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by alynn 6y ago
Unfortunately this article seems to be written in the same casual polymath style it claims to warn of, with people making broad generalizations without any deep knowledge of what they are talking about. I stopped reading at the point where
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by alynn 6y ago
I wasn't aware that CDNs were much cheaper, and am genuinely curious what service you are using at what prices. When I look at AWS pricing, us-east-1 at < 10TB, I see: EC2 data transfer out to the internet is 9¢/GB, and Cloudfr
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by alynn 6y ago
I never would have thought to check the webapp. Grepping for loadProto or .proto" does it. Thanks for sharing.
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by alynn 6y ago
APFS supports on-disk compression, and the Mac App Store uses that when installing Xcode, so it can be tricky to compare storage amounts. Xcode 11: 10.3GB on disk / 17.1GB apparent Xcode 12: 16.9GB on disk / 30.0GB apparent
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by alynn 6y ago
As someone who’d already been a bit worried about future mass-car hacks, I found the zombie car hacking sequence in 2017's "The Fate of the Furious" particularly terrifying to see in the theater. Rewatching it now, it actuall
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by alynn 6y ago
Thank you so much for posting this link. I already knew he’d written Mono, the open-source implementation of .Net, but am now in awe at seeing his many other accomplishments, such as starting the GNOME project and making major contributions
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by alynn 6y ago
> With the US Department of Energy dumping money into SCYL and many in the industry congregating around it, the software front is accelerating rapidly. Anybody know what SCYL is? Based on the low number of google hits I'm thinking i
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by alynn 6y ago
If you want to compare with the manual process for crossing obstacles, here’s a little buggy with a gasoline motor, with the lineman hoisting it past an insulator with the help of a pulley, starting around 6:20: https://www.youtu
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by alynn 6y ago
I think you’re trying to express skepticism about this claim, but the way that it’s phrased, if the claim were true, directly answering your questions would be to doxx the author of Slate Star Codex here in this thread.
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by alynn 6y ago
By taking down the blog and writing the open letter, Alexander has made it extremely clear what his current anonymity preferences are. It must feel incredibly horrible to be asking for privacy, citing safety reasons, only to have people dig
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by alynn 6y ago
macOS: /usr/share/misc/units.lib ubuntu: /usr/share/units, after `apt-get install -y units`
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by alynn 6y ago
I coincidentally came across the following article a few hours after being puzzled by nothal’s comment: https://www.inputmag.com/culture/is-ghislaine-maxwell-secret... Summarizes the current claims, while providing hea
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by alynn 6y ago
Have any other sources corroborated this story? Bloomberg News lost a ton of credibility with me after their “The Big Hack” cover story [1], claiming Apple and Amazon had been hacked by chips secretly added to their servers in the factory.
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by alynn 7y ago
One great thing about a $99/year ACM membership is that it includes full access to the O’Reilly service formerly known as Safari Books, normally $499/year. I have no idea what the volume pricing on Safari subscriptions is, so can