MBlume

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by MBlume 9y ago
Yeah, sure, that's cool
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by MBlume 9y ago
We should take land away from motorists, not from pedestrians.
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by MBlume 9y ago
Because they're... not assholes? I think we've worked for different sorts of companies.
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by MBlume 9y ago
I would really like to have a computer for use at work where my IT department could feel like they had assurance that it was secure/virus free/malware free but from which I could sign into my personal accounts without feeling like
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by MBlume 9y ago
Alternately, a polynomial time algorithm is specified and the exponent is, say, 2500. Mathematically huge, practically useless.
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by MBlume 9y ago
"At some point, there might be nothing left to do except to roll up your sleeves, brew some coffee, and tell your graduate student to read the paper and report back to you."
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by MBlume 9y ago
You can sorta kinda almost bootstrap that by putting your 'signal public key' in your keybase public folder (by signal public key I mean that your safety number with any given person is always a concatenation of a string that iden
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by MBlume 9y ago
examine?
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by MBlume 9y ago
Doesn't seem to work through the Android Auto app on my phone
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by MBlume 9y ago
I think this article would be substantially improved by removal of references to Tesla or "disruption". The stuff about the Renault is interesting, but all the "what these unthinking Musk fanboys don't realize..." i
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by MBlume 9y ago
I'm probably misreading you somehow -- if your site is hosted by Github isn't it already HTTPS?
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by MBlume 9y ago
Wait no this doesn't make sense. It's not an 8th decimal of a pound, it's an 8th decimal of what you're measuring . If you're measuring out a pound of Carfentanil you might be off by 0.05mg, but if you're meas
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by MBlume 9y ago
It's a trade-off. Many devs don't know how to do that, don't care to do that, will never learn to do that, and for them squash merge is a good option.
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by MBlume 9y ago
That's what I said =)
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by MBlume 9y ago
"To get started with Kotlin, download the Android Studio 3.0 preview, open one of your existing Java files, and then choose “Convert Java File to Kotlin File” in the Code menu." You do not have to install a preview version of Andr
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by MBlume 9y ago
If you want to use Clojure on Android, I'd recommend Clojurescript and React Native https://github.com/drapanjanas/re-natal
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by MBlume 9y ago
I think the case for Kotlin over Scala is that the runtime you have to link into your app is substantially smaller, which is important for mobile.
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by MBlume 9y ago
Is there a way to mount the filesystem not on /keybase?
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by MBlume 9y ago
Pretty sure this already existed with different syntax. Under those circumstances I'd probably use git svn, I always found git svn to be a better svn client than svn.
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by MBlume 9y ago
One of the benefits of Clojure is that it's Just Another JAR. If you want the to use a new version of the Java language, you have to convince your devops people to deploy a new version of the Java runtime, which may take time. If you w
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by MBlume 9y ago
Given the disenfranchisement young people experience in our society I fully support their lying about their age at every opportunity.
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by MBlume 10y ago
Are you actually planning to lose Python 2 compatibility is porting to 3? It might make more sense to keep both if you can, if only because if you give up Python 2, there'll be an intermediate period where the code won't run anywh
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by MBlume 10y ago
I'm unclear -- does the victim have to actively connect to a malicious network, or does work even if the victim is unconnected/connected to another network?
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by MBlume 10y ago
A while ago I wrote a Brainfuck interpreter in lambda calculus. I abused the Clojure macro system to make my job a little easier, and of course, I wrapped it in an interface that could do IO, but this does compile to a single pure lambda ca
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by MBlume 10y ago
Isn't SF's system becoming Ford-sponsored? Will the bikes soon be painted in Ford livery?
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by MBlume 10y ago
> and making their own app (Ride Austin) that isn't designed to make investors and owners rich, instead just benefit drivers and riders. As discussed upthread, Uber's investors and owners take a 20% loss on every ride. How much
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by MBlume 10y ago
I think there's a case to be made that the decision in Griggs vs Duke Power Co. (employers may not administer IQ tests) is the reason we're in this mess. IQ is really important and correlates with lots of outcomes. Employers there
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by MBlume 10y ago
...so what?
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by MBlume 10y ago
The very bottom of that report says the vulnerability was fixed last September, which seems like burying the lede
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by MBlume 10y ago
Yes, an incompetent autoocrat got elected to the highest government office of the most powerful nation on earth. You almost certainly already knew this.

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