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by ahmedalsudani 5y ago
No questions yet as I am yet to read ... but I can already comment and say grade A title.
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by ahmedalsudani 5y ago
The book is still great, and some of us like to dig into database internals :) It's by no means a requirement to use the database
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by ahmedalsudani 5y ago
What a great resource. Thank you for the recommendation!
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by ahmedalsudani 5y ago
Yes I did. That quote does not necessarily mean those cures were fraudulent--it could be pure incompetence. But again, the issue is not deciding what's safe and what's effective. It's finding that something is effective and t
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by ahmedalsudani 5y ago
There's no reason to be this snarky. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_and_Drug_Administration#H... I took you up on it regardless, and it doesn't have much to do with snake oil salesmen according to the Wik
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by ahmedalsudani 5y ago
> I'm not sure what you think you're responding to in my comment. A direct question would be easy to answer. As it is, I'm sorry to hear about your confusion :-)
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by ahmedalsudani 5y ago
We wouldn't survive for long without insects, and we'd notice the rot buildup in our environment very quickly without them. It's not about "biology". It's about roles in the ecosystem.
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by ahmedalsudani 5y ago
Adding capacity, dropping suspect traffic.
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by ahmedalsudani 5y ago
Perhaps it sounds grim, but it seems no different than what we're doing. Do we base our morality on the patterns of the synapses or the shape of the bodies? The former makes more sense to me. To be absolutely clear, this is not an endo
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by ahmedalsudani 5y ago
That is a fantastic presentation. Wish there were more summaries of accidents that are as informative and as concise.
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by ahmedalsudani 5y ago
This question will be even more pertinent in 2050, when instead of modifying pigs so that they're more similar to us, we'll be modifying Homo sapiens to stunt their intelligent. Those Homo stulti will have neither the agency nor t
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by ahmedalsudani 5y ago
For the record I'm not against using fossil fuels for any purpose. No matter how many paragraphs you turn it into, the forest fires in California have nothing to do with fracking gas. Don't turn a discussion of a private company&#
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by ahmedalsudani 5y ago
Filed under non sequitur.
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by ahmedalsudani 5y ago
If GPS is easy to jam, that doesn't help much. You can likely just as easily jam signals for another GNSS as they all use similar technology.
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by ahmedalsudani 5y ago
Ugh. Guess it will be time to switch password managers again.
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by ahmedalsudani 5y ago
Yeah; anyone who thinks DRY means copy the answer on SO is completely missing the point. DRY should not introduce vulnerabilities. It avoids them by 1. reducing complexity and cognitive overhead 2. allowing you to fix your code in one place
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by ahmedalsudani 5y ago
There is a kernel of truth in the post, but the mental rigidity makes it impossible to take seriously. Sometimes you need to standardize on one tool, and sometimes you don't want to do a study on what the best tool is--you just use wha
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by ahmedalsudani 5y ago
So what? Things that are still in the exploratory phase are also interesting. People are free to upvote whatever content they find valuable. (And the headline + post title are not misleading clickbait, which is often the case with such stor
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by ahmedalsudani 5y ago
Stockfish still holds the copyright. You’re using their code with their license, and so does everybody you share that code with.
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by ahmedalsudani 5y ago
Nothing always produces the expected outcome :) Lower courts are usually not where you get good decisions in novel cases like GPL enforcement.
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by ahmedalsudani 5y ago
Some would argue that your bladder was doing you a service ;)
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by ahmedalsudani 5y ago
Is this OSS? If not, then there are a dozen (also non-OSS) alternatives one could choose from.
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by ahmedalsudani 5y ago
100%. It’s why their margins are way leaner.
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by ahmedalsudani 5y ago
It's easy to buy a bunch of hard drives and connect in a data center. Managing petabytes per user for thousands of users is the hard part, and it's a software problem. BackBlaze is definitely a SaaS company... though the quality o
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How to Write a Spelling Corrector (2007)(norvig.com)
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by ahmedalsudani 5y ago
Looking forward to the day a patent troll comments on a discussion
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by ahmedalsudani 5y ago
New word of the day! This one is going to come in handy.
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by ahmedalsudani 5y ago
Right, that's what I was thinking of. They created an opt-out system for publishers. The reader can guess how Brave expects to make money with a free browser that is handing out BAT :-)
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by ahmedalsudani 5y ago
Correction: they never injected ads, but they do remove ads and replace them with "attention tokens", which is an opt-out system for publishers. See also https://tech.hindustantimes.com/tech/news/this-pop
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by ahmedalsudani 5y ago
It was used for blackjack and hookers.

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