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Re:FreeBSD 12.0 is now available on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @11:59PM (#18661513)
This has noticeably changed in past years. More and more thinkpads, more and more dogfooding
Re:Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia on Saturday November 17, 2018 @01:26AM (#18474284)
We both know the way to make this scale is visual pattern matching for identification using artificial intelligence on the blockchain.
Re:Bullshit Jobs on Friday August 31, 2018 @05:13AM (#17884082)
First thing I do when being fired upon is ZDV 3/11 "Gefechtsdienst aller Truppen (zu Lande)", the German soldier's bible.

Handbooks are read during downtime not primetime.

Re:Bullshit Jobs on Friday August 31, 2018 @04:49AM (#17883978)
> The government needs to step in and spend, spend, spend on large ventures like space travel, medical science, robotics for bullshit job insanity to end.

Isn't it hilarious that the governments are the largest purveyors of bullshit jobs and resource extraction?

Re:Ask HN: What are you currently self hosting? on Monday May 14, 2018 @01:00AM (#17062831)
awesome
Re:The Final Days of a Tax Haven on Thursday November 16, 2017 @12:50AM (#15710515)
>I don't see a rational reason why such tax havens should exist in the first place.

From Wikipedia:

An oasis (/oʊˈeɪsɪs/; plural: oases /oʊˈeɪsiːz/) is an isolated area in a desert, typically surrounding a spring or similar water source, such as a pond or small lake.

Re:The Final Days of a Tax Haven on Thursday November 16, 2017 @12:48AM (#15710507)
>I know that'll make me unpopular with a certain vocal minority but those folks haven't ever bought me so much as a cup of coffee so I think I'll live.

Great attitude, sir. But who will build the roads? ;)

Re:If your pay is not yours to keep, then neither is the tax on Thursday September 21, 2017 @08:35AM (#15302678)
Are you saying poor people shouldn't use roads?
Re:If your pay is not yours to keep, then neither is the tax on Thursday September 21, 2017 @08:34AM (#15302673)
I hold title to the roads because I paid for them, whether voluntarily or at gunpoint makes no difference.
Me, in airports.
If three years after a bootcamp you're spending that much time on HN it probably did not go fantastically.
>That in turn may be because historically the level of abuse in the UK has been lower

This must be why persecuted religions fled from UK to US :-D

Re:To Understand 'Brexit,' Look to Britain’s Tabloids on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @06:14PM (#14260698)
To understand Trump, look at the NYT.
The most regularly encountered house price at sale would be the mode.

Median is the value at which 50% of houses trade higher as well as lower.

Where are you going to sue the government... in a government court?
Re:Trump Wants Tax Plan to Cut Corporate Rate to 15% on Monday April 24, 2017 @03:56PM (#14187599)
Then why insist on dividends, and not have companies reinvest?
Re:Trump Wants Tax Plan to Cut Corporate Rate to 15% on Monday April 24, 2017 @03:48PM (#14187487)
Realistically what do you think shareholders do with payouts?
Support for Intel's Broadwell / Skylake range is actively being developed in the `drm-next` branch found at https://github.com/FreeBSDDesktop/freebsd-base-graphics/

Current effort is to reduce the difference between "upstream" FreeBSD (being 12.0-CURRENT) and the project branch, and make the code ready for merging into head.

TrueOS merges that `drm-next` work on an ongoing basis. Likewise, if you're on HardenedBSD, there are binary updates via hbsd-update, or if you'd rather compile things, clone the `hardened/current/drm-next` branch from https://github.com/hardenedbsd/hardenedbsd-playground.

Re:Ask HN: Looking to freelancing as a source of income on Saturday February 18, 2017 @01:00PM (#13675801)
"Enough."

None of that through Upwork and all of it through personal connections.

Re:BSDploy – FreeBSD jail provisioning on Thursday February 09, 2017 @05:22AM (#13605904)
Did you ever get sshuttle ported to FreeBSD?
Re:Microsoft chatbot is taught to swear on Twitter on Thursday March 24, 2016 @02:07PM (#11354979)
> They almost have to teach it good vs evil (morals)

Be careful what you wish for.

The same group of people who taught AI to troll will find a way to turn the morals upside down.

With logic.

Re:Wrestling With Inclusion at LambdaConf on Thursday March 24, 2016 @04:18AM (#11351306)
This form of "sarcasm" is best countered with following it through to its logical conclusion.
Re:Wrestling With Inclusion at LambdaConf on Thursday March 24, 2016 @04:14AM (#11351298)
Right on.
Re:Wrestling With Inclusion at LambdaConf on Thursday March 24, 2016 @03:29AM (#11351161)
Does your "Code of Belief" require enforcing?

I have few redundant personnel of my thought police I could rent out to you.

Re:Wrestling With Inclusion at LambdaConf on Thursday March 24, 2016 @03:28AM (#11351156)
The emotional child's guide to political discussion comes to mind:

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/2b/78/f2/2b78f2e25...

Re:Wrestling With Inclusion at LambdaConf on Thursday March 24, 2016 @02:35AM (#11350999)
How many "problematic" views will you "no-platform" until your "safe space" is a personal hugbox with n=1?

Get over yourself a little and you'll see that the above is the ultimate consequence of your choices to exclude people.

Re:Wrestling With Inclusion at LambdaConf on Thursday March 24, 2016 @02:32AM (#11350984)
> Well today in "tech", if you openly support a republican candidate, good luck being invited at tech events or conferences as a speaker.

Don't worry. Tech is currently undergoing yet another tectonic shift, with the difference that this time it goes into the right direction.

Re:Wrestling With Inclusion at LambdaConf on Thursday March 24, 2016 @02:28AM (#11350969)
> The Americans have a whole load of case law around First Amendment rights, it would be worth familiarizing yourself with that for a few hundred years worth of considered thought.

The First Amendment cannot prevent social ostracization.

Re:Wrestling With Inclusion at LambdaConf on Thursday March 24, 2016 @02:25AM (#11350954)
Go to a Trump rally and tell this to a "Black Lives Matter" supporter, I dare you.

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