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by Rd6n6 5y ago
Ddos is a strong way to put this. Are we talking malware that is sending thousands of requests per device, or a bug from a connectivity issue?
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
> This is a critical element of why online discussion forums and anonymity are so powerfully liberating(…)There's no price to be paid at the judgment of strangers I think the other is anonymity: you can talk about whatever you like
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
One of the major problems is that you can’t really try in ear headphones before you buy them. This makes it impossible to try a wide range of them for fit, sound quality, comfort, cable noise, etc. There is a company or two with a few with
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
It helps, but it doesn’t get rid of it
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
I avoid (non-cheap) headphones without replaceable cables these days. There’s no good reason to have to replace an entire headphone pair/headset because of a bad wire
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
I aimed for noise isolating headphones so I could listen at lower volumes and keep my hearing safe. However, to cover up that wire noise I end up having to turn them up pretty loud when walking my dogs. I just gave up after a bunch of expen
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
I liked my shures while they lasted, but they broke less than 6 months after purchase because of a crappy connection between two components. I even kept them in a protective case
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
> How can I stop companies from getting my location data? The steps they list only cover gps data. In my final year at uni, during the capstone fair, I recall one group built a tracking system that relied on Bluetooth or wifi or somethin
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
> Following what your competitor is doing has not historically been a winning strategy in tech There is a long history of tech companies copying competitors and taking over markets by executing better
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
I don’t know about start to finish, since finishing a real game is a massive task, but it’s a good way to learn a specific subtopic of interest. My own game I figure has 16-24 months of full time work to go on it. Even though it looks fairl
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
I don’t know why an entrepreneurship forum would downvote somebody for linking to their topic relevant tool. People need to share their projects and products somewhere. It’s a good opportunity to discuss things around the ecosystem if noth
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
My favourite are the 10-14 day jams. You can make something really cool with that kind of time limit. I used a jam last year that allowed pre existing code to make a little playable scenario out of my projects game systems and it was wicked
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
Do you really not see that the opposite is also true? Having a position where good intentions are not assumed can be gamed far more easily by people with bad intentions
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
I just wrote the first 53k words of a new hobby (character driven horror) novel this month. I think it’s between 1/2 to 2/3rds done and it’s been a lot of fun so far. It takes some dedication but the hardest part is starting, espe
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
The greatest victory is that which is won without ever fighting
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
They can’t afford the lawyer consultation fees prior to court
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
> unquantifiable and almost totally subjective That’s what intuition and judgment calls are for. What does your intuition say is a good way to approach hiring? Does it maybe tell you to figure out relevant skills and ask the candidate ab
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Hamster's cryptocurrency portfolio is beating the market(ctvnews.ca)
1 points by Rd6n6 5y ago|0 comments
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
Cutting off your enemy’s communications has always been important. Most authoritarian governments decide eventually that their biggest enemy, outside of wartime, is their own people
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The out-sourcing of human consciousness is complete(imaginationrabbit.substack.com)
3 points by Rd6n6 5y ago|0 comments
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
> Bottom line: the course of the virus IS NOT impacted by masks, lockdowns, NPIs, or even vaccination rates for that matter. Every time there are major lockdowns, the daily new infections counts drop off a cliff. I didn’t crunch the numb
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
Looks like 132 per hour is what the research actually says. The actual paper is pay walled, but this describes it: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-septembe... Another fun quote: > The 1984 W
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
Interesting, thanks
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
Almost all the bugs I’ve ever seen have been an integration or configuration issue. Race conditions are a common example of this. Even the small bugs usually involve 2-3 “units.” End to end tests and integration tests, manual or automated,
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
When people talk about historical Bitcoin returns being attractive, they are talking about an extremely short history full of incredible variance and an uncertain legal future. You can’t easily make long term predictions based on that
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
Those bailouts incentivize extremely bad behaviour that leads to future crashes
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
As somebody who also read the book, I recommend the book but totally agree. There are some interesting anecdotes in there but many are more interesting than persuasive. The book could have been half its length. I use checklists a lot and di
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
Especially for people without Twitter accounts
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
That’s hard if your job depends on access to a windows only program like photoshop or a game engine (unity and unreal editors technically work on Linux, but it’s really painful)
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by Rd6n6 5y ago
It’s not

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