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by davis 3y ago
This rough idea is the basis of A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge. It has this idea of "zones of thought" where there's basically a speed limit on the speed of thought and advanced civilizations move up into the higher zon
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by davis 3y ago
You have to burn carbon to build renewable energy components if you don't have enough energy from existing solar + wind; I don't know what you expect. But now they have ~500GW of energy to build next year's >>500GW [1].
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by davis 3y ago
2023 made it very clear that China knows the stakes and also sees an opportunity with owning the clean tech future. They built more renewable energy just last year than has been installed in all of the United States in its history. BYD just
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by davis 3y ago
You haven't been following the recent developments in renewable energy and the deployment of clean tech then. We don't need new technological advancements. We just need to continue to produce more solar, batteries, wind and keepin
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by davis 3y ago
It's infeasible and unreasonable to think that in order to criticize and advocate for a change in society, that person needs to be outside of it. Having an iPhone doesn't change any of what they are saying. The impact of the plast
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by davis 3y ago
As another commenter said, go here, input the address and you can probably find all the same details: https://web.seattle.gov/dpd/edms/
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by davis 3y ago
> stopping production of manmade greenhouse gasses will not immediately reduce the amount of those gasses in the atmosphere, so heating will likely continue for many years after peak output Regarding the stopping of manmade greenhouse ga
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January 1, 1970: The Day the Software Industry was Created(jldavis.substack.com)
1 points by davis 4y ago|0 comments
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by davis 4y ago
Oh man, I also need to buy this book when it drops
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What the Unix Epoch Should Mean(jldavis.substack.com)
2 points by davis 4y ago|1 comments
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by davis 4y ago
What about the guy in China that owns gnail.com?
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by davis 4y ago
There's actually a very good reason to not use Google Authenticator actually. They don't offer any backups (at least on iOS) and as a result, if you lose your phone, you are hosed. Google Authenticator also doesn't use iCloud
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by davis 5y ago
Wow, that's very cool!
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by davis 5y ago
That's Brad Fitzpatrick https://twitter.com/bradfitz/status/1488682672960376832
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by davis 5y ago
Interestingly, Robert Noyce thought this article was a bit of a tall tale by Tom Wolfe. Here's a quote by him from 1984: > It's interesting to me to see what an enormous amount of publicity the microchip has gotten recently inc
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by davis 6y ago
Oh wow, I love that. Thanks for that fact
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by davis 6y ago
It really is the irony of entire Substack platform: the inspiration of it is Stratechery yet one of Ben Thompson's most consistent themes (aggregation theory) makes it clear how precarious of a situation it can be when you rely on anot
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by davis 6y ago
Did you read the article? They didn't say bear reproduction; they said population. They are just moving back into Yosemite and being more visible. > “It’s not like they aren’t usually here,” he said of the bears, bobcats and coyotes
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Boeing 737 Max and Software's Uncanny Valley(recompiled.com)
5 points by davis 8y ago|0 comments
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The Internet Smog Descends(recompiled.com)
3 points by davis 8y ago|0 comments
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by davis 8y ago
Yup, it was TIFF in the iPhone case
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Amazon’s Culture of Discomfort(joshldavis.com)
5 points by davis 8y ago|0 comments
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by davis 8y ago
Interestingly, Robert Noyce thought this article was a bit of a tall tale by Tom Wolfe. Here's a quote by him from 1984: > It's interesting to me to see what an enormous amount of publicity the microchip has gotten recently inc
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Splootysplotty: Open Source Alternative to Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky(joshldavis.com)
1 points by davis 8y ago|0 comments
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by davis 8y ago
Hey Stephen. I created twofactorauth.org but am no longer the maintainer but if you send me links to the pull requests, I'll take a look.
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by davis 8y ago
Haha. That's a satirical article I created to poke fun at open source naming schemes. I buried the lede on that article (which is confusing in retrospect).
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by davis 9y ago
This is amazing! So it looks like the app is setting up a VPN and doing traffic filtering there. How exactly does it work? Also, one question I have: what sort of transparency/guarantees do you have about data privacy? I saw the notifi
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by davis 9y ago
I was just looking for apps similar to RescueTime this morning for this very reason. Yours looks excellent.
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by davis 9y ago
In a legal case, discovery means evidence/data https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_(law) This person was probably writing scripts/tools to grab data from email servers, databases, code, etc.
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by davis 9y ago
This is a ridiculous comment. It's strange to be on a crusade against increased security for the average user. Is 2FA the final answer? No. But are you more secure with it than without it? Yes. We're talking about normal people he

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