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tacticus

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    Comment #48813649

    > I can't see this happening without either Windows getting in the way The intraorg combat that seems to be the default at microsoft is really going to be one of their persistent p…

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    Comment #48392400

    > In Australia, this is mostly because it's an attempt to starve funding from the public system. (Howard was responsible for destroying the first universal healthcare system in aus…

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    Comment #48391699

    Not even that in the end.

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    Comment #48175006

    shame it took years to get bookmarks in.

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    Comment #48174994

    Mercurials lack of not permanent branches early on with the bizarre "we have a plugin for that" way of doing it showing up too late to change the decision not to mention the early …

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    Comment #48089324

    > Edit: also fuck things like Lambda. It's literally the most horrible experience that the universe can muster. Moved most of our lambdas to simple boring http services on top of G…

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    Comment #48004882

    Have you seen the demo of what you can get with some wires and low friction traction options :P

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    Comment #48002934

    medical industry must be going for some long term achievement in how much they disbelieve, mistreat, and degrade women going to them. I wonder how many units of their training cour…

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    Comment #47991688

    the cloud used because execs have already got a microsoft contract. (not to mention the fun licensing problem)

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    Comment #47955934

    and many of those azure regions are a single DC or single cage in a single dc that you can walk past to find the bigger netflix pop.

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    Comment #47955852

    > Azure support was completely worthless. It's quite incredible that a support bill in the >10k per month range from azure makes the public google (not even GCP with a support cont…

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    Comment #47937601

    got to love how they're trying to hide the links.

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    Comment #47482882

    get a travel agent? Probably more reliable and corp ones exist.

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    Comment #47482865

    nope. It won't even help you understand that the 20 second task you've been putting off for 6 months causing anxiety will only take 20 seconds (nor will we learn from this)

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    Comment #47482724

    > accessibility is like implementing braille and things for deaf and colourblind etc. or - larger fonts - Better contrast controls, - Non abstract art iconography, - larger buttons…

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    Comment #47433280

    > microsoft unable to explain and show security model to federal cyber experts.

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    Comment #47345491

    > There wouldn't be Chrome-only sites and tools if Safari wasn't holding the web back Given the number of chrome-only sites that block firefox and not safari i think there are othe…

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    Comment #47257089

    > Well past time to stop listening to anything those grifting charlatans have to say. Are you describing the "just build nukes" party here? Cause we've been waiting a while for thi…

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    Comment #47164012

    Those US companies that the US government bought part of and funded their expansions with no controls over the cartel...

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    Comment #46867215

    given the max bandwidth of a starlink sat is in the 100Gb on a good day range why would you want to limit a DC to less bandwidth than a single cheap fibre? Also in LEO you're going…

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    Comment #46867188

    > SpaceX already has Starlink. They might need pretty high bandwidth you mean the network that has less capacity than a fibre pair per coverage area?

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    Comment #46867163

    5 to 7 months given they want 100kw Per ton and magical mystery sauce shielding is going to do shit all.

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    Comment #46806350

    > They are also much better at hiding debt Through bonds? or SVPs to fund the building of datacentres?

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    Comment #46715695

    > You just need to trust that the people handling your ballot won't do that. Given the number of people involved in watching ballots the entire time it is happening this would requ…

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    Comment #46715686

    Unlike the US the elections aren't run by some local arsehat with local rules. they have consistent rules over the entire state or country (depending on election in question) Scrut…