DougN7

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by DougN7 2y ago
I feel similarly. I hunt for the Unsubscribe button to every email I don’t want and/or mark it spam in my mail app. It makes a real difference after a while. Unfortunately, companies know most people aren’t like us so they keep pumpi
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by DougN7 2y ago
How will you prove the decentralization is real and not some BS written by a scammer? How will you prove your app matches the open source to someone that can’t compile it themselves?
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by DougN7 2y ago
It sounds like something out of Harry Potter to me.
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by DougN7 2y ago
You’re in the fun phase of designing the tech, but that’s not where the problem lies. I don’t trust you at all. You can tell me about the system you’ve designed, but I only have your word that it really works that way. Trust is 90% of yo
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by DougN7 2y ago
I’m with you 100%. Odd sounding word.
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Buried US Second World War Bomb Explodes at Japanese Miyazaki Airport(theguardian.com)
4 points by DougN7 2y ago|1 comments
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by DougN7 2y ago
Curious about the physics that brought this about now.
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by DougN7 2y ago
You probably just hit a billion dollar idea. Come up with a (many really) car computer replacement. They generally use standard protocols and there can only be so many variations. Your solution could end all the car subscriptions, give m
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by DougN7 2y ago
I don’t usually get excited about database tech but this is amazing. Is there anything similar for SQLite or SQL Server?
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by DougN7 2y ago
I have to disagree. For some reason our industry seems to attract a lot of people that are enamored with the tech for tech’s sake. I was one of those. It has a huge epiphany to me at 26 to realize the tech didn’t matter - it was the peop
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by DougN7 2y ago
The scratch paper is a fantastic analogy. I’m going to use it.
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Greenland landslide caused freak wave that shook Earth for nine days(newscientist.com)
99 points by DougN7 2y ago|14 comments
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by DougN7 2y ago
Look up the Swedish ship Gotheborg. It sailed from Sweden to China and back. They take volunteer sailors (who know nothing) for sailing legs of varying degree. Best adventure of my life so far. Hopefully it will sail again.
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by DougN7 2y ago
I love my 2013 Passat. Stills runs perfectly. I wish they hadn’t discontinued it.
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by DougN7 2y ago
I don’t think manufacturers are purposely making the cars harder to repair - they have to meet stricter and stricter fuel and air quality standards, so need more and more tech to squeeze out more /same performance while burning less fu
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by DougN7 2y ago
True. WWW came out of Zurich as I recall. On the other hand, if someone doesn’t productize a technology and get it into peoples’ hands, does it matter that it was researched?
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by DougN7 2y ago
Amen! The funny thing is this sounds like a “get off my lawn!” rant, and yet it’s so true if you’ve been around long enough to have seen a few tech cycles. But this also only seems to matter if you are NOT in a “move fast and break stuff”
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by DougN7 2y ago
That’s a great analogy
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by DougN7 2y ago
To be fair, they also include the best human intelligence has to offer. But you’re right in that they can’t tell the difference. They’ll never be able to tell us how to build an interstellar transport beam though since none of the input d
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by DougN7 2y ago
Do you have any data at all to support your claim?
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by DougN7 2y ago
Honest question: are we burning mountain ranges of carbon every year? I’m trying to get a feel for the size of the problem compared to the solution. Or is there a reason for the size difference if not? Assuming the answer is yes, do we se
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by DougN7 2y ago
I’m sorry. It’s difficult to live with a sick partner, and most people can’t quite imagine the myriad of effects it has (unless they have also been there). You’re not alone if that helps.
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Symmetrical Gear Spins One Way – Harvesting Surrounding Chaos(hackaday.com)
12 points by DougN7 2y ago|2 comments
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by DougN7 2y ago
I like this definition more. The other way is basically to redefine the meaning of the word “time” to something more akin to “sequence”.
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by DougN7 2y ago
> How did we get here? By someone always pushing the current boundaries as far as they’ll go.
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by DougN7 2y ago
So? Compilers compile and LLMs do not. Compilers use linkers and LLMs do not. Arbitrary distinctions don’t means “this time it’s different”.
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by DougN7 2y ago
I think you’re assuming your reference is the correct one. I can’t reason about the assembly language that the compiler spits out, the microcode in the CPU kernel or any of the electronics on the motherboard. That anyone can or not doesn’
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by DougN7 2y ago
Maybe. People that spent hours in libraries back before the Internet would have said the same thing. Maybe it will be different this time. I don’t know.
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by DougN7 2y ago
Why would that be worse when you have screenshots of everything they saw, typed, uploaded and broadcast? Passwords give you an account - this gives you everything done with the account. And all documents that were viewed, plus where they
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by DougN7 2y ago
Seriously? Treating joke CVEs the same as true sev 1 issues is beyond silly and counter productive. There are very real limits to time, money and attention and pretending otherwise is foolish.

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