vacri

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by vacri 9y ago
> But we can agree that it's not the nature of a corporation to pay more taxes than necessary? Think Different.
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by vacri 9y ago
Future generations will really appreciate that plugged shaft!
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by vacri 9y ago
The first rule is that you don't break userspace, not that you don't make mistakes. Commits go through a process before being put into the kernel, and if yours is going to break userspace, it won't get in, so don't expec
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by vacri 9y ago
You need to work in a wider variety of workplaces, if you genuinely believe that. Perhaps put another way: were Jobs or Ballmer ever escorted out for their obnoxious behaviours?
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by vacri 9y ago
The connection has timed out The server at www.haproxy.com is taking too long to respond. Not the best advert for a high availability proxy...
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by vacri 9y ago
Well, here you offer a prime example of the power of religion: you are being wilfully ignorant because you don't want something to be a certain way. You won't be satisfied unless the actual word 'literal' appears? It
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by vacri 9y ago
... the very first paragraph after the table of contents? If you check out the Middle Ages section, it shows that the theological debate that it wasn't physical alteration started... at a date that is closer to us than the birth of j
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by vacri 9y ago
> No one has every believed that the eucharist literally turns to blood and flesh. Your taste buds would tell you otherwise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transubstantiation Plenty of people have believed it histo
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by vacri 9y ago
What's always missing from these discussions is that that patronising mockery and outright dismissal is how atheists and agnostics have always been treated by the religious - it wasn't until atheists started really kicking and scr
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by vacri 9y ago
Given that Catholicism (like other religions) has wholly retreated to and now lives only in the area of "questions that have no answer", yes, it has no basis in reality. Nothing in Catholic dogma is independently verifiable. For e
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by vacri 9y ago
Well, disasters and foreign economic threats aren't due to a politician's policy, and the regulatory environment usually doesn't change straight away (that requires legislation, not just a policy manifesto). War is a rare eve
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by vacri 9y ago
Email lives on.
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by vacri 9y ago
The first year of someone's term is very rarely affected by their policies. My particular pet hate is when politicians start bragging about how their policies are responsible for good economic news when they're still in the first
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by vacri 9y ago
How are we nearly a decade into the life of NodeJS and still suffering from problems with its package manager , which itself is up to version 5.x?
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by vacri 9y ago
From working with a variety of ticketing systems, any veteran dev will be able to tell you just how painful it is to work with multiple fields. Entry is never zippy. The more fields you have, the more painful it is. Most devs, given the c
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by vacri 9y ago
My city has a large, world-class Children's Hospital, but the administration there is ridiculously political, and the doctors will change nothing to make things more efficient. A colleague of mine had a son who needed to get seen the
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by vacri 9y ago
Way back in the 90s when I was doing my neurophysiology degree, one lecturer who worked with schizophrenia said that it was such a difficult disease to work with because it wasn't one disease. Traditionally, if they didn't know wh
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by vacri 9y ago
I think it's more about the friction of engaging a payment method. For me at least, there is a bigger gap between free and $0-but-fish-out-a-credit-card than there is between $1 and $10. True, I wouldn't pay either $1 or $10 to ge
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by vacri 9y ago
RedHat was bought and incorporated by a pre-existing business. It wasn't bootstrapped. I'd also discourage a patreon- or kickstarter-style offering for a B2B product, because it signals very clearly that you're not playing wi
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by vacri 9y ago
Wikipedia Zero isn't about making the internet exclusively for Wikipedia. It's about putting the site into the ISP's no data charge area. Yes, it does mean that you end up with a two-tier pricing scheme ('free' and
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by vacri 9y ago
My mother is in her mid-70s. She's not technical by any stretch, but she has built and runs a couple of websites. This whole 'old people a dumb as rocks when it comes to tech' meme needs to die. Some old people have trouble
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by vacri 9y ago
> "The AI can transfer semantic meaning directly" What does this mean? An AI that reads text still has to decipher it. Show it a newspaper and it still has to analyse what it sees and convert it into something sensical; it do
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by vacri 9y ago
> Communicating one word at a time, one picture at a time or one sound at a time is slow and has significant overhead. We don't. We have massive parallelism in how we communicate. The aphorism "a picture is worth a thousand w
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by vacri 9y ago
It's not the best title, but it fits. The initial symptom that kicked off the investigation was a slowdown talking to SQS.
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by vacri 9y ago
Why should the top 10 change? We still secure our houses with locks, secure our neighbourhoods with police, secure our borders with armies. We drive safer cars these days yet we still secure our road edges with barriers at dangerous points.
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by vacri 9y ago
> wired is dedicated. Cable internet is shared. Most of the NBN rollout (HFC) is on ageing cable internet puchased from another vendor.
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by vacri 9y ago
> Some people in metropolitan areas will get connected to the existing coaxial network, which is going to have huge contention problems as it's stretched far beyond what it was ever intended for. s/some/most/. HFC i
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by vacri 9y ago
So here's my tale of what happened: Party A was in power, and having infighting problems. Party B was headed by an absolute arse of a man, who used the tactic "Say No! to EVERYTHING". Didn't matter how benign or banal, t
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by vacri 9y ago
It's not even a misnomer to our American friends. The Australian main conservative party is more liberal than the American main liberal party.
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by vacri 9y ago
I frequently try to "isntall" things...

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