cletus

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by cletus 6y ago
> This doesn't hold water. It's just being shown because someone paid for it to be, not because it's the best thing to be shown which is what algorithms would be tuned for if they were in the users interest. You are factua
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by cletus 6y ago
I have to disagree somewhat: versioning objects or endpoints is never the right solution. I'd go so far as to say that versioning the whole API is simply the least bad option. What constitutes a major version? Simple: as soon as existi
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by cletus 6y ago
100% this. So many of these corporate investment announcements are really "look at what we were already going to do". Amazon HQ2 anyone?
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by cletus 6y ago
At this point, the snide dismissal of all things advertising is nothing short of boring. To be sure there are many forms of advertising annoyance: auto-playing sound/video, remarketing (or what I like to call advertising a product I&#x
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by cletus 6y ago
Holy crap, that's a lot of words. I'm pretty sure judicious editing could've halved the length of that. Speaking as someone who lived in NYC for 10 years I am absolutely against the scooters that plague other cities coming to
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by cletus 6y ago
Not sure why you’re being downvoted because you raise a valid point: cities often “solve” their homeless problem by shipping their homeless to other cities. After all, a bus ticket is cheaper than providing shelter. Cities that are extremel
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by cletus 6y ago
If you vote on a touch screen and it prints out a paper ballot, that's fine as long as that's a legible ballot, like not just a QR code or something. The voter should have confidence in the output. Likewise, if you use a pen or pe
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by cletus 6y ago
The first bizarre part to me about this fiasco is that accounting, as a discipline, is one that is designed to catch errors. Put it another way: it assumes errors will occur. This is why in shops, for example, you'll have manual stockt
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by cletus 6y ago
It's pretty much mandatory to have (yet another) addon to disable autoplaying videos, sadly. I think I hate this more than ads, honestly (not all autoplaying videos are ads).
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by cletus 6y ago
It seems like the Unicode Symposium has engaged in a massive employment program for itself with a mission that will continue into perpetuity. Obviously ASCII was insufficient as it only really had Latin characters. Providing a standard inte
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by cletus 6y ago
The current top end M1 Mac Mini tops out at 16GB of unified memory (meaning, it's shared with the GPU). That's OK but I'd prefer 32GB. More annoyingly, the store only stocks (up to) 8GB/512GB. Part of the appeal of a Mac
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by cletus 6y ago
And... no Touch ID (unlike the iPad Air) [1][2]. I recently bought the iPad Air after having the iPad Pro and hating Face ID on it. It's bad enough that I have Face ID on my iPhone. I hate it so much. Face ID is such a terrible UX that
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by cletus 6y ago
The specific list of things doesn't matter. It'll vary from person to person and project to project. The point is, there'll always be something. My point is that if you're signaling from the outset that you want to cherr
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by cletus 6y ago
Well, that's worse because it's a bigger issue. If you look through some of the bugs (there are several) you'll see suggestions of turning off chat to mitigate the issue but this raises even more questions: 1. Why don't
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by cletus 6y ago
So there are two issues with this: 1. If I were looking to hire someone and read this, I would immediately be turned off. Why? Because part of being an engineer (or any employee really) is doing a bunch of stuff people don't enjoy doin
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by cletus 6y ago
Still no update on super-high CPU usage of Twitch on Firefox, an issue that has been open for at least 4 years [1][2]. I really want to like Firefox and I want there to be viable alternatives to Chrome but when playing video back at 360p (n
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by cletus 6y ago
Two issues: 1. Water covers ~70% of the Earth's surface. Whales migrate of course but can exist from the poles to the equator; 2. Of the 30% land, for pretty much any species, some portion of that is uninhabitable. Dinosaurs being rept
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by cletus 6y ago
There are several countries that make it a crime to disparage the rulers, even if you do it outside that country and even if what you post is true. On top of Singapore this includes Qatar, Thailand and... China [1]. One effect of the Hong K
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by cletus 6y ago
The criminal justice system already does this extensively. Often people are sentenced to community service. So I guess your question is really should this be extended to more low-level offenses like minor traffic violations? It's an in
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by cletus 6y ago
Here's the one lesson I really want us to all learn from this: the only thing the rich fear is prison because prison robs them of time. Fines are just the cost of doing business. There are many other scandals: the whole subprime disast
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by cletus 6y ago
Years ago in a graphics programming class I learned the algorithms for rasterizing lines and circles (ie Bresenham’s) and it was honestly amazing. It’s just so elegant. Not only that, it has a bunch of non-graphics applications (eg projecti
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by cletus 6y ago
I'm surprised the Guardian doesn't seem to raise this but the ever-increasing CEO pay packet I think is of less importance than this: real wages have essentially been flat for 40 years [1]. At the same time we have: 1. Corporation
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by cletus 6y ago
Isn’t it more likely that the quality of the voice assistant isn’t that important to most buyers?
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by cletus 6y ago
This is a weird article. The headline doesn't really match it. Like it says the thinking brain is the last to know and the author suggests this is a physiological response. But all that's really saying is that anxiety isn't a
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by cletus 6y ago
Man, you and I see eye to eye here. I'm a firm believer in leaky abstractions [1]. I often found with JPA that I would be fighting the framework to get it to produce the SQL that I wanted. I encountered (then) ibatis and it was a breat
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by cletus 6y ago
Similarly, I lost interest when I clicked a link to another of the author's posts talking about the FTC declining to sue Google in 2012 and it treated the claims of Yelp as gospel for proof of Google's anticompetitive behaviour. Y
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by cletus 6y ago
> What stops [tax havens] from continuing to have low corporate tax rates? Nothing. But if Apple has $100B (out of $300B), as an example, in revenue in the US then the US gets to tax 1/3 of their income. If other countries decline t
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by cletus 6y ago
So real estate has a number of problems: 1. It's clearly used for money laundering and hiding money from hostile governments. In Europe, this is a huge factor in the London real estate market. 2. Cities die when people can't affor
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by cletus 6y ago
This is a good overview. I honestly don't understand how these IP transfers are legal and continue to be legal. In the example from this article if the Delaware subsidiary bought the tennis balls from Vietnam for $10m and sold them to
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by cletus 6y ago
Qualcomm and Oracle are clearly bad actors. IBM? Probably. But I have no idea honestly. But Apple? The only patent suit I'm aware of that they initiated was against Samsung and this is a little more complicated. First, it was primarily

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