MagicWishMonkey

Is it really a conspiracy if US intelligence agencies say Russia has been stirring up shit?

The way right wingers bend over backwards to pretend that Russia doesn't have a long history of this sort of thing never ceases to amaze me.

One of the cops died of injuries sustained on site, lets stop pretending this wasn't a violent confrontation. There were plenty of serious injuries.

Does this look like a peaceful protest, to you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=XajBh9oTdqI&feat...

> Immerse yourself in news of Russian plots to counterfeit presidential children’s laptops, viruses spawned in Wuhan market stalls, vast secret legions of domestic terrorists flashing one another the OK sign in shadowy parking lots behind Bass Pro Shops experiencing “temporary” inflation, and patriotic tech conglomerates purging the commons of untruths.

Pretty standard alt-right nutjob. Substack is swarming with them.

The author doesn't spell it out but he mentions that the idiot story about Hunter Biden's laptop was totally real and not Russia using Giuliani like a stooge and he implies that if you don't think covid was leaked from a lab you're an idiot.

So yea, I don't doubt that this guy thinks facebook is being mean by not letting him spread conspiracy bullshit on their platform.

By that logic you should never give away money because your principal will never stop growing.

Any tips on getting this to run as an extension?

Sure, if you longer have a way to use an older version of MacOS. Not a good idea to leave your sole copy on a machine you don't have full control over.

It's not going away any time soon, the app is still available for MacOS and the browser extensions work just fine. Eventually they will stop supporting them but that'll just mean at some point in the future a MacOS/firefox/chrome update will break the existing app and they won't fix it. That might be 2 months from now or it might be 2+ years.

This is the word processor that GRRM uses, he keeps an ancient DOS computer around just to use WordStar.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/03/words...

What's wrong with having a robust stdlib? Are those extra 50 megabytes really a problem?

It's amazing that something that seems as obvious and simple as "shipping stuff in a box" is a relatively recent innovation.

Makes me wonder what seemingly obvious thing we're not aware of right now that will be commonplace 50 years from now.

The books are really good, too.

I need to watch the series at some point.

What is the problem with using a container based approach for production workloads?

I bought the family plan (5 licenses, I think) for $100 back in 2013. I can't upgrade past 1Password 6, but I'm ok with that. It works well enough that I can't justify a subscription just to get a few of the newer features that I probably will never use.

I'll probably have to switch if/when the firefox plugin stops working, but hopefully that won't be any time soon.

Yet more proof that our method of tying health insurance to employers is completely insane.

I think their biggest ask is for GM to stop using temp workers to get around union obligations. When you have a "temp worker" who has been working for you for 4-5 years, they should probably be classified as an employee.

Does Terminal.app allow you to customize it to always dock to the top of your screen?

If we had the tech to do that we would already have the ability to genetically modify embryos with heightened intelligence. Do we even know what genes are responsible for that?

Wouldn't the package need to be executed as root, though? Or does spectre/meltdown not require privileged access?

Wouldn't you need to install those packages as root for the code to have privileges to take advantage of that exploit?

Oh, didn't realize you could request early access. I'll check it out, thanks.

I've played with VS Code a bit, it's a pretty cool tool for small scale scripting, but it's not really a replacement for a full fledged IDE.

Hopefully Jetbrains will release their cross platform C# IDE sometime soon. I would prefer Visual Studio, but I don't think that's going to happen (at least not anytime soon).

I wish MS would release a stripped down version of VS for OSX/Linux, but I know it probably won't happen.

We use core samples to measure historic levels - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_sample

It's pretty remarkable that Texas and California seem to elect the scummiest people possible to the Senate. I guess that's what happens when you have a massive population of mostly apathetic voters?

I really think this country would be better off if CA and TX were not allowed representation in the Senate (and I say this as a Texan).

It doesn't work on my macbook pro, either (running chrome). It's so broken it's kind of amusing.

So is something like VSGAX an ETF or is it an index fund?

Really? On OSX it's as simple as downloading postgres.app and dropping it in your applications folder. Couldn't be easier.

They get around it by claiming your house or car (or whatever) is guilty of a crime. Unfortunately, inanimate objects can't represent themselves in court.

It's around $6/month per subscriber - http://blogs.wsj.com/numbers/how-much-cable-subscribers-pay-...