Shank

66 ms·

871.
by Shank 6y ago
I'm not sure if Roam technically uses separate databases, but it certainly calls each user's environment a "database." They're on Firebase (Cloud Firestore?) though, so it might just be a way of naming things and no
872.
by Shank 6y ago
> Free speech as a principle isn't about hearing stuff you like. It's about hearing stuff you don't like. Free speech is not about the "right to be listened to," it's a very specific concept that means that
873.
by Shank 7y ago
> Aren't those credit cards safe because they are electronic and todays transactions can be reversed, tracked and that fiat money are just database rows?! Whether or not the money is actually safe or not doesn't really matter w
874.
by Shank 7y ago
> Testing people with symptoms is a waste of tests. It's not, though. Someone suffering from severe symptoms that aren't COVID-19 may have other treatment options available, and may be placed in hospitals with less strict isola
875.
by Shank 7y ago
This is only true if you're using exclusively Linux runners. If those same 7,000 minutes are on macOS, you're paying $560. On Windows, $112. At my company, we definitely use a mixture of all three for various things, so this will
876.
by Shank 7y ago
Yes. It’s essentially an ARM A-series chip — it has firmware (BridgeOS) and does have a DFU mode. See https://help.apple.com/configurator/mac/2.7.1/#/apd0020c3dc2
877.
by Shank 7y ago
They sell this now! https://getjoan.com/shop/joan-home
878.
by Shank 7y ago
Allo didn't have video, that was Duo's job. Hangouts Chat is their Slack/Discord competitor, and Hangouts Classic is the version that everyone has in Gmail. Hangouts Meet is their Zoom competitor. Both Hangouts Classic and Me
879.
The CloudFlare CSAM Scanning Tool(blog.cloudflare.com)
2 points by Shank 7y ago|0 comments
880.
by Shank 7y ago
Many companies outsource domain registration to Mark Monitor or equivalent services, and Mark Monitor independently handles registration so that this doesn't happen. The larger the company, the higher the chance this is someone's
881.
Fire and Motion (2002)(joelonsoftware.com)
2 points by Shank 7y ago|0 comments
882.
by Shank 7y ago
That's the case. The only way that they would get this is through a research study with explicit consent/opt-in.
883.
by Shank 7y ago
I mean, this is how politics generally works. Almost every big bill has included in it things that don't relate to the bill and are just on someone's wishlist to get passed. It'll likely be rejected by the senate and amended,
884.
by Shank 7y ago
I think you can go too deep into it as a form of procrastination, but I think this post is sincere. Spaced repetition is backed by science as an effective way to acquire knowledge (e.g., https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc&#x2F
885.
by Shank 7y ago
I just want an official way to link to a thread to emphasize "no, I want you to read the whole thread" as opposed to "no, I want you to read the first tweet." Sometimes I just want to share one specific thing, or the who
886.
by Shank 7y ago
The biggest thing is that I find my own posts cringeworthy 6 months back. Facebook's Timeline revamp a few years back really exacerbated this by making it easy to jump back multiple years to see what people had posted. A small example:
887.
by Shank 7y ago
Replying to my own comment because the author has retroactively added citations. Cheers!
888.
by Shank 7y ago
> The WHO and CDC are lying to you. You can verify all of this for yourself. In a case like this, where you're basically saying that two massive government organizations are broken, and one of which is an international organization
889.
by Shank 7y ago
If you're in a class/lecture, you should write the notes, not type them. It slows you down such that you're really forced to interact with the content. If you touch type, you're really not ingesting the content as much a
890.
by Shank 7y ago
I don't really care for 4K personally. I just want "native" because I can't stand looking at blurry interfaces. I can definitely tell when I'm running a 1080p game on a 1440p native monitor and everything is being s
891.
by Shank 7y ago
I have Stadia! Here are a few impressions: 1. The game catalog is totally the most important thing and they don't have any really big games. I'm not a Fortnite person, but they don't have that, nor Apex, nor PUBG. Battle Roya
892.
by Shank 7y ago
Philosophical arguments to decentralize everything are great, but literally nobody outside of this industry cares. The key to success, ironically, for decentralization, is for everyone to care. The first step is to ship a product people act
893.
by Shank 7y ago
The common element in design trends is to minimize analogies that were previously made really obvious because users already know them by now. This has resulted in a constant iterative design that's led to the flattening and hiding of e
894.
The Threat of Pandemic Influenza: Are We Ready?(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
9 points by Shank 7y ago|4 comments
895.
by Shank 7y ago
According to wikipedia, it was bought by Takamatsu and operates as a wholly owned subsidiary, though admittedly I don't think that counts anymore for this title: https://www.kongogumi.co.jp/ .
896.
by Shank 7y ago
While not the same, a company called Hikeshi Spirit actually sells products with similar designs: https://hikeshispirit.com/en
897.
by Shank 7y ago
I help maintain a pretty popular open source game mod. One of the features the mod provides server owners is anticheat, and one of the consequences of that is needing cheats in order to make sure the anticheat system works, to test exploits
898.
Amazon Flex drivers are using bots to cheat their way to getting more work(cnbc.com)
12 points by Shank 7y ago|2 comments
899.
by Shank 7y ago
Everything is a search engine, not at all related to O&O shutup.
900.
Clear Linux Project(clearlinux.org)
6 points by Shank 7y ago|1 comments

More ›