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About therealx
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Comment #27097771
To be fair, that’s one of the worst tunnels in any city. I’d rather drive into NYC.
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Comment #26743679
Yes, this is standard in the forgery business - dust and speckle filter, drop the res, ensure the light is balanced, and maybe blur if you can get away with it.
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Comment #26733801
The thing that changes this is good public transport. Not buses - buses have a mindset issue. Subways, light rail, and bikes for the last mile.
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Comment #26732909
I would think the build system would only build the binaries or other compiled source. The CI pipeline would build and test.
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Comment #26732823
BGP and DNS survive due to relative obscurity, despite everyone using it in some way. Web devs do not give a shit about BGP (sadly.)
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Comment #26732450
It's not "hopeless to manage", learn some networking and be forever rewarded. Same with learning to manage devices, servers, etc. I develop now but I'd be much less valiable withou…
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Comment #26732367
Amen. I find generic scripts to be way more mangemaable. You can still use them with docker, but you can also just buy any Linux VM and go. Also, easy to backup.
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Comment #26732348
It's 1000% worth it. The skills bleed over onto Mac, and now Windows. Best skills of my tech life, almost.
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Comment #26732337
Just firewall off all management interfaces and allow via IP as needed. It's still possible your webserver will get become vulnerable, but you'll prob here about it here if it is.
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Comment #26731297
Isn't it so relieving now that the pendulum is swinging back? I'm so glad I moved into C# and non-web dev/management and got out of that rat race. Tech always swings back and forth…
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Comment #26681320
It seems fairly obvious once you trace the funding on a lot of nodes. Plus that court case that got dropped with the child porn guy - they dropped it because they refused to show h…
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Comment #26617735
So envious of your username :)
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Comment #25764298
Thanks for connecting those dots for me.
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Comment #25687809
Here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/59808919/1660678 Then you still get a FAILED: meson-install Permission denied: '/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/LV2' error, so change INSTALL_DIR_MAC in i…
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Comment #25668620
It's not too confusing to me. It gets the IRS off the trail of the actual person getting the money - they don't care that the IRS still wants money - they are confident that it won…
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Comment #25661302
People remember HIPAA poorly? Ive worked very closly in the industry, and I think it was a net positive. It could have been better, but it sure beat what was there.
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Comment #25656083
Last I saw her, she had transitioned to WoW and was scraping by running conventions. I wish I remembered her last name, I'm curious what her daughter made of herself.
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Comment #25605659
My favorite story: growing up, I was really good friends with this girl who's Mom was an Everquest dev (like, the first one.) Post-launch, she became so addicted to her own game, s…
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Comment #25578982
Yeah, they totally are. You aren't able to, in detail, say, operate on someone while they write in pain. Or, slowly cut up someone with a swored and watch their organs fall out as …
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Comment #25502142
The US is on target to have everyone that wants one jab'ed by June.
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Comment #25501935
What is WITH that subway? Military bases, small towns, everywhere.
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Comment #25408372
Either op means that going into it, a lof of America was not firm in their predictions - people were firm last time, and a of them were wrong, so were weary to do it again. It coul…
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Comment #25408310
Use $15 worth of hireable Photoshop to create a decent looking image with all of them? Even just squares of profile photos put together, but I almost guarantee a better job could b…
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Comment #25404543
If only average grandma's were just limited to grandma's. I don't know a single person who isn't a gamer or IT person that can properly use a firewall as they exist now.