I'm always mystifed as to why the heck this is on any goverment phones in the first place? With the exception of perhaps PR wonks whos job it is to be on "the socials" (thank you PR wonks, btw).
Readit Newsfl0ps commented on Belgium bans TikTok from federal government work phones reuters.com/technology/be... · Posted by u/cscurmudgeon
fl0ps commented on Disambiguating Arm, Arm ARM, ARMv9, ARM9, ARM64, AArch64, A64, A78, ... nickdesaulniers.github.io... · Posted by u/matt_d
Bookmarked (and appreciated!) solely to let me be lazy and send a link instead of repeating the same speech to other devs.
fl0ps commented on SVB failure doesn't threaten 'safety and soundness' of banking system finance.yahoo.com/news/sv... · Posted by u/karlzt
This sounds suspiciously close to the "we are in no danger except for a bank run" statement from SVB right before the FDIC took over.
fl0ps commented on Oxy is Cloudflare's Rust-based next generation proxy framework blog.cloudflare.com/intro... · Posted by u/lukastyrychtr
They obliviously missed an opportunity to call it "Roxy" and avoid the unfortunate current name collision...
fl0ps commented on Why are so many guys obsessed with Master and Commander? gq-magazine.co.uk/culture... · Posted by u/axiomdata316
"Why are so many (of .003% of the male population)..." This feels like some kind of weird PR resurge effort to promote a fake trend into real popularity, for who or what reason I can only guess.
fl0ps commented on Bank run on Silicon Valley Bank techcrunch.com/2023/03/09... · Posted by u/albertut
> if you're CEO of a bank that's facing a bank run
Or just don't mess with money that belongs to customers. Be the world's first reliable bank.
Not a finance guy but I think that would literally be the opposite of how banks work. They have to lend out customers money in various forms, including giving that money to other customers in the form of loans, loaning it in huge chunks to companies for larger percentage rates than they give customers who keep their money in said bank, and so forth. Not sure how a bank that kept every customers money on hand all the time would work.
The non-monologue people might have the same question in reverse: If there's a monologue running in your head all day every day, how in the world do you find a moment to think? :)
We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive-officer-for-the-week...
fl0ps commented on List of oldest known surviving buildings en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis... · Posted by u/Bondi_Blue
Seems to be missing references to the Dragon Houses of Greece, some of which are beleived to date back to the bronze age:
fl0ps commented on Humans Started Riding Horses 5k Years Ago, New Evidence Suggests scientificamerican.com/ar... · Posted by u/geox
I always find the wording of these discoveries interesting where a certain thing started at a particular time, instead of by a particular time. The difference might seem small but I think using "by" better conveys some temporal distance of ramp-up to that technology could be considered, wherease "started at" seems quite abrupt.
fl0ps commented on Atlassian Reducing Workforce by 500 sec.gov/Archives/edgar/da... · Posted by u/laminarflow
If this isn't just playing "follow the leader" behind companies like Meta and Amazon, I wonder if it's related to loss of revenue from customers balking at the exorbitant rates for Jira and Confluence. I understand there's a balance between selling as wide as possible and then having to support that wider dispersal (to eventually diminishing returns) but from the outside the numbers seem rather unreasonable. I know at least two large companies who are actively looking for a replacement because of that (even with the understood compromise in features this might entail).