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Exactly. It seems like corporations are using the pandemic to ostensibly "protect workers" as an excuse in order to save money on paying workers. If customers blindly accept this s…

Says a dude who wants WikiLeaks closed and condones killing Assange.

Yuck. The only way out of dependency hell is to disallow it by allowing multiple versions/different configurations of side-by-side packages and GCing non-leaf packages. This patter…

Who cares? I had the full NT 5/W2k codebase and have seen the NT 4 codebase. 3.5x is such a Windows Vista between 3.1 and 4.0.

It's interesting that Michael Moore is constantly promoting Anchor, which is owned by Spotify, like it's some nonprofit, benevolent savior. I guess it's to be expected when he says…

X is fun for the next 4 days. If you're not on it, you're uncool and don't jump on whatever is popular because it's popular. X = Email# IRC# ICQ AIM Yahoo Messenger Friendster MSN …

Zoom, TikTok, .. smh. Viral apps, made who-knows-where, who-knows-how, and with unproven security. Dotcom tulip mania all over again. No. Thanks.

I saw this and similar projects a long time ago. The problems include: the weird shape of living in a tube, not being at ground level, and hazmat/toxic aviation materials throughou…

In the SF Bay Area, you are (or were) able to see peacocks roaming about the Picchetti Winery near Cupertino. And I would be careful around these types of birds because they are eq…

Yep. TL;DR = extreme executive summary Intro = introduction Same number of letters, but different meanings It's not a big deal, but the armchair lawyer in me cringes and throws an …

I skip ssh-agent and use gpg-agent instead, which does both ssh and gpg agenting. Combined with monkeysphere, I store ssh private keys in gpg rather than in the encrypted ssh forma…

Remember how much Sunnyvale and Mountain View firefighters and police make. There was quite a list comprising tens of millions in salaries. It might be fine if the cities can affor…

Summit is a public charter school system, comprising many schools, and is not a government-run public school per se. It likely means the local parents were fed-up with their partic…

Daily: Ca 1200 mg + Mg 80 mg + vitamin d3 6000 IU (150 mcg) + k2-7 100 mcg. No kidney stones and minimizes osteoarthritis/porosis.

Anecdotal, unscientific nonsense. UV is no bueno.

- STAHL (truck bodies) - Ginsu knives - Kirby - RediVac fall under Berkshire Hathaway's Scott Fetzer. Interestingly, Snap-off (also known as Snap-on) still owns itself regularly. T…