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by Affric 3y ago
> In a few years nobody will remember that this is what precipitated the fall of Reddit. It’s already turned into an echo-chamber of nonsense, ruled by all-powerful mods to whom every user is a racist transphobe nazi homophobe enemy. I h
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by Affric 3y ago
I reread the section and I don’t find it answers my question. I am asking for a general evaluation of the article from someone with more knowledge.
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by Affric 3y ago
> Assuming an attacker first gains code execution capabilities as root, setting environment variables that affect systemmigrationd and its child processes is straightforward using the launchctl utility > Assuming an attacker first gai
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by Affric 3y ago
Okay, I went and found the link regarding visibility in the timor straight with lowered sea levels. > These islands were directly visible from high points on the islands of Timor and Roti and as close as 87km. https://theconve
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by Affric 3y ago
My understanding is that the evidence points to Australia being reached by sight during times of lower sea levels but I can't find the exact publication I first read it in.
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by Affric 3y ago
Sri Lanka was likely connected by a land bridge to South Asia that eventually eroded. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%27s_Bridge How cool is that? With regards to defying all expectations, Columbus was called mad in
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by Affric 3y ago
It’s interesting the great man version of history and its hold on our consciousness. The “sandwich” was “invented” by the Earl of Sandwich’s servants. Erik the Red discovered Greenland (which is in North America) and Leif Erickson “discover
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by Affric 3y ago
>Another factor is that Windows 95 was developed for "install it and leave it" operation, with the next upgrade coming in a year or two. Giving more attention to detail was unavoidable because you could not patch a bug a week a
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by Affric 3y ago
Tangentially related and not many convictions but many rock musicians have famously slept with children.
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by Affric 3y ago
It's not just in tech/open source though. Generations of people who have come up with ideas for institutions have had them sold off to the highest bidder and not seen but a fraction of the value their idea has created. It's t
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by Affric 3y ago
Hey Greg, Thanks for dropping in. It looks… unsettling! Like any UI change. I am sure we will look back on the old page as it appeared someday and wonder how anyone tolerated such a thing. My question is: how long was it bothering you befor
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by Affric 3y ago
I am sorry for your loss. Thank you for sharing all this here. It has really put the article into perspective.
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by Affric 3y ago
That was my reading too.
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by Affric 3y ago
What is the difference between maintenance and regular updates? If I for software it should be complete, correct, and secure. No new features? Fair enough.
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by Affric 3y ago
Easy to say but everyone is missing out. Our knowledge is best when shared and we account for our biases.
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by Affric 3y ago
I don't think intuition tells us much. What we have are perceived interests we seek to rationalise. If we were all to iteratively acknowledge our interests to a greater degree then we could probably learn a lot more from data but I thi
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by Affric 3y ago
Very cool. Like many of these tools it suffers from northern hemisphere bias that hides interesting information about the southern hemisphere. In looking to correctly simulate axial tilt we get Gondwana and Antarctica hidden from view in th
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by Affric 3y ago
That was a great read. Very fun. And wise.
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by Affric 4y ago
Truly this is the most cursed thing. Why can I not even make apps for me and my iCloud family for free? I own all these computers. I pay Apple for a few of their services. Why am I prevented from personal computing and only permitted to use
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by Affric 4y ago
Could you outline the requirements and how such engines cannot be created?
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by Affric 4y ago
You can even get two of them down to a single syllable. "Beer?" "Loo?" "Wifi?" Written with an extra character which indicates tone. English has the meaningless 'do' but even that can be done away wit
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by Affric 4y ago
Right but how many arthropods have eradicated Cordyceps? How many rats have eradicated Toxoplasma? Evolution is much like that old sporting adage, "you can only beat what's in front of you". I think there are a lot of assumpt
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by Affric 4y ago
One comment 3 minutes ago and it starts the same way as mine but I am not so sure. I think underlying demographic trends (which at the moment almost seem like immutable laws) will change our culture irreversibly. What is it going to be like
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by Affric 4y ago
Toxoplasma. Cordyceps. Parasites. There are many creatures which lack any kind of trait we would call intelligence that can use vastly more intelligent and complex creatures to their own ends.
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by Affric 4y ago
post the script pretty please
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by Affric 4y ago
The point of hypertext and the web is that those definitions and footnotes should be built into the document. In a magazine it would be in a definition box at the side using some sort of grid layout.
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by Affric 4y ago
My vibe from people my age is that for personal and mixed personal/business devices that aren’t particularly “tech-minded” is that they feel they don’t need a full laptop anymore and are going for more portable devices. Meaning iPad. G
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by Affric 4y ago
You say "even" but for all his genius (gravitation, discrete calculus) Newton was a bit of a crank: 1. Drinking mercury in pursuit of eternal life 2. Predicting the apocalypse in 2060 (yet to be disproven) 3. Superstition around t
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by Affric 4y ago
My all time Theo (OpenBSD maintainer) interaction, in response to why OpenBSD wasn't affected by TLBleed: >We didn't chase the fad of using every Intel cpu feature.[1] The dedication to security is unparalleled. [1] https:&#x2F
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by Affric 4y ago
There are a lot of things which are shitty about Excel but for the user it's a great program and how much better it is than Google Sheets is a great demonstration. I think building a good spreadsheet program that is both accessible and

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