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by bjtitus 6y ago
+1 to Fork. It's really an amazing client that has a "freemium" model similar to Sublime (you don't _have_ to pay to use anything). It's still actively developed and I love the Branch favoriting feature (which I hav
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by bjtitus 6y ago
> But no data is shared with the government > All that is shared is a randomly generated key thinking face I agree, though, it seems dumb to have governments anywhere near this.
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by bjtitus 7y ago
Why? Their business model doesn't involve advertising at all.
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by bjtitus 7y ago
> You're seeing what's wrong with centralized planning of things that don't need to be centralized Procuring masks on the market sure seemed to work out great for states in the earlier days of this incident: https:/&
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by bjtitus 7y ago
Doesn't really absolve the federal government in any way. The United States has a Federal Emergency Management Agency which historically has stepped up to the plate during these types of situations. In what way is this case different?
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by bjtitus 7y ago
On the other hand, many rural communities are vastly less capable of providing the care for even a small fraction of the big cities. Many rural counties in Colorado and Idaho have the highest rate of death and are most overwhelmed in their
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by bjtitus 7y ago
> iMessage is fully E2E To be fair, this part is 100% true, unlike Zoom's claims. The iCloud Backups issue is separate and should probably be made more clear by Apple but the technology is certainly E2E encryption.
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by bjtitus 7y ago
How is it pointless? The article talks about trying to cut down on electronic waste: > The regulator is determined to cut down on electronic waste being created by obsolete cables, which it estimates generate more than 51,000 tonnes of w
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by bjtitus 7y ago
"it's also now opt-in." I believe this is the improvement you are looking for.
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by bjtitus 7y ago
The whole point of the original tweet was to point potential systemic gender bias in the algorithm. The argument here is that the black box algorithm may produce sexist results whether gender is included or not. While there may only be anec
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by bjtitus 7y ago
To be fair, there are strict FAA rules that tons of people completely disregard. It seems like it'd be in the companies interest to do its best to ensure their market doesn't collapse due to further regulation. Seems like it could
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by bjtitus 7y ago
No one said isolation solves all security vulnerabilities. I'm not sure what else you'd expect from one of the most widely used software platforms ever made.
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by bjtitus 7y ago
So iOS?
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by bjtitus 8y ago
> I don't know if that matters very much. Unlike most fugitives, DOJ knew exactly where Assange is and that he'd have to come out eventually. Sure, and that's exactly what they did. By waiting for him to come out once Ecua
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by bjtitus 8y ago
> There is nothing unusual at all about suspects going into hiding. This is everyday stuff for prosecutions, and the normal thing to do is to indict and keep it sealed, not wait years to indict for funsies. Are there other examples of su
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by bjtitus 8y ago
Apple Music does have a larger library. I also think both of the services have reached a point of "good enough". If you want to stream and play music, they both work well enough.
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by bjtitus 8y ago
Facebook has offices all over the world and employees testing with devices on home networks all over the world (not to mention developers giving builds to family and friends, potentially). I would hardly expect Apple to be scrutinizing the
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by bjtitus 8y ago
I love the concept of the Touch Bar. In practice, I never use it and it's not uncommon for freezing to occur when I'm trying to adjust the volume which really colors my perception of the whole thing. I think the target market shou
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by bjtitus 8y ago
Natural Atlas is trying to do this type of thing by pulling together data from USGS, USFS, etc: https://naturalatlas.com
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by bjtitus 8y ago
I was working on something similar to add in to Perkeep. Any reason you decided not to use Google's Go implementation? https://roughtime.googlesource.com/roughtime/+/master/go/pro...
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by bjtitus 9y ago
It does explicitly name them: > Intel is committed to product and customer security and is working closely with many other technology companies, including AMD, ARM Holdings and several operating system vendors, to develop an industry-wid
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by bjtitus 9y ago
And why was this new weekly downtime not present during previous years? When you combine this with calls by Trump to refuse to pay insurance companies (see https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-healthcare-trump/tr
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by bjtitus 9y ago
I do think the "last 1%" may be a very hard problem to solve, but the majority of crashes are simply people not seeing things or making bad decisions. "Recognition Error" and "Decision Error" are the two most f
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by bjtitus 9y ago
I always question whether humans are really any better at this calculation. In the gnome example, many people will probably stop to avoid damaging their property, not see the car behind them careening forward, and end up getting rear ended
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by bjtitus 9y ago
On the capacitive touch iPhones these functions use a combination of the power button and volume rocker instead.
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by bjtitus 11y ago
There is also the HORIZONS tool which has a web interface: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?horizons
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by bjtitus 12y ago
I've been using a huginn + pushbullet for this. It definitely lets you customize your channels (you can write your own in Ruby if you need full control). https://github.com/cantino/huginn/
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by bjtitus 12y ago
I've used Thinky on a few little side projects and loved it! Definitely check it out if you are using Node and RethinkDB.
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by bjtitus 13y ago
You can work offline just fine. Notebooks will sync when you are back online. Seems like that covers all of your use cases just fine. Not sure how well the merges work in practice, though.
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by bjtitus 13y ago
Except this isn't a text editor and doesn't have almost anything in common with atom or brackets... One thing I'm not 100% clear on who this is targeting. I have no problem using Bower and Grunt (or Gulp, or what have you) to

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