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by akersten 4y ago
Why can't I just draw on maps without an account? Chalk one up for the bounce rate.
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by akersten 4y ago
Better detection and screening for these cancers resulting in an apparently larger rate of incidence is an easy hypothesis to reach for.
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by akersten 4y ago
Any life philosophy that helps one get through the day in a positive way is good. I do have a nit to pick with part of this one. It leans on the idea that "everyone is winging it all the time" and links to a Guardian opinion(?) pi
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by akersten 4y ago
> Assuming antibiotics still work in 20 years and we retain some basic surgical skills And what happens when the antibiotics and sterile surgical implements run out, due to the incredible industrial machinery needed to produce them havin
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by akersten 4y ago
The lack of corporate pressures to just get features out the door and clean them up later (never) I assume is a huge factor. I agree, Blender releases new capabilities at such a rapid clip that there's certainly a solid base on which t
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by akersten 4y ago
Hmm, seminars and "certified professional" exams. I don't recall needing those in order to understand or implement username/password auth. I keep hearing this is simpler and more secure, but I really doubt explaining thi
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by akersten 4y ago
The Netflix Tax of Chicago: https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicagos-netflix-tax-revenues... It is disheartening to hear it's been adopted in more locations.
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by akersten 4y ago
The point the author is making is that that "due process" happens after your hypothetical front door is kicked down and dog shot, unfortunately.
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by akersten 4y ago
Accept that "work" does not mean 8 hours a day heads-down actively writing code. Humans did not evolve to spend 40 hours a week staring at a box of light, mashing plastic buttons while slumped in a chair and if you can't do t
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by akersten 4y ago
> we are to believe that photographs are not biometric identifiers (they are excluded in the text), but photographs once processed with readily-available software are biometric identifiers? Yeah, I mean the law itself is a money-grab by
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by akersten 4y ago
Everything that you, a person with a paintbrush, could paint "in the style of" something else is informed by what your model (your brain) has been exposed to. There's no getting around that, and commissioning you to paint som
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by akersten 4y ago
Yeah, I agree it's totally valid to want to avoid the AI ban hammer. I find myself doing it too - e.g. paying cash at stores I would normally never go to, for fear Mastercard thinks it's fraud. I was just saying that it's an
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by akersten 4y ago
Not to mention the "don't worry, we've put a sticky note on this account so it won't happen again (to you)" instead of an "oh shit, we need to immediately stop and fix this automated process that is catching le
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by akersten 4y ago
You keep framing this as "how do I make sure I don't get into this situation again," but with the attention this is getting (#6 on HN) and just how bad the issue is (both functionally and PR-wise)... Cloudflare should really
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by akersten 4y ago
I would really not like to double my grocery bill by being excluded from buying the store brand items. I actually like Great Value because it's half the price, same as Amazon Basics. I think they are both fine things to exist.
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by akersten 4y ago
What I don't understand is why Apple cannot simply make this a toggle option in settings somewhere. No, it has to work one way and one way only...
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by akersten 4y ago
Out of the corner of my eye I can see if my keyboard is in US mode (red/white/blue) or Spanish (yellow/red). Can't do that now, need to actually move my eyes to the corner of the screen to read low contrast grayscale ES
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by akersten 4y ago
> When the addictive factor is deliberately manufactured into a product (AKA engagement) So, every product from every company ever. That's the goal of marketing, after all. Why not extend this law for everyone? Why can't I sue
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by akersten 4y ago
Wow, yeah it's much worse. It feels noticably sluggish and that's really frustrating. Like watching your favorite desktop app get turned into an Electron monstrosity. The minimalistic and fast interface was why I liked Google auth
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by akersten 4y ago
For real. Let's start at 6 hour, 1 day work weeks, and Capital can negotiate to 8 hours/2 days from there if they don't feel like the cogs are busy enough. Because you know if we start at proposing a 4 day week, it's gon
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by akersten 4y ago
Why should Free software advocates need to "do better" than to argue from literal first principles? Fourier could call his transform a "process" all he wants, but that does not make it patentable. So yes, "oh, math.
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by akersten 4y ago
Everything you can instruct a computer to do is just math, yes. "Instructions on how to use the math" is, unsurprisingly, also more math. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_calculus
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by akersten 4y ago
Because the US endorses the concept of "essential patents," meaning you need to pay a licensing fee to be lawfully allowed to perform the math that transforms data into A/V content. Never to mention the two blatant issues wit
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by akersten 4y ago
How is it not code review first comment to limit that lookup to like, 10 steps at most? Baffling
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by akersten 4y ago
> The web was not designed with accessibility as default. Instead it is a significant amount of work to make things accessible. Every project incurs huge cost in order to achieve it. This has got to be satire right? HTML is accessible b
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by akersten 4y ago
After Firefox mobile pasted my previous clipboard contents into the textbox in step 2, I thought "man, that's damn good clipboard phishing and you got this audience real good ;)"
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by akersten 4y ago
So does sending the verification email, so it's a wash. Thinking about implementing email validation + verification is a great opportunity for developers to do two things: 1) Consider if you really even need to verify that email addr
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by akersten 4y ago
"For now" isn't enough, it needs to be "for good."
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by akersten 5y ago
I'm actually shocked that battery life wasn't mentioned at all in this article. A watch that you don't have to charge for a week+ was Pebble's #1 differentiator. No other smart watch had that feature, and (almost) no o
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by akersten 5y ago
Isn't that just a weirdly detailed way to say "every column is indexed, whether you like it or not"?

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