curryst

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by curryst 7y ago
> 1. Can it be considered "modified enough" to be considered derivative if it's the original file, plus some Javascript to provide a pop-up notification? They're altering the functionality of it, fairly substantially
812.
by curryst 7y ago
My primary is the lack of central distribution. I agree, $12/mo is probably too low to provide new content. I would generally be fine with paying more. What I dislike is playing whackamole with what service I can get certain content
813.
by curryst 7y ago
I do think you're right that it's something that middle class people can identify with. Largely because the opioid crisis has started to impact a lot of middle class households, which has helped to humanize the problems with drug
814.
by curryst 7y ago
To some degree. Gun sights provide a point by drawing a fixed line down the barrel. That method does not handle factors that cause the bullet's trajectory to not be perfectly straight or flat, such as wind, gravity, Coriolis Effect, e
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by curryst 7y ago
Out of this context, I would assume that "before" is being used as a location instead of a temporal reference. I.e. "this" referring to some kind of object; "the food was laid before us". As a temporal referen
816.
by curryst 7y ago
This really is incredible, it totally fixes my frustration at waiting for animations to finish and occasionally stuttering as it tries to uselessly slide things off the screen. Btw, I also have an option under Accessibility that says "
817.
by curryst 7y ago
I can't even fathom the level of stupidity and rage that went into such a maneuver. Up onto the sidewalk?! One idea would be to start making people more aware of the penalties for such maneuvers and aggressively prosecuting them. Suc
818.
by curryst 7y ago
I am consistently surprised at how often AAA is left as something to be implemented after perceived "core functionality". Organizational rules should stipulate that MVP's must contain AAA, because I would argue anything that
819.
by curryst 7y ago
> If I'm signing a contract with you, and you tell me "no one is going to ever offer you a deal like this," even though you fully know many people would offer me a better deal, that's not illegal. Is it not illegal to
820.
by curryst 7y ago
The tool parses out the bits that you're interested in. If you want to know what year the proverbial apple fell on Isaac Newton's head, you can get a biography and start reading, or you can Google and let the machine filter out t
821.
by curryst 7y ago
This is not whataboutism. Whataboutism involves failing to address the argument, and instead redirecting to a supposedly worse situation. The parent comment has addressed the argument; in 5 of the 12 no one died. That makes the list farci
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by curryst 7y ago
They can, for instance, tell you that one of your supposed cohorts has already told them what happened, but you can still receive a reduced sentence if you confess. I can also recall a few cases where they have lied to suspects about their
823.
by curryst 7y ago
I stand corrected, thanks!
824.
by curryst 7y ago
> Leave politics out of the tools you build. Politics don't belong there. Why not? I understand the argument that it will be problematic for consumers to intermingle licenses; that's fine, if it's cheaper for you to rebui
825.
by curryst 7y ago
One that comes to mind is the Supreme Court enforced ban on creating a firearms registry. Firearms dealers are required to retain sales records with serial numbers for some amount of time (I don't have the number handy, it's seve
826.
by curryst 7y ago
I've never thought of it this way, but they're technically correct, imo. A Unix timestamp doesn't specify a time, it specifies an offset from another time. It makes sense logically, the calculation is `current_time - epoch_t
827.
by curryst 7y ago
> If big companies don't want to play the game for whatever legal reasons, that's on them. And... so there is the commercial license (even if I'm pretty sure I'll never sell a single one for Vulcain). If they really w
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by curryst 7y ago
I would argue that becoming "legacy" is akin to bit rot. Sure, it still runs, but everyone that knew how it worked has left the company, and it's written in a language that is no longer in vogue and will require specifically
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by curryst 7y ago
When I worked at a Fortune 500 company, even finding someone capable of creating a good UX was difficult. We used ServiceNow for our CMDB, and since Infra "owned" that, our customizations were done by SysAdmins that were "re
830.
by curryst 7y ago
This is kind of a manifestation of this agency problem, though. We, presumably the people that would write this theoretical software, have a vastly different background than the people who will use the software (general students, not just
831.
by curryst 7y ago
I personally dislike them for two reasons. The first is that they are inherently subjective; it assigns a motive to another person's actions, which the author almost certainly doesn't know. Maybe the motivations were sexist, may
832.
by curryst 7y ago
Of course we do, we allow and encourage discrimination on a number of fronts. The most obvious is discrimination based on socioeconomic status; we have a whole host of "luxury" products that are kept inaccessible to lower income
833.
by curryst 7y ago
Let me start by saying that most of my knowledge of this is from reading news posts and comments, I will not pretend to have an in-depth knowledge of this situation. However, as a counterpoint, do you really want to live in a world where th
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by curryst 7y ago
As was the atomic bomb at one point in time. There may be exceptions for unintended uses of the technology you develop (a la Alfred Nobel), but there's not a lot of wiggle room when you work for the DoD. You were hired to develop thin
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by curryst 7y ago
> Why not pick some stable tech and take the opportunity to get really deeply into it? The only reason to chase buzzwords is if you plan to leave soon! Or because you respect the perspective that introducing new skills brings. I'll
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by curryst 7y ago
Isn't that also possible with EC2? Just set the startup script to something that installs your software (or build an AMI with it). Dump videos to be processed into SQS, have your software pull videos from that. You'd need some l
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by curryst 7y ago
I think it's a delayed effect. As the populace ages, people who are retired (from when birthrates were higher) will make up a larger percentage of the total population. There's some existing info on this out there, but most of wha
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by curryst 7y ago
I think the percentage of the cost of the final product sunk into labor acts more like a VAT. Sure, the manufacturer making carbon fiber canoes may spend more on carbon fiber than the operator. But what percentage of the carbon fiber suppli
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by curryst 7y ago
Does it? There are an awful lot of platforms that support the kind of content Tumblr supports now. How is this meaningfully different from a WordPress account, or a user subreddit, or a Medium blog, or even Facebook? How is Tumblr going to
840.
by curryst 7y ago
I'm not an expert on the internals, but virtualenv interactions feel more seamless. When you run poetry, it activates the virtualenv before it runs whatever you wanted. So `poetry add` (it's version of pip install) doesn't re

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