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by stevetodd 2y ago
March coincides with the first month of the Jewish calendar. https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2164005/jewis... It was also the first month of the Roman calendar until January and February w
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by stevetodd 2y ago
Related: The US Navy Is Going All In on Starlink https://www.wired.com/story/us-navy-starlink-sea2/
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by stevetodd 2y ago
My hesitation with hybrids is that I keep all the associated maintenance costs of an ICE engine. Now I have two power trains and energy systems to maintain instead of just one.
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by stevetodd 3y ago
Yep: bill.com
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by stevetodd 4y ago
At the time, Utah was located in Mexican territory.
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by stevetodd 4y ago
Being a pessimist is easy and lazy. You don’t have to lift a finger. Things can actually get better and do when people believe it and do even just a little bit.
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by stevetodd 4y ago
An acquaintance of mine worked for Mozilla on a project to add tor to Firefox. Code was done, but Google, as it’s primary funder, squashed it.
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by stevetodd 4y ago
So basically everyone affected will have their hours cut without a change in hourly wage. All these people are then going to have to find a second job to avoid losing 20% of their income. How is that not going to happen?
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A Unified Theory of Decentralization(medium.com)
1 points by stevetodd 4y ago|3 comments
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by stevetodd 5y ago
It’s still to early to see all the effects of the sanctions. That was something repeated several times.
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ARTBA Bridge Report(artbabridgereport.org)
1 points by stevetodd 5y ago|0 comments
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by stevetodd 5y ago
I was curious to see how each state was doing and Google didn’t disappoint: https://artbabridgereport.org/state/map
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by stevetodd 5y ago
The Jetstream has been my favorite for years.
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by stevetodd 5y ago
I see it more as idealism vs pragmatism. We need both. I think older people tend to be conservative because they've become jaded by idealists and/or politics in general. To many, conservatism is that government and politics screw
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Flight from South Africa to Atlanta diverted for “technical specifications”(reuters.com)
9 points by stevetodd 5y ago|8 comments
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by stevetodd 5y ago
Ideally with decentralized identity, you use a separate identifier with every relationship. Otherwise you have created the ultimate super cookie.
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by stevetodd 5y ago
Remember that you are the product and not the customer for these companies. Google’s customers are the advertisers who pay and (I’d argue) those who want to show up in search results. You have to either pay for ads or play their algorithm g
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by stevetodd 5y ago
This also explains the supply chain issues we are experiencing now because of the move to just-in-time manufacturing across the board.
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by stevetodd 5y ago
> Scott Pelley: What is the legal theory behind going to the SEC? What laws are you alleging have been broken? > John Tye: As a publicly-traded company, Facebook is required to not lie to its investors or even withhold material inform
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by stevetodd 5y ago
Just like with IP traffic, companies terminate calls through multiple providers. While bandwidth might be the primary termination provider for 911 for a company, the calls can be routed through others. That backup route, however, may not ha
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by stevetodd 5y ago
Some highlights since the last LTS (JDK 11): Language Features 394: Pattern Matching for instanceof 395: Records 306: Restore Always-Strict Floating-Point Semantics 409: Sealed Classes 361: Switch Expressions 378: Text Block
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by stevetodd 5y ago
I’m sorry for the world you live in. It’s not that way for everyone everywhere. I hope you can find your way to some place better.
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Pfizer Shot Just 39% Effective Against Delta Infection, Israel Study Suggests(forbes.com)
41 points by stevetodd 5y ago|49 comments
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by stevetodd 5y ago
> I personally think Snapchat shot themselves in the foot with bad product strategy. Seems to have worked out poorly for them.
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by stevetodd 5y ago
How is saying there is insufficient data to make a conclusion not grounded in science?
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by stevetodd 5y ago
Reading the other comments about the lack of integrity in scientific research that they’ve witnessed, is it any wonder why people might be skeptical about important issues like climate change, vaccines, masks, etc? There’s great research be
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by stevetodd 5y ago
I’ll never use Google Cloud as long as I’m using Gmail. I don’t want either one to trigger shutting down the other for “suspicious activity.”
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by stevetodd 6y ago
By being slightly behind, you get to learn from those languages that live on the bleeding edge. The laggards get to benefit from all the corner cases found and mistakes committed.
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Dependency Hijacking Software Supply Chain Attack Hits More Than 35 Orgs(blog.sonatype.com)
3 points by stevetodd 6y ago|0 comments
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by stevetodd 6y ago
Holy smokes—worked fast and smooth on my phone too! Well done!

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