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"Weaponized marijuana" is neither a weapon nor marijuana.

"But the industry sure wants to convince us that scalability is the most important property of infrastructure, because then they can sell us complicated tech we don't need and supp…

It should be convincing, because the test specifies a time limit in the range of a couple of minutes.

What salient factors distinguish a cable company from a "mere" streaming video service? Demand programming? Nope. Time shifting? Nope. Advertisement? Nope. Other than the literal m…

The (scientist approved) test for determining basic matter phases is very rudimentary. Put the object/quantity in question in a can. Does it fill the whole space of the can, no mat…

This is what happens when dev teams hate ops teams. Troubleshooting a production bug without a terminal is a recipe for lengthy outages.

Amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes.

"Bend over, I can't read this map."

Not if the only measure of interest used is literally self-reporting a binary "interested/not interested", like it is here. This is deceptioneering through statistics.

>the correlation between the mix of men and women in a career with the self-reported interest in that career is 0.56 Low quality research detected. Self-reported interest in a tren…

something something coming to your town

>For some reason when we apply the same principle to being respectful to people who don't want to relive a trauma they themselves lived, it's ridiculous. Part of the ridiculousness…

What a bunch of colonialist garbage. You're probably Israeli, right? "Rational nations"? Get real. No nations are rational. Nations are driven by political systems that are driven …

>Because it's how 99% of websites get their funding, allowing them to survive. So then, I'll unblock ads to help companies survive just as soon as those companies start giving me m…

Not when the people who design the things are being paid to make them not-nice.

I won't pardon that, because it shows your bad priorities of style over substance. That kind of flawed reasoning has too many negative consequences for me to merely overlook. Sorry…

Whether or not a message is perceived as rude is irrelevant and a matter of selfishness. Whether or not it is true is what you should concern yourself with if you mean to get thing…

It is if you're an overly sensitive SJW twat. Otherwise, no. It isn't insulting to desert-dwelling transgendered Mongolians, just a humorous ad lib pulled from the speaker's memory…

>FWIW this is the talk that got them (Ben Nagy and The Grugq) thrown out of Kiwicon See, fuck this. We are all fucked if style begins to trump substance in infosec, like it has in …

>Though I don’t consider it legally practicable, as a moral matter I’d be fine if every such man were thrown in prison for life. I was with the author right up until this. Mr. Aaro…

What offended about his post, out of curiosity? The Rube Goldberg analogy (I found that rather apt), or the "Professor Lucifer Butts" aspect of it (which I'll also confess to findi…

>You don't have to like it, you don't have to eat it but they're free in their choice just as you are free to build something else. And I'm also free to correctly identify that the…

>I'm not disputing that there certainly are problems in systemd, but as a package I still think that systemd does more things "better" than sysvinit than it does things worse. The …

Safe, but seems like it's solving a problem that doesn't really exist, or at least exists as a mosquito not warranting a bazooka swat.

True, I was wrong here.