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by brazzy 3y ago
Was is the Blockchain printer someone else in this thread joked about?
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by brazzy 3y ago
Actually makes me feel better about recently having bought a house where I have to constantly go up and down to get stuff (expensive city, so small footprint, 4 floors). Five flights of stairs? I'm pretty sure I average thirty at least
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by brazzy 3y ago
Seconded. The segement "The River Lethe's Taste is Bitter" is the most heard-rendingly sad thing I have ever read.
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by brazzy 3y ago
https://openai.com/charter
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by brazzy 3y ago
The problem is that "gang homicide" is not a statistic that is generally recorded, and is difficult and error prone to record.
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by brazzy 3y ago
Because that country typically refuses to let them enter.
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by brazzy 3y ago
Absolutely wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_d...
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by brazzy 3y ago
Yeah, but we're talking about the USA here.
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by brazzy 3y ago
My anecdote is from 1996-1998 - I was riding out the end of the Amiga era pretty far.
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by brazzy 3y ago
Not explicitly mentioned, and totally wild from today's point of view: AmigaOS does not have a TCP/IP stack. The "Raodshow" briefly mentioned in the video is a commercial implementation of a TCP/IP stack which you h
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by brazzy 3y ago
> I would try to fix this first. You're putting constraints/feelings onto email that other people don't. Just fire off an email with your question(s). Unless you're emailing the CEO or something, just type your questi
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by brazzy 3y ago
As a counterpoint, some years ago I developed a severe case of elbow pain (classic golfer's elbow, not that I play golf) in my right elbow. I stopped bouldering, got a vertical mouse, started carrying my kid only on the left arm. Nothi
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by brazzy 3y ago
Nuclear, you mean? Sure, but you can make the same argument about a cost/benefit analysis, they're more efficient as a threat or deterrent than in actual use.
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by brazzy 3y ago
Read "unable" as "lack of political will", the conclusions are the same.
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by brazzy 3y ago
Define "social" media. Does HN count? Why exactly not?
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by brazzy 3y ago
* dreaming of
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by brazzy 3y ago
Poe's law strikes again.
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by brazzy 3y ago
Reads more like fictional worldbuilding than an analysis.
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by brazzy 3y ago
> First you need to determine the requirements. All of them. In excruciating detail. Funny, I am currently in charge of a rewrite that did exactly the opposite (start with an MVP, do agile increments), and just recently went into produ
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by brazzy 3y ago
Recent? The meme basically started with this article: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-... - note the date in the URL.
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by brazzy 3y ago
I don't care for all that "logic" which is not logical at all, just a bullshit attempt to avoid confronting that reality doesn't work the way you wish it would and you have no way to change that. >Well I don't th
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by brazzy 3y ago
> This is where some feminists and "anti-porn" activists have problems with it, because in an exploitative system that demands you work in some way to survive, there is an argument to be made that no sex work can be truly thoug
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by brazzy 3y ago
> We need to charge for bytes or something like that. I read that 25 year ago as a suggested solution to email spam, and it's many times less feasible today than it was back then.
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by brazzy 3y ago
Surely the thing that would benefit from standardization is the SQL-level stuff use JSON values, like indexing, and path expressions.
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by brazzy 3y ago
There was also a design with a layer of rubber between an inner steel wheel and a thin outer steel tire. That was used by high speed trains in Germany - until one of the steel tires broke at 300 kilometers per hour and got stuck in a switch
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by brazzy 3y ago
Hm, interesting idea. And then they might not have done user authentication at all. Also an interestingly bad practice, plausible, but non obvious and not in any way hinted at by the article.
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by brazzy 3y ago
The article appears to build up though a chain of bad business and technical decisions to something "delightfully and poetically dysfunctional", but what that thing actually is stays frustratingly implicit and doesn't actuall
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by brazzy 3y ago
>This tragedy is so senseless and so avoidable. Zero COVID was and still is the rational strategy That statement is beyond ridiculous. Zero COVID was a pipe dream (as in: flat out impossible to achieve by any realistically implementable
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by brazzy 3y ago
So, a trojan device that makes the user give it basically full control over their phone, allowing a third party to do whatever the hell they want with the user's data and accounts - and what does it actually do? Show targeted ads. Trul
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by brazzy 3y ago
I've been in charge of a full rewrite of a B2B system that looks to work out pretty well so far (will soon do the full rollout for the first customer after successfully piloting with 20 users). I think a key to the success is that the

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