bvinc

9 ms·

31.
by bvinc 6y ago
The problem with this line of thinking isn't that it's wrong. I could complain about the media all day. The problem is that main stream establishment media: NYTimes, APNews, The Guardian, Reuters, etc are the best we have. The peo
32.
by bvinc 6y ago
I just use uBlock Origin to clean up websites I visit of their trending sections, recommendation sections, comment sections. Sometimes I get rid of links that I might mindlessly click, like the whole top bar of reddit.com. For example, the
33.
by bvinc 6y ago
The real story here is the story of someone who has actively avoided politics all of her life, but Twitter's engagement increasing algorithms got to her. It showed her outrageous Twitter mobs to feed her outrage cycle until she was hoo
34.
by bvinc 6y ago
I can certainly say that that's exactly the way I felt complaining about it. I felt like I was an asshole attacking him, and I don't think he liked me very much because of it. The whole thing was very uncomfortable. I didn&#x27
35.
by bvinc 6y ago
I tried. I held a meeting to talk about the code. I found the problems hard to predict and hard to describe. It was decided that after the meeting he would work more on making his code less hacky and more production ready. But the real a
36.
by bvinc 6y ago
Someone at my old company basically did this and put it into production. The first problem he encountered was that multiple connections couldn't both be using the database at a time without clobbering each other. "No problem,&quo
37.
by bvinc 6y ago
Why aren't cell phone tower communications secured? Why aren't cell towers secured with certificates verified by the network? Why aren't stingray devices considered an attack on the cell network? If stingray devices work by
38.
by bvinc 7y ago
In what metric is it slowing?
39.
by bvinc 7y ago
There are many different ways of looking at quantum mechanics, so here is one way of answering your confusion. Probably the standard way of looking at quantum mechanics right now is quantum field theory. In quantum field theory, you give
40.
by bvinc 7y ago
My understanding is that automatically determining time complexity is impossible in the general case due to the halting problem. And getting a compiler to truly understand the time complexities of your data structures would involve either e
41.
by bvinc 7y ago
I do this exact kind of blocking. On Reddit I blocked the entire bar at the top of other subreddit suggestions. YouTube, I got rid of suggestions on the side, at the end of the video, and at pause. Call me crazy but I even got rid of typin
42.
by bvinc 7y ago
There was a posts week or two ago from a person running a legit Tor service that was analyzing all of the attacks he received. He said something seemed to be dos'ing the guard nodes, causing his service to automatically choose a new gu
43.
by bvinc 7y ago
I do this on YouTube of course. But I went a step further and used ublock to hide recommendations on the right, at the end of the video, and when you hit pause.
44.
by bvinc 7y ago
I agree that there's been an uptick in toxicity and polarization. I think it's partially due to more people being on the internet, the decentralized information sources on the internet, combined with human nature and generational
45.
by bvinc 7y ago
Yup I had this same experience. You could try some ips and end up controlling the teacher's screen that was being projected to the class.
46.
by bvinc 7y ago
I just want to say that there is definitely a lot of misinformation around statins. All I want to say is that the debate among statins isn't settled like the debate about whether vaccines cause autism. If you do a dive of only publish
47.
by bvinc 7y ago
I think he's got a point. As a developer I find myself in a different scenario. I'm usually trying to find out what exactly the 100% guaranteed way to do something is. Instead, I find incomplete documentation and different people
48.
by bvinc 7y ago
You're probably never going to see this so I'll keep it short. I just want to say that your disorder might be due to a circadian rhythm disruption. Instead of just focusing on light, you should also focus on darkness. Try not to l
49.
by bvinc 7y ago
I did this for a few classes because my teachers had such a thick accent that I could barely understand them. I figured out that if I read the book beforehand, I basically knew what they were going to say and I could follow along much easi
50.
by bvinc 7y ago
I have always traditionally been someone who would stay up until 2am a few times a week, and always been lacking in sleep. I've turned that around, along with a lot of other healthy changes I've been making, along with diet, exer
51.
by bvinc 7y ago
Caution: I kept having problems in websites where timestamps were hours off, and every captcha was super annoying. It took me a while to figure out it was due to the fingerprint protection that I had enabled.
52.
by bvinc 7y ago
These are my uBlock filters that I use to block all of Youtube's recommendations. I think it makes the site much cleaner. ##.ytp-pause-overlay ##.ytp-suggestion-set ##.ytp-endscreen-content youtube.com###related I personally try to hi
53.
by bvinc 7y ago
Healthier than what? I buy antibiotic free grass fed beef from local farms.
54.
by bvinc 7y ago
> but the overall view that there is no singular "I" is very counter to my self conception And the idea that the Earth being round and rotating around the sun is also very counter to my intuition. Think of it this way. Instead
55.
by bvinc 7y ago
I understand how it can achieve better performance by bypassing the file system. But I'd like to compare this to hypothetical key-value software that stores its data directly on a partition (instead of in files). Isn't this essen
56.
by bvinc 7y ago
Are smart pointers thread safe?
57.
by bvinc 7y ago
If there was a profit motive, and it wasn't free to emit greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere, I bet we would figure it out.
58.
by bvinc 7y ago
Just embed the gopath directory inside of the repo. Use makefiles and project files that set the gopath for you. My understanding is that Google does this internally, which is why gopath works the way it does. It's meant for monorepo
59.
by bvinc 7y ago
I use the bins right by the entrance of Lowe's and Home Depot stores. They also have bins for compact florescent bulbs.
60.
by bvinc 7y ago
I just tried to build libra on stable rust. At least the first thing that failed is that it's depending on futures 0.3. So it's almost certainly using async/await.

More ›