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by csnover 6y ago
I don’t know if their newer revisions are any better, but I bought a CP1500PFCLCD in 2011. When the battery died from old age, it cut power to all of the battery backed receptacles until I power cycled the UPS. When the charger failed a few
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by csnover 6y ago
My understanding is that engaging is typically a bad idea because these folks typically fall into one of three buckets: 1. The person believes what they are saying strongly enough to say it openly and conspicuously. Attempts to correct them
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by csnover 6y ago
This is a response to an argument I did not make. I could choose to spend 24 hours a day replying to misinformation. This won’t get the misinformation off the platform even though it’s against the rules of the platform for it to be there i
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by csnover 6y ago
> There is not even a category to report them because Facebook only has limited options (nudity, harassment, hate speech, unauthorized sales, violence) It is the same on Twitter and YouTube, and probably on every other social networking
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by csnover 6y ago
Good news! The USPS is self-funded. Your taxes do not pay for subsidising people to hand-deliver junk mail.[0][1] [0] https://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/five-things/the-u-s-po... [1] https://fac
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French constitutional council rejects law forcing platforms to delete content(techcrunch.com)
17 points by csnover 6y ago|1 comments
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by csnover 6y ago
Oh, I see. My mistake. It makes no sense to me that a user choosing to censor content would solve any institutional problem so it didn’t even cross my mind that someone would bring it up. Thanks for the clarification!
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by csnover 6y ago
What happens if the users are the ones that moderate to include only the libellous content, per the GP’s example? Is the provider then responsible for that in this world where more moderation = more liability? Do the volunteer moderators be
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by csnover 6y ago
> the more you remove stuff you don't like, the more accountable you should be for whatever stuff you continue to host It seems to me that this just creates a perverse incentive to never moderate anything. How would that be an impro
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by csnover 6y ago
The classes thing is even worse than what you are describing since it is the only way to create correctly functioning sub-types of built-ins (e.g. `Error`). So not only is it still syntactic sugar for prototype-based inheritance for most th
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by csnover 6y ago
For anyone who doesn’t want to read the legal complaint, the named class action plaintiff (Jared Goyette) was shot in the face by the police with a “less lethal” round[0] and nearly permanently lost his eyesight[1] after he had just finishe
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by csnover 6y ago
I assume you’re talking about the bible, which is obviously not copyrighted, so where does the idea comes from that nobody will continue to buy old content if it’s in the public domain?
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by csnover 7y ago
> a hospital wouldn’t use masks of unknown origin There are multiple PPE donation drives going on right now, and these supplies do go to hospitals and other health care workers. I don’t know why you think hospitals won’t use these masks;
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by csnover 7y ago
At least VoiceOver on Safari uses the `display` CSS property to decide how to describe an element unless you explicitly give an element a different ARIA role in the HTML, so this isn’t 100% correct in practice (although it obviously should
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by csnover 7y ago
Previous discussion from when their policy was first publicised, but before there was an active case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22600314
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Charter prohibits working from home despite spread of coronavirus(techcrunch.com)
125 points by csnover 7y ago|57 comments
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Italian hospital saves Covid-19 patients by 3D printing valves(3dprintingmedia.network)
622 points by csnover 7y ago|195 comments
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by csnover 7y ago
Regarding the second question, a preprint of study on SARS-CoV-2 immunity in rhesus macaque indicates that they did develop an immunity. [0] [0] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.13.990226v1
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by csnover 7y ago
The link on the submission is broken. The correct link is https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/technology/coronavirus-pu...
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by csnover 7y ago
You’re assuming that most people will act responsibly and not go about their daily lives infecting other people if they know that they don’t know. This goes against my personal experience of how many humans behave. It’s equally plausible to
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by csnover 7y ago
Even at a 0.7% mortality rate, you’re talking about a small percentage of a very big number. Up to 70% of the world’s population may become infected. [0] In that case, a 0.7% death rate converts into 37 MILLION deaths. The runs on toilet
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by csnover 7y ago
They seem to be getting things under control. [0] [0] https://mackuba.eu/corona/#south_korea
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by csnover 7y ago
Yes, but the longest part of the process was waiting for the 401(k) administrator to actually do that, and once I initiated the process I couldn’t make any changes. This was a while ago so I don’t remember the specific time frames, but it w
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by csnover 7y ago
I’m not the OP, but when I left a company where I had a 401(k) and transferred the balance to my preferred brokerage, the source account was frozen for about that long during the approval and transfer process.
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by csnover 7y ago
Of course I don’t know that since I don’t have the time or ability to inspect what the apps are doing. :-) The best I can do is give comparisons to the old non-Electron versions of Spotify and Skype, which had all the same core features as
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by csnover 7y ago
> It used to be known for prematurely wearing out SSDs by constantly writing stuff (cache I think?) to disk. They were constantly vacuuming some SQLite database.[0] [0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/
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by csnover 7y ago
I’m currently running three Electron apps: Spotify, Skype, and VS Code. Spotify: 1083.7 MB. VS Code: 890.9 MB. Skype: 406 MB. In the past, I’ve had projects open in VS Code which have caused that number to shoot up into the multi-gigabyte r
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by csnover 7y ago
Even when the disclosure is not actually coordinated, in the common sense of the word, because the vendor doesn’t agree to the deadline and/or isn’t given any option to pick a longer deadline? Edit: The Google Project Zero FAQ[0] expli
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by csnover 7y ago
You’re right that I am a software engineer, not a vulnerability researcher. I keep up with vulnerability research only insofar that I need to be aware of new classes of exploit so that I can write secure code (and, hey, it can be interestin
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by csnover 7y ago
Google Project Zero have been unequivocal about how their forced disclosures have caused vendors to release security patches earlier and more frequently[0], which is a win for everybody. Otherwise, research suggests that the chances of a vu

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