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RaptorJ··on US economy sheds 92,000 jobs in February in sharp slide
The US president is both Head of State and Head of Government. It turns out there's a bunch of countries that require the head of state to be a natural born citizen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidential_qualifica...
RaptorJ··on Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available
Surely having human-resource backups will also help with disaster recovery
RaptorJ··on Next.js is infuriating
or directly in powershell, `Start-Process myproc.exe -Environment @{ FOO = 'bar' }`
RaptorJ··on Human study on AI spear phishing campaigns
These phish testing companies always stick a header (X-PHISH-TEST or some such) on the email so the email server can white-list -- easy to just Outlook blackhole filter anything with that header after you've seen one test.
RaptorJ··on GPT-4
"Our biochem corpus is far in advance of theirs, as is our electronic sentience, and their 'ethical inflexibility' has allowed us to make progress in areas they refuse to consider."
RaptorJ··on Musk SEC Filing
I'm gonna wait until after Matt Levine tells me to know what I think about this.
RaptorJ··on Hacker downloads close to 300k personal ID photos from Estonian gov database
Any day now Equifax is going down. The real difference is that humans have some institutional power over political jurisdictions and how they are run and exactly none over how (large enough) businesses are.
RaptorJ··on Volkswagen launches its first all-electric SUV, the ID.4
If you want to hold a long-term personal boycott against Volkswagon for immoral business practice, I assure you there are better reasons than the diesel emissions testing scandal.
RaptorJ··on A salt monopoly could spike car accidents in the Midwest
Who are the private organizations buying road salt/salting services to within even two orders of magnitude of municipalities/state govts?
RaptorJ··on Again on 0-based vs. 1-based indexing
This is an unfortunate analogy given how complicated and poorly understood the heat-affects-food chemical reactions are. And yet food gets cooked.
RaptorJ··on MIT study: Covid-19 vaccines may be less effective for racial minorities
Why not? Money is a social contruct, but dollars to donuts, populations with less of it will have lower vaccine efficacy.
RaptorJ··on Chili pepper consumption associated with 25% reduction in death from any cause
Oh yeah, if I knew that Frank's Red Hot was gonna give me a 1 in 4 chance of immortality, I would have been eating so much more rice and beans.
RaptorJ··on Microsoft backs Epic in court filing
If MS wants to peel developers away from the apple store, why wouldn't they support apple being allowed to maintain their onerous percentage?
RaptorJ··on Landmark math proof clears hurdle in top Erdős conjecture
Ah well there isn't one, from any divergent series you can construct a more slowly growing (but still divergent) series.
RaptorJ··on Epic Games releases "Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite" ad
putting aside the farce of judiciary-as-non-political-body, why wouldn't this also be a battle for the legislatures to consider?
RaptorJ··on Why is this idiot running my engineering org?
Well maybe there was an annular region there in the 90s when the FBI's mission was still in-between 'try to assassinate black activists', and 'give fake bombs to muslim teenagers and then arrest them for it'.
RaptorJ··on Patreon loses lawsuit with Owen Benjamin fans
seems unlikely while Epic Systems vs. Lewis remains US law
RaptorJ··on Let’s avoid talk of ‘chemical imbalance’: it’s people in distress
No, I'm very sorry report that there are exactly zero areas of human action, practice, or thought that aren't infested with ideology.
RaptorJ··on How the 2021 Ford F-150's onboard generator works
Well even cookie-cutter houses used to be pretty nice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears_Modern_Homes

RaptorJ··on CERN makes push to build €21B super-collider
This sort of thing exists!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Synchrotron_Light_Sou...

RaptorJ··on CUDA on Windows Subsystem for Linux 2
PC as in IBM PC compatible
RaptorJ··on Manned fighter to face autonomous drone next year
Well, you're both right. In that the purpose of all this military spending is to make the world safe for Dow, Exxon, and US Fruit, and people who live in the imperial core get cheaper prices because of it.
RaptorJ··on New Bill Would Give Nearly Every Californian $1,000/Month
Well I think you've identified the 'logic' exactly -- use UBI as a wedge to dismantle the welfare state.
RaptorJ··on Real-time, in-camera background compositing in The Mandalorian
From the video posted upthread, around 3:40 it looks like they're doing just that: https://youtu.be/gUnxzVOs3rk?t=220
RaptorJ··on Mozilla lays off 70
Well maybe not exactly zero, more devs using FF tools --> more websites designed to be optimized for FF first.
RaptorJ··on CIA Gift Shop
this is entirely true. It's just the thing you leave out is that a sausage factory is built on suffering pigs and the American comfort (as provided by the CIA) is built on a suffering global south.
RaptorJ··on Steam for Linux client adds support for Linux namespaces
not exactly what your asking for, but you can check out which OS's users were using for Steam for the past decade

https://web.archive.org/web/20160201000000*/http://store.ste...

RaptorJ··on Why the Boeing 737 will never take the place of the 757
I wonder if you guys all went on a field trip to watch The Wind Rises haha
RaptorJ··on Twitter to ban political advertising
"Please do not bother me with you trying to not get killed by the state anymore."
RaptorJ··on U.S. to leave global postal union next month barring last-minute action
Rome, Paris, Kyoto, TPP, landmines, this pattern is not new
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