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by Jach 2y ago
OVH and Hetzner offer cheap unmetered VPS instances, Cloudflare CDN doesn't have any bandwidth restrictions... Yes 10GB of data is cheap. If they were serving off EC2, then after the first 100 GB of the month it's 9 cents/GB
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by Jach 2y ago
I don't really disagree with anything here, except that I think "not my job, not my problem" is at best a sign of unhealthy dysfunction, and not something to aspire to. Well, for most people; probably certain annoying activis
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by Jach 2y ago
There are a bunch of GDC talks about matchmaking systems over the years too for those curious about things that have been done. For a successful game a lot of things have to be taken into account, not just skill.
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by Jach 2y ago
The parent has failed if the child can't teach themselves by that age. Besides, as you say, it's not so much the phone itself -- those risks can be learned or taught separately from the phone. (I didn't have my first phone un
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by Jach 2y ago
Not sure if you're referencing it but there was a recent scandal where it was suspected someone playing against Magnus might have had a wireless butt plug to enable some cheating... The sibling comment makes a point about anonymity, I
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by Jach 2y ago
The countryside honor system is still present in certain parts of the US (sometimes it's even present in suburban neighborhoods!), it doesn't blow my mind. (I also have living memory of how good things used to be in various places
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by Jach 2y ago
On a roadtrip a few years ago I was struck by the design of a row of vending machines at a rest stop: entirely walled off / caged off by a solid metal security mesh, with small holes to just barely let people operate them. Very much li
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by Jach 2y ago
Existing welfare schemes do a lot to approximate a UBI scheme, just with a lot more overhead, paperwork, moral grandstanding, various other inefficiencies that lower the useful amounts, and stress for all involved. Still, if a UBI scheme we
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by Jach 2y ago
I'd hazard a guess that the answer is yes, but we'll see. The thing about Opera (and MS with Edge) is that they've already bitten the give-up bullet once by moving to a Chromium-base in the first place, rather than continue w
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by Jach 2y ago
It is the better road, and the road chosen by most other things that aren't SaaS, including Google's other most popular thing, Android. Keep the default to auto-update, fine, but let me disable that, as the Android app store does.
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by Jach 2y ago
Lots of comments here remind me of another rms quote: "They seem to have learned the habit of cowering before authority even when not actually threatened. How very nice for authority. I decided not to learn this particular lesson.&qu
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by Jach 2y ago
I'll believe Google cares about extension security when they allow the user to trivially disable auto-updates.
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by Jach 2y ago
I agree on the management aspect, and even promoting good engineers "too high" on the "parallel promotion track" can effectively take them out of the engineering work just as much as if they went into pure management. &q
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by Jach 2y ago
> (I often had to compile twice due to indexing) This trips people up a lot once they do anything involving cross-referencing or bibliographies. But for some reason some people use latex for a long time and never hear about latexmk, whic
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by Jach 2y ago
My needs for webdev debugging have always been satisfied by Firefox, but last time I was really in the weeds ~4 years ago I had the feeling both it and Chrome were still missing things I took for granted with Firebug long ago. I don't
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by Jach 2y ago
It's also worth mentioning that Firefox doesn't force you to auto-update add-ons, but Chrome/Chromium do. (There was a hack workaround to keep Chromium from updating, but I forgot what it was or if it still works. It wasn&#x2
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by Jach 2y ago
Application-independent zoom is such a nice feature. I've been keeping a zombie version of compiz (formerly beryl) on linux working for years, mainly because I love my wobbly windows and desktop cube, but it's long had two feature
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by Jach 2y ago
I would hope that a system competent enough to migrate to bcrypt would also be competent enough to rehash the entire database as well. Logins check bcrypt(oldHash(pw)); if it matters they can be updated to bcrypt(pw). Of course, "Hope
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by Jach 2y ago
Besides being slow, there's also an implicit salt, so rainbow tables to quickly check every account for "password" don't exist. Still, if you just used a simple dictionary word present in e.g. /usr/share/d
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Apparently some of them feature two-way communication so you can for example talk to your pets.
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by Jach 2y ago
What do you think of Coalton?
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by Jach 2y ago
In baseball and other sports, pros and cons of different styles are readily and honestly talked about, even when coaches have a bias. See e.g. https://blog.paddlepalace.com/2014/01/coaching-tip-playing-t... for ta
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by Jach 2y ago
It's not a perfectly reliable tell, but people who write LISP instead of Lisp generally give themselves away as knowing nothing about the language. Why not kick the tires with Common Lisp, or even Clojure, and see if you can then under
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by Jach 2y ago
At a certain level, sure, but C++ at least has definitely lost out. In the 90s it seemed like it might really take over all sorts of application domains, it was incredibly popular. Now and for probably the last couple decades it and C have
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by Jach 2y ago
I see plenty of such people who don't seem to have such a problem, at least not uniformly (some habits stick, some don't), so unfortunately I don't think such a simple excuse works. I think examining Big 5 personality traits,
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Most of the stuff I've seen has not been so polite, he's such a notorious hater. Still, it can be entertaining in a way, in small doses (I imagine I'd feel a bit different if I was forced to share a newsgroup commons for year
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by Jach 2y ago
Yup, though usual caveats on if the item stored is itself a fat object requiring a pointer chase... SIMD exists as well, SBCL has it available out of the box through sb-simd. SBCL also tries to be a bit smart with its linked lists: when fir
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by Jach 2y ago
The link you gave does not support your claims about Waymo, it's just speculation. What "critical" intervention rate are you talking about? What network magically supports the required low latencies to remotely respond to an
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by Jach 2y ago
IBM Watson was more than a couple years back. The Jeopardy event was in 2011. It's currently 2024. As for cars, I don't know what you're referring to specifically, and the hype is still ongoing as far as I can tell. It has ta
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by Jach 2y ago
Yeah something like 10-15 years ago I thought for just the simple action of printing a file, it was way easier in Ubuntu than Windows, simply because they included a lot of drivers in the distro by default, while in Windows land I still had

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