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Also what really annoys me as a viewer is that even on a good series that has already been renewed, the waiting between seasons has crept up from 1 year (already bad) to multiple y…

It's more than likely you're getting the first since Chinese factories simply make more of what the big brand has ordered and sell the rest to drop shippers

Fable got halted by US make it a moot point but none enterprise is happy about the forced (and unannounced) 30-day data rentention

Installing a self signed cert system wide to do MITM? Sign me up!

Exactly, you can build 12nm but you can't quadruple the speed of light

As far as travel and hotel goes, another huge benefit is that the router enables devices without captive portal support, on a recent trip I can use: - Fi base station for my dogs t…

I named random Joe as the sole owner of "my" bank account and the bank wouldn't allow me to access "my" money!

> WA tax revenue is going to drop from this That'd be their next excuse to extend the tax to all

When did blatantly unconstitutional laws become modest?

SDE jobs are usually deliberately kept open to satisfy the H1B/PERM testing. Most big tech company does it so they can hire H1Bs and in turn do day 1 PERM sponsor as an incentive f…

Exactly they built one for the Chinese government. It's not if they have a back door it's who gets to use it

Was it ever?

This is an interesting point but if I may offer a different perspective: Assuming 20 working days a month: that's 20k x 12 == 240k a year. So about a fresh grad's TC at FANG. Now I…

Yup WSL feels closer to the Services for Unix which has been around since NT 4/5. It was sad to see WSL2 taking the path of least resistance, that decision has always felt TPM driv…

Great engineering work but as a user I don't get why we need these: I just want the OS native widget that allow me to play pause seek and maybe choose captions. Especially on iOS 9…

Looks very similar to the HBONE protocol the istio folks created for ambient mesh: https://istio.io/latest/docs/ambient/architecture/hbone/

I find it interesting that iPhone doesn't do a sanity check of these WiFi/cell fingerprinting based results against the GPS receiver it actually has. I can understand how WiFi only…

to be fair universities nowadays are more interested in supporting identity politics and liberal ideology than supporting science

I'm a gamer too and I worry that another likely scenario is all gaming moves to the cloud streaming model for maximum rent seeking :(

this is not true, `kubectl debug` attaches to the namespace of a container of your choosing (`--target` argument). You don't have to enable process namespace sharing at the pod lev…

Iirc you can also set that "green screen" as wallpaper and have video as desktop background!

We have wayyyyy too many MLEs coming up with these "different" ideas, manipulate AB to show a whooping 1% improvement in (random engagement KPI), get a fat bonus check for the quar…

hey now don't disparage plumbers they are usually certified and licensed, unlike engineers :P

> unless you're suggesting providing 100s of different implementations of different parts of the operating system that people can choose from to run a specific game You just invent…

This is a welcome change but we can go even further: we should raise the bar for permanent immigration, but eliminate the intermediate steps in between (even green cards). If you a…