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ectopod··on NYC officials say they can't find EV garbage trucks powerful enough to plow snow
Public services can be as efficient as private services. And without the overhead of dividends they are cheaper.
ectopod··on Meta prohibited from using personal data for advertisement
The users also provide all of the content.
ectopod··on Easy, alternative soft deletion: `deleted_record_insert`
Here's a simple test: would the data be turned up in legal discovery? Nobody is doing a sector level disk scan but you would be expected to turn over relevant audit data if you had retained it. So it needs to be accurate and GDPR applies.
ectopod··on Ask HN: What is your new year's resolution?
Get a job!
ectopod··on NY Sabotages Right to Repair Bill [video]
This is true of every corrupt country. It's just how things are done. It's still corrupt.
ectopod··on Maids trafficked and sold to wealthy Saudis on black market
I used to live in a country with shitty police. An American I knew there reported several crimes. The officer would ask for his ID and when he opened his wallet the officer would extract his cash and send him on his way. Weirdly, he always believed it would be better next time, but this was actually the good level of service. The locals never went to the police because they knew to expect worse. The police in many countries serve only the powerful and themselves.
ectopod··on O Holy Crap
Pyrex used to be exclusively borosilicate glass but some of their stuff is regular glass now. And as the author discovered, it doesn't like sudden temperature changes.
ectopod··on Scientists generate XX and XY cells from a person with Klinefelter syndrome
The large gender disparity in China's population didn't occur naturally.
ectopod··on A non-constructive proof of the Four Colour Theorem
Of writing, prosaic means unpoetic, i.e. dull.
ectopod··on Wells Fargo to pay $3.7B for mistreating customers
Why on earth would you think this? The executives don't change the system because it continues to make them money and they suffer no consequences for the company's malfeasance. Maybe this fine is enough to rebalance the equation but I doubt it.
ectopod··on Ask HN: What is the cheapest, easiest way to host a cronjob in 2022?
Some boxes come with systemd, which has its own scheduler, but not cron. This is not a big deal but I was somewhat confused the first time I saw it.
ectopod··on “The more reliant we are on others, the less resilient we are as a nation”
I travelled freely in China fourteen years ago. I paid cash everywhere. Nobody had a smartphone. I didn't feel surveilled. From my limited perspective it seems much less free now.
ectopod··on Atom was archived today
vim has both terminal and gui builds. The latter supports the mouse.
ectopod··on A Linux Evening
Exactly. My tendency is to jump in and try to root cause problems but nowadays the most productive solution is almost always some kind of a restart.
ectopod··on How to rebuild social media on top of RSS
Yes, RSS is terrible, use Atom. They do the same job, most tools support both, and one of them was thoughtfully designed.
ectopod··on The Plan-9 Effect or why you should not fix it if it ain't broken (2016)
Being pedantic, isn't Minix more widespread because Intel embedded it in CPUs?
ectopod··on I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you
Not necessarily. They might have concluded that the potential liability from non-ownership was insignificant compared to the upside. Even when courts find against corporations who have massively screwed artists the compensation tends to be modest, and this case isn't clear cut.
ectopod··on The mid in fake midcentury modern
Fun fact: Qatar's world cup football stadia were designed by Albert Speer & Partners. This Albert was the son of the Nazi.
ectopod··on The Peking Duck Exemption
The science bit says it's safe because the seasoning inhibits microbial growth during the drying period, but the recipe at the top applies the seasoning after the drying period. Something doesn't add up.
ectopod··on Drowning in AI Generated Garbage: the silent war we are fighting
Mincemeat can be vegetarian but it traditionally contains suet.
ectopod··on Acorn ARM Evaluation System
It was the first ARM product but it wasn't the first RISC product.
ectopod··on Ofcom letter on restrictions on internet services for “designated persons” [pdf]
EE has just removed the DNS entry from their server. 1.1.1.1 still works.
ectopod··on Comparing Google and ChatGPT
Thirteen years ago I met a traveller who paid their way with travel writing, which was basically blog spam. They soon ran out of authentic material so they started writing about places they'd never been using some light googling for inspiration. For a long time now people have been making advertising money by creating bullshit on a large scale. How are you going to prove that any content is organic?
ectopod··on Wayland Protocol Finally Ready for Fractional Scaling
You can usually set a custom date format without changing the locale, and you can usually find a tool to edit the nasty config file it's buried in. It is a pain though.
ectopod··on Ghana plans to buy oil with gold instead of dollars
It is paper. Paper made with cotton.
ectopod··on CEO pay skyrocketed 1,460% since 1978: CEOs paid 399 times as much vs. worker
Its not uncommon in the UK but the big investors tend to be funds and their managers are part of the same class that benefits from ever increasing executive compensation. So they rarely vote against.
ectopod··on Mercedes locks faster acceleration behind a $1,200 annual paywall
You need to fix the broken spring in your accelerator pedal.
ectopod··on Just putting it out there
Your first three paragraphs are a précis of the article so at a glance your post seems pointless. I suspect that prompted the down votes. Maybe skip the fluff.
ectopod··on “Judas goats” were once key players in meatpacking plants
Or there is a car coming and it isn't slowing down but there is just enough time for me to nip across in front of it. Maybe this doesn't happen in countries with jaywalking laws, but it does happen here.
ectopod··on Bethesda issues statement to Mick Gordon
I thought it was just a negotiation, not a lawsuit. In an actual lawsuit there would be time limits to prevent these stalling tactics.
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