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by _wmd 8y ago
This reply is needlessly personal, are you materially affected by this issue somehow? > Would you ban beaches as well, because creeps might watch others on a beach? No, but nor would I pretend people can shower and change without cubicle
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by _wmd 8y ago
If the structure of the service offering exceeds the limits of available technology, then the structure of the service is at fault and needs to change -- wishing away the bad people doesn't work, nor does pretending the issue does not
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by _wmd 8y ago
The ramifications of this are profound, at least: - shake the money stick at them and they will dance (thanks, of all people, Nestle!) - they've admitted a serious problem exists that they were unwilling to deal with until external pre
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YouTube bans comments on all videos of children(bbc.co.uk)
610 points by _wmd 8y ago|530 comments
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by _wmd 8y ago
Doing this for historical data would break their API. They'd also need a more complex scheme than snowflake currently provides
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by _wmd 8y ago
Who in their right mind wants to invest in a new build with the knowledge a late license was issued to the floor below?
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by _wmd 8y ago
A project of this popularity and maturity essentially announcing they're shuttering because a single long-term contributor is retiring.. if ever there was a damning indictment of modern consumption-driven open source, I don't know
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by _wmd 8y ago
I can't speak for this project, but my own for CSV files ( https://github.com/dw/csvmonkey ) provides a high level interface that allows the tokenized data to be manipulated in-place without full decoding. The int
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by _wmd 8y ago
What exactly is the harm behind beheading videos? It's not like anyone is being beheaded every time you watch it, right. Nobody pays attention to these videos ever, nobody has ever been radicalized by them. No 15 year old British schoo
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by _wmd 8y ago
Your position seems to boil down to suggesting since the problem cannot be fixed perfectly, nobody should even try, and meanwhile those who do try are "hysterical". In other words, simultaneously defeatist and offensive. If you fe
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by _wmd 8y ago
While content ID is another problem, I agree it is highly convenient the same recommendation system that permits (and enables, and encourages!) this activity can't internally be reused by them to prevent it. They already pay contractor
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by _wmd 8y ago
jemalloc is written in C :) That aside, I don't think merging with an existing allocator, if it weren't obscenely unlikely due to the general conservatism in such projects, would necessarily accomplish anything. In terms of contra
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by _wmd 8y ago
Since programs are only permitted read and or modify addresses within allocations handed out by malloc, they are oblivious to the merge process as pieces of another page are copied to virtual addresses near an existing allocation in a page
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by _wmd 8y ago
Random allocation sounds like it could potentially hurt cache for some workloads, but still, this is easily the coolest idea I've seen so far this year. It's beyond amazing we can still innovate on something like a memory allocato
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by _wmd 8y ago
A domain just for developers! Until it abruptly shuts down Feb 19, 2021. Why would anyone trust Google with something with any kind of long-term requirements as important as a name? They should have registered ".chump" instead, be
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by _wmd 8y ago
It's frankly a poor analogy, as the treaty of Bern did not enable the masses of the recipient country's children to sit captive for 6 hours every night attached to a glowing box that promoted ideas incompatible with their surround
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by _wmd 8y ago
This is the common line, but where is proof of that? The Internet basically didn't exist 20 years ago, who can possibly say what a long-term plan to unwind from it could look like, and how technical partitioning of the network might ef
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by _wmd 8y ago
If you look at the Internet as a kind of cultural propagation weapon (I find it hard not to adopt this perspective given dominance of US content online, and as someone who with seemingly increasing regularity fails to spell in British as op
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by _wmd 8y ago
JS "motion JPEG" is actually computationally cheap to do at least in Firefox, it just burns a megaton of RAM.. https://sweetness.hmmz.org/2014-04-16-portable-9-22x-compres...
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by _wmd 8y ago
Self preservation :) I didn't want to get drawn into a thread about some topic I shouldn't be paying attention to just now!
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by _wmd 8y ago
It's almost entirely ineffective. Each phone book upload probably nets them something like ~100 contacts, multiply that by 1.74 billion and the war is entirely lost. A bit like how self-driving cars may shortly redefine the meaning of
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by _wmd 8y ago
You're only as anonymous as the contact records in all the phones you're communicating with, i.e. not at all. The only winning move is not to play https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/26/how-to-stop-your-pho
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by _wmd 8y ago
Can't speak for the new models, but suspend/resume is bulletproof on the 9550, Mac-like experience installing Ubuntu
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by _wmd 8y ago
Every time this site comes up people entirely miss the point in this regard -- Debian operates a large voluntary network of mirrors. You are not trusting content coming from Debian, you're trusting it coming from the mirror. SSL only s
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by _wmd 8y ago
I love Xapian, the quality of its recall is excellent and indexing performance very hard to find fault with. There's just a tiny problem - it's stuck with the GPL, despite a long effort to relicence the code going back years.
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by _wmd 8y ago
As the person suggesting it, it's difficult to imagine how it could never work considering I haven't managed to figure out all the possible combinations in which such a strategy could be applied. Finally, it is quite exasperating
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by _wmd 8y ago
MongoDB still have a strong hand - control of the client and particularly its exposed featureset - due to that, also control of the protocol and the ability to, for example, insert legally protected strings in the style of the Apple SMC sig
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by _wmd 8y ago
I noticed Travis builds complete faster once they're running, by something like 20% in my case, but that's more than offset by having twice as many parallel builds by default. Never dug into why it's slower, though, at a gues
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by _wmd 8y ago
AFAIK one agent = one build. So just start several agents, they're only a few MB RAM
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by _wmd 8y ago
Azure Pipelines free offering is superior to Travis by every imaginable metric - UI latency, build latency, featureset, sane, carefully thought about YAML syntax, etc.

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