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by ballenf 5y ago
I'm only able to relax when I don't think about my need for a constantly beating heart -- pig or otherwise.
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by ballenf 5y ago
But TEX was a rather weak prerequisite to writing TAOCP. It will undoubtedly be re-typeset in the future for either a new device or a new generation. And the font surely an even weaker prerequisite. (But both are totally Knuth's prerog
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by ballenf 5y ago
> Getting COVID is to be avoided at all costs What does that mean and how is it not self-defeating? As in presumably one avoids covid due to its adverse impact on quality of life. But if you're willing to fully sacrifice your qualit
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by ballenf 5y ago
Is it correct that letterlocking is a technique that requires quantum technology to replicate in the digital realm? Strong crypto only works if you know with certainty your private key is still private.
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by ballenf 5y ago
Carriers generally don't care about payloads, they can monetize you from the metadata. What kind of websites you frequent and when. They don't need to know which color of maternity clothes you're shopping for to know you&#x27
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by ballenf 5y ago
I would guess Xfinity and other ISPs will be watching this closely. They have the same incentives and Xfinity among others strongly lobbied Congress when there were browsing privacy bills (that failed) in Congress.
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by ballenf 5y ago
The irony of this is that the last legit parking meter service I registered for was hacked and all my personal info and license plate are now in a public database. (Can't remember the name right now, but it's in the haveibeenpwned
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by ballenf 5y ago
It's maybe not apples-to-apples, but it's an instructive comparison like comparing the energy consumption of a day of Zoom calls to a business flight.
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by ballenf 5y ago
This field is growing so quickly the ratio of experienced to new devs is out of balance. It takes a critical mass of experienced devs on a team or in an org or the scenario you're in is the default. And even that critical mass won&#x27
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by ballenf 5y ago
The quote from Jony Ive > In the words of Apple’s celebrated designer Jony Ive: “When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.” This really gets it wrong. It becomes your master. Perhaps a b
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by ballenf 5y ago
Because some of their employees are in one or more protected classes and if you don't have a legit reason documented it's much harder to defend against a claim of illegal discrimination. And you can't just gather those reason
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by ballenf 5y ago
> If a company in the U.S. wants to fire you, they generally don't need a reason. That's only true if they can prove the reason isn't one of several prohibited reasons (racism, sexism, ageism, etc.). And how do you do that
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by ballenf 5y ago
> * Instead of trying to "earn" that promotion by working 80 hour weeks and "keeping your head down" at your office, apply for a different job elsewhere that offers better pay and work/life balance. I think the r
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by ballenf 5y ago
Doing a professional's job or a tradesman's job is different from designing the tools they use to do these jobs. So it would be asking a non-carpenter to design whatever tool they need to get nails to go into wood. You'd prob
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by ballenf 5y ago
The copying may not be in the direction you believe. The Playgrounds app was released in 2016 and that game looks like it came 2017. I was on the beta of the first Playgrounds release and seem to recall that the gem game was there from the
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by ballenf 5y ago
The last client is Loctite and he discusses the use of glue in that project as the first exception to “no glue”.
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by ballenf 5y ago
What I really want is all my subscriptions to get auto-downloaded into Plex. And for Plex to have better library management tools from the player, so I can delete after watching or move to a category. Then show me all the algorithmic stuff
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by ballenf 5y ago
https://downdetector.com Amazing and scary to see all the unrelated services down right now.
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by ballenf 5y ago
Don't forget user surveillance and data mining. Probably a profitable market for them to sell user profiles.
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by ballenf 5y ago
One more complicating question -- does the hide value of an animal incentivize better treatment during its life?
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by ballenf 5y ago
There is a gray market for reservations at trendy restaurants.
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by ballenf 5y ago
I feel like Waze has killed the high beams flashing warning, although I miss it. It sounds crazy as a say it out loud, but the signals between drivers always gave me warm feelings of some kind of community with other drivers. Now everyone o
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by ballenf 5y ago
Really really cool. I was hoping I could just start typing numbered lines of code, but there's a little more tooling there than I realized. I think there's something I'm missing because in the demo video it seemed like you co
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by ballenf 5y ago
Apple will have the IP addresses of every “I agree” click. Maybe some of them are traceable to NSO.
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by ballenf 5y ago
The one side of technical debt that the term doesn't capture is the quality of life issues involved. It's just misery and pain to work in an org with high levels of debt, even if everyone involved is comfortable with timelines nec
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by ballenf 5y ago
The article mentions Intel is slated to get the first next-gen EUV device ("high-NA EUV"). I wonder how much lead time this buys them from when TSMC gets theirs? Presumably would just be a month or two at most, unless Intel is get
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by ballenf 5y ago
The gut-level issue people have is a company gaining trust through creating a level playing field with algorithmic ranking, etc. and then slowly trading in that trust in order to create an ever larger moat around their monopoly. The nefario
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by ballenf 5y ago
I don't see it as padding so much as simply hiding price increases by misleading the customer. And it's easy to see why it's a race to the bottom sorely in need of regulation: you can't compete against the airline that c
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by ballenf 5y ago
Ditching the product is probably the goal of the email, if the stats show that paid adoption happens within x days 98% of the time. What I think those stats miss is that I will test a product with one email and if I decide to buy for a team
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by ballenf 5y ago
While people decry the inability for crypto transactions to be adjudicated in court, what we don't talk about as much is that this is also the direction of non-crypto transactions. As the article stated, the police initially refused to

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