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by acoard 6y ago
>Isn’t the image selector an OS component that shows me all my photos without the app seeing them (that is, the app isn’t rendering them)? > If this isn’t the case - why isn’t it? Is there no iOS system level image picker that runs i
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by acoard 6y ago
This is standard, and doesn't mean they aren't standing behind their work. If you ever see "legal advice" (in the loosest sense of the term) being given in online forums, like /r/LegalAdvice, the phrase you see
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by acoard 6y ago
What laptop did you order? Was it a Clevo?
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by acoard 6y ago
>Actually, javascript is the only language that has it right. Not only can anything be null, anything can be undefined, (which isn't even remotely similar and anyone who doesn't understand why doesn't belong in the convers
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by acoard 6y ago
The author of the first public drinking law, in 1979, said on the law's purpose: >"We do not recklessly expect the police to give a summons to a Con Ed worker having a beer with his lunch". [0] Yet today, if you have a bee
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by acoard 6y ago
>For certain problems Can you give an examples? Respectfully, you were asked for tasks and instead gave a description of the category. I can only think of real-time, or real performance limited software (example: rocket guidance softwar
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by acoard 6y ago
>Alpine Linux From their website:[0] >"Alpine Linux is built around musl libc and busybox" I could be off-base here, but it seems to me the better analogy would be some sort of "Go-Linux" that's like a Docker
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by acoard 6y ago
Sure, but as a counter example Docker performance on Mac has historically been abysmal[0][1], but everyone on Mac I know still develops using it. We ignore the performance hit on dev machines, knowing it won't affect prod (Linux serve
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by acoard 6y ago
Disney originally got rich from animating public domain stories, like Cinderella and Snow White. These were the popular stories of the day that people grew up with. Now after nearly a century of Disney, who has bought Star Wars and Marve
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by acoard 6y ago
>There are tons of game stores, and EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM provide a refund policy. Why would you whine about your game ? Just. Get. A. Refund. If you start the game, even for a second, Sony will refuse a refund on a digital download.
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by acoard 6y ago
You're right this is about avoiding bad press on Sony (or the need for Sony to revise their return policy), but it's also about Sony as a publisher enforcing their relationship with studios. Sony's return policy for digital
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by acoard 6y ago
"Curses" is a library for writing, well, TUIs[0]. I get that's a bit circular, so let me explain. With a normal CLI program, you essentially just output to STDOUT line by line. You type `git status`, and the git program basi
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by acoard 6y ago
A fair trial requires the labor of others, and I have a right to that. No guns to head involved.
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by acoard 6y ago
It means FireFox could visit https://whatever.localhost without SSL warnings for self-signed certs. It has no bearing on cURL. cURL is maintained by Daniel Stenberg (an open source legend), whereas FireFox is maintained by Moz
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by acoard 6y ago
"Why" is that the ruling party of China, the CCP, desires and is able to enforce this level of control. This often ties into the related idea of "State Sponsored Capitalism", also sometimes called the "East Asian Mo
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by acoard 6y ago
Yeah, put more simply, they pushed out someone in their Ethical AI department because they did not soften critiques against AI enough. They couch these in terms of rigour, but the substance of the problem has to do with her criticisms aga
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by acoard 6y ago
Sociology is generally considered it's own field that has some overlap with psychology and not a subfield. >And sociology have predictive value, can we agree on that? No, I don't think we can and I think that's the crux of
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by acoard 6y ago
>However, unit tests are usually written to assert assumptions. As you say, types are a more declarative (rather than procedural) way of asserting assumptions. >In practice, this means that you sometimes get "surprised" by
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by acoard 6y ago
>Disaster recovery? Geographically separate redundant servers with failovers? Automated (and proven to work) backups? One-stop access control for infra maintenance? Audit controls for your database and storage objects? Tape backups? Thes
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by acoard 6y ago
As this comment in the thread says, it looks like it uses a lot of constant bandwidth as it's consttantly querying for the latest visuals from the headless FF instance[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25132746 T
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by acoard 6y ago
>Definitely nothing for any medium sized company. I work at a medium sized company. Depends on who you count, but let's say around ~30 devs. Recently we basically did just this, and it's been a great success. We haven't fu
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by acoard 6y ago
>By the standards of modern disk and network, couldn't they download revocation caches the way they do with malware? The whole point is to check if a cert has been revoked. If you have an out of date cache, you'll falsely appr
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by acoard 6y ago
>Radical philosophers have been saying for a long time now that everything is a question of power and domination, that anyone pretending otherwise is complicit, and that -- in the final analysis -- the mere classification of things is a
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by acoard 6y ago
True, but I've seen many projects that use both GitHub and JIRA (i.e. not BitBucket). Those work totally fine for issue tracking, project management, etc. It's the same amount of friction for what you're proposing. Th
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by acoard 6y ago
This has largely been my experience too. I was development lead for an angular shop. We did all the government Ministry of Health forms in Angular, millions of residents would use our forms every year. Our frontend team I lead fluctuated
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by acoard 6y ago
I decided to explore this a bit. In reality, it's not that the git commands are spaced out equidistantly, it's that you have a flurry of git activity then go back to coding. So, an individual commit can easily hit 5 commands. I
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by acoard 6y ago
>Doesn't Microsoft let the NSA tap into Skype calls? Yes, but it seems like Skype was doing that prior to being acquired (though Microsoft seems to have accelerated things). From some quick Googling to refresh on PRISM – >• In J
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by acoard 6y ago
>2. It should have a 'structure' which is similar to that of the new, not yet understood subject. If you'll forgive my pedantry, at this point you're not discussing metaphors and have veered into analogies. Maybe we c
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by acoard 6y ago
I'd wager that's untrue. Anyone who buys an app, or in app purchase, is directly a Google customer. I'd also argue that even if someone uses Play Store services, but doesn't pay a penny, they're still a "custo
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by acoard 6y ago
Neither does BitTorrent handle the distribution of .torrent files or magnet links itself.

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