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by cmsj 5y ago
Some of the most fun I ever had on IRC was hanging out in #worms with an excellent gang of people, including Andy Davidson who created the game. Glad to see Team17 getting back to their roots - I hope that some of that old spirit can come w
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by cmsj 5y ago
Extremely well said. Thank you.
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What we need is the web to stop coalescing ever more tightly around Google. Apple's iOS browser monopoly is literally the only thing preventing Google from having a near total monopoly on web standards.
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it's almost like allowing websites to silently create databases on our computers, was a bad idea.
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FWIW, I don't think Instagram is super popular with the Tiktok generation, and WhatsApp's monetization strategy is still unproven.
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I would fully expect this trend to continue - each new generational cohort will latch onto a new social network that is separate from the ones their lame parents and older siblings use. This poses a massive institutional risk to any social
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To be fair though, audiophile reviews never contain any actual measured data either.
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I don’t think that’s a naive question at all, it’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot recently. We have something like 70k-75k lines of ObjC and plain C in Hammerspoon, written at various times over the last 7ish years, with varying a
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by cmsj 5y ago
Since we've hit the front page of HN again, I've just released Hammerspoon 0.9.92, which contains a few fixes and some additions, but mostly refactored a significant amount of internal project structure to allow our build system t
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I am also not an enormous fan of declarative programming, but it does have its benefits :)
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I always find it curious that these systems are very much event driven and not state driven. If you set the lights to have an On state between those hours, the system could periodically check them and assert the right state if it's wro
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"overall burden" is meaningless utilitarianism. This is a procedure which harms individuals.
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Good news we've fixed that problem with proper science: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/hpv/public/index.html
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Heck yeah, and it supported SMP. I had two of them running on an ABit BP6 motherboard as my Linux workstation. Good times.
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Don't say that. He'll now start looking for a way for crypto to cut margins on rose coloured glasses.
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That's not a bad sounding idea, but it makes a lot of assumptions about the infrastructure available in the region the self-driving car is being deployed. If the goal is really to make cars that can drive as well as humans, they need t
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by cmsj 5y ago
that principle of "slow on approach, since there is a risk" is something I don't feel like I've seen in any of Tesla's videos. Even the ones where they are proudly showing a Tesla avoiding a collision with a person,
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by cmsj 5y ago
You make a very good point. I've seen videos from Tesla's AI days where they show debug bounding boxes around identified objects, and the boxes always seem to disappear when objects are occluded. Perhaps that's just a visuali
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by cmsj 5y ago
Last time I had a modem upgrade from VM, the guys said I should keep the old modem and VM would contact me to send it back. Five months later I sent it off for recycling because i'd heard nothing. Two months after that they asked for i
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As a Virgin Media customer for some time now, and having previously worked for ISPs, I think I can say with some reasonable confidence that VM are a really really mediocre ISP. I almost admire how mediocre they are - they do just enough t
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It's interesting that the take there is "don't hire people who will expose your corporate shortcomings" instead of "fix your corporate shortcomings".
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Yep. This is literally the lesson that is demonstrated extremely clearly by the software of, ironically, Apple. Really good accessibility support ends up being really useful to all sorts of people in all sorts of ways. I have near perfect v
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If Facebook's own research finds a problem, and they choose not to tackle it because of money, it's absolutely justified to criticise them for their choice. That can be true and it can be true that social media is a net-negative
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It was hungry ;)
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Air is free.
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those drunk drivers may have caused collateral injury/death in their crash, but once taken to an ER they can't infect those around them with crushed limbs and twisted metal.
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avoiding exercise doesn't cause people around you to get fatter though.
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There are two things a vaccine can do - protect you, or protect society. Their greatest benefit is when they protect society by dampening the spread/severity of a pathogen to a level low enough that society can function essentially nor
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by cmsj 5y ago
Indeed, pull_request_target should be avoided. The better model to use here is "pull_request" to do the work of building/testing a PR, and then a separate workflow that triggers on "workflow_run" to collect the resu
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You are wise to be wary. There are some pretty subtle tigers waiting to maul you if you run workflows against untrusted PRs. The way I currently do this is that our workflows run the CI build/test job in the repo of the user proposing

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