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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

White-collar crimes. No mandatory minimums on any of those.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

You're right, fixed. I think my point is still valid though.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Not even that. More like "stop shouting and give us a few days, we'll change some things, we promise".

[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Let's look at what are they apologizing for: "for the confusion and angst ... [the policy we announced] caused". Not for the policy itself. Right, "we're sorry you got mad".

And what are they going to do about it? "making changes"

As far as corporate non-apologies go, this is definitely one of them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Is the explanation that this is unintended actually better than owning up to it? So some rogue employee can code this up, pass it through localization teams and then on to customers' computers without any oversight? I'm somehow not calmed by that.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

“We are aware of these reports and have paused this notification while we investigate and take appropriate action to address this unintended behavior,” says Caitlin Roulston, director of communications

"""unintended"""?

How do you implement shit like this by mistake and push it out to be executed on people's computers by mistake?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have a chart: https://www.augusta.edu/services/ehs/chemsafe/PDF%20files/gloveselechart.pdf

It seems that the winner for your combination is Viton.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

SO's attempts at bolting some kind of AI into their site have been a great source of entertainment:

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/425162/we-are-seeking-functional-feedback-for-the-formatting-assistant

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

authorities have stated that they do not expect Cecot’s prisoners to ever be released

Innocence, joining a gang inside, survival don't matter. It's an extermination camp barely disguised.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What I usually do:

  • create degraded raid1 with the new disk only
  • copy the files over
  • adjust fstab if needed
  • wipe the old disk and add it to the raid
  • wait for the kernel to resync it
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