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They've fired a bunch of government employees who work in e.g. air traffic control, inspections, etc. This is likely not a case of some hand-wringing villain at the airline declari…

Well, there's actually a HUGE historical downsizing that happened; this is actually something that really caught people off guard with Russia's invasion of Ukraine - the US MIC is …

My radicalization came from an incident a few years ago where some brownshirts yelled "trump won" and emptied a clip into my sister's friend's house party. They were uninvolved wit…

Yeah; frankly, in almost all languages, some early works of literature tend to be THE thing that establishes canonical spelling. A lot of this is simply that they act as an argumen…

Well, we had two recent presidents. In all honesty, I was totally willing to give Trump the benefit of the doubt; like he was talking a big circus, but sometimes for a politician t…

It's not soldered. It used to be, but ever since the M1, it's in-CPU. The ram is actually part of the CPU die. Needless to say it has batshit insane implications for memory bandwid…

Yep; tons of credit cards do usurious bait-and-switch stuff like that, under the express hope to make it up on people who have occasional "slippages" where they miss it by one pay …

This person gets it.

The reality is that nobody wants the alternative. Another commenter was replying to you pitching a mobile debian version, and went on to explain that said mobile debian version isn…

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In the finest tradition of Jean-Louis Gassée: The app store is a condom (or a covid mask). It's not all about "you"; it doesn't matter a damned sight if YOU are careful, or if YOU …

That's fully possible, even easy, on an iOS device. --- The kind of programming people are agitating for in threads like these is emphatically NOT general-purpose programming. It's…

He notably took credit for ending the lawlessness of the 90s, which was really bad . Russia went through a couple of years of being an outright "failed state", with basically no po…

It's almost like the fundamental basis of crypto is fraud. Like they're not actually selling anything, besides "british south sea company" ~~stock shares~~ coins.

At this point, I don't think much of famous schools, and might even find them a -minus- on hiring criterion. I'd be much more likely to hire someone from a tier-2 school who doesn'…

I see Gritty and I think — "bad things happen in Philadelphia."

The problem is that all users aren't happy. Having used federated services for years, they're never in synch, and some users always have access to some features that other users do…

The biggest plus is that — like Chrome, if they decide they made a mistake, they can pivot a change that many of their users would disagree with, and force it on the whole ecosyste…

To help clarify for the person you're replying to; minification could be considered to only mean: taking an interpreted language like JS, and essentially compressing the text of th…

Yeah. I get pretty tilted when people complain about the banking system, because most of the "problems" they're complaining about are features. A really good metaphor is a programm…

I for one am holding out for the ULTRA GIGA chips.

Unfortunately for people with your worldview, this isn't the way the world works. You're thinking under a framework that one set of actions will certainly prevent it, and the other…

Uh, the whole point of code signing is a checksum — it's valid only for an exact match to the original executable that got signed. If it changes, the checksum and code signing beco…

One is a privilege escalation, the other is just buying a fake rolex that you thought was real. Except that the rolex costs less than the cost of a hamburger.

The problem with RoR is that it's an all-encompassing framework. It gives you a huge collection of things you typically don't need — entire major layers like the database are frequ…