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by Reelin 7y ago
Ok apparently I'm super ignorant about this. WTF are people going on about spaces for if hard tabs are the historic standard? I always assumed that Go was progressive, C++ was the norm (ie had no preference), Python and Nim were design
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by Reelin 7y ago
I think my position can be succinctly summarized as mobile devices having become essential infrastructure. Access to essential infrastructure ought to be neutral and any regulation surrounding it transparent, regardless of who manufactured
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by Reelin 7y ago
> your argument is "Apple should allow other businesses to use their infrastructure, which they have spent many years and many billions of dollars building, however those other businesses want" No. My argument is that companies
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by Reelin 7y ago
I never knew about this. My laptop seems to have 8-key rollover for most (?) sequences that would be natural for your hands, but drops as low as 2-key for unlikely combinations. Any idea what's going on? http://gadzikowski.c
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by Reelin 7y ago
It does seem like an additional reason, but I'm convinced tabs were (are?) disliked primarily for historical and technological reasons. Historically the tab key worked with a tab stop; there's always friction when you switch parad
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by Reelin 7y ago
You say they knowingly chose to take a risk, but I'm arguing that in many cases they won't have had a choice. At present, there is functionality that you simply cannot provide without a native app. If your competitor chooses to pr
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by Reelin 7y ago
I disagree with essentially your entire post. My (current) point isn't about Apple banning individual consumers, but rather about Apple (or Google) banning companies from distributing via their infrastructure. From the perspective of t
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by Reelin 7y ago
It might or might not be, but that misses my point. The issue isn't (necessarily) that Apple banned a particular account for a particular reason. The issue is that Apple (or Google) banning an account could easily render a given compan
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by Reelin 7y ago
> where are the better software pipelines not controlled by corporations You're joking, right? Any tool that allows you to configure your own trust roots qualifies: `apt install`, `flatpak install`, etc. Even most laptop SecureBoot
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by Reelin 7y ago
Do you actually think it's an acceptable state of affairs for a company to be able to unilaterally put a non-competing and unrelated company out of business on a whim? Apple isn't a traditional distribution channel. If FedEx bans
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by Reelin 7y ago
I agree with the ideal of minimal regulation. However, everyone is forced to participate in and depend on the local economy. It absolutely must remain functional, stable, and reasonably tolerable to live and do business within. The proble
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by Reelin 7y ago
If the machine could catch people lying for $10 (or $50, or ...) in a double blind study, that would set a quantifiable lower bound for its effectiveness.
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by Reelin 7y ago
What you're describing is GC-MS, which indeed returns a spectrographic signature that is used to identify a molecule. As noted by @Terr_, that tells you what a molecule is made of but not what shape it is. That being said, the smaller
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by Reelin 7y ago
I won't claim it's impossible, but... olfaction boils down to a small molecule protein interaction, similar to drug discovery. The scales in question are far too small for typical imaging devices; these objects are far smaller t
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by Reelin 7y ago
In such nations (ex China), this entire debate is irrelevant - you follow their rules or they kick you out. In western societies, this debate is relevant and I strongly side with the poster you replied to. That being said, reasonably unbias
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by Reelin 7y ago
It does, but as far as I understand that's only because EM spectrum is a very limited (as used in practice) public resource. The logic wasn't (many to one) -> (regulation), it was (limited resource) + (EM interference problems)
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by Reelin 7y ago
It's complicated. Sometimes website authors do silly things that negatively impact users; browsers ought to help (without breaking things!) where possible. Some daily annoyances that I wish browsers would actively mitigate, in no parti
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by Reelin 7y ago
> the underlying axiom here is that debate can be had, and that people can be convinced through reason I take it you haven't seen Twitter (or Facebook, or Reddit, or even SE lately)? Or perhaps you're referring only to in perso
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by Reelin 7y ago
From 2012, but still at least somewhat relevant ( https://factorable.net/weakkeys12.extended.pdf ). > RSA and DSA can fail catastrophically when used with malfunctioning random number generators ... network survey of TLS a
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by Reelin 7y ago
> your insistence on the ingredients being known to be safe to inhale is faulty Please reread my comment - I never claimed that. I very explicitly stated that inhalation of anything is likely to be bad for your health.
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by Reelin 7y ago
The report you linked shows quite the opposite, actually. They concluded: > Based on the results of this study, there is no evidence that theatrical "smoke," at the levels found in the theaters studied, is a cause of occupation
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by Reelin 7y ago
I think what's going on there is that one of the e-cigs they used had a configurable temperature (200-600 °F). I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume that they selected a reasonable one (they don't appear to speci
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by Reelin 7y ago
> > The other is almost entirely a mixture of Propylene Glycol and Vegetable Glycerin. > What an extraordinary meaningless statement. Not at all. The point being made is that we're dealing with a product composed primarily (99
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by Reelin 7y ago
> it seems like the jury is still out on how much better they actually are than cigarettes No. IT IS NOT. You have been mislead. Unfortunately, for whatever reason, there is currently a lot of FUD and propaganda surrounding vaping. Perha
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by Reelin 7y ago
The US seems to be in the process of legalizing recreational weed, which is often consumed by inhaling plant smoke. Relative to that (or alcohol), I wouldn't worry too much about vaping nicotine. It doesn't appear to have any sign
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by Reelin 7y ago
> vaping being a safer alternative A safer alternative to what? Smoking cigarettes? There's absolutely no question that it is. One is a plant product (smoke is bad to inhale) that naturally contains a number chemicals that you proba
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by Reelin 7y ago
> an obligation to make doing illegal things as easy as possible (possible) != (as easy as possible) The claim is that making illegal transactions impossible would cause societal harm. I agree that it's an amusing idea, but it&#x2
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by Reelin 7y ago
My first two links are indeed about transcription! Rereading my comment in context now I'm realizing it was a bit unclear. I was responding to "the genetic code is rarely discussed as a potential source of error". However, I
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by Reelin 7y ago
I'd argue this is largely a question of defaults and ergonomics. Most users will leave the default settings if they don't have an active need to change them. Easily usable (and understandable) tools and interfaces prevent most nee
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by Reelin 7y ago
Not to be "that guy", but actually, it is. ( https://elifesciences.org/articles/09945 ) ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5026258/ ) It's just difficult to study

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