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by csnover 6y ago
Adding context and giving suggestions for additional material is something librarians and museum curators have done probably since the dawn of the profession, and it’s all I can see happening here. I’m really struggling with your take that
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by csnover 6y ago
> And the chuckling in the call when someone has already said they’re not in a proper emotional state is just bullying. I can’t speak to who this person was or why they did this, but I did just want to mention that there is at least one
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by csnover 6y ago
Like any other system of laws, a code of conduct necessarily restricts the boundaries of what one individual is allowed to do in order to ensure there is a safe space for others. When used correctly, instead of inhibiting the free exchange
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by csnover 6y ago
First, I want to stress that I agree wholeheartedly that the social networking sites’ focus on engagement is clearly harmful to society, and the dark patterns they use to drive engagement are morally repugnant. I want that to stop as much a
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by csnover 6y ago
What is it that you think Section 230 does that “allows platforms to be judge, jury, and executioner”? What harm, specifically, do you think the Section 230 liability shield is causing? What change, specifically, do you think should be made
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by csnover 6y ago
> Ironically the first thing that comes to my mind for offsite backup is Backblaze B2... if you do all the encryption before it leaves your machine, then it doesn't matter what they do, and their storage is cheap. Rclone or similar
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by csnover 6y ago
Am I misreading this pricing information? They charge $250 per terabyte per month? I know I didn’t specify cost effectiveness in my list but I did at least expect everything to be within the same order of magnitude in cost.
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by csnover 6y ago
I’ve been happy using Carbon Copy Cloner for local backups for years. It may mostly be a wrapper around rsync, but it’s a very good one. :-) For cloud backups, I’m still looking. My personal criteria are security (of course), good data inte
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by csnover 6y ago
> That tweet is a big deal if true. One thing you can independently verify is that the backdoor string is still in their client. The installer starts transmitting data during the installation process, so I would not recommend installin
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by csnover 6y ago
Sorry, I was not clear. When I said company disk fleets, I was thinking of places like corporate head offices which have thousands of workstations, not datacentres.
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by csnover 6y ago
I wish that more companies would provide information on their disk fleets like this—especially on SSDs, which would be much more useful information for everyday consumers. I also wish that Backblaze would focus on their product security[0]
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by csnover 6y ago
Twitter didn’t make an editorial decision about what was published. The Post published their story, on their own site and in their own tabloid, without interference from anybody. Twitter had no control over that. Twitter did have control
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by csnover 6y ago
> But very few countries have indicated they have a plan for how to permanently stop the disease from spreading What do you even mean by this? Ever since eradication failed, the plan in every country has been mass vaccination.
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by csnover 6y ago
I believe the parent was making a rhetorical point: if your base fatality rate were 50%, then doubling it would mean you’d be guaranteed to die. Therefore, saying something “only” doubles your risk of death can understate the impact of what
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by csnover 6y ago
While I agree the parent is oversimplifying the connection between engagement and ad revenue, I would say that there is also an oversimplification in the way you represent the usefulness of engagement to the company and the people working t
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by csnover 6y ago
Rust doesn’t support object inheritance (only traits). It also doesn’t have function overloads or default arguments. Qt relies heavily on all of these C++ features; inheritance is fundamental to how Qt works (for example, it is impossible t
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by csnover 6y ago
I get how important UX is, and I still struggle to fathom what in structopt even generates 20x more machine code and 30x slower compilation versus a simpler argument parser which can do 95% of the job. Someone at some time thought that ev
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by csnover 6y ago
As a newer Rust developer, this is a very helpful list—trying to find appropriate crates has really been a crap shoot. One thing I can note from personal experience, though, is that saying `structopt` “is relatively slow to compile and does
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by csnover 6y ago
Apple explicitly does not allow this in their app stores.[0] > 2.4.5(iv): [Apps] may not download or install standalone apps, kexts, additional code, or resources to add functionality or significantly change the app from what we see duri
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by csnover 6y ago
Hi buddy. Thanks for taking the time to create an account on HN to reply to me. You should maybe also reply to my emails. :-) Any step forward here is good, but the main problem remains: the number of ports takes precedence over basically a
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by csnover 6y ago
In my opinion, this is not actually a good thing. It creates an unhealthy focus on how many ports there are rather than putting the focus on the preservation of games and the quality of the user experience. Most of these esoteric ports can
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by csnover 6y ago
I think it is reasonable for anyone to try this, but would recommend that they have an IV placed and sort all the paperwork for the anaesthesia anyway just in case—I tried this and had the opposite experience to yours.
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by csnover 6y ago
This user only ever submits articles to promote their site. > Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to submit your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.
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by csnover 6y ago
Thanks! I was hoping for an actual serology study showing that Vietnamese have more exposures to other coronaviruses than people in other countries, like you stated. Unfortunately, these links don’t offer any hard evidence at all to support
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by csnover 6y ago
This is not a great choice. The Backblaze client is extremely insecure—like, arbitrary remote root code execution insecure—and they seem to me to either not care or are too incompetent (or both) to be trusted.[0] [0] https://twit
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by csnover 6y ago
Can you please provide a link to a study that supports your assertion that Vietnamese have higher exposure to coronaviruses? Thanks!
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by csnover 6y ago
This is not correct. The “word shape model” itself is actually probably wrong[0]. > The weakest evidence in support of word shape is that lowercase text is read faster than uppercase text. This is entirely a practice effect. Most readers
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by csnover 6y ago
Can you please try a simple web search[0] instead of choosing to spread misinformation by couching it in a question? The CDC did not “correct down” anything; this bad faith argument is like saying that someone who was hit by a car didn’t di
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> It is killing the elderly and those with co-morbidities. Any "spike" is barely a blip. I’ve been seeing this ageist and eugenics-like language coming up quite a lot lately and it’s really disturbing to me. Why is it OK that h
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by csnover 6y ago
> A German study found that even asymptomatic COVID patients have inflammation and damage to heart tissue that’s more than what you’d expect to see. We don’t know whether this will heal or affect the heart long term. Are you referring to

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