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by chongli 1y ago
I don’t see how going back to the Wild West of the PC era is supposed to help these nontechnical users be safer. The App Store isn’t perfect but it’s far, far safer than that. I have vivid memories of loads of relatives in the Windows XP er
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by chongli 1y ago
There are entire classes of people who have simply given up on PCs and only use a phone, so I would call that substantial evidence that PCs have NOT "been handling [it] just fine." For these folks, PCs are a total failure; a dead
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by chongli 1y ago
WebView wrappers don't have any more ability to siphon data out of the phone than any other app. Scammers can always scam users if they can trick them into entering data into a website. There's nothing anyone can do about that (be
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by chongli 1y ago
Yes, assuming that iOS's entitlement security has not been broken.
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by chongli 1y ago
As soon as you open the door to side-loading, you'll have scammers and data-siphoners force all their users to side-load so that they can completely bypass Apple's privacy controls and security features. The entire iOS ecosystem i
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by chongli 1y ago
That monologue curtain pull is a hallmark of Sherlock Holmes. I wouldn’t call Doyle’s books lousy for that though. Creating brain-teasers for the audience isn’t really the point. It’s all about a character Doyle found insufferable but the a
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by chongli 1y ago
A lot of the theorems I learned in school weren’t particularly amenable to intuitive explanations like that. For example, take Galois theory. The fact that a polynomial’s solvability by radicals depends on the solvability of its Galois grou
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by chongli 1y ago
I rarely skipped math lectures in university (only when the prof was really bad; but then I watched video lectures taught by a different prof from a previous term). The lectures in the hardest math classes I took did not feature any “workin
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by chongli 1y ago
This is fun to do during lectures but in my experience only about 5-10% of my learning happened in math class. The other 90% happened at home as I worked through the problem sets. Essentially the lectures served as an inefficient way of del
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by chongli 1y ago
When working with larger enterprise software, it is common to have large CASE WHEN statements translating application status codes into plain English. For example, status code 1 could mean the item is out of stock. Why wouldn’t you store
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by chongli 1y ago
Ants farm aphids and another species of ant farms fungus. Parasites are ubiquitous in nature and they range from the infamous cuckoo who lays eggs in other birds’ nests to tiny worms that infest the eyes of children to the horrifying tarant
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by chongli 1y ago
I see that as the death knell for general search engines built to indiscriminately index the entire web. But where that sort of search fails, opportunities open up for focused search and curated search. Just as human navigators can find the
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by chongli 1y ago
You used to be able to buy a nice house in the suburbs with car in the garage and a white picket fence, support a stay-at-home wife with three kids, put them all through college, and take annual vacations to Disneyland or the Caribbean, and
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by chongli 1y ago
What about using it without optical media? You can install a SATA mod and use a large SATA SSD and run all your games from that. You can even install a nice cooling fan and disconnect the DVD drive, giving you a near silent console that sho
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by chongli 1y ago
I spent about a month trying to get used to Kakoune. It never clicked with me and I went back to vim. My biggest beef with Kakoune’s editing philosophy is that it seems to emphasize “editing in the large” as its preferred mode of interactio
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by chongli 1y ago
Why neovim for this? Why not nvi? Even less distractions that way!
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by chongli 1y ago
It's funny, because the chat bot designers seem to be continually attempting to recreate the voice computer interface from Star Trek: TNG. Yet if you watch the show carefully, the vast majority of the work done by all the Enterprise cr
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by chongli 1y ago
Oh yeah. I studied mathematics but I took a minor in philosophy. I studied philosophy of economics and philosophy of law, in addition to the usual metaphysics and epistemology stuff.
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by chongli 1y ago
I'm actually not an American and I don't reject the proposal outright. I think the pragmatic approach is still best though: study polisci if you are actually serious about going into politics (or at least policy). But if you don&#
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by chongli 1y ago
isn't the lesson that we need people to study political science right now? That's a quite literal interpretation of the quote, which I did not intend. John Adams studied political science because his business was the business of
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by chongli 1y ago
PhD students are devoting years of their life to this endeavor, which may pay modest living expenses during school but otherwise provides no current or future financial benefit to the student unless they get a job in their field I'd
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by chongli 1y ago
Of course they care about it in the sense that they care about maintaining law and order which forms the foundation of their power. Everyone knows the emperor has no clothes when it comes to "think of the children" bills. It'
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by chongli 1y ago
This is why games ship interpreters and include a lot of code scripting the gameplay (e.g in Lua) rather than having it all written in C++. You get fast release builds with a decent framerate and the ability to iterate on a lot of the “busi
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by chongli 1y ago
I’m not surprised. India produces very experienced surgeons due to the very high volumes of surgeries they’re able to perform. I think part of this is the high population from which to draw both doctors and patients coupled with the intense
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by chongli 1y ago
Instant Pot pasta is fun when you nail it but it’s so difficult to get right because the cook times vary so much with the quantity of food being cooked. If you’re like me and you vary the number of servings you cook all the time then the In
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by chongli 1y ago
Yes and if you’re targeting AVR, an extremely popular 8 bit micro, then it’ll be turned off.
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by chongli 1y ago
Not on all platforms! If you’re writing portable code targeting a lot of embedded platforms then you don’t want to rely on this optimization.
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by chongli 1y ago
You don't have to die to be selected out of the gene pool, you just need to fail to reproduce. If intelligence contributes to wealth and wealth contributes to reproductive success, then there will be evolutionary pressure favouring int
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by chongli 1y ago
How does this work if you're a multi-lingual person and you have files with names in different languages?
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by chongli 1y ago
Right but consumers are much more likely to buy a cheap USB charge cable that lies about its rating (via internal chip) than an Ethernet cable that lies about its rating on the package.

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