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by asplake 5y ago
Pretty sure that’s already on its way. One way we avoid giving card details to untrustworthy sites is to use a third party verification service. Suspect that this is well enough known that the headline should be construed as clickbait.
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by asplake 5y ago
> Whenever someone pooh-poohs rationality as unnecessary, or makes fun of rationalists Fun and clever article, but for it all to land on that was jarring and disappointing. Preaching to the choir I guess.
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by asplake 5y ago
The hollowing out created the conditions for it, and another wave of politicians have gone, continuing the process
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by asplake 5y ago
In the UK I would say that the Iraq war, the credit crisis, and Brexit hollowed out politics and we were left with populists – Corbyn on the left, Johnson in the right – and a great loss of trust in the political process. There’s a shakeup
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by asplake 5y ago
Ah yes, thanks
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by asplake 5y ago
XPath? What's wrong with the find command?
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by asplake 5y ago
"Note: this shows sample averages for clarity" – actually the average of several runs, not actual output? Pity we don't see the latter if that's what this means
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by asplake 5y ago
But that’s the point - it’s not just how many, but what they are willing and able to do, their positional and operational strengths and weaknesses, and so on. Condensing all that into a number is impossible.
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by asplake 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30129631
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Long Covid: Hidden lung damage spotted on scans(bbc.co.uk)
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Google drops FLoC after widespread opposition, pivots to “Topics API” plan(arstechnica.com)
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by asplake 5y ago
I am not a utilitarian either, but who in reality actually is? Seems to me that arguments either way are sterile if they’re devoid of questions of identity and strategy. I do what I do because of who I am and what I want to achieve as much
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by asplake 5y ago
It is universally more ergonomic to have a device that you can’t take to where you need to be working? Unbelievable.
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Synopsis of “That's Interesting ” by Murray Davis(sfu.ca)
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by asplake 5y ago
Right. Bindings instead of (procedural) assignments. Perhaps: valof(<expr>) where(<bindings>)
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by asplake 5y ago
> … valof clauses (basically where clauses) I so wish Python had valof/where already. And it’s the one feature I was surprised not to find in OCaml after seeing it in Haskell – why isn’t it more common?
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by asplake 5y ago
Validate inputs, escape outputs
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by asplake 5y ago
Interesting reference to Seed https://seed-rs.org/ – first I've heard of it. Anyone using it?
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by asplake 5y ago
> Heating a home with electricity is simply immoral. That's trivialising something complex. If coal is the source, perhaps. It's its way out though, and there'll come a point in the easily foreseeable future where to burn
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by asplake 5y ago
No. https://www.space.com/amp/james-webb-space-telescope-no-came...
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by asplake 5y ago
"Which of these images appears to contain a stationary obstruction?"
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by asplake 5y ago
Possibly dumb q, but potential useful to other languages?
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Why Are Meetings So Bad?(marginalrevolution.com)
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by asplake 5y ago
Polls brought a plague of dumb clickbaitiness to LinkedIn, unwittingly amplified by commenters complaining of their lack of nuance. Let’s not do that here
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by asplake 5y ago
Tempting fate perhaps even to ask, but I wonder if an unmanned refuelling mission might be possible?
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by asplake 5y ago
There were sequels?
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by asplake 5y ago
Yep. Half the fun/challenge of writing a book (I’m on my fourth) is finding the right linear sequence.
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by asplake 5y ago
“…it could be used to make 3D-printed batteries in any shape. According to the team, the Li-ion fiber battery also opens up a myriad of opportunities for self-powered communications, sensing, and computational devices that could be worn lik
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Arsenal fan token posts broke advertising rules, says watchdog(bbc.co.uk)
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by asplake 5y ago
Would this impact recording on Screenflow? I won’t be upgrading my main machine until I know for sure.

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