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by Affric 3y ago
It’s a well written piece but I think (in a similar vein to that article) a lot of it is driven by the codification and deification of “Science”. Given down to children, their heads filled with our best theories. There are different systems
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by Affric 3y ago
It lets devs easily ignore feature requests most of the time. This is not in a cynical way it's just likely not urgent.
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by Affric 3y ago
Yeah... I read all the way to 32 to find an error (and didn't check my working before posting this comment). I wish I could meet these people who can't code a fizz buzz.
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by Affric 3y ago
All civil engineers think they have the right skills to be architects
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End of Life: Okta Verify Apple Watch App(support.okta.com)
2 points by Affric 3y ago|1 comments
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by Affric 3y ago
Well, this is inconvenient. I go on a short holiday and the authentication app I use 4 to 7 times a day is killed. > very low usage rates Wearables are only going to grow. And it’s easily the best way to use it. > Only number challeng
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by Affric 3y ago
I guess at this point it kinda becomes about sustained thermals
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by Affric 3y ago
The whole point of Python is that it abstracts away the low level stuff and you simply “import” and attack the problem you’re actually looking at. It’s optimal for allowing people who don’t have lots of algorithm design memorised to do high
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by Affric 3y ago
Your data is valuable. There are network effects help the companies from phase 1 to phase 2. Ultimately there's an inertia in human decision making that means we almost always stick around longer than we should when we are being taken
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by Affric 3y ago
Enshittification has three stages: 1. Provide great value to the user while you are weak. Provide them a great deal and a disproportionate amount of the surplus value of the exchange. 2. Provide great value to your corporate partners once y
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by Affric 3y ago
You're right to be proud of the NL installed solar capacity per capita but I have to mention you're second behind Australia. PDF[1] No one gives away money for PV systems like Australia. Long may it continue. [1] https:/&#x2
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by Affric 3y ago
Yeah, I find that’s something I do too (though mainly when cringing). Pausing these things kills their impact. That would be the one piece of Netflix data I would love to see: when do people pause feature films.
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by Affric 3y ago
Carl is old and he builds new memories and shared his life with a child and a dog. Carl hates his companions. The child he must suffer is simple and naive. The dog is plainly an idiot. But Russell is trying to improve himself and Dug is pur
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by Affric 3y ago
There are three implementations you’ve listed for actual rendering: WebKit, Blink, Gecko. And it’s unlikely we will ever see another due to how complicated they are to build. It’s been becoming less diverse for almost two decades now. And y
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by Affric 3y ago
A few months ago there was a leak where they showed Apple had x86 servers running MacOS. They have the source and can compile for themselves. I doubt x86 support will truly leave while it’s still the only way to do servers.
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by Affric 3y ago
The long tail is the name of the game. My smart watch can do shitloads of shit I don't need it for. But there's no slimmed down smart watch that can do all the things I need it to do. Imagine trying to make a smart watch that has
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by Affric 3y ago
I think there’s a bit to this and also a bit where he gets it wrong. What’s right: 1. A Bug’s life was underwhelming after Toy Story. I grew to like it more after having entered the workforce. 2. Luca is understated. 3. Kids love Cars way m
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by Affric 3y ago
This is ludicrous. We are currently undergoing one of the largest changes in how people live in the developed world since the public housing boom at the end of the Second World War. We are on the precipice of the end of the age of the offic
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by Affric 3y ago
> there's also a lot of good faith intentions that never manifest for whatever practical reason(s) This is the risk blindness that exists in people that find success. No one will perceive risk correctly. They will either over or und
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by Affric 3y ago
Seems like you're redefining the term right now to better suit your argument.
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by Affric 3y ago
It still isn't defined by the presence of absence of the Y chromosome. Some animals have sex defined by incubation temperature; there are animal species with inbuilt hermaphroditism and dioecious plants; male birds are WW, female birds
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by Affric 3y ago
English is my first language (I don't say native as no one is born speaking a language). In English, I sound Australian in Australia but in Scotland sound like a Scot. My Spanish accent is pretty good, Latinos say I sound like a person
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by Affric 3y ago
The places they're looking to apply effort should be at the inputs into health rather than at the point where medical care starts. Prepare for people missing out on medical intervention when ceteris paribus the only differentiator betw
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by Affric 3y ago
> used for thousands of year (in the context of scientific writing) The Middle English word was "mannen" and in old english "mann" meant roughly the same as we mean with "human" now, i.e. without respect to
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by Affric 3y ago
> “You cannot generalize,” she says. “When people just throw all the data together, they miss the point.”
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by Affric 3y ago
> the 100% abortion rate in Iceland of children who may have had Down syndrome My understanding is that, like in many developed countries, Down’s syndrome screening is offered during pregnancy and the choice is left to the would be paren
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An Evening with Berferd in Which a Cracker Is Lured, Endured, and Studied (1991) [pdf](cheswick.com)
2 points by Affric 3y ago|0 comments
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by Affric 3y ago
100% agree that the argument should be around file system behaviour rather than some imagined social justice in file system names. There are some weird takes on here. Most users aren’t even going to see the file system in the future. If the
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by Affric 3y ago
You've mistaken covariance for causality here. Racism and accelerated catastrophic biodiversity loss patterns have been generated by the same processes geographically.
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by Affric 3y ago
Big part of me building a decent gaming PC will be buying a house and installing solar panels (and maybe a battery considering market conditions and government incentives). At this point we are seeing the globalised fossil fuel market endga

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