baddox

101 ms·

961.
by baddox 7y ago
I’ve also blindly plugged a USB cable onto pins of a DB9 serial port.
962.
by baddox 7y ago
The HTML markup is very strange. There are a bunch of spans around various characters, words, and sequences of words, and sometimes there are non-breaking spaces in seemingly random spots. Chrome and iOS Safari both seem confused about how
963.
by baddox 7y ago
I would say that anyone who would even consider it remotely desirable to be able to sideload apps has very different desires and expectations about how much they will "fiddle" with their phone to get it working they way they like.
964.
by baddox 7y ago
In what sense? Because the article is explaining some problem, and the article itself has some other unrelated problem?
965.
by baddox 7y ago
Not in binary, right?
966.
by baddox 7y ago
The way I would describe it is that the primality of a number is almost completely unrelated to these images. The image is chosen beforehand, then a set of integers is chosen that each looks recognizably close to that image, then that set i
967.
by baddox 7y ago
Wouldn’t readily available abortion be simply another mechanism by which female mammals could vary the gender of their offspring?
968.
by baddox 7y ago
What is the mechanism to identify and count people who were voluntarily retired but now wish they could find a job but can’t?
969.
by baddox 7y ago
> but it's not like Google couldn't find a great legal chief who also wasn't a terrible person. This is actually an argument I wish would come up more often in cases where prominent people are fired or lose opportunities d
970.
by baddox 7y ago
I admit that I haven't read much on the subject, but it feels to me that, at least in American society, it has long been considered more acceptable for men to have various social arrangements than for women. My impression is that it&#x
971.
by baddox 7y ago
Unless there's more to the story than the redraw methods you described, I would suspect that this approach would not be significantly faster than React if your React components correctly use shouldComponentUpdate and React.memo.
972.
by baddox 7y ago
Efficiency as a concept requires a lot of context. In this case, when the power source is free and unlimited (at least until you get close to utilizing all incoming solar energy), talking about efficiency as simply the output energy divided
973.
by baddox 7y ago
> But I would draw a distinction between the things that fundamentally change the way we understand the world, vs building really cool toys that we would love to have. It may very well be that understanding emergent phenomenon at the app
974.
by baddox 7y ago
It’s relatively simple to have live reloading of individual JavaScript modules in Webpack. If you change the text on a React button component, that module will be recompiled and its new version injected into your browser and re-rendered. Th
975.
by baddox 7y ago
Perhaps, but you’d get similarly unsatisfactory reviews from any technology before you have learned how to use it. Criticism of how difficult it is to learn a technology is valid, but it’s not a valid criticism to say that a technology is n
976.
by baddox 7y ago
> Hard to justify going to the trouble of encrypting your backup. 10 years from now, it might be as good as plain text. When has that happened? Public key cryptography and symmetric key cryptography are still doing fine as far as I'
977.
by baddox 7y ago
The dichotomy does seem to apply perfectly well. The cost of the ticket is sunken. The social cost of skipping the concert is not.
978.
by baddox 7y ago
> your model might be incredibly close for a huge portion of the population (or for the biased sample you unknowingly have), but then wildly off somewhere else and you won't know until it's too late because it's not scienc
979.
by baddox 7y ago
I think a simpler way of explaining that is simply to say that many people fail to recognize sunken costs because most costs are not sunken. It’s usually appropriate to consider past costs, and it takes effort and intention to recognize whi
980.
by baddox 7y ago
There’s also the much more basic concept of time preference. Regardless of the monetary costs of preparing for and traveling to the concert, the concert experience is going to be more valuable to you if it is set to occur in 5 minutes rathe
981.
by baddox 7y ago
It’s an odd mistake to make, since it implicitly recognizes that someone may value the experience of seeing the concert more than $500, but fails to recognize that someone may value their close social relationships more than $500.
982.
by baddox 7y ago
It’s not rational to choose receiving $500 and having your wife and friends be upset at you, unless you value the $500 more than having your wife and friends be on good terms with you. That’s a tautology, of course, but apparently it needs
983.
by baddox 7y ago
Yep, that’s a future cost of the decision to not go to the concert, not a sunken cost like the cost of the ticket. It’s not relevant to the discussion of sunken costs.
984.
by baddox 7y ago
I’m no expert, but I think you run RDS on an EC2 instance, so it’s basically just a normal virtual server running Amazon’s managed version of the RDBMS. I’m not sure what happens if an instance “fails” but I assume you can have downtime if
985.
by baddox 7y ago
> The fact that "serverless" is indeed a buzzword is indisputable. It can be used as a buzzword, but it isn’t always. The same goes for “the cloud.” It’s used in marketing because it sounds cool and people think they need it, b
986.
by baddox 7y ago
> People are going to misuse any design guideline -- that doesn't say anything about the guidelines themselves. I think it says a lot. Just like with diet plans, compliance rates are important in design guidelines. It’s not good eno
987.
by baddox 7y ago
Okay, it may very well be true that one particular serverless product is very expensive or overly complex. That’s a fine argument to make. But that has nothing to do with whether the term “serverless” has a well-established meaning. It’s no
988.
by baddox 7y ago
It’s more than just a managed service. RDS is Amazon’s managed database cloud service, but you still provision and pay for a specific virtual server with a certain number of CPUs and amount of RAM. “Serverless” generally implies that you do
989.
by baddox 7y ago
You could also just use the release date as the x axis. It would be a potentially more useful but definitely less humorous chart.
990.
by baddox 7y ago
Regardless, labor unions would be a feature of any conceptualization of free markets I’ve ever heard of. In what sense is cooperation and organization not compatible with a free market?

More ›