adenylyl
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Comment · 1 year ago
My understanding is that probationary employees weren't eligible for the deferred resignation offer.
Comment · 2 years ago
The US government does run its own self-hosted analytics platform (https://analytics.usa.gov), which the USPS does in fact use. Which makes it all the more questionable that they were additionally using third-party analytics.
Comment · 5 years ago
Why is this interesting? Rosetta 2 is documented to not support AVX: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple_silicon/abou...
Comment · 6 years ago
There have been a series of beta releases since June. (For some reason, they say in the linked page that beta releases have only been available since August, but that's not correct).
Comment · 7 years ago
For example, there is no option to cancel a Wall Street Journal digital subscription on the web site, unless you change your billing address to one in California, and then a cancel option will appear.
Comment · 7 years ago
Someone recorded the SEGA Channel's menu interface on VHS back when it was in operation and has subsequently uploaded it to YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMRLZcBiN-k&t=72s
An interesting detail of the SEGA Channel is that it was a one-way modem. There was no way for the cartridge to communicate anything back to the headend. Instead, there was a constant broadcast of
Game 1, Menu program, Game 2, Menu program, Game 3, ...
looping forever. When you selected a game, it would just wait for it to come around on the loop and store it locally.
Comment · 7 years ago
The Public Access to Court Electronic Records system is not meant to provide public access to court electronic records?
Comment · 8 years ago
I don't know, Apple had all the source code to GS/OS leak a few years ago. Now _that's_ serious!
Comment · 9 years ago
"Erase the affected volume" is really the best solution they could come up with?
Comment · 11 years ago
"Anticipated Clearance Level: Q (Position will be cleared to this level)."
... why would someone working on climate modeling software need a clearance for nuclear weapon design information?
Comment · 11 years ago
If you’re interested in Infocom stuff, I’d also recommend Jimmy Maher’s ongoing series on the history of Infocom: http://www.filfre.net/tag/infocom/