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by dcsommer 6y ago
From the article: DER SPIEGEL: Do you share these numbers with your parent company Facebook? Cathcart: No, we don’t. The updated privacy policies will actually not change anything globally in our ability to share data with Facebook.
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by dcsommer 6y ago
The analysis seems to focus on the number of companies, not by employee headcount, so I'm not sure this is indicative of the experience of living in Silicon Valley on average.
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by dcsommer 6y ago
Constructive comment first: as a piece of music/art, I find this quite enjoyable to listen to! > "In a state of frustration, they don't look for a 'middle,' but ignore one of the inputs. This is a critical phenom
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by dcsommer 6y ago
There are pros and cons of having dedicated teams for work that also has to be accomplished by other teams. For instance, it's not a good idea to skip having a security team using the logic that "other teams will just think its th
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Scamp – Suite for Computer-Assisted Music in Python(youtube.com)
1 points by dcsommer 6y ago|0 comments
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by dcsommer 7y ago
Here's a study on the surface lifetime of SARS-Cov-2: https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMc2004973
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by dcsommer 7y ago
This might help contain temperature changes, but it won't prevent ocean acidification due to rising CO2 levels. I'm curious what percent of the damage is done by CO2 levels vs directly by temperature.
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by dcsommer 7y ago
Agreed, but I would say that chat channels (and especially 1:1 chat pings) typically have expectations closer to immediate mode compared to other mediums. Because they typically cause a notification and break in concentration, I label them
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by dcsommer 7y ago
Learning to "do it right" in a simpler setting is how we learn to apply the lesson in the real world. It's a lot more mental effort, at first, to write a program this way. But over time, the exercise pays off and you find it
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by dcsommer 7y ago
I'd love to see the topics of soft-realtime and lightweight threads addressed.
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by dcsommer 7y ago
Whenever I see articles about DevOps, I find myself wondering what exactly it is. It seems to mean different things to different people. Without any definitions in this article, I find it hard to understand what they mean by "Dev"
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by dcsommer 7y ago
How do people think about the relative trajectories of Signal and Keybase? It seems like Keybase wins in terms of features, but Signal has a much bigger network and is therefore perceived as more of a known entity, security wise?
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by dcsommer 8y ago
Facebook
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by dcsommer 8y ago
It would be interesting to introduce a stipulation that patents are enforcable only if the owners of the patent are doing meaningful R&D in the area related to the patent. As I understand it, the original purpose of patents is to encour
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by dcsommer 8y ago
I plug my phone into my computer and transfer it over USB. This is actually one of the primary reasons I switched from iPhone to Android.
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by dcsommer 8y ago
KeePass and Dropbox works great for me as a free alternative. I use the Kee plugin on Firefox and KeePass2Android on my phone. I set it up to need both a private key and password to unlock my password DB. The private key moves around on a t
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by dcsommer 9y ago
On the other hand, programming is programming. I work in many languages, both functional and imperative. Often I'll use functional paradigms in imperative languages, and sometimes I have to use imperative escape hatches in functional l
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by dcsommer 9y ago
https://github.com/uutils/coreutils for instance Personally, I don't find this a bad idea, as long as it is not the primary thrust. The reason it is needed is that you aren't going to convince everyone to cha
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by dcsommer 9y ago
Yeah this is precisely the point I was trying to make.
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by dcsommer 9y ago
I hope these cars eventually drive more aggressively than the video shows. With zero traffic they seem to inch along.
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by dcsommer 9y ago
Kant and the rest of non-realist philosophers are going to have a field day.
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by dcsommer 9y ago
I highly doubt people born and raised on Mars (if it is even possible to live long-term there) could ever live on Earth -- simply with respect to gravity and developmental consequences.
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by dcsommer 9y ago
I wonder what the greenhouse gas emissions will be like for the Earth-to-Earth trips. Ironic that the display showed a snow-capped mountain after the E2E animation.
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What should follow the web?(blog.plan99.net)
1 points by dcsommer 9y ago|0 comments
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by dcsommer 9y ago
This would make an interesting blog post.
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by dcsommer 9y ago
Gavotte en Rondeau is my favorite to play, good choice :)
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by dcsommer 10y ago
Fremd actually means foreign, referring to the external source of the shame (schämen).
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by dcsommer 10y ago
There's a great German word for this exact feeling: fremdschämen.
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by dcsommer 10y ago
Not in the mandatory runtime overhead, cycle collection, or non-deterministic pausing senses of the word.
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by dcsommer 10y ago
Heh, I'm pretty sure I had this exact effect when I tried playing a $250k Pietro Guarneri violin. Only it was more like [+200% tone quality], and since my own violin is just a decent student instrument, a good chunk of that bonus was r

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