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by alex_duf 5y ago
If you have one person giving a lot of money to an organisation, that person might be tempted to use their influence to change the direction of said organisation. If you have millions of people giving a small amount of money, chances are th
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by alex_duf 5y ago
>if SHA256 proves to be insecure slight pedantism here, but "when" not "if"
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by alex_duf 5y ago
Similar to the egg/chicken question. The answer is neither, they both evolved at the same time.
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by alex_duf 5y ago
That's incredible! I'm looking for a house right now, that means I can check how much light it gets before even visiting it. Thanks!
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by alex_duf 5y ago
Out of complete curiosity: any particular reason to avoid traditional food?
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by alex_duf 5y ago
wind alone can't. But wind, solar, inter-continental connections, hydro, storage, and tidal probably can. Now whether we put nuclear in there or not becomes a matter of cost rather than necessity.
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by alex_duf 5y ago
My point (albeit subtly made) was that there isn't a central authority that controls emails, you can't just buy emails and then run it as a national service. And that's before you look into which government runs what.
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by alex_duf 5y ago
nationalized by which government?
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by alex_duf 5y ago
Although I do agree with the mission of archiving content, I find it quite interesting to be willing to pay for an organisation to archive content as a way to get content for free rather than pay for the content itself. It's a bit of a
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Thanks, I hadn't made that distinction between immediate and long term protection. The immune system is pretty complicated.
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by alex_duf 5y ago
>Remarkably, neutralization of Omicron was undetectable in most vaccinated individuals. I'm not sure I understand, are they saying double vaccination had no noticeable effect on Omicron?
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The problem would be getting the money out without revealing your identity
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by alex_duf 5y ago
Estimations are really hard. I don't know about you but I consistently under evaluate every piece of work...
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by alex_duf 5y ago
I have a bit of a knee-jerk reaction every time I hear web3, and immediately picture somewhat interesting tech with not that many practical applications. I'm possibly lacking vision, so I'm wondering if anyone could share interest
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by alex_duf 5y ago
there's actually one angle that I believe has changed on that topic: security. Security is to me the number 1 reason to reduce bloat in any application. By limiting the number of external dependencies, and maybe even the number of feat
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by alex_duf 5y ago
Personally I've linked caffeine with anxiety. The more I take the more anxious I feel, particularly if I take caffeine a few days in a row. So now I'm only occasionally having some, like on weekends or on family holidays.
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by alex_duf 5y ago
The point of depression is that you do not want to do things that you'd normally do. You don't want to exercise, see people nor wake up in the morning, and you feel terrible.
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by alex_duf 5y ago
Not if you want to use your software outside of steam, no.
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by alex_duf 5y ago
>because a grid connected system is supposed to shut down when the power fails, the only way out is to stop being grid connected On that note I believe there are electrical devices that automatically disconnect you from the grid. It allo
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by alex_duf 5y ago
>Why is the robot arm a right arm and the one manipulating it a left arm? are you asking about the person manipulating it? If so I guess that person is just right handed and needs to hold the camera somehow...
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by alex_duf 5y ago
>This is not the lambda, but your own code And yet it magically came down to 10s when amazon improved their system. Specifically it became much faster to join a VPC. And don't get me wrong: yes I was running some init code but not t
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by alex_duf 5y ago
I've seen 30s on AWS, so it's not that surprising. They have now improved it greatly though. And yet I still believe it's a great technology, as always it's a matter of putting it on the right use case. Message consumpti
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by alex_duf 5y ago
Ada was the first language I learned through my Computer Science courses during my University years (Bayonne, France).
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by alex_duf 5y ago
You wouldn't have trained at the Computer Science University of Bayonne (France) would you? Because we also used Ada as our first language there.
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by alex_duf 5y ago
Incrementing an ID requires complete knowledge in a single place, which at scale becomes a challenge. This would typically be done in the database, but doesn't bode well with distributed systems as multiple servers might thing "5&
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by alex_duf 5y ago
Serious question. I can see how to launder money in a shop, I'm failing to see how to launder money with property. Surely you can't buy a £1M property in £20 notes right?
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by alex_duf 5y ago
As someone who experienced countless panic attacks, I find the description of his symptoms to be very on point with my experience. I've hit rock bottom about 10 years ago, experiencing these about three times a week. The road to buildi
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by alex_duf 5y ago
Thanks for that, I had no idea this was a thing, I've now configured my Mx master 3!
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by alex_duf 5y ago
Hey, former software engineer at the Guardian here. Yes the news outlets are collaborating on stories too big for a single one. The last I can remember was the Panama papers, which followed a very similar process. I seem to remember they al
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Fastly deploy their own hardware, (That's one of their selling points) I don't think they rely much on AWS, maybe just for network interconnection?

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