Tarq0n

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by Tarq0n 5y ago
I think a major selling point of vscode is that it can productively edit anything. Your project happens to include some secondary languages like markdown, yaml or css? No problem. Same for polyglot developers or codebases. This way you neve
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by Tarq0n 5y ago
Wasn’t Steve Jobs famous for screaming at people over the phone and in person? Pretending this is all some power move seems less credible than these people just being unchecked for too long due to their position.
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NER good enough to anonymise free text would be the absolute dream for many governments.
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No that was the extradition to Sweden, this one is about espionage charges.
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I guess skiing comes with a high acceptance of risk to begin with.
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There are variants that come with a lock that fixes the handle into position though. Usually not high quality locks but good enough to prevent this attack.
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by Tarq0n 5y ago
If your transformations are already in Python scripts wouldn’t you be better off with Airflow or Luigi? dbt seems to be aimed at SQL users primarily.
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by Tarq0n 5y ago
I actually consider that a negative. Mathematical notation is fine when you're dealing with limited space on a blackboard, but if you're programming please name your name variables and take the time to model your domain explicitly
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by Tarq0n 5y ago
Keep in mind that in the Netherlands, where this business is located, the government will pay to install a stairwell elevator in your home when you are no longer able to use them yourself. This product seems very niche in comparison.
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As long as Facebook keeps investing in exclusives for their platform while Valve doesn't they'll keep losing market share, no matter what new headsets they come out with.
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My layman's understanding is this: having a single dominant industry like finance causes high demand for the pound, raising the price. This is terrible for exports, as producing industries have to compete with countries with more benef
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Isn't part of the problem that promotion is a zero-sum activity, and the very existence of well-capitalized actors in the space means that everyone has to sign up with one or be drowned out by the noise? It's a self-reinforcing cy
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> "for instance, a bar chart might tell me that so-and-so many widgets were sold during a particular period of time" Funny, considering that's a core part of Tableau's value proposition.
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Earmarking money at a too granular level is a great way to lower the efficiency of government. I also don't see why it should be the case that this money gets spent in the same domain it was levied, the whole point of democratic instit
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It's mostly the "in production" part that determines whether R is suitable for a business or not. It's much more complicated to avoid runtime errors or do proper testing in R, whereas it shines for interactive use, or ge
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Coming soon to a drone near you!
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This actually sounds like the right way to go. Individual, warrant based access is comparable to wiretapping in a way that Apple's dragnet approach is not.
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It's not about what Codex can do now, but what the technology will be able to do a few generations into the future. Anticipating this shift in the software labor market is important to many people on HN. Codex as it stands is just a no
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by Tarq0n 5y ago
"Aware" is probably overly anthropomorphized language there. What they mean to say is that all these things have become parameterized within the model.
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Star Wars Squadrons in VR is essentially this. Feels amazing to be able to look around an x-wing or tie-fighter cockpit.
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I don't see why developing a sophisticated mobile bitcoin payment platform would be any easier.
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There's plenty of primarily-online banks. I haven't set foot in a brick and mortar bank in well over a decade.
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Only maximizing happiness for the controlling workers. Fungible labor is going to be left out because moving on is no real threat from them.
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That depends entirely on what they store in the cookies.
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Tapping undersea cables is a major use of submarines in peacetime.
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The USSR just replaced some inequalities with others. For instance there were lots of status-based perks, currencies and even exclusive stores. See for instance https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blat_(favors) and https:
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Reminds me of the old adage about technical solutions to social problems. Cryptocurrency isn't going to un-fail these states, all it does is enable the wealthy to evade currency controls and reinforce the downward spiral. If someone li
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Bitcoin is more like a security, with characteristics more akin to rare metals than a savings account. It's entirely unfit for that purpose.
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I think it actually is fine within a product category like password managers where data is highly portable and switching costs are low. Platforms with lock-in doing this however...
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Being subject to state surveillance and surveillance capitalism are related but different concerns.

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