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by scintill76 1y ago
If I can hijack the thread a bit for a related question -- does anyone know of an easy selfhosted non-macOS server that will periodically pull full backups from iOS devices over Wifi (with the user's authorization on-device)? I think t
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by scintill76 1y ago
> Almost all fluoride from the drinking water does not have any effect on tooth enamel, because it has contact with it only for a few seconds The contact via toothpaste or mouth wash isn’t all that much longer, so why would they be effec
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by scintill76 2y ago
Ladies and gentlemen, I present the party of government efficiency, spending our money to scrub “Enola Gay” from the web.
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by scintill76 2y ago
It's your copy of the message. I'm not a lawyer, but I think if a copyright owner gives you a copy of their work, the law doesn't entitle them to take it back or rewrite it. A license agreement might, but nobody writes or s
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by scintill76 2y ago
> BTW, I keep reading and hearing derogative terms like "script kiddies" and "20 year olds". What's happened to diversity and inclusion? So, they have to be of a certain age? What's the magical age? And, do
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by scintill76 2y ago
> suspected dead government workers Suspected by Elon Musk, with no factual basis presented. Here's some real facts: > ...22 of the 24 agencies covered by the Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990 (CFO Act) had some data on instan
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by scintill76 2y ago
These quotes support the existence of the emails, which people here aren't disputing. They say nothing about whether the only layoffs were those who didn't respond, which was implied by your original statement that "the peopl
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by scintill76 2y ago
I was incorrect, and you are right about the order of events in this case, although I don't believe TFA says these 18F employees didn't reply to the email. I noted in an edit that I accidentally pulled a quote from a different art
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by scintill76 2y ago
Well, why don’t you write your interpretation, and explain how that quote from TFA means that the email came before any layoffs.
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by scintill76 2y ago
TFA: “After thousands of government layoffs, the Office of Personnel Management on Saturday directed federal workers to email a list of roughly five accomplishments” (Edit: I accidentally pulled this from a different article not about 18F,
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by scintill76 2y ago
I had to Wikipedia the memorandum to even know what it was, but wasn't Obama president in 2014 when Russia first breached it? Asking honestly, was that not a crucial failure but Biden's response (or lack of one) in 2022 was crucia
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by scintill76 2y ago
> the bureaucracy will struggle, writhe, and set fire to everything around it before it can be put down Convenient way to blame "the bureaucracy" for every problem that DOGE creates. Are you open to the possibility that DOGE wi
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by scintill76 2y ago
Bringing up Palantir is funny to me. I don’t know enough gossip on Musk and Thiel’s relationship, but if I did I would bet it would solely determine the outcome of a hypothetical DOGE investigation into Palantir contracts. It seems from a s
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by scintill76 2y ago
I’ve watched 2 Angela Collier videos on him albeit in the background — you’d probably have to watch the whole thing to truly understand the “bad rep” and I can’t speak to how widespread the bad rep is. My memory is, misogyny, cringey storie
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by scintill76 2y ago
> you can't blame him for not wanting to wait 2 years I do blame him. What harm of 2 years of status quo could be greater than the risks of completely breaking safety organizations? > Elon who has to get rid of underperformers wi
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by scintill76 2y ago
I believe fish shell solves this by inserting a visible "⏎" character at the end of the line and moving to the beginning of the next line for the prompt.
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by scintill76 2y ago
I’m not a lawyer, but I think he was sentenced already to serve no time. Unless prosecuted for something else, I think he’s in no danger of prison even if Dems come into power soon.
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by scintill76 2y ago
> I started using Linux because I liked stability. > I believe that part of the problem is that it is written in C, You know the Linux kernel, and probably most of your userspace, are also written in C? Why do you say systemd is a dis
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by scintill76 2y ago
I assume spies in a warzone are often captured/killed without court-admissible evidence. The existence of facial recognition SW probably doesn't change that.
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by scintill76 2y ago
I understand some economists theorize that small steady inflation is necessary for a healthy economy. If that’s true, Congress shouldn’t be contravening it for their own sake against the greater good of everyone else in the country. Anyway,
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by scintill76 2y ago
Having no other information, the fact he went out of his way to associate it with Biden makes it seem actually politically driven by Trump/Republicans.
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by scintill76 2y ago
It must be so that you’ll pass by other people and might have serendipitous conversations that lead to increased knowledge and synergy. /s Also among the claimed benefits of working in office.
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by scintill76 2y ago
I don’t think this captures it all. The “observation” was also about whether they would change the world. They strongly implied they wouldn’t, then did anyway.
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by scintill76 2y ago
I agree it's not specific to MS. But MS was probably inducing much more demand and thereby making them eat more fees than they planned to. (I don't have any inside information though.) Adding a premium would make it a little less
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by scintill76 2y ago
I believe in some cases there was no premium at all, not even shipping, so widespread manufactured spending was losing the Mint much more money than they were prepared for when they started the program.
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by scintill76 2y ago
I don’t know Rust, but I would think/hope you could wrap those control flow calls in some way, so those particular null pointer accesses do what you want, but other accidental ones are caught and safely handled (e.g. resetting the syst
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by scintill76 2y ago
Funny, the sequence I learned somehow is Alt-Space, down arrow, Enter (this selects Move), tap any arrow key. Now the window follows your cursor until you click. I'll try X next time.
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by scintill76 2y ago
If you're saying C++ won't automatically save you from design mistakes, then I agree. This is a poorly-specified function. The caller can't know exactly how they need to handle the returned pointer. Potential solutions: * Ret
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by scintill76 2y ago
With TPS they are permitted to remain, so calling them "illegally in the country" is incorrect. Perhaps you genuinely want to clarify that these "legal migrants" (per grandparent post) are not permanent residents, but it
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by scintill76 2y ago
I’m amazed this problem isn’t fixed in every CMS, or at least publishing team processes, by now (the problem is that the link slug is generated from the first title and doesn’t update when the title is updated.)

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