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zwerdlds··on Datacenter Locations Driven by 19th Century Politics
See also: The relationship from horse to space shuttle. http://www.astrodigital.org/space/stshorse.html
zwerdlds··on In Amazon’s Bookstore, Orwell Gets a Rewrite
I'm genuinely curious - can someone explain how Amazon has avoided litigation on this for so long?
zwerdlds··on Microsoft Flow
Or node-red which is dirt simple to self host with the docker images.
zwerdlds··on “I thought I'd share this Boris Johnson story with you”
did you manage to get that doria reservation for tonight?
zwerdlds··on Oracle Dyn DNS Services Shutting Down in 2020
Are you surprised that the migration is manual? This is Oracle we're talking about, not some software services company that would have resources on-hand to write some internal scripts to take care of that for their customers...

/s

zwerdlds··on Valve Will Not Be Officially Supporting Ubuntu 19.10
It's called Proton and the repo is here: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton
zwerdlds··on Valve Will Not Be Officially Supporting Ubuntu 19.10
Not that it really matters, but Wikipedia lists Valve as being ~360 people, while Canonical is 566.
zwerdlds··on School shooting officer charged with inaction. Should ‘cowardice’ be criminal?
IANAL, but hasn't SCOTUS repeatedly ruled that police inaction is not a crime?
zwerdlds··on Teaching a class likely meant to inflate the GPA of student athletes
Complain to the regional university credentialing authority.
zwerdlds··on Roundup’s Risks Could Go Well Beyond Cancer
I must be reading the situation wrong. Would you mind describing how situations detailed in this article jibe with your account?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/agricultural-giant-battles-smal...

zwerdlds··on The sorry state of OpenSSL usability (2017)
Didnt most of their changes get merged back?
zwerdlds··on Intel Announces 8 Core I9-9900KS: Every Core at 5Ghz, All the Time
Still marketing SMT. Interesting move.
zwerdlds··on Why Do Lunar Satellites Eventually Crash into the Moon? [video]
GRACE is/was the Earth-centric counterpart. I believe there may be a more modern variant as well.

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/Grace/overview/index.html

zwerdlds··on Amoma.com is a scam (2017)
As a total 100% complete side note, if you're in need of a cheap room in SF, take a look at the San Remo. It's always been the cheapest for me and it's got tons of character. Make sure you're comfortable with the room size and shared bathrooms though.
zwerdlds··on Number go down: the single trade that crashed Bitcoin
pundits have been pointing to market manipulation for a while
zwerdlds··on Hertz bug leads to people being erroneously arrested and jailed
There are apparently multiple cases of Hertz doing this, at least some of which apparently included the person having the physical documentation on their person at the time of the arrest, including the Steve Cheney incident and one in Louisiana.
zwerdlds··on Hertz bug leads to people being erroneously arrested and jailed
The board pretends to be responsible. Seems like a reasonable place to start looking.
zwerdlds··on Should Disney World Have the Right to Build a Nuclear Power Plant?
I hate water tables too.
zwerdlds··on Traccar – Modern GPS Tracking Platform
Would someone be able to provide a comparison with OwnTracks?
zwerdlds··on Accenture sued over website redesign so bad it Hertz
This mirrors my own experience from within accenture about a decade ago. There were serious professionalism issues, not to mention the pm nightmare shoved on devs.
zwerdlds··on Ask HN: Where are the GUI libraries that aren't bloated?
I get your point, but the question seems to be about code bloat, not RAM.
zwerdlds··on TypeScript 3.4
what is the solution? runtime errors?
zwerdlds··on Elon Musk Tried to Destroy a Tesla Whistleblower
Because musk/tesla have a... questionable record with truth and safety, and all these guys claims were about said transparency/safety? Why do you trust musk/tesla over tripp?
zwerdlds··on Google employees can’t just walk away from ethical tradeoffs like Dragonfly
HR churn affects their bottom line.
zwerdlds··on Does Windows 10's telemetry include sending *.doc files if Word crashed?
This is the article I am referencing. https://www.hanselman.com/blog/MicrosoftKilledMyPappy.aspx
zwerdlds··on The WWF Funds Guards Who Have Tortured and Killed People
Some rhinos have proven to be difficult to breed.
zwerdlds··on Google reveals “high severity” flaw in MacOS kernel
It would be easier to justify this if apple responded to their bugs.
zwerdlds··on The CEO of RevolutApp on Slack: “Why Aren’t You Working on Weekends?”
This is exactly how i feel about all this too. Metrics not met? Sounds like you need to hire more people. How often I've seen management shirking and sending the management THEY should be doing to the next level down...
zwerdlds··on Does Windows 10's telemetry include sending *.doc files if Word crashed?
But Scott Hanselman thinks it's all about MS killin' our pappies.
zwerdlds··on Cheap Kubernetes Cluster on AWS with Kubeadm
New to the k8s scene, but does Minikube support multi-node systems?
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