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mikrotik for the win

lying of any type is always grounds for termination. "consistently candid" is just a more PC phrase for lying.

I stopped supporting Hollywood years ago.

I would imagine this is more common that we know or expect. The incentives are too great and university administrators exist is such large numbers that cheating your way into those…

Are they comparing CHatGPT 3.5 with GPT4 or ChatGPT4 with GPT4? Because you can now select GPT4 when using CHatgpt.

We need to evolve past the point where we expect to rely on government.

It's not bonkers, that is what Apple has done.

You can thank those politicians and those electors that voted for them that made it cost effective for textile manufacturers to move to China.

Or a state backed initiative in the early stages. In order to get to 5 million you have to pass 5,000.

probably going to be spent mostly on executive compensation for the charity execs

They call it forced labor, why not use the word: slavery

We could with the proper incentives and support from our legislators.

Doing less than the speed limit is indeed strange, that behavior is probably exhibited by drunk/doped up drivers more often than sober drivers. The fact that you get warnings demon…

Poor people mostly want opportunity. For 2 hundred years that opportunity came in the form of middle pay manufacturing jobs, those job mostly don't exist. Ask a non-disabled non-dr…

Re Covid, I'm not sure what the government can do, the news of the virus was plastered all over the news. I don't need to government to tell me that if a novel virus is circulating…

Eventual consistency.

IF they truly believe they have more to gain from the welfare state and big government they are mistaken. Maybe someone who need immediate help will benefit from the welfare state …

Do the other 30% have no ear wax?

I'm guilty of using it as a DB, my home weather station writes to kafka topics, sometimes the postgres instance is down for months, no problems letting the kafka topic store the da…

I don't have fiber but I do spend slightly more on business class internet, they have tech support that is an order of magnitude more helpful and knowledgeable than normal resident…

Our prototype was on DigitalOcean but we started collecting issues and feature requests that were solved more easily by AWS. Including IAM, we were an early adopter of S3, it's a g…

I have stopped ordering from amazon.com but do still use AWS. I should probably evaluate other cloud providers, when I made the decision to use AWS about 5 years ago there were no …

Kind of related: Wussification of America: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/12/the-wus...

To quote the article directly: "Caballero reasoned that if the source was some other life form, it would likely be living on an exoplanet.." The author does not claim the signal is…

After posting that I went back through my invoices and it does appear that at some-point Chart upgraded me from 100/10 to 200/10 at no extra charge.