cobbal

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by cobbal 4y ago
When it comes to financial transactions, KYC laws mean that privacy is, in fact, illegal.
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by cobbal 4y ago
And one of the root keys in a GitHub action is "on" which will get turned into True by a compliant parser if unquoted
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by cobbal 4y ago
How much will you be charging for the adversarial network to allow someone to get any PR approved? ;)
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by cobbal 4y ago
I agree with you on swift. The evolution process seems to favor adding more "features" instead of unifying, simplifying concepts. For instance, we have special syntax for optionals, exceptions, asynchrony, coroutines (mostly hidd
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by cobbal 4y ago
I do a very similar thing. Sometimes when I describe my height, I'm "five and a half foot, nine"
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by cobbal 4y ago
Not to mention that poker is a game that rewards you for not getting caught lying. Fine for a game, but a problem if you're trying to draw life lessons from it.
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by cobbal 4y ago
Right. If you think about it as a function of the state itself, the 2 definitions agree. If the function is `f(x, state) -> (y, state')`, then f is "imperitively idempotent" when `g(state) = f(fixedX, state).state'` i
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by cobbal 4y ago
But even if you hit the "don't recommend" button on every "mix" playlist you see for months, don't expect YT to get the hint. I do wish the algorithm was a bit more tunable, but that's not really the Googl
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by cobbal 4y ago
Because it's fun. Lots other good reasons, but to me this is the most important.
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by cobbal 4y ago
As a mac user, I was going to provide a flippant answer, but I decided to look into it instead. Personally, I use zsh or a custom built shell scripting library inside swift. Always like to see improvements to shells though. Googled for it a
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by cobbal 4y ago
Sure, banks are also to blame for it. But I also don't think that excuses Plaid at all.
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by cobbal 4y ago
The reason I hate plaid is that they are training people to hand over bank passwords/2fa tokens to 3rd parties. And sometimes there are no alternatives available to the consumer.
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by cobbal 4y ago
U+1F4A8
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by cobbal 4y ago
That's wonderful. I'll leave the semantics of nucleons to the physicists though.
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by cobbal 4y ago
I see at least two compilers: zip and cat. :)
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by cobbal 4y ago
Baffles me too. By the same logic, Apple should not be able to sell phone cases without including a free phone in them.
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by cobbal 5y ago
If you break Apple Pay on your device, you can essentially get... your own credit card number. If you break open an e-$100 bill you get as many copies of that hundred dollars as you can spend before getting caught.
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by cobbal 5y ago
"verify funds locally via a dedicated or trusted computing environment located on the device itself" This probably can't go wrong, and certainly wouldn't motivate groundbreaking research into breaking TPMs.
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by cobbal 5y ago
Unless your password manager displays a popup to be unlocked. Then that's spoofable too. Which is why I paranoidly move the popup to overlap the URL bar before unlocking.
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by cobbal 5y ago
https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/
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by cobbal 5y ago
Even better would be to link to the hash of the password, then there would be no way to guess.
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by cobbal 5y ago
How long before a plague of brighter-than-white ads, I wonder...
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by cobbal 5y ago
For a really in-depth, online resource on Bézier curves, I constantly consult https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/
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A Primer on Bézier Curves(pomax.github.io)
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by cobbal 5y ago
Goodhart's law kills again.
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by cobbal 5y ago
I never realized wikia was so closely connected to the wikimedia. I'm a bit shocked.
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by cobbal 5y ago
blacker_than_the_blackest_black_times_infinity
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by cobbal 5y ago
It's not like this is a new thing. Those of us at high risk for COVID because of other conditions have been living in that reality for a while now. More so before the vaccine was available.
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by cobbal 5y ago
True. And the case of what upscaling does is technically truly interesting and nuanced... but that doesn't mean that people don't have a sense of what zooming in does to an image, CSI "zoom and enhance" be willfully igno
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by cobbal 5y ago
Most states use a form of common law, which is completely based on what is common practice and what is common sense. Or at least was in England hundreds of years ago...

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