EnFinlay

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by EnFinlay 8y ago
Fun, I deleted my 9 year old account last night. It's wasn't out of some high-minded thing about how they're turning more into Facebook or privacy or anything. That site just hits my dopamine so effectively I had to quit and
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by EnFinlay 8y ago
It seems every intro to networking goes into the headers of each layer's most common protocol.
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by EnFinlay 8y ago
I can't get past the sub headline: > Twins' DNA 'shockingly similar' Identical twins are supposed to have identical DNA, right? Or did I really misunderstand a lot of school.
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by EnFinlay 8y ago
> 100% of the people who believe...have never heard of the scientific method Ludicrous. Smart and educated people fall for scams and join cults. > many older people find critical thinking to be taboo What? > They tend to be wrong w
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by EnFinlay 8y ago
To be pedantic, that's till harvesting your data, it's just not selling it. Does that make it malicious and stupid?
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by EnFinlay 8y ago
Have you read Voltaire's Bastards? https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6584.Voltaire_s_Bastards It is an in depth criticism of the overly rational. A lot of it went over my head or didn't make sense beca
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by EnFinlay 8y ago
As a whole, I doubt a book like this would be of much use to a non-programmer. There are some high level tricks that might be fun to learn, and could be loosely applied to day-to-day thinking (should this be solved in a brute force way, or
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by EnFinlay 8y ago
I scan my own items at the checkout because it's faster, not because of how fun it is for a machine to boop at me. (that said if I have a lot of produce the human cashier is faster)
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by EnFinlay 8y ago
Likewise. They should send a notification to all e-mails on record for compromised accounts.
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by EnFinlay 8y ago
Absolutely, and we should have a lot of skepticism to conclusions from those branches of research as well.
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by EnFinlay 8y ago
I think they're referring to the problem of measuring programmer output (and thus, measuring programmer efficiency). And how the output of that work (lines of code) can actually be reduced, but still considered productive. I'm not
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by EnFinlay 8y ago
> Practice makes perfect... "Hmm, sounds too cliche" > The well-known 10,000-hour principle, popularized by Malcolm Gladwell, illustrates an important lesson.. "Much better, I've used more words"
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by EnFinlay 8y ago
I think it's an interesting look at the spread of bad information. When the concept of "everyone is 10,000 hours from being an expert" first surfaced, it was spread far and wide. As time went on and more evidence came out tha
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by EnFinlay 8y ago
Re: your second point, I experienced that too. It's an interesting thing to deal with.
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by EnFinlay 8y ago
Anyone else find this bit kinda creepy? > The Dubovoys used the same brokerage accounts repeatedly, and they owned some of them directly or through immediate family members with shared surnames. Their association could also be easily con
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by EnFinlay 8y ago
The liability issues might make it pretty difficult, I don't know what they ship on the Mississippi, but Lake Charles has a ton of LNG tankers with tight traffic restrictions.
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by EnFinlay 8y ago
Kind of how like many ports have pilots that have specialized local knowledge and handle the finesse piloting into berth? Example: Lake Charles in Louisiana - http://www.lakecharlespilots.com/
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by EnFinlay 8y ago
Both statements are saying the same thing - KPIs should be highly accessible and visible.
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by EnFinlay 8y ago
The article is about the dangers of large companies tracking users to such a high degree that it's dangerous for us, profitable for them. Facebook is an example. Google is also an example. Personally I'm more worried about Google
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by EnFinlay 8y ago
Summary of Rich Dad, Poor Dad: Assets are things that give you money. Liabilities are things that cost you money. Therefore your house is a liability until it is sold, at which point it MIGHT be a net asset. Try to maximize your assets and
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by EnFinlay 8y ago
I'm guessing the downvotes are coming because you are defending a policy which is objectively cruel. To say "this is official policy" doesn't stop the reality of the cruelty. Generally people don't support this. The
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by EnFinlay 8y ago
That's the part that I can never understand with blockchain applications. Blockchain technology is excellent at maintaining a ledger or variables of information within the blockchain - these processes are completely trustless due to th
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by EnFinlay 8y ago
> Rare Species Protection I can't think of a part of meatspace more removed from the special properties of a blockchain. That's honestly dumber than blockchain iced tea or KodakCoin.
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by EnFinlay 8y ago
> UPDATE posts SET public = true; 584,203,510,091,521 records updated
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by EnFinlay 8y ago
If people choose to judge them by a different time scale than you, their conclusions seem pretty justified.
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by EnFinlay 8y ago
Powerlines are far from lossless, so there is still an advantage to being close to the power source. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_power_transmission#Lo...
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by EnFinlay 8y ago
$1+ Science and Philosophy - Alfred North Whitehead The Genome - Sergei Lukyyaneko Mind: A Unified Theory of Life and Intelligence - Frank T. Vertosick Jr. On Shaky Ground - John J. Nance Atomic Accidents - Jim Mahaffey Martian Summer - And
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Science and Non-Fiction Humble Bundle(humblebundle.com)
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by EnFinlay 8y ago
> PS: One side note. A senior coding position might feel age discriminatory because senior is for talented ~28 year olds to mediocre ~40 year olds. A 50 year old should be architect/manager or not switch jobs. In other words, it mig
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by EnFinlay 9y ago
This sounds awfully close to the "why would I care about surveillance, I'm not doing anything wrong" argument. The reason it's important for Facebook to be legally required to protect user data is because you have no cho

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