't seem autonomous in any real way though. There are people that I could hire in the real world, give $10k (I dunno if that's enough, but you understand what I mean) and say "Do everything necessary to grow 50
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by patmcc 8mo ago
I mean...fair. All I can say is it's still very critical and in production. I guess it's just worth pointing out that horribly outdated things still need support :)
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by patmcc 8mo ago
No joke, it just came up at work as a possible solution to something. We have some legacy systems that talk over TCP in plaintext. It's all within well-secured networks on locked down machines, so fine. But now we want to move things
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by patmcc 9mo ago
An undervalued company is one that everyone else thinks is a loser but actually isn't - if you can identify that (and maybe make some adjustments to it) you can make a lot of money pretty quickly.
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by patmcc 11mo ago
I worked at a big-box retailer before figuring out a career. They had an old-school TUI that was incredibly fast and well designed. Function keys to do all kinds of lookups and adjustments, advanced menus when you needed them, overall just
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by patmcc 1y ago
I think this is a strange and very modern conception of weddings. Weddings are not just about the bride and groom; they're about the bride and groom and the community of their friends and family. That third part is a key component! It&
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by patmcc 1y ago
I think everyone agrees that some rules for guests are fine, and some are silly. "No flash photography or leaning into aisles during the wedding procession" is a reasonable rule, "No taking photos when we're dancing and
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by patmcc 1y ago
Yes, that's an asshole move. I think it's also pretty weird to ask people not to take photos though. edit: "no photos during the ceremony" is different than "no photos the entire event", obviously
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by patmcc 1y ago
Historically at least, it's not that weddings are in public places, but that they're inherently a performance for the community. Like the reason for having a wedding is to make a commitment publicly in front of your friends and fa
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by patmcc 1y ago
It's not the cost, it's the headache. Do I need to worry about setting up SSO, do I need to work with procurement, do I need to do something in our SOC2 audit, do I need to get it approved as an allowed tool, etc. Whether it'
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by patmcc 1y ago
SMS 2FA is good enough for most people most of the time. It's very bad at preventing high-skill targeted attacks against individuals, but it's perfectly good at preventing mass brute-force attacks. It's popular because it s
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by patmcc 1y ago
The problem with this is no one can agree about what "at scale" means. Like yes, everyone knows that if you want to index the whole internet and have tens of thousands of searches a second there are unique challenges and you need
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by patmcc 1y ago
I think it's perfectly fair for them to say "we're not doing this any more". The sketchy part is deleting the public registry at docker.io/bitnami rather than just no longer updating it. Why can't docker.io&#x2

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