cbarrick

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Unicode cat 😺

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113M shares times $31/share is $3.5B.

That's wild. No way the company is worth that, much less his share.

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    With a headline like that, I thought he died...

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    https://archive.is/6eraN

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    Nearly 3,000 people died in 9/11.

    That image is in very poor taste. wtf.

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    The thumbnail is of the 9/11 attack with the Wine logo overlayed.

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    Everyone was wrong in 2016.

    538 was the least wrong of any model anywhere.

    And Nate Silver was ridiculed at the time for giving Trump such a high chance of winning, before the election.

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    Nate Silver is no longer at 538.

    There are different people running the models these days.

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    I mean, someone is flying an upside down Betsy Ross flag in my neighborhood (the one with 13 stars in a circle).

    And I live in the middle of a city.

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    The difference is that Nixon was able to secure a pardoned in exchange for fucking off and staying out of the public eye. And to be fair, he held up his end of the deal.

    No way is Donnie going to fuck off.

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    3...

    Edit: I can only count to four

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    How do the protests and the war in Gaza threaten the wealthy?

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    Obviously. But that's not an answer.

    My question is: what are the concrete desires of the capital class that are being threatened?

    Someone else said "oil" which is fair I guess, but very clearly a diminishing return when it's clear that energy independence is valuable for the capital class if they control the transition, a la Elon.

    So again, what do the wealthy have to gain or lose from these protests, specifically?

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    Photo?

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    Sweatshirts are double-layered pullovers, typically non-woven. Sweaters are single-layer pullovers, typically knit. Jackets have buttons or zippers. Hoodies have hoods and are made of fabric (e.g. raincoats are not hoodies).

    You can have hoodies that are also sweatshirts, or hoodies that are also jackets.

    This garment pictured in your post is a jacket. It is also a hoodie. It is neither a sweatshirt nor a sweater.

    This is just my interpretation of the situation. I don't know of any formal classification system for outerwear.

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    What zombie work, across all mediums, does it best?

    Some punctuation and the proper superlative makes OP's title a bit more readable.

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    Is fuel cell tech actually easier, cheaper, or better than batteries in any way?

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    Dippy!!!

    At the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, on CMU campus in Pittsburgh.

    It's cool, the tail is very long and wraps around the room it is in.

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    That's moot. His supporters aren't going to switch their vote to Biden over this.

    What this may do, however, is prevent some moderate Republicans from switching their vote to Biden.

    This is a smart move. Smart enough that I doubt the Clown Prince of Diapers came up with it himself.

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    Is it bad practice to use rm -rf / to delete my files, or should I specify the path explicitly?

    I've always used rm -rf / to delete my files, but I noticed that it also deletes a lot of other things. Is this bad?

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    Just put the site behind a cache, like Cloudflare, and set your cache control headers properly?

    They mention that they are already using Cloudflare. I'm confused about what is actually causing the load. They don't mention any technical details, but it does kinda sound like their cache control headers are not set properly. I'm too lazy to check for myself though...

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    If caching is properly configured, the cache (Cloudflare) will see thousands of requests, but the VPS should only see one request.

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    Wow 😲

    It's not that hard to setup GitHub or GitLab to make sure all the unit tests run for each PR.

    If you use something else for version control, check if they offer a similar CI feature. If not, setup Jenkins.

    I'm an SRE at a big tech company, so part of my job is to make sure CI infrastructure is readily available to our Dev partners. But I've worked at smaller companies before (10 or less SWEs) and even they had a Jenkins instance.

    This is a bright red flag to me. If I worked for a company that didn't have CI, the first thing I would do is set it up. If I wasn't allowed to take the time required to do that, I would quit...

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    Ok. So if you have the infra already, it's really just a matter of actually writing the tests. That can be done incrementally.

    40%-60% unit test coverage is honestly not too bad. But if the company's bottom line rests on this code, you probably want to get that up. 100% though isn't really worth it for application code, but it is definitely worth it for library code.

    One thing where I work is that all commits must be reviewed before being merged. A great way to improve coverage is to be that guy when people send you PRs.

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    The Internet.

    Computers do a lot of things. But the Internet specifically is the aspect of the computer that revolutionized the world.

    Mastodon Incorporates as a Non-Profit in the US ( wedistribute.org )

    As a project, Mastodon has operated under the umbrella of Mastodon GmbH, a German company that benefited from non-profit status with the German government. Despite all indications that they were doing everything right, Mastodon GmbH recently had its non-profit status revoked, resulting in the team to seek an alternative....

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    The EU is terrible at maintaining good tech companies.

    Like, they have some really important and innovative consumer protection regulations, but they are really shooting themselves in the foot with this one...

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    Fair. That was overgeneralizing German bureaucracy to the entire EU.

    But I think the point that tech companies in Europe rarely survive still stands.

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    I'm 31, and Shrek was where I first heard this song. I would have been 9 years old.

    Obviously it's an amazing song with a rich history and many covers. But I'll bet that most folks my age heard it first in Shrek.

    Gen Z probably (hopefully) doesn't associate the song with Shrek as strongly as millennials.

    My favorite cover is the one by Jeff Buckley. Though the John Cale (Shrek film) and Rufus Wainwright (Shrek soundtrack) covers are both great. Honestly, I think the original by Leonard Cohen is the least good (but still good).

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    All Star got radio play where I grew up.

    Hallelujah didn't.

    At least in 2001. No idea if Hallelujah got air play in the 80s; I wasn't there.

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    Agreed. He's like a Canadian Bob Dylan in that sense.

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    Good poet, terrible vocals?

    That's like every Dylan track...

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_28_incident

    The February 28 incident (also called the February 28 massacre, the 228 incident, or the 228 massacre) was an anti-government uprising in Taiwan in 1947 that was violently suppressed by the Kuomintang–led nationalist government of the Republic of China (ROC). Directed by provincial governor Chen Yi and president Chiang Kai-shek, thousands of civilians were killed beginning on February 28. The incident is considered to be one of the most important events in Taiwan's modern history and was a critical impetus for the Taiwan independence movement.

    Between 18,000 and 28,000 deaths...

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    I think 20 to 30 thousand deaths is a bit more than a couple...

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    Clear doesn't bypass TSA. It just skips you to the front of the line.

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    How often do you fly in the United States? That's not how it works.

    They walk you up to the front of the ID check line. TSA still checks your ID, and you still go through security.

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    ¿Por qué no los dos?

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    It's no different than if you fed your children say, mercury, and then claimed you believed it was helpful because of Facebook gurus or similarly unaccredited sources.

    I totally agree that children should be vaccinated.

    But I just want to point out that there is a difference between actively doing something to harm your kid, and passively not doing something to protect your kid.

    Lack of protection is not equivalent to active harm.

    Parents should still be required to vaccinate their kids.

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    I do wonder if jumping back by twice as much is optimal.

    It is. This is called exponential search, which maintains the O(log(n)) time complexity of binary search.

    (Where n is the position of the commit you are searching for.)

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    No, I'm talking about exponential search which is like binary search but unbounded end.

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    It's the USA.

    Yes, they can just fire people.

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    I was confused by what a FIT actually is. To clarify,

    From the article:

    A Flat Image Tree is the compiled Linux kernel paired with the associated DeviceTree content that is compressed and easily then distributed and executed by capable bootloaders.

    From the ARM OSS Wiki:

    During the Linux boot process, a "Device Tree Blob" (DTB) file is loaded into memory by U-Boot / UEFI, and a pointer to it is passed to the kernel. This DTB file describes the system's hardware layout to the Linux kernel, allowing for platform-specific code to be moved out of the kernel sources and replaced with generic code that can parse the DTB and configure the system as required.

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    Garbage Collector

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    I know everyone is like "haha cousin fuckers."

    But really, do we want the government to pass laws restricting who we can and cannot marry?

    I can't help but notice the overlap with LGBT rights. I'm pretty sure I'd prefer them to not pass this law.

    Like, from a legal and philosophical perspective, why is it OK for the government to restrict this? Why wouldn't that same argument apply to gay men getting married?

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    Relevant xkcd

    https://xkcd.com/435/

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    Illegal how?

    States have processes for deciding who is on the ballot. All candidates who wish to be on the ballot must follow those processes, including the incumbent president.

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    States decide the procedures for getting onto the ballot.

    The SCOTUS ruling is that states cannot apply the 14th amendment to keep someone off of the ballot, which is a separate issue from whether the party/candidate followed the proper process for getting onto the ballot in the first place.

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    because he's afraid of the stock market dipping.

    You are giving Trump far too much credit.

    The man neither understands nor cares about macroeconomics.

    He wants power in order to enrich himself. He has no other policy position.

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    Even if they were such a thing as a cookie banner law, and there is none, companies in the USA would not have to comply in their country.

    It would be only for Europe.

    This is a pretty naive take.

    If you operate in Europe, you must comply with GDPR. To selectively show a cookie banner, you have to be able to identify the (location of) the user.

    It is totally reasonable for a company to operate in Europe but not wish to implement a full identity or location detection system. And so they just show the opt-in prompt to everyone.

    And you can't just implement that by using the browser's location API, because European users can totally choose to not share their location with you using that API. But you still need to comply for those users.

    There has been for years a proposal for a standard, designed in 2009 (!), still available in all the popular web browsers (except safari) that can make for a seamless experience: the DNT header.

    The diversion about the DNT header is irrelevant.

    Firstly, it is not codified in law that the DNT header is canonical. What if a user forgets to check the box? What should the default be? What kind of UX should be presented to users? This stuff needs to be spelled out in law for DNT to be a valid way to express opt-in.

    Secondly, it's not a robust per-site permission. Browsers only let you set it globally.

    Thirdly, it's actually bad for privacy. By making your headers different from the majority, you are easier to fingerprint. This is why Safari does not implement it.

    Be mad at companies

    I get the spirit of the article.

    But the GDPR has pushed the problem of consent to the users, and they haven't done anything to make this easy or convenient. Therefore cookie banners are inevitable. Like, you can't blame companies for acting in their own self interest; that is entirely counter productive.

    The EU needs to solve this.

    First, go after the data brokerage industry so that it is no longer profitable to sell user data.

    Second, regulate how websites can seek permission. Ideally by specifying a consent API and requiring browsers to implement a sane UX.

    It will be much more productive to try to solve this with the handful of Browser vendors than trying to regulate each and every consent banner.

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