Cyphase

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   by Cyphase 8y ago

   I think one of the main reasons it exists is that it's written in Rust. One clue is that the TLD is .rs, plus there's been a lot of "a <type-of-program> written in Rust" lately. Which is fine; it's just an obs
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   by Cyphase 8y ago

   I'll grant you that "eviction process" was not defined above. I didn't mean going to the sheriff on the 2nd of the month to get them removed (not that that would be legally allowed in most places). Giving written notice
3. 573.▲
   by Cyphase 8y ago

   Why do you assume such an action is indicative of a slumlord? Why is it shady? How long should a landlord wait before starting the eviction process (and it is a process, to varying degrees in various places).
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   by Cyphase 8y ago

   Kdtrx: Keep Doing The Right Extraction
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   by Cyphase 8y ago

   A visually impaired software engineer at Yelp recently published a blog post titled, "A Guide to Software Engineering for the Visually Impaired"[1]. He also gave talks at PyOhio[2] and North Bay Python[3]. [1] https://e
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   A Guide to Software Engineering for the Visually Impaired(engineeringblog.yelp.com)

   1 points by Cyphase 8y ago|0 comments
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   by Cyphase 8y ago

   This is from 2010.
8. 578.▲
   by Cyphase 8y ago

   This is from 2010.
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   by Cyphase 8y ago

   PNW = Pacific Northwest (of the continental United States), for anyone who doesn't know; it's not an initialism I use/see too often myself, and I live in California.
10. 580.▲
    by Cyphase 8y ago

    You're referring to the Gell-Mann amnesia effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
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    by Cyphase 8y ago

    You're falling into the fallacy of relative privation. "Why are we so worried about __________ when __________?", implying that you can't be concerned about both.
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    by Cyphase 8y ago

    > I'd like a system when some tiny amount would be deducted automatically from my account every time I read an article on different sites. Figure out how to make that work in the market and you can be a _very_ highly-paid engineer.
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    by Cyphase 8y ago

    Minor nitpick: > it's such hypocratic BS ... You mean hypocritical. And the oath would be spelled Hippocratic.
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    by Cyphase 8y ago

    Sure, if you can reach the mechanical release. I'd be more worried about DoS[0] attacks against the cloud service that prevent me from using the app to call down my bed and other furniture. Or someone hacking in and pulling my bed up w
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    by Cyphase 8y ago

    Here's the original reddit comment: https://np.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2bvpzq/new_recha...
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    by Cyphase 8y ago

    Here's the link: https://www.leoeditor.com/preface.html And for those on small screens: -- Leo is: -- * A fully-featured IDE, with many features inspired by Emacs. * An outliner. Everything in Leo is an outline. * A da
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    by Cyphase 8y ago

    The other screenshotted discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17662135 [How to tell the difference between persuasion and manipulation]
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    by Cyphase 8y ago

    Then that wouldn't be 'curl | bash'.
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    Instrumental convergence and basic AI drives(en.wikipedia.org)

    2 points by Cyphase 8y ago|0 comments
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    by Cyphase 8y ago

    Philip K. Dick explored this idea in his short story "Paycheck"[0], which was made into a movie[1]. Edit: Did you edit your comment? I'm pretty sure you hadn't mentioned Paycheck. No problem, just making sure I'm no
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    by Cyphase 8y ago

    Or a spell-checker at least.
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    It's time to let go of your entertainment backlog(mashable.com)

    2 points by Cyphase 8y ago|0 comments
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    by Cyphase 8y ago

    > I don't think this is The Great Filter though. More likely our civilization disintegrates until it reaches a level of complexity we can handle again, but it's not going to be totally wiped out. I think people assume it often,
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    by Cyphase 8y ago

    Crypto(graphy) already has plenty of use cases. I think you're probably referring to cryptocurrencies/blockchains.
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    by Cyphase 8y ago

    For those who aren't familiar with it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Filter > The Great Filter, in the context of the Fermi paradox, is whatever prevents "dead matter" from giving rise, in time,
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    by Cyphase 8y ago

    From the NetBSD About page[0][1]: > Why the name? > The “BSD” in our name is an obvious recognition of our heritage as a derivative of 4.4BSD and 386BSD. > Our contributors communicate primarily via email and Internet-based chat sy
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    by Cyphase 8y ago

    Probably inspired by the World's Smallest Political Quiz. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_Smallest_Political_Q... https://www.theadvocates.org/quiz/
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    by Cyphase 8y ago

    Here's vekker's list without the formatting: * Organisation of the notes is cumbersome: it wasn't clear to me what is meant with a note and a section, and how to actually start writing (I would expect to be able to start writ
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    by Cyphase 8y ago

    It still appears to be active on GitHub[0][1]. Perhaps all the low-hanging fruit has been picked. As mentioned in the contributing guide[2], they only use authoritative data sources. "OpenAddresses is a collection of authoritative data
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    by Cyphase 8y ago

    What was the fun story?