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by LeonB 2y ago
(I meant to respond to the gp comment here, soz. I agree with everything the parent comment says.) > Presumably because loading will break? I think the object will still load ok, I’m not sure if it would break because it’s been so long s
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by LeonB 2y ago
In my personal projects I’ve been using variations on the same simple code for saving/loadings objects for a decade or so, and have very few problems. The heart of the code is this interface - public interface IStashy<K>
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by LeonB 2y ago
Not Louisiana!
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by LeonB 2y ago
Yup. Regulators would rather sue Apple than the end users for the same reason John Dillinger chose to rob banks - “that’s where the money is.”
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by LeonB 2y ago
If Johnny Nobucks makes an illegal broadcast using an Apple device - or rather if Johnny Nobucks makes an app for the express purpose of doing the illegal broadcast, and distributes it to 1 million other users on Apple devices — the FCC equ
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by LeonB 2y ago
I know a CEO who “can” do sql - and better than most of the people in the business who do sql — but they refuse to do it, because they understand basic economics. If they spend half a day doing a job someone else can do — even if it takes t
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by LeonB 2y ago
I love discovering the people inside enterprises who don’t realise how awesome they are at coding. They might be a “personal assistant” or something but they hack on sharepoint forms or access or excel and make it sing - acknowledging their
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by LeonB 2y ago
Welp. I’m not even slightly surprised, but i fact checked this anyway. Here’s the article — and it’s even more alarming when you read the details. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/04/people_tru
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by LeonB 2y ago
This is a great idea for an experiment. I’m not sure how it would go. Some people would refuse to give info to both the simple form and the personality rich chat bot. Some would give info to both. But how big is the middle area? One thing
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by LeonB 2y ago
A lot of research is performed on “axenic” mice — mice without any biome.
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by LeonB 2y ago
Thanks for the explanation. I kind of get it now. They made a sock puppet account, in order to make an accusation at someone - and deliberately obscured the name of the person they were insulting. That’s a kind of “dog-whistle” technique. E
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by LeonB 2y ago
Who is “psychosaurusx”?
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by LeonB 2y ago
Replit didn’t make any specific claims about IP rights or non-compete (and if they did, the onus would be on them). When their behaviour was made public they immediately backed down and didn’t proceed with any legal fight.
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by LeonB 2y ago
In 2017 Apple had a vulnerability in Mac OS Sierra that allowed anyone to unlock a computer using the user name “root” and no password. In 2018 Apple became the first company to reach a market capitalisation of one trillion dollars. So — in
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by LeonB 2y ago
In back to the future II, Crispin Glover didn’t sign up to be George McFly so they used facial prosthetics and impersonation to continue the George McFly character. He sued Universal, and reportedly settled for $760,000. Example article on
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by LeonB 2y ago
They’re like a V1 product in a category where we won’t start to be happy until about version 8 or 9. This is a bad experience for us today, but like people using cars just before the Henry Ford Era, we’re making a sacrifice, taking the hit
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by LeonB 2y ago
Surrealist humor isn’t everyone’s cup of fur.
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by LeonB 2y ago
Yup. They don’t officially look for cash — just means they don’t “officially” find any cash. Airport security, the world over, is a magnet for criminals to self-organise, or be replaced by those who do.
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by LeonB 2y ago
It’s an exemplar of “whistling past the grave yard” dark humour.
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by LeonB 2y ago
I think this is a good point. The complementary expression being: part of the ornamentation of the past was in reaction to the pervasive under stimulation of people in urban areas 150+ years ago. There was less going on - less connectedne
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by LeonB 2y ago
There are specific situations where the classic version doesn’t display the correct aspect ratio — it might be when zooming a multi monitor display projected onto a single screen dialog that has been resized. We didn’t take the time to debu
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by LeonB 2y ago
Google paid them for making the changes.
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by LeonB 2y ago
Probably the first first time — but I don’t want to make a claim that’s untrue so I weakened the claim and broke the logic on the process, yeh.
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by LeonB 2y ago
Cheers — Merle Travis after whom “Travis picking” is named! If you’ve ever attempted Travis picking, and you haven’t spent a heck of a lot of time practicing it, you may recoil in horror at the name. Looking deeper into it - “Travis” pickin
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by LeonB 2y ago
Wow, Justin, cheers. It looks like the first version was available ~ mid November 2005 (via https://secretgeek.net/snapper_wins ) and available from the TimeSnapper.com domain from ~ November 28 2005. ( https://sec
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by LeonB 2y ago
Thanks again. Btw, I certainly didn't code it and maintain it single-handed -- my co-founder Atli Björgvin Oddsson deserves the credit for all the good bits. I have to say -- I'd rather you worked sane hours, and pushed back a bit
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by LeonB 2y ago
Wow! Thanks for sharing this!
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by LeonB 2y ago
Neither, lol. Just happened across the comment within five minutes of it being posted. I think it was one of the first times I visited HN today.
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by LeonB 2y ago
Ok. The original joke is — ~~~~~~~~~~ There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. ~~~~~~~~~~ Let’s analyse how the joke words. A quick warning though - Explaining a joke is like dissecting a fro
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by LeonB 2y ago
Cheers, yeh, I am here a bit.

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