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by awinter-py 2y ago
have had this argument for library code I have met a style of programmer who thinks, on some level, that generally reusable code is unsafe -- like the `sum` function (stupid reductive example) is not okay unless it has a bunch of business l
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by awinter-py 2y ago
US also handed out a lot of benzedrine (normal amphetamine, not methamphetamine)
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by awinter-py 2y ago
uh they one thousand percent have did a killer whale write this
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by awinter-py 2y ago
glulam archipelago
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by awinter-py 2y ago
cut my kube bill 100% on GKE by switching from regional to zonal cluster bc the first zonal cluster is free
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by awinter-py 2y ago
ok fair point but that's still like 3 dof those arms are not cheap
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by awinter-py 2y ago
why isn't this just a gantry not everything needs 6dof
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by awinter-py 2y ago
> Allowing the use of (the fingers of) both hands would cause many unforeseen effects on the brain, which would make it hard to interpret the results. Participants gave their informed written consent but is it truly informed consent if i
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by awinter-py 2y ago
what's the state's interest in having their CA built into windows?
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by awinter-py 2y ago
yeah, there's a theory of social networks that you have to move to new ones as they age I think twitter aged artificially fast after it stopped investing in moderation and also shut off external researchers' access to the firehose
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by awinter-py 2y ago
I read nancy kress / beggars in spain as a teenager and get such an eerie vibe from short sleeper research but also let's go, if a giraffe can sleep 2 hours so can I
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by awinter-py 2y ago
feels like OSS early adopter folks have been trying to leave for years, legal + media people moved to bsky this month and are starting to close their twitter accounts, younger VC / founder type people are trying to stick it out some of
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by awinter-py 2y ago
'organized -- chaotic' and 'all screen -- no screen' are truly the main axes of UI design
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by awinter-py 2y ago
you and the us navy https://news.usni.org/2019/08/09/navy-reverting-ddgs-back-to... they ripped out the GUI-based controls after a bad crash (actual story is more complicated though -- they transferred partia
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by awinter-py 2y ago
that wind farm sending 1 gw into scotland from norway is striking
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by awinter-py 2y ago
the world is a vampire
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by awinter-py 2y ago
I mean technically any company with a legal department accepts written communication, and if they're out of state you can serve them through your state's department of state they fact that they have invented a byzantine system for
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by awinter-py 2y ago
these can be more memory-efficient than classes or dictionaries. there was a point a while back where python added __slots__ to classes to help with this; and in practice these days the largest systems are using numpy if they're in pyt
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by awinter-py 2y ago
what is up with the first sample? and/or am I having a stroke
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by awinter-py 2y ago
thought this was going to be about the 'log in with google' popup
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it's possible to tell
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by awinter-py 2y ago
page leave dialog was chef's kiss
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by awinter-py 2y ago
last time I tried thunderbird for mail, it didn't support oauth and was still in the less secure apps flow my sense is that oauth requires centralization and is fairly complex for an OSS org to support? like the thunderbird team would
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by awinter-py 2y ago
note that compost matters bc food waste degrades anaerobically in the deep layers of a landfill, but aerobically in compost heaps -- the greenhouse impact of composted food waste is very different pound-for-pound from a landfill the landfil
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by awinter-py 2y ago
could create a system for getting an easy second opinion from a doctor outside the facility then its not patient vs doctor, it's doctor vs doctor
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by awinter-py 2y ago
a single redis instance has better consistency + partition tolerance than any raft implementation
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by awinter-py 2y ago
redis is the easiest-to-host lock server and that's worth the risk in some applications (depending on consequence of errors obv) inspiring + slightly terrifying that rather than a single server-side implementation, every client is resp
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by awinter-py 2y ago
grandma sword
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by awinter-py 2y ago
the classic kelly clarkson single about using industrial policy to stay afloat when a revenue source goes away
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by awinter-py 2y ago
> They can be helpful for use cases like login and single sign-on, or putting shopping choices into a cart this doesn't make sense. if you're just solving oauth without cookies, solve oauth without cookies. make an oauth spec.

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