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by arsome 5y ago
> no business is under any obligation to provide you access to their data and services for you to build a business on top of. I mean, they're the ones who gave it to me, I'm just using it. Not my problem if they don't like
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by arsome 5y ago
Sure, let me just develop my own monopoly on all real estate information.
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by arsome 5y ago
Last I checked there's no WebMetal.
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by arsome 5y ago
Everything is now a bloated Electron app where all the features have been deleted. Try comparing Spotify to Amarok/Foobar/Clementine. Even Firefox seems to just keep stripping out useful functionality for power users for some biza
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by arsome 5y ago
Yup, Youtube Vanced (which not only blocks ads but sponsor segments too, while iOS can barely even block the ads in a browser) and proper Firefox are the main reasons I can't consider iOS.
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by arsome 5y ago
This seems like a silly way to look at production though - you could say every kWh in the system is a "marginal kWh" if you think about it like this. Turning on your oven, charging your car, etc would be similar in effect. If you
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by arsome 5y ago
My understanding is it's essentially just as efficient as a resistive electrical heater as all the energy used in your video card is converted to heat at some point in the process. There may be some very minor loss here, but I'm n
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by arsome 5y ago
Yeah, during the winter I mine on my video card because I'm basically just swapping some of my natural gas heat out for a few hundred watts of electric heat and my electricity is primarily provided by nuclear and hydro. Kind of weird t
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by arsome 5y ago
Correct link: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-57280115 Current link points to "Covid-19: Complaints after England booking site reveals vaccine status".
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by arsome 5y ago
Just wanted to say thanks for Redux Toolkit and the hooks API - they were truly the key features in making me consider it a solid benefit with TypeScript integration in mind and getting the interest of colleagues who were less familiar with
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by arsome 5y ago
That's true, but it seems like WinForms is basically a dead end at this point, not much maintenance work is put into it and you have to jump through some serious hoops to make basic stuff like DPI scaling work even last I checked. Comp
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by arsome 5y ago
The link you used directly brings up the wikipedia article on Spas. Not sure that's what you were going for. :)
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by arsome 5y ago
Interesting, I did look at MobX briefly but pretty quickly concluded it seemed like overkill for our use case where Redux, Redux Toolkit and Thunk would pretty much solve everything we needed and seemed comparatively simple to follow, I&#x2
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by arsome 5y ago
I did look at Flutter but pretty much concluded that it was still fairly immature and didn't have great 3rd party libraries available for things like graphing and data tables (sort, filter, group, etc, with all the UI work done for you
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by arsome 5y ago
Yep. We recently did an assessment of available UI libraries and pretty much concluded the best maintained libraries with a modern look and feel are all web-focused and we're likely to have to settle for building an electron app if we
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by arsome 5y ago
The economist in me can't help but state the obvious: If those other industries were doing something so much more valuable, they'd aurely be willing to pay just as much for GPUs. Of course, it's not really the big value-produ
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by arsome 5y ago
journalctl -fu takes over a second on my NAS with the logs on an SSD even. I fucking hate systemd's logging so much due to this crap, don't make me read docs for every little thing, I just want to cat a damn log file, pipe it thro
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by arsome 5y ago
I'm not terribly familiar with U2F itself, but I assume the site has a way to identify you're using the right key that can be reused for this purpose?
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by arsome 5y ago
You can't generate an attested key with the devtools. It won't be signed by a 3rd party that CloudFlare has approved.
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by arsome 5y ago
There's always CAPTCHA bypasses if you're willing to pay, there've been sites operating for decades that will take a captcha URL and spit out the appropriate response by just feeding it to humans. This is just a different way
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by arsome 5y ago
I believe the idea here is you need to buy actual FIDO U2F keys and they could then be revoked on a per-key basis if you're caught abusing them as they're signed by a 3rd party so can't just be emulated. Meaning you need to b
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by arsome 5y ago
Some industries are very low margin while others are extremely high, I don't think this is viable without breaking a huge chunk of the economy.
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by arsome 5y ago
I'm not sure that's a good solution, likely you'd just see people paying ransoms but keeping it quiet and not making these attacks public. Arguably, even more harmful.
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by arsome 5y ago
Why would you re-read them when you could read something new? Do you find you're actually getting a significant amount of value or joy from it the second time around? I ask because I think a good portion of the reason I enjoy software
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by arsome 5y ago
Maybe it's just me, but I find marginal joy drops exponentially by repetition.
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by arsome 5y ago
So that's why my new dishwasher is terrible.
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by arsome 5y ago
Eh, I don't see opt-in as a bad compromise here either, it'd be one thing if they were trying to sell the data in some way, but there's beneficial information they're gaining from that data from a maintenance and UI desi
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by arsome 5y ago
Mozilla gets away with opt-out, I don't see why Audacity can't get away with opt-in.
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by arsome 5y ago
I'm all for that approach, but it opens a serious cat and mouse game where any rendering difference between Firefox and Chrome is quickly turned into a major problem for average users. Firefox would no longer be something you can recom
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by arsome 5y ago
I'm not so sure, by this logic we should have ad blocking by default as well, however that's a recipe for getting your browser banned by popular sites.

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