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by ballenf 5y ago
Tamperish is tamper monkey for Safari and I love it for Safari on MacOS. Excited to see same website custom styling on phone too. https://github.com/username0x0a/Tamperish Since it needs local file access (to get the c
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by ballenf 5y ago
I really thought it was going to be someone complaining about their restaurant server having a smoke break. Thought it must have been covid related to make the front page. But don't ask me how.
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by ballenf 5y ago
I owned almost every iteration of Blackberry and Nokia's before that. I never once paid for an app on any phone prior to an iPhone. I remember people selling them, but it required me to visit their website on a desktop computer, trust
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by ballenf 5y ago
It's pretty well established that whatever you measure will affect people's decisions even without explicit targeting. It can be important to refrain from continually tracking that which you don't want to manage.
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by ballenf 5y ago
Could this work on an M1, if optimized for its ML cores?
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by ballenf 5y ago
Speaking personally, I've never owned a truck but began considering it during Covid. Why? The cost premium of hiring someone for home improvement jobs vs. DIY seems to have gone up. And the difficulty of finding someone qualified, repu
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by ballenf 5y ago
WASM plus encryption will mean it could be illegal to decrypt/alter website code just like a Netflix video stream. Adblock criminalization is close.
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by ballenf 5y ago
I have a different take also: some records should just be kept on paper and never stored electronically.
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by ballenf 5y ago
I don't get moralizing the point. And if you want to go that route, I'd argue that forcing someone who is coming to you based on a headline's promise to sift through a short children's book is disrespectful and rude. But
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by ballenf 5y ago
And that’s why we feel ownership over the code we’re paid to write. The gardens were hired to tend.
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by ballenf 5y ago
On the other hand wouldn’t Tesla be irresponsible if it didn’t manually review sections of road involved in a crash and perhaps override the settings if automated systems had made bad calls? Can you imagine a second wreck on that same stret
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by ballenf 5y ago
Kind of a side point, but I think it could be argued that some transaction friction is a good thing at a societal level. (So long as the friction is agnostic to demographic or income level.) My spending, consumption and general wasteful con
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by ballenf 5y ago
I think it's also fair to apply that tolerance to the team level: letting teams exist that require pairing. And teams that never pair. And everything in between. That is, the parent point, should not be used as an argument against ther
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by ballenf 5y ago
So what’s the R value in terms of insulation of a black hole? If I’m trying to capture energy in the form of really hot things a black seems like a great way to do it. Hawking radiation takes eons.
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by ballenf 5y ago
And just think of all the things that will be turned into crimes once people lose the ability to rebel. Cash is a check on centralized power. An important one.
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by ballenf 5y ago
Think miles per person per day. More dense means everything is closer.
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by ballenf 5y ago
Making doughnuts and soft drinks available to everyone for free is superficially a huge win for people. They are valuable (as determined by marketplace) and lowering the cost makes them more available to everyone. But measuring the net soci
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by ballenf 6y ago
Any specific scenarios where it fails? We're using it across a wide codebase and several teams and I haven't seen or heard that issue.
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by ballenf 6y ago
The battle really parallels the larger right to repair debate. (Especially if we realize the latter is probably is better called the right to exercise control over purchased goods.)
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by ballenf 6y ago
So maybe Google shouldn't have guaranteed privacy of this app on a phone OS where such a promise is impossible to deliver?
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by ballenf 6y ago
Similar experience here. The problem I witnessed during my year or so involvement was a race to the bottom in terms of selectiveness of admitting students. The deception was that the screening test was marketed as informing prospective stud
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by ballenf 6y ago
Why do we expect tech companies to stand up to the people in charge of the countries where they operate? Is it because we hope and think that tech companies are somehow a new UN of sorts and we get disappointed when they don't live up
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by ballenf 6y ago
Loss of trust. Trust in society creates enormous efficiencies. We're seeing the loss of those efficiencies as society splits apart into more and more tribes. Bitcoin, in part, is a marker for loss of trust in governments. Trust in thei
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by ballenf 6y ago
Maybe humans were created by an ET life as mining/purifying beings whose sole purpose is to be dropped on planets and left alone for a few millennia to do their thing. The ETs come back once all the minerals are refined and purified an
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by ballenf 6y ago
> The obvious corrolary is that Alice herself must be of average intelligence Would she also conclude that because some fruit in bowls is hollow plastic that there doesn't exist any real fruit in bowls?
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by ballenf 6y ago
2TB would be a rare purchase if the next tier down weren't 1/10 the size.
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by ballenf 6y ago
If they claimed to take returns but always found an excuse not to take them, I'd call that anti-consumer. Maybe Apple could just give a discount if you give up your return option at the point of sale.
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by ballenf 6y ago
Point was just that having the "price on the tin" is irrelevant to whether there's price gouging going on. But, I guess the argument could be similar to the case against Apple for its iOS App Store: there are lots of competit
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by ballenf 6y ago
Physical mute button with red LED mute status is a killer feature. Got a wired Plantronics headset with USB-C that I'm happy with. Not sure if the above products have this feature, but I recommend checking for it.
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by ballenf 6y ago
It only takes one. One young prosecutor seeking to make a splash in a jurisdiction with a twilio customer. Twilio might win in court, but they’d lose in the big picture.

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