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by _jal 5y ago
"Inheritance" means very different things to programmers and normal people. You can't expect domain use to follow your sensibilities.
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by _jal 5y ago
With humans, this is known as 'area denial', and is also under active research. https://ndiastorage.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/ndia/2018/gr...
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by _jal 5y ago
As computing environments mature, a lot of the instrumentation that used to be presented to users has been going away. I do think that's too bad. One of the first things I install on any new machine is a visible network/CPU/m
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by _jal 5y ago
> and business methods of sociopathic entrepreneurs This being, IMO, the most important part. Holmes is not a Martian; she's a product of SV culture. While her scam was particularly brazen, I saw a ton of small things in _Bad Blood_
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by _jal 5y ago
I'm not sure what exactly you're including/excluding under the 'Apple Pay' umbrella here, but what do you call the merchant discount rate?
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by _jal 5y ago
People frequently get dashboards wrong, it is true. I like them for genuinely important things - I want klaxxons when there is a customer-facing issue, for instance. These should be simple and hard to confuse. I also like them for whatever
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by _jal 5y ago
> the whole web is still full of like buttons Make these addresses non-routable in whatever way is most ergonomic for you and enjoy a less junky internet. whois -h whois.radb.net -- '-i origin AS32934' | grep ^route It isn&#x27
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by _jal 5y ago
The renewable energy nonsense is just that - bullshit to distract. Knocking a single coal mine offline in China famously cut bitcoin mining activity by a third earlier this year. https://fortune.com/2021/04/20&#x2F
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by _jal 5y ago
What I find amusing is that both of the names, intentionally or not, are related to mock-religions.
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by _jal 5y ago
Can you point to any examples of these leaks? (Edit: Thanks for the links.)
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by _jal 5y ago
I haven't forged anything yet, looking forward to an opportunity to spend some quality time playing early next year. I've made a couple knives this year, though. Milling, and then grinding on absolutely the wrong kind of grinder f
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by _jal 5y ago
> or pictures at all. So what? Voluntary consent is important How far are you willing to push that? Should I need to destroy photos that accidentally capture an infant in public? Should children not get vaccine shots until they can meani
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by _jal 5y ago
> then every one of them should have had an emergency visa that allowed them to fly out on American planes to America and be processed there This is fantasy. Even if you could get divided government on board, how are you going to convinc
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by _jal 5y ago
I mean, people think what they're going to think. But the number of arm-chair logistics experts who have been telling us endlessly how easy this is always retreat to hand-wavey vagueness about how they aren't the experts, but clea
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by _jal 5y ago
Yep. I've noticed a couple apps that recently updated suddenly wanted to scan the network. One arguably, if you squint, might have had a legitimate reason; the other obviously didn't. I assume some surveillance library recently ch
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by _jal 5y ago
Remember this next time people start pushing going cashless. Doing so means that a third party is involved in every transaction you make, and that someone else will always have veto power over your commercial transactions.
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by _jal 5y ago
Multiple Republicans in positions to know what their policy is have repeatedly stated that they see obstructionism as their path back to political control. You don't need to be a cynic, just listen to what they're saying.
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by _jal 5y ago
"Who's gonna stop me" is kind of a crappy attitude to take with a cooperative project like Wikipedia. I mean, sure, you can do a lot of things you shouldn't with freely available services. There's even an economics
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by _jal 5y ago
For any real cutting, you need rigidity or nothing will be accurate. You will not be doing any real cutting on this machine.
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by _jal 5y ago
As a first step, stop giving in to the demands. I routinely refuse to provide ID when asked by private businesses. About half the time they're OK with proceeding with whatever without it.
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by _jal 5y ago
The more interesting question is to try to tease apart what led to CSV's survival, despite all the warts. Clearly a combination of things, including accident. But I'll point out some advantages: - Repairability by mere mortals. I
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by _jal 5y ago
They must be proven true beyond a reasonable doubt to get a person in a funny robe to put them in jail. Normal humans are not required to prove anything in order to think them.
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by _jal 5y ago
Speaking of special-purpose trains, the NYC MTA used to run an armored train for collecting fares from stations. https://untappedcities.com/2016/02/12/the-mtas-special-armor...
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by _jal 5y ago
> imagine what some (human) intelligent design can achieve We don't have to imagine. Everyone here is familiar with Clippy. More seriously, I think this is a category error, rather than just hubris. I don't think human intellig
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by _jal 5y ago
For the vast bulk of people, you may as well suggest they move to a different planet. The even worse problem with this line of thought is the econ-101 conclusion - that they must be OK with things if they don't demonstrate otherwise by
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by _jal 5y ago
> I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on that. This is such a bizarre claim. I know Agilebits understands Mac users. To be brutally honest, I've heard this line from a lot of software shops after they decide tailoring their
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by _jal 5y ago
Everyone is already doing it. Not to engineers yet, but look at Amazon warehouses. These things are always deployed against the least powerful first.
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by _jal 5y ago
It is just a hype cycle, yes. Propose some use cases for it, preferably ones that involve lots of people throwing money at the people you're pitching to. Then do the other end - pick a market segmentation and explain why they are going
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by _jal 5y ago
Second vote for Bitwarden. Lastpass is a bucket of ass. They've had security bugs in their browser extension before, but it is almost required to use it - the webapp works horribly without it. My least-used browser gets that extension,
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by _jal 5y ago
> now it feels like the government can basically commandeer your property at will. I understand it feels more salient now, but the government basically always could. They will take it over late tax payments amounting to a tiny fraction o

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