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BilboBargains

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BilboBargains ,

He's a big old unit

BilboBargains ,

I don't not support this candidate

BilboBargains ,

How else could it work? Otherwise it will detect the water flowing and never switch off.

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Data storage vs backup storage

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BilboBargains ,

Is data storage a car for guys with micropenis?

BilboBargains ,

I suspected Debian users were soyboys and now I have the documents to prove it.

BilboBargains ,

By the time it comes to violence, you've already lost the game.

BilboBargains ,

Why not read a book for a change.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economic_Consequences_of_the_Peace

BilboBargains ,

Bringing that toxic Reddit energy.

BilboBargains ,

Protip

BilboBargains ,

I would imagine most of these remote interviews are just an initial conversation and an employer would insist on a formal interview in person if they have a policy on physical presence. My policy is to advance the requirement that there be hot chicks in the office if I need to be in that space.

BilboBargains ,

Do they go on to mention any negative effects?

BilboBargains ,

I get the sense that the author hasn't tried many or any of these substances and is trotting out the standard line. I didn't see alcohol, cigarettes and Oxycontin mentioned.

If we're going to have an adult conversation about addictive substances we should first talk about sugar and junk food. We should also discuss the dangers of a sedentary lifestyle, lack of healthcare and community, ignorance of mental health, motor vehicles, pollution, the criminal justice system, Judeo-Christian culture and being a person of colour. Those will form the major risk factors for human health.

BilboBargains ,

It's kind of lame that they need to junk the entire apparatus after only a decade. I get that processor technology moves on apace but we already know it does that so why doesn't a universal architecture exist where nodes can be added at will?

BilboBargains ,

I would imagine it's very difficult to make a universal architecture but if I have learnt anything about computers it's that the manufacturers of software and hardware deliberately created opaque and monolithic systems, e.g. phones. They cynically insert barriers to their reuse and redeployment. There's no profit motive for corporations to make infintitely scalable computers. Short sighted greed is a much more plausible explanation.

BilboBargains ,

The EU has found the cure for cancer

BilboBargains ,

The EU is one of the few institutions that are fighting the American corporations on our most basic freedoms. It's the only one with real teeth.

BilboBargains ,

Is it true that Linux users recant their heretical beliefs on their deathbed, switch back to windoze and Bill Gates rapes them?

BilboBargains ,

Reinforced concrete was the gift that kept giving to Soviet-era architects. Le Corbusier also approves this post.

BilboBargains ,

As engineers, we should never insert proprietary interfaces into our designs. We shouldn't obfuscate the design.

The motivation for these toxic practices comes from the business side because it's profitable. These people won't share the profits with you because they are psychopaths. Ultimately we are making more waste when electronics cannot be upgraded, maintained and repaired. It's bad for people and it's bad for the environment.

BilboBargains , (edited )

Genius idea. Is there an app that reverses a vasectomy and twenty years of aging? But seriously, this idea has got legs, I love it. Congrats with your baby. Have you made a Facebook account for them yet?

BilboBargains ,

You legend

BilboBargains ,

It's the banking equivalent of turning your device off for aircraft take off and landing.

If you keep doing stupid shit for long enough you can turn it into a religion. Huge profits will follow. It's also why the unexamined life is no life at all.

BilboBargains ,

Use a VPN. ISP are being disingenuous when they claim a data connection is unlimited at the point of purchase and then slug us with restrictions when we try and use it. If they can detect a tether, the VPN should obscure it.

BilboBargains ,

Classic?

BilboBargains ,

This post made me beat my head with a 2 by 4

BilboBargains ,

I would imagine you can find safety flaws in anything because safety isn't a thing we can measure.

BilboBargains ,

What are the units?

BilboBargains ,

Safety cannot be measured because it's a feeling. One person feels safe climbing a mountain without a rope and the next person is petrified. Safety is just word to describe a concept. It's different to the wavelength of light or force or charge. These things are based on fundamental properties of the universe that can be measured and are repeatable.

A reasonable approximation might be to consider the likelihood of an adverse event given a use case over time. We could say that an accident every million hours is our definition of safe but that is completely arbitrary in the way that the physical laws and constants are not.

BilboBargains ,

I take a lot of risks but never with yo mama. I always take my time with her.

BilboBargains ,

It's a measurement on an arbitrary scale. Nothing I've said is news to anyone who designs safety critical systems. I'm certainly not saying that safety isn't important or that we can't assess it. What I'm saying is that placing a number on that assessment will always stray into the realm of politics in a way that physics and mathematics never does. It lulls ignorant people into the belief that something is safe or not safe. They feel safe because they've been told it is safe or vice versa. Physics doesn't care if you feel safe.

It's notable that contemporary safety standards such as ISO 26262 generally avoid numerical assessments, for the reasons outlined above.

BilboBargains ,

An assessment is not a measurement and safety is not an SI unit, deal with it bro.

EU Commission fines Apple over €1.8 billion over abusive App store rules for music streaming providers (ec.europa.eu)

The European Commission has fined Apple over €1.8 billion for abusing its dominant position on the market for the distribution of music streaming apps to iPhone and iPad users (‘iOS users') through its App Store. In particular, the Commission found that Apple applied restrictions on app developers preventing them from...

BilboBargains ,

Woah, eat shit Apple

Apple (slrpnk.net)

I don't care if anyone has a Xiaomi, Oneplus, Samsung, etc. Each brand is using a modified version of Android, and they chose to be compatible with each other. But for example the "blue vs green bubble" drama is a thing specifically because of Apple locking their unsuspecting users into a closed ecosystem. And it sure isn't...

BilboBargains ,

Ah yes, the classic centrist position. Why does it matter if the government performs mass surveillance if you have nothing to hide? Why does it matter if I drive a huge and inefficient car? I can make all these choices secure in the knowledge that I never do bad things so they never occur as a result of my actions.

BilboBargains ,

Swipe on. It's okay if you don't understand how this stuff works.

Online vape seller has ‘no intention of stopping’ shipments to Australia, despite nationwide ban — ‘We have no intention of stopping just because of one twat in Canberra.’ (www.vice.com)

Online vape seller has ‘no intention of stopping’ shipments to Australia, despite nationwide ban — ‘We have no intention of stopping just because of one twat in Canberra.’::The New Zealand-based seller issued a notice to its Australian customers that shipments will continue regardless of the government's vape reform.

BilboBargains ,

Australia going full retard again.

BilboBargains ,

They are an excellent and well understood harm reduction measure compared with smoking.

BilboBargains ,

Don't take any drugs, wish them away. Failing that, start a war on drugs. Prosecute the war for decades with nothing to show for your efforts aside from a pile of bodies and organised crime.

BilboBargains ,

The main advantages of Apple Car® is that it runs on Apple Road® and Apple Fuel®. It was made of commonly available standardised components such as nuts and bolts but with special Apple Thread Pitch® that require Apple Spanner® to use them. There are no instruction manuals to repair Apple Car®, only Apple Dealership® is permitted. The outcome of the marketing effort causes the users to eventually become delusional about the product, believing that they own the best product and refusing to entertain any evidence to the contrary, much like religious beliefs.

BilboBargains ,

Here's why Apple users are delusional.

BilboBargains ,

I'm still talking shit about the iPhone. Where else do you see people using a glass keyboard? I don't care if a billion idiots like it. There is virtually no choice in the market, everything boils down to the lowest common denominator. We need open and reusable technology, not this proprietary throwaway shit that you can't maintain.

BilboBargains ,

Blow me

BilboBargains ,

Barry Shitpeas

BilboBargains ,

Copy pasta is a dish best served cold.

BilboBargains ,

Hey leave some pussy for the rest of us.

BilboBargains ,

Obombercare

Women STEM students up to twice as likely as non-STEM students to have experienced sexism (www.hepi.ac.uk)

We know that women students and staff remain underrepresented in Higher Education STEM disciplines. Even in subjects where equivalent numbers of men and women participate, however, many women are still disadvantaged by everyday sexism. Our recent research found that women who study STEM subjects at undergraduate level in England...

BilboBargains ,

I abhor sexism and racism and what I say next may sound like both of those things but what if women and POC are worse at math than Tall White Guys®?

Should we make it even harder for them to access STEM fields? My workplace is a total sausage fest and I desperately seek the touch of wamman.

BilboBargains ,

Thanks. I hope you can one day interpret subtext and nuance.

BilboBargains ,

Put it with the public information broadcasts on 'the dangers of LSD'.

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