IHLayman

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by IHLayman 7y ago
Isn't it possible that, like human languages that evolve over time for multiple reasons ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_change ) such as language contact, principle of least action, and pejoration, that com
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by IHLayman 7y ago
I caught that too. Good thing the test still worked with the trackers blocked.
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by IHLayman 7y ago
Well, I'm a veteran software engineer, and one of my former jobs was to implement pixels and optimize page loading specifically for these kinds of pixels on an e-commerce website. It was a particularly hard problem because if you have
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by IHLayman 7y ago
It’s not just Experian... TransUnion has it too, with the same name as a matter of fact. Although it looks to be a report and not a score just yet, unless I didn’t read it correctly: https://www.transunion.com/product/p
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by IHLayman 7y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. He mentions in this one that he didn’t have time to get into Graham’s number, but I still think TREE(3) is worth mentioning.
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by IHLayman 7y ago
Maybe I missed it, but it was interesting that tetration was mentioned without talking about Graham’s number g_64[0] or Kruskal’s tree theorem and TREE(3)[1], both have been quite popular huge numbers for quite a while now. 0: https:/
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by IHLayman 7y ago
Maybe it is because the company Securus already has a monopoly on inmate communication and they don’t want Facebook to take from their pie, be it via fees or personal data: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180511&#x2
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by IHLayman 7y ago
I didn't realize Snow Crash's chapter on Fedland ( https://soquoted.blogspot.com/2006/03/memo-from-fedland.html ) would be taken as a manual. Ugh. I guess you can't say we weren't warned.
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by IHLayman 7y ago
That's a good hack that I'll have to play with tonight. Thank you!
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by IHLayman 7y ago
I hate to be a spoilsport, but this is a good reminder that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack is still possible in some domains and with some browsers and CLI tools, although some of the easier tricks
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by IHLayman 7y ago
Blaming this on bread and circuses alone is as tone deaf as the article with regards to the problems with poverty in this nation. To be fair, there is a real limiting of opportunity as education is increasingly used as a caste delimiter. Ho
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by IHLayman 7y ago
"For code generation and other ancillary tasks, Go includes the 'go generate' facility. This feature was created specifically to free developers from depending on external build tools. ( https://blog.golang.org&#x2F
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by IHLayman 7y ago
I use Makefiles for Go projects all the time, but not in the way the article describes. First off, in a pre `go mod` world, if you had dependencies to check before running the build, then a Makefile was the easiest way to manage that. But e
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by IHLayman 7y ago
Forget DRM, even future Engilsh may be incomprehensible. There is an entire field of study dedicated to finding a way to make our future voice heard, without a good plausible solution, called Nuclear Semiotics ( https://en.wikiped
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by IHLayman 7y ago
In a related vein of your comment: "After being challenged as to whether homeowners should tell guests smart devices - such as a Google Nest speaker or Amazon Echo display - are in use before they enter the building, he concludes that
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by IHLayman 7y ago
Avoiding your mouse. TUIs can be far faster than GUIs when you don't have to take your hands off the keyboard to reach for a slow mouse.
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by IHLayman 7y ago
I'm sorry but this comment comes from a very privileged position. Let's talk reality here: a large portion of the US can't afford a 400$ expense without going into debt ( https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/
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by IHLayman 7y ago
Watch this Blackhat 2017 talk and maybe it'll change your mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrksBdWcZgQ
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by IHLayman 7y ago
But if they don’t include Ruby in future versions of macOS or Xcode then you’ll have to install that before run big Homebrew... That being said, this is a good thing. By pinning the interpreters to ancient versions Apple is maintaining this
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by IHLayman 7y ago
“If it's a robot we _should_ be equally outraged, but it's actually not possible unless the robot is _designed_ to be racist.” https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/24/11297050/tay-microsoft-ch... on
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by IHLayman 7y ago
https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl Vimium/cVim just doesn't match up and aren't under as aggressive development. For this keyboard-focused developer, there's not a good enough reason to be on Ch
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by IHLayman 7y ago
Also check out glances: https://nicolargo.github.io/glances/ A good terminal display overview of processes, network, disk, and battery.
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by IHLayman 7y ago
For another perspective, the Kubernetes community has had a long discussion about using swap space over the course of the last 2 1/2 years, as you can see in this feature thread: https://github.com/kubernetes/kuber
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by IHLayman 7y ago
I wonder if the “clairaudients” are also subvocalizing like they found people with schizophrenia do: https://slate.com/technology/2016/03/schizophrenia-and-subvo...
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by IHLayman 7y ago
Inching toward wearable millimeter-wave devices makes me pretty nervous about long term cancer effects. 5Ghz is pretty safe, but 140GHz? See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18666810 for a study on the effects of .1
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by IHLayman 7y ago
This research in 2017 and the many studies it references on page 4 beg to differ with you: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311844520_Carbon_di...
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by IHLayman 8y ago
According to [0], there are 61 employees for a $10M company that runs the npm registry. That's news to me. Also, it means that your average 10% layoffs would mean 6 people. [0]: https://craft.co/npm