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count··on The first Oxide rack being prepared for customer shipment
A sizable portion of their team and leadership is former Sun / Solaris / Illumos dev folks. It's their 'native' OS/platform.
count··on Aspartame sweetener to be declared possible cancer risk by WHO, say reports
"You don't need to read a book". Immediately cites a book.

I don't disagree with your assertion on steps, to be clear, just that you aren't answering the actual question. How can you trust Pollan (I'm not saying you can't, just...that's the core question the OP was asking).

count··on Bill to allow corporate landowners to vote in elections in Seaford, Delaware
Ahaha, that's also evil genius.
count··on Bill to allow corporate landowners to vote in elections in Seaford, Delaware
That was where I was going - a property jointly and severally owned by say, 8000 LLCs.
count··on Bill to allow corporate landowners to vote in elections in Seaford, Delaware
How many ways can you split ownership? Is it just a majority 51%+ owner of the property?
count··on NASA secures contract with Rocky Enterprise Linux
The Marketing Gap. Also the unfortunate detour with Novell and MicroFocus for a few years...
count··on NASA secures contract with Rocky Enterprise Linux
RHEL saying '8' or '9' is supported for 10 years is misleading af. Each 'minor version' (which are, in fact, sometimes large changes!) is supported for it's own specific time period. Odd numbered (8.5, 8.7) for example are only supported for 6 months. https://access.redhat.com/sites/default/files/images/337_rhe...

It's terrifying actually.

count··on The Birth and Death of the Orange Book (2015) [pdf]
If you'd be willing to part with them, I'd be interested in taking them off your hands!
count··on The Birth and Death of the Orange Book (2015) [pdf]
If anybody has an original copy of the Orange Book (and/or the rest of the rainbow series), I'd love to pick them up! Just about impossible to find these days (and no, you can't get them on amazon - that's just someone making cash re-printing public domain data).
count··on Tape Storage Trundles On, Increases Yearly Volume to 128 Exabytes
On the other hand, in anecdote land, in 1.5 decades of use, I never had a tape successfully restore without some kind of failure, corruption or other problem.

Tapes can burn. Give me multi-location online/nearline disk storage any day.

count··on Tape Storage Trundles On, Increases Yearly Volume to 128 Exabytes
The benefit being they can sell more tapes...
count··on Safety I vs. Safety II: An overview (2018)
Great book. Also recommend "Normal Accidents" by Charles Perrow.
count··on FreeBSD spends 7% of its boot time running a bubblesort on its SYSINITs
Haha, there's a thread here on hacker news with tons of comments, so, yeah, somebody noticed! :)
count··on FreeBSD spends 7% of its boot time running a bubblesort on its SYSINITs
Just to be clear, I mean 'enough saved across all pay-per-second ec2 users', not a given specific account or user, which, yeah, it's probably minimal. The scale of lambda and ec2 is...enough to make any small change a very large number in aggregate.
count··on FreeBSD spends 7% of its boot time running a bubblesort on its SYSINITs
Colin's focus has been on speeding up EC2 boot time. You pay per second from time on EC2. A few milliseconds at scale probably ads up to a decent amount of savings - easily imaginable it's enough to cover the work it took to find the time savings.
count··on Running a movie theater is more expensive than you can possibly imagine
A local cinema here does this every other week or so - a late showing (usually 10pm) of some classic like Star Wars (or more recently, Pink Floyd's The Wall). It sells out every time, but I think that it wouldn't do so if that's what they showed every day.
count··on Good conversations have lots of doorknobs
I think listening and waiting is best for establishing understanding, but the line here says it's about 'liking' people the best, which is pretty different in practice.
count··on GitHub incident: ongoing issues with Actions, Issues and other Git operations
You can self-host GitHub Enterprise too.
count··on Satellite data reveal nearly 20k previously unknown deep-sea mountains
The position of most submarines at any given point is considered actually secret, especially if it is underwater. Great expense is undertaken to monitor and listen for other countries undersea vehicles as well.
count··on Why is OAuth still hard in 2023?
Please publish this on its own somewhere! This is fantastic.
count··on Show HN: A 15 min daily stretch routine for desk workers
Historically his perspective was that it wasn't necessary. If you're getting full range of motion exercise, you don't need to stretch, because the exercise itself is doing what needs to be done.
count··on American IQ scores have rapidly dropped, proving the 'Reverse Flynn effect'
'30 years ago' is 1970 to 2000 I bet :)
count··on Emptying the dishwasher with systems theory
This is the way. Alternatively, you can be SUPER lazy and just let the clean ones rest while you fill up the second dishwasher.

Not that I'd ever do something like that.

count··on Catholic group spent millions on app data that tracked gay priests
Fornication with women is a celibacy vow, but otherwise encouraged for the laity to reproduce and be fruitful and multiply. Homosexuality is, as mentioned, viewed as an evil tendency or sin, rather than something to be encouraged, and thus is more serious on its own.
count··on Minimum Viable Hugo
I can deploy [sic] my website to a static file serving service for virtually free (e.g. S3, GitHub Pages, Azure Static Sites, etc.) without having a CDN and without having to worry about renewing SSL certs, managing a full linux instance or container, patching the web server when stuff gets hacked, doing maintenance, etc.

There's a ton of value in 'just static pages', and if you do more than 1, not writing your own HTML is pretty great.

count··on White Castle collecting burger slingers' fingerprints looks like a $17B mistake
A death penalty for the company shouldn't involve all those people losing their jobs, it should involve the wiping out of the existing shareholders and the sale of assets at auction to another buyer, who, presumably, would continue to operate the business in a law abiding manner.
count··on Forget Milk and Eggs: Supermarkets Are Having a Fire Sale on Data About You
Most folks just click 'accept' on any permissions dialog pop when using an app. They don't care what 'discover local network' or 'use bluetooth' means.

So, for many, it's just installing the app and it's collecting/signaling with their permission. Independently, your phone transmits on bluetooth frequencies with a MAC, and that MAC is unique to your phone, so while it might not be linked back to you by a specific app, other apps might report (say, they play bluetooth audio or something), and get indexed and correlated elsewhere.

https://www.skyhook.com check out something like this for more info...

count··on If you own an M2 MacBook Air or MacBook Pro there’s an update for your cable
80% is the 'ideal storage' condition for the battery. If it's always charging to 100%, the battery life is pretty dramatically shortened. Apple enabled this new charging manager that tries to learn your patterns (if you always unplug in the AM and leave with it, it'll learn to charge to 100% before you leave, for example). You can also click the battery icon in the tray (if you have that turned on) and tell it to charge to 100% 'right now', which only takes a minute or two with a full size charger.

This is a positive thing for the life of your battery, but if you do want to disable it, there's a setting in System Settings - click the 'i' in the circle next to Battery Health, and turn off 'Optimize Battery Charging' there.

count··on Half of Americans now believe that news organizations deliberately mislead them
https://twitter.com/OAlexanderDK/status/1626176420648026113 Funny you say that...
count··on Maybe people do care about performance and reliability
Having worked both sides of this, it's generally the case that IT is absolutely terrible at their job that ends up with them getting called in late.
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