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by Ginden 5y ago
> Silent truncation only occurs if strict sql_mode is disabled. Strict sql_mode has been the default since MySQL 5.7, released over 6 years ago. What happens if you upgrade from older version? Are defaults from previous version used, or
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by Ginden 5y ago
Buying copper mesh from shop is far more accessible to average user than setting up TOR relay.
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by Ginden 5y ago
> The only real practical example is fall detection, what's the real purpose of this? I can think of few real world applications. Eg. I have autism and air filter. Air filter working on full power is very uncomfortable for me, but w
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by Ginden 5y ago
> What bothers me even more, is that if the neighbors above me decide to join an "Apple Security Sensing Program" by toggling it on, it may as well be sensing and logging my activity. 60 Ghz is heavily blocked by walls, glass a
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by Ginden 5y ago
> With this technology, it will be integrated into your router (and clients?), so turning those off will mean to turn off WiFi altogether. It's rather unreasonable to think that you won't be able to turn off band on router. Esp
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by Ginden 5y ago
Unions are organizations that transfer value from employer and non-union members (including not-employed-yet employees and customers) to union members. Long term effects of that transfer are rather unpredictable, because there are too many
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by Ginden 5y ago
> It sets up users who are passionate about free software — i.e. your most passionate contributors or potential contributors — as second-class citizens. False premise. Die-hard free software fans who refuse to use proprietary software ar
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by Ginden 5y ago
Such definition is just useless and therefore should be abandoned. > hover none of them improves programmer productivity by an order of magnitude. I disagree. I can write efficient SQL statement in 2 minutes, but implementing efficient m
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by Ginden 5y ago
> most open-source interfaces are like eating on a diet. Because there aren't open-source contributing UX/UI designers. Almost all open source interfaces are quick work done by mostly backend developers.
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by Ginden 5y ago
Though, i9 Macs were notoriously bad due to heat management, slower than i7 Macs in many applications.
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by Ginden 5y ago
Can we compile it to WebAssembly and benchmark...?
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by Ginden 5y ago
Even if so, configuring forwarding-only VPS costs ~3$/month.
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by Ginden 5y ago
> So, there is no easy way to keep them local, small and diverse I was lately thinking about some kind legislative action against network effects. Let's make it easy to migrate to other platforms. Obvious way to do this is to requir
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by Ginden 5y ago
Current vaccines are effective at infection prevention. For modRNA vaccine, it's around 80% after 6 months. Transmission seem to be recuded only for 2 months after vaccination.
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by Ginden 5y ago
> You don’t need 100% efficacy to achieve herd immunity (obviously I’m not an epidemiologist and my terms are imprecise) if you have a sufficiently vaccinated population. Treshold of herd immunity depends on transmitability. For delta va
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by Ginden 5y ago
I would like to notice, that significant portion of people moving abroad for work in high-tech industries are top performers. Extrapolating from their experiences isn't necessarily helpful if you aren't top performer yourself.
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by Ginden 5y ago
Maybe, but liquidifing all wealth of all US billionaires at once (built over decades), even if it's possible (it isn't), would give UBI of $12000 for single year. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=4+trilli
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by Ginden 5y ago
But if you submit that to scientifical journal it will be published. ;)
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by Ginden 5y ago
Outcompeting other variants that fast is deeply disturbing - it implies very strong advantage in terms of transmitability over other variants.
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by Ginden 5y ago
We're there any actual timings attacks executed like this? I'm talking about stack "attacker => internet => reverse-proxy => app => database", not extracting data over LAN from exposed app.
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by Ginden 5y ago
IndexedDB is pinnacle of bad API design and I'm not surprised that people will shoot their own feet with it.
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by Ginden 5y ago
> Now, no matter how hard you work, how smart you are, if you come from the ‘wrong’ family you’ll probably never own property. That is feudalism. We’re going back into a world of aristocracy. Capitalism’s over. As of 2021, 47.9% millenia
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by Ginden 5y ago
AFAIR if you have Mac, you are legally allowed to run MacOS in VM on that computer.
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by Ginden 5y ago
Marxists predicted that capitalism will fall in few years in 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s,1960s,1970s. For some unexplainable reason, predictions of dramatic changes in systems with billions of variables always fail.
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by Ginden 5y ago
> I can install tsc for use anywhere with npm install --global typescript, but when I switch to my project I have to remember to use its tsc from node_modules/.bin/tsc Just use `npx tsc`
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by Ginden 5y ago
> I change my opinions way too frequently for it. That's interesting, though. I rarely change my opinions, but I noticed one thing - I often say "I don't know about this subject enough to have strong opinion". I feel
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by Ginden 5y ago
I write, because it makes my arguments reusable for like-minded people, with sources, quotes etc.
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by Ginden 5y ago
> The theory of market competition says that moves like this should be impossible because it would open Intel up to being undercut by a competitor nearly instantly. However, we can see that monopoly capitalism does not function the way
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by Ginden 5y ago
Browser extension stores should be more transparent about open source and licensing. And probably they should collaborate with CI providers - eg. make contract with GitHub to sign artifacts with "these files were built using following
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by Ginden 5y ago
> How far are we away from gene editing that will allow humans to be born with working gills or wings? Impossible due to physics limits. Human lungs have 57 square meters for extracting oxygen from fluid with 21% volume oxygen. 30°C air-

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