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by bhawks 5y ago
Efficiency: judging by the state of healthcare I sincerely doubt the legacy financial system will go away quietly. Fraud detection: I'd be very concerned about false positives here. Observability: forcing everyone to opt into a financi
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There are probably scores of abuse vectors waiting to be exposed. Getting caught exposing or exercising them might land you in a place where you can never have money again or worse.
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by bhawks 5y ago
While we may have evolved good practices to prevent satellite based espionage, it was just last September when a TikTok video revealed some secret aircraft tech while on base. https://warisboring.com/secret-military-aircraft
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There's still a chance.
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by bhawks 5y ago
There are many rendering issues on their landing pages. Things like unreadable elements with near 0 contrast between font and background and a dark mode with pieces of widgets with a white background does not fill me with confidence for a U
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by bhawks 5y ago
He recently did a full podcast with CNN's chief medical correspondent Dr Sanjay Gupta. I'd imagine Dr Fauci would be welcomed as well to the show. Joe's conversation with Dr Sanjay covered a variety of topics (Covid, marijuan
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by bhawks 5y ago
My experience with a project like this is unless you do reach fabled 1:1 parity, the new tool is orders of magnitude less useful or even actively harmful. Saving a minute every cycle sounds very attractive, but when a person spends a mornin
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by bhawks 5y ago
That's gross. I love it. I'd only reach for it for certain types of DSL where infix greatly eased readability (perhaps templating). I would also run it by a handful of people before committing it to verify I haven't gone comp
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by bhawks 5y ago
> Truthfully, I think most property crime would be stopped in its tracks if people didn't have economic reasons to commit petty theft. As someone who grew up poor this type of racist/classist argument is insulting. The poor hav
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I think just attributing this to the right people not being in charge over simplifies the problem. Search is a complexity beast and simply continued to grow in complexity during the several years I worked directly on it. Folks were proud of
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by bhawks 5y ago
Just do it randomly... 6.9% of the time be evil. People will write it off as flakiness in ci.
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Indeed, traditional rdbms are generally optimized for patterns with high locality. High locality patterns with NoSQL and NewSQL style dbs often end up causing one node in the system to receive disproportionately high load that defeats attem
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Strong agree. The spreadsheet metaphor makes complex computing tasks approachable to a very wide population of people and we've all benefitted from it. It also is not all roses. From a maintenance, collaboration and correctness standpo
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Two things I love about code reviews is the whole team has a general awareness of the changes happening in the code base. The other thing is how as the team grows/changes cultural norms ranging from testing, style, interface design an
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I'm just happy I can use this to let my kids play Minecraft again.
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Plot twist: it turns out to be the only key every found using this website. A user finds it 4 hours and 20 minutes before he excavates the hard drive.
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by bhawks 5y ago
The internal project name of Google's web storage system was called Alexandria too. It since has been rewritten and renamed though
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by bhawks 5y ago
The RMA instructions should include using android.com/find to lock and wipe an inoperable device if it ever gets turned on again. https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6160491?hl=en
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Yes nothing could possibly go wrong with this strategy. This is an example of one of the reasons why there is growing distrust of experts.
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> Looks like grandparent mode... I almost cut my arm off with all that edge. Care to dial it back a bit? The counterpoint is that most of the 'information' apps think are important really are wasting my time and obscuring actua
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by bhawks 5y ago
Taking a bet that complex systems will fail is usually free money :). Having been a part of Google the only thing more awe inspiring than the sheer complexity of production is the fact that it all worked so well. This is not a dig at curren
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I purposefully used the Global Times (CCP state run news source) for all those links - it is interesting reading what they directly want the world to read. Anyway the original message was much more colorful. This video from Chinese military
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China routine threatens US allies with military, even nuclear action. If the US military did not consider China a potential adversary it is not doing its job. Threatening nuclear attack on Japan https://www.globaltimes.cn/pa
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Transmission is a major source of logistical and operational complexity for a power grid. Routing energy across long distances and accounting for changing generation and consumption patterns are problems many intelligent people have spent t
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There are 4 lights!
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Data werelake - it transforms data into information every full moon. Seriously though I expect data people to understand that the value of clear descriptive naming. Communicate meaning not marketing speak.
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When iPhone and Android hit the scene the 'rich' web experience was primarily flash, silverlight, and some java applets (taking their last breathe). Input APIs for touch, multitouch and gesture were a mess for many years in the br
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The more powerful the state becomes, the more it attracts a certain type of person to rule it.
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Why stop at photos you take? Since we're doing this on device we can just turn the camera on every few minutes and ask an ai if the camera sees something interesting. If it sees that you're in trouble it can start streaming to the
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Human rights are things that another person/entity violates through their actions. Getting internet or health care is more of an expectation of citizenship.

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