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by aaronem 11y ago
It's a lot harder to FOD a jet engine with a laser pointer.
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by aaronem 11y ago
It's a risk, but realistically not all that much of one; it'd take an amazingly unlucky tail-rotor hit to really imperil the aircraft. On the other hand, a drone which can climb high enough to almost hit a cruising police helicopt
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by aaronem 11y ago
I tend to think that's more of a stereotype than a reality. I mean, I've been all over this country, and the only place I've really found people to prefer bland food was in the Upper Midwest -- I may not know how it's po
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by aaronem 11y ago
I do hope you're not American. I'd be embarrassed to find one of my countrymen being so dense and so ungrateful all at once.
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by aaronem 11y ago
Did you see the interest rates cited in the article? Even the lowest of them is more in line with what you'd find on a credit card account than with what you expect to see on a non-revolving loan of the sort these lenders are offering.
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by aaronem 11y ago
Is it just me, or do these "disruptive microlending startups" use basically the same arguments as the usual run of payday lenders to justify what they do?
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by aaronem 11y ago
Utterly nonexistent, which is why I'm surprised to see people making such a big damn deal over it. The privacy implications of having an identifiable account on any of the services used for AoC login are enormous by comparison, but I g
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by aaronem 11y ago
Maybe, but in this case at least GP is not wrong to do so, merely lacking a little in nuance, in that on the "measurement" side, not everybody is looking for the flattest possible response. On the whole, though, there absolutely i
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by aaronem 11y ago
Accepting user registrations generally entails obtaining a means of contact which can be used to unlock an account whose password has been forgotten. By far the most common contact method used is email. GP may not have mentioned it in so ma
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by aaronem 11y ago
What assumption is that?
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by aaronem 11y ago
You're seriously suggesting that every random site on the Internet should take email addresses and passwords, with all the increased attack surface that implies, instead of delegating to authentication providers who know what the hell
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by aaronem 11y ago
No one's suggesting that mistakes should be dealt with in the same way as predatory behavior. The article makes this explicit in its specimen code: > [I]f the organizers feel a particular individual is the cause of more than one com
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by aaronem 11y ago
The only ones here talking about "authority figures" and "police monitoring" are you and the commenter to whom I originally replied. The article under discussion suggests nothing more than that a convention's hostin
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by aaronem 11y ago
I'm having the same problem. Getting the session token from a request made via browser, and using that token in my programmatic requests, does work, but that feels like cheating. What I really want to do is authenticate to Advent of Co
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by aaronem 11y ago
> this casual suggestion that some sort of "police" should exist to monitor people's behavior and catch policy violations quickly is the worst thing that is currently happening to humanity What alternative do you suggest?
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by aaronem 11y ago
There's a reason: it generates unique input data for each user, presumably to prevent a given user's answers from being reused. If you have a Github account, it's trivial to authenticate and doesn't request undue privile
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by aaronem 11y ago
> confusion, fear and chaos among vim users What, more than usual? How could you even tell?
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by aaronem 11y ago
Javascript is a fun language, but its laissez-faire nature and occasionally weird semantics lend themselves easily to the development of poor practices. Fortunately, there are several linting tools, such as jshint, which analyze code and co
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by aaronem 11y ago
As far as I can tell, that's pretty much all you've got. Given the heavy concentration this library seems to place on converting static navigation to dynamic, my surmise is that, instead of responding to a navigation link with an
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by aaronem 11y ago
Again, that's entirely a matter of application design. The general answer is that the server uses the request URI and HTTP headers to determine which fragments are needed, but there are as many specific answers as there are application
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by aaronem 11y ago
Well, no; when I say "arbitrary number of fragments", I mean there isn't a set limit established by the client code, not that the server should promiscuously return data the client may or may not actually need. A correctly de
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by aaronem 11y ago
JScript isn't a shorthand for Javascript. It's a name for an ill-favored heterodox implementation of ECMAscript. Using it in the fashion you have here will therefore cause knowledgeable engineers to assume you must not know what y
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by aaronem 11y ago
Best (professional) practice is to use named functions, with lambdas reserved for one-offs which are so genuinely trivial that promoting them to named functions would do more to clutter your code than to streamline it. It's telling tha
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by aaronem 11y ago
I haven't used it myself, but judging from (a brief review of) the documentation, the server dispatches on the request URI and responds with content updates for an arbitrary number of fragments, each identified by DOM ID.
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by aaronem 11y ago
> we are all transhumanists together here You assume rather a lot, don't you?
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by aaronem 11y ago
How does a self-driving car help there? It seems like that would make a lot more decisions for you than the more ordinary sort.
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by aaronem 11y ago
It's a lot harder for a drunk train rider to kill someone than a drunk driver. You also seem to conflate any use of alcohol with abuse of alcohol, which is at the very least kind of odd. Sure, some people act like assholes when the
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by aaronem 11y ago
The first thing I learned about metal fans is that, for metal fans, metal is serious business.
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by aaronem 11y ago
You really haven't noticed before now?
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by aaronem 11y ago
I find it depends on the scale of the project. If I just need something to encapsulate my test runner and packing tool invocations, then I'll just toss those in a five-line Makefile, because why add a heavyweight build tool most of who

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