calafrax

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by calafrax 9y ago
"Last year’s record heat resulted from the combined influence of long-term global warming and a strong El Niño early in the year." "One of the strongest El Niño events since at least 1950"
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by calafrax 9y ago
this fcc comment is so uninformed. getting rid of net neutrality will make service way better because you will be able to pay for a line with prioritized access for video conferencing and remote presence. net neutrality is what makes it imp
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by calafrax 9y ago
not everyone has the discipline to work in an office either. not sure the proportion is any different.
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by calafrax 9y ago
who is backing yarn?
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by calafrax 9y ago
I have run some very simple tests and performance is very close for real world complex apps, ~10% faster for an express hello world and ~10% slower for http stack only. Basically TF is at parity on average but slower for code like the node
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by calafrax 9y ago
I am not sure that creating burner accounts to libel people by name is an entirely appropriate use of this site no matter what your personal feelings are. You don't have any evidence to substantiate any of what you are writing and this
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by calafrax 9y ago
"Worse, one of the biggest obstacles that minorities face is a chicken-and-egg problem that time alone doesn’t cure. People avoid professions in which there are few people like them. This is a hurdle which affirmative action can remove
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by calafrax 9y ago
nothing about the ruling says that. the ruling itself just says they affirm a lower court ruling being appealed so it is not clear exactly what they are ruling on. the key thing here is that this was a lawsuit by some guy against the police
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by calafrax 9y ago
the judgement is actually pretty useless here since it just says they affirm the lower court ruling which was being appealed and doesn't include any reasoning on why.
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by calafrax 9y ago
apparently they have a lot of experience with tyrannical government.
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by calafrax 9y ago
definitely. i have worked with perl and php extensively and ruby and python occasionally and personally prefer js to any of them.
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by calafrax 9y ago
horribly.
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by calafrax 9y ago
plain old javascript is perfectly fine. es6 is better. if you can't write good apps with js it is because you aren't a good programmer and you wouldn't be able to write good apps in any language.
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by calafrax 9y ago
server side rendering and progressive enhancement is still be best approach for the vast majority of apps.
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by calafrax 9y ago
in the end "cord cutting" is going to be paying the same price as before for cable, but only getting internet, plus paying ala-carte licensing fees that are higher than what the content companies previously charge on cable because
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by calafrax 9y ago
investing in high efficiency gasoline engines is a much better bet. the world will be running on gasoline for decades at least. even if europe (doubtful) or US (very doubtful) pull out of gasoline there will still be billions of potential c
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by calafrax 9y ago
2040 is a long way away. very easy to pass laws that take effect after you retire. and very easy to change them after you retire as well.
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by calafrax 9y ago
this is interesting work but at least on the node side I am going 100% native async/await promises after node v8.3.0 is released. whatever small advantages more advanced libraries may offer are for me overwhelmed by writing standard sp
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by calafrax 9y ago
the hype machine on the other side is massive though. you have tens of thousands of "investors" flooding every communication channel with bitcoin talking points and saying how much money they have made.
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by calafrax 9y ago
These "white hat" people are really amusing. They sell weapons to criminals and then sell the defense to the victims and then act all indignant when they get arrested.
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by calafrax 9y ago
Great. They convicted one low level autistic freak with no connections over a couple million dollars. Brave day for justice. What about the daughter of a senator who is the CEO of the company that quadrupled the price of epipens? Yeah, righ
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by calafrax 9y ago
> The indictment does not say Hutchins designed Kronos or sold Kronos. Rather, it says that he provided computer code to a second party to update Kronos. > Overt Acts in Furtherance of the Conspiracy > a. Defendant MARCUS HUTCHINS
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by calafrax 9y ago
well, yeah, what exactly are those "reviews" of? since there are no finalized models and prices they are reviewing a bespoke demo unit not a production model that can be purchased. Even with Consumer Reports they gave an excellent
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by calafrax 9y ago
yeah, the thing about shutting down hospitals is that instead of looking at fraud and computer crimes that probably won't even be investigated you are potentially looking at manslaughter.
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by calafrax 9y ago
Interesting that the WannaCry bitcoin account was emptied at about the same time. https://qz.com/1045270/wannacry-update-the-hackers-behind-ra... Makes me wonder about this guy's real connection to that.
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by calafrax 9y ago
I always wonder why if people need these features so badly they don't just program in Java or C++?
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by calafrax 9y ago
launching to employees is critical. they all already have non-disclosure and non-disparagement agreements. if they launched to real customers they would either have to force them to sign, which would be a PR nightmare, or suffer the negativ
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by calafrax 9y ago
> more likely to get fixed everywhere fast openssl bugs were around for a very long time
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by calafrax 9y ago
exactly. a very shitty unique implementation is much less likely to be hacked than a near bulletproof implementation used by millions with a single flaw.
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by calafrax 9y ago
It is not that open-and-shut. Unauthorized access to a computer system is a different legal category than IP licensing.

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