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by aeturnum 5y ago
Thankfully, in the context of laws in the US, I believe the 4th amendment may be helpful here. But other places will not be as lucky.
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by aeturnum 5y ago
> I actually vehemently disagree and will fight to allow people to break the rules. I think we agree actually. I didn't say it was good that rule breaking is getting harder, just that it's a fact. We have a lot of enculturat
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by aeturnum 5y ago
> This has been made a lot more difficult with the electronic log books. I think this kind of thing is going to be huge in the next 50 years. We have a lot of laws and standards that, in effect, allowed people to cheat a little but not
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I'm not a PHP expert, but I did not know it was also used in data science, game programming, embedded programming and machine learning as Python is. Of course they are both used for web services.
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by aeturnum 5y ago
Yes higher core counts are more and more common, but the language has thirty years of single-threaded path-dependence. Lots of elements of it work the way they do because there was a GIL. I could be wrong, but I am skeptical that Python wil
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by aeturnum 5y ago
Yah, that's definitely the future I'm hoping for. What I am worried about are the kind of transition issues I mentioned. Python 2 -> 3 strictly made the language more flexible too - but the Python ecosystem is about existing co
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I mean, you can modify Python code at runtime if you like. This has a good overview of all the nonsense happening under the hood: http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2014/05/09/why-python-is-slow/
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by aeturnum 5y ago
There are plenty of features on spotify I think could be improved but I have always been pretty happy with their playlists. What are the things that google does better?
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I worked in Python for years and while I suppose I'm glad for any improvement, I have never understood the obsession with true multi-threading. Languages are about trade-offs and Python, again and again, chooses flexibility over perfor
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by aeturnum 5y ago
This, I think, is the pitfall of doing your own thing. When I was younger I did a lot of extra and I suppose it went fine. I did expand our features and I added more functionality and sometimes it ended up being useful. But the truth is tha
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by aeturnum 5y ago
It's a good reminder to be realistic about our security models. People sometimes do things without thinking them through that clearly (or they just think very differently than you might hope). An intelligence agency get more intel per
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by aeturnum 5y ago
It's certainly true, in my experience, that trying to do two or more things "at once" disrupt my focus and increase my error rate, but I think that high level gloss on the situation is unhelpful for technology workers. Of cou
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by aeturnum 5y ago
> Just look at finance, the entire market is based on telling mistruths to regulators. There are of course liars in the finance market, but my impression is that most financial companies actually follow regulations quite closely (and h
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by aeturnum 5y ago
Every company "lies" but Facebook lies. What OP cited had nothing to do with PR or public statements. They are all regulatory representations that were later found to be false. That's different. It's pretty rare that com
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I am personally bullish on nuclear power, especially gen 3+ reactors. I also think that nuclear advocates really shoot themselves in the foot when they say things like "it's just people being worried about scaremongering." It
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by aeturnum 5y ago
It's quite common to scan IDs in California to verify age (I assume to guard against fakes). I believe it's also common in other parts of the US.
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by aeturnum 5y ago
> I'd much rather my sensitive digital information be stored with FB (knowing how much they spend on cyber security) than the CA DMV. I know what you mean and also my information is stored at the DMV if I want a drivers' lisc
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I think this just goes to show how useful some kind of digital identity verification service would be. Giving your ID to a third party isn't that risky (as I hand it over to grocery cashiers all the time) but we certainly have the tech
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by aeturnum 5y ago
It's whistleblowing, in this instance, because Frances Haugen released a bunch of internal documents showing what everyone has been saying. Generally the term is applied to someone who releases information from inside a company or orga
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by aeturnum 5y ago
The road to hell is good paved with good intentions, but I don't really see hell over the horizon on this one. Demographics are funny because they're really easy to satisfy. People come from many backgrounds. This is just one of m
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I think the topline, that Facebook would rather be seen as competently evil than incompetent, is dead on. But I think that, in his larger arc, Vinsel's epistemology isn't correct. Early optimistic predictions about emerging techno
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by aeturnum 5y ago
The open source arms control people over at arms control wonk[1] regularly talk about using Russian social media as a place to learn about base layout, details, etc. It's very hard to check that every person within vision range isn&#x2
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I can't read Hebrew either! But the way these books were typeset was to balance commentary with the text. For instance, you can see that the right page has a pretty substantial chunk of scripture in the middle (the central columns are
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by aeturnum 5y ago
There are different traditions of how to annotate text and not all of them follow the conventions you're describing. Here's an example from a hebrew bible from the 16th century: http://www.sothebys.com/content&#x2F
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by aeturnum 5y ago
> So for practically all purposes, treating each note as an image which should be rendered to the side of a particular part of the dynamically-flowed text will solve the problem. I don't think this is true. Even without underline
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I think OP could have used a more specific description for the sake of clarity. The idea is that using a reMarkable is just like using a pad of paper, so you can make arbitrary handwritten notes on the text. It's hard to imagine how ar
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I used a reMarkable 1 for my stint in grad school and it was invaluable. A PDF reader that wasn't hard on the eyes. I also really appreciated reMarkable's syncing software that let me see the notes I made on a laptop without the l
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by aeturnum 5y ago
It seems like a different problem if they are not rendering handwriting on the 'page' of the epub.
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by aeturnum 5y ago
> I don't fully trust it to make the same exact decisions in that area that I might want This is a very reasonable desire, but Brave also seems clear that their service does something different. Where other tools focus on blocking
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by aeturnum 5y ago
I don't understand why Brave Rewards needs to be enabled, but it seems very normal for the company operating a service to require some kind of account or membership. If you don't trust Brave this is probably not the service for yo

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