JackC

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by JackC 9y ago
It's fun to try stuff like this. In iOS for example you can go to Settings - General - Accessibility - VoiceOver to try the screen reader experience. For the shruggie I get "macron backslash underscore japanese in a different voi
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by JackC 9y ago
For a learning project, I started messing around with the rodio library to generate realtime electronic music: https://github.com/jcushman/coolsounds As a python programmer, the part I find exciting/motivational i
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by JackC 9y ago
I'm a skeptic. For a preview of this, try using a retina MacBook at full resolution with a pair of $10 jewelers glasses. Personally I found it super slow and frustrating to have to turn my head instead of my eyes to see different parts
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by JackC 9y ago
For me (beta channel FWIW) the extension was installed and enabled. Apparently the code wouldn't modify page contents unless an additional setting was set, but yes it was installed and run without permission.
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by JackC 9y ago
I did not opt in and I have the "Looking Glass - MY REALITY IS JUST DIFFERENT THAN YOURS." extension enabled. Adding my me-too because I was fully convinced this was user error until I saw it myself. The opt-in is busted.
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by JackC 9y ago
Fun thought experiment! A few reasons the "pony express blockchain" feels unworkable in practice: - There's a vanishingly narrow band of "apocalypse" where the internet is gone, but everyone still has electricity an
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by JackC 9y ago
In Massachusetts, if you do benefit from the tax rebate, the final price is $22k. For a lease it's $115 per month, with no money down after rebate: http://massenergywebservices.com/drivegreen/table-all.php#bo... I
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by JackC 9y ago
Ditto leetrout: upgrading Django itself is easy, with great release notes, deprecation warnings, and long support windows for old versions. We always end up with a bunch of third party libraries, though, and those end up being upgrade block
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by JackC 9y ago
Maybe I'm just not the target audience, but I found this intriguing yet confusing. It might benefit from an explanation of typical use cases -- what do people do now that Dhall would be a better tool for? I read the tagline: "Dhal
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by JackC 9y ago
This is true of any project using Zappa, right? https://github.com/Miserlou/Zappa The python project defines a wsgi application (which is a python function meeting the wsgi spec), and Zappa runs the function on Lambda.
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by JackC 9y ago
As a recent parent I would love it if there was more realistic health information for parents about the benefits of breastfeeding. As best I can tell from metastudies (which I'm totally unqualified to read), the scientific answer right
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by JackC 9y ago
Law school answer: if Musk is on the board of Tesla and wants a deal to happen with BoringCo, but also has an interest in BoringCo, Musk discloses the conflict, recuses himself from the vote, and a + b plus x + y + z have to approve the dea
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by JackC 9y ago
As a legal fine point: the list I want isn't just "sites which have used DMCA takedowns to force removal from other blacklists," but more like "sites which allege that they are legally required to be loaded if embedded i
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by JackC 9y ago
This is pretty much what I want. If loading sketchy third-party tracking images is a condition of reading your content, fine, but tell me in advance so I can pass.
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by JackC 9y ago
> either insane or just a troll I think "artist collective with various goals among the members" might be closest? No idea how accurate it is, but there's some interesting speculation about various people behind the NN per
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by JackC 9y ago
I like brutalist websites because they remind me of those weird passion projects you find on the web from time to time ... Netochka Nezvanova [1] Ted's Caving Page, with the story of his discovery in a local cave [2] TempleOS [3] Jon B
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by JackC 9y ago
"Understand the importance of the Trinity of delivery: Delivery manager, product owner, tech lead" I'm only familiar with teams too small to have separate roles like this. How does good software planning scale down to smaller
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by JackC 9y ago
It comes across pretty badly in my dialect of American English to turn adjectives about people into nouns. For example, "I saw a disabled on the bus today" or "a visually impaired" or "a Chinese" without "
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by JackC 9y ago
> I wonder if somebody who finds a flaw in a smart contract can legally just jack all the coins One way to interpret this legally is to assume that smart contracts are in fact enforceable legal contracts. (Most promises about exchanging
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by JackC 9y ago
This is the wrong level of abstraction to think about the problem at. You're talking about how it was done, in terms of technical implementation. Focus on the effects, in terms of real-world exchange value -- that's what matters
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by JackC 9y ago
> "forking the currency like this is wrong because it'd be illegal if this was a company operating under US law" That's not my argument. My argument is that there's a reason it's illegal under US law (and pr
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by JackC 9y ago
> The classic chain is still there, anyone can use it if they like. That's probably the best thing that happened, both groups had their own way and went their own way. Semantic games aside, this is a classic illegal maneuver in corp
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by JackC 9y ago
This series is the best thing ever. An idea: I have a three-month-old daughter who I'll definitely be buying Lego for when she gets old enough. What I'll be looking for is whatever's the least valuable in your collection -- b
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by JackC 9y ago
If you're a coder I bet you could hack it to do that. It has an amazing containerized browser mode where you can browse in a remote browser via VNC, with the remote browser set up to use a WARC-writing proxy. So the general outline wou
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by JackC 9y ago
For personal web archiving, I highly recommend http://webrecorder.io . The site lets you download archives in standard WARC format and play them back in an offline (Electron) player. It's also open source and has a quick loc
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by JackC 9y ago
> Does everyone here actually believe that the NSA shouldn't hoard vulnerabilities? Nope! We know it's more complicated than that. But we think the NSA strikes the wrong balance between offense and defense. If you want to under
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by JackC 9y ago
A couple of criticisms I've seen for this idea, as best I understand them as an amateur: (1) It's hard to use a multihash construct correctly. For example, do you want "hash1(message) + hash2(message)" or "hash1(mes
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by JackC 9y ago
Crystal ball: this is the Tesla self-driving car strategy. First deploy the hardware, then figure out the software. In this case the real point of the depth-sensing camera hardware and machine-learning image analysis isn't hands-free s
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by JackC 10y ago
Two thoughts: - I think I would sell this as a private camera app ("protect you and your partner from prying eyes"), rather than by emphasizing the two-party crypto angle ("protect you from your partner"). Like, make the
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by JackC 10y ago
One new allegation (as far as I know) in this article is this: "Obama also knows that NSA documents Snowden copied and removed but did not give to those journalists in Hong Kong were used to embarrass America’s allies in NATO well afte

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