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841.
by ddalex 7y ago
but how do you get the sine curve in the first place? because you're not subtracting a sine curve, you're subtracting non-coincidences, for which there is no reason they would be on the sine curve
842.
by ddalex 7y ago
how can you inject an exploit from a plaintext file?
843.
by ddalex 7y ago
What if I'm Romanian and move permanently to the Netherlands with my job, family, house, etc, as I can under UE law? I would be a resident, but not a citizen, correct?
844.
by ddalex 7y ago
seeing rich saudis queue in a glorified Paris mall to buy way way overpriced faux leather bags, a truth occured to me: the west truly scammed the oil out of their land, not by force, but by smart appeal to greed.
845.
by ddalex 7y ago
if you owe somebody 500k, they own you. if you owe them 50B (val of wework), you own them
846.
by ddalex 7y ago
should be there in a couple of hours though
847.
by ddalex 7y ago
The Norway new car tax is above 100% for ICEs. So you can either buy a 30k ICE or 60k Tesla (which is taxed 0%), and get a lot more value for your money - in addition to that you have free parking in the cities too for electrics.
848.
by ddalex 7y ago
Why not do it?
849.
by ddalex 7y ago
I had someone recently quit my team for a way better opportunity that my company couldn't provide. More or less jokingly we showed up with chains on the last day to bind him to the desk :) we allowed him to part after a couple of beers
850.
by ddalex 7y ago
I've done the London commute for 6 years now. My solution : work out flexible hours with my employer. If I have the stand-up at 11 I can jump in the underground at 9:30, after the worst of the rush is done. Likewise in the evening, wor
851.
by ddalex 7y ago
The problem is BoJo isn't that his smarter than others thinks. It's that he's not as smart as he thinks he is.
852.
by ddalex 7y ago
It is. Three orders of magnitude leaves everybody else in the dust. I wonder if this applies to pricing as well. If we get to single-digit dolar prices pe kg to orbit, a tourist ticket would be easily a couple thousand dollars - equivalent
853.
by ddalex 7y ago
I actually time-tested git grep vs ripgrep, and I'm not seeing meaningful differences on my repos. ripgrep smokes regular grep but for some reason git grep is just as fast as ripgrep
854.
by ddalex 7y ago
I prefer my terminals dumb and without much color, as the UNIX gods intended them to be. This being said, I'm in love with `fzf`, my workflow improved markedly after scripting (on mac) `ggvi() { git grep "$@" | fzf | sed \&qu
855.
by ddalex 7y ago
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856.
by ddalex 7y ago
The value is giving FB video stream data to analyze and monetize.
857.
by ddalex 7y ago
I don't worry so much about cameras but about microphones. Is the microphone off button physically disconnecting the mike wires so it can't be software-enabled?
858.
by ddalex 7y ago
Hahahaha... how about no?!
859.
by ddalex 7y ago
Socialize the losses, quick!
860.
by ddalex 7y ago
But there is no A in UFO...
861.
France to block development of Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency(uk.reuters.com)
3 points by ddalex 7y ago|0 comments
862.
by ddalex 7y ago
blaming dead people may be a misnomer for a common cover-up technique in communist-countries investigations: the dead people are at fault, because then you don't have to punish anybody living, and the dead people are already dead, what
863.
by ddalex 7y ago
I am the other person with an excellent opinion of Django's ORM. I vastly prefer it to writing SQL queries manually, and the only thing I miss is making it ever more functional-like.
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ECB official calls Facebook’s Libra ‘treacherous’(cointelegraph.com)
1 points by ddalex 7y ago|0 comments
865.
by ddalex 7y ago
1. you cannot not use them - the init binary doesn't gracefully degrade in the absence of the services provided by these APIs 2. the APIs are very complex and convoluted, with deep state maintained throughout the message exchanges; so
866.
by ddalex 7y ago
However it's slowing changing. Knoppix has always been seen as a trend setter, and it still has a large influence where it matters - open source maintainers that are not corporate-driven (i.e. Debian).
867.
by ddalex 7y ago
Play Store developers are not users - they are customers for the Play Store product. Nobody is forcing them to develop for Play Store; or to use Ad Sense or any other Google product. When you're starting your relationship, it's ve
868.
by ddalex 7y ago
> building the dystopia my children will have to deal with So you want other people to fight your ideological battles. If this would be 4chan I'd tell you that those programmers are "not your personal army". But have you c
869.
by ddalex 7y ago
How do you know who is a legitimate dev and who is a scammer posing as a legitimate dev, to know when to work with someone, or to withhold information that would expose secret filters that you use? Mind, it's not that this dev got one
870.
by ddalex 7y ago
> optimized for profits at the expense of the rest of the world This is literally what each and every company does - P&G could sell me the toothpaste cheaper, but guess what, they want my money. Very rarely a business deal - money ex

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