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871.
by devmor 2y ago
It is a bit of a silly proposition, considering that 40% of Americans are obese, and many of that population cannot afford $800-$2000 prescriptions.
872.
by devmor 2y ago
> Extreme appetite suppression to the point where I've started calorie counting specifically to make sure that I'm eating enough. It's incredibly easy to forget to eat. This is the largest of several reasons I hesitate to
873.
by devmor 2y ago
On your device: "Interests: Candles, Wooden Sculptures, Underwater Basket Weaving" Advertiser: "Show this to users who like Candles." Mozilla: "OK" That's pretty standard and can be used to track people on
874.
by devmor 2y ago
A 30x price increase with zero named benefits? This sure looks like the runway is about to come far short of takeoff. I’m reminded of Ed Zitron’s recent predictions…
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by devmor 2y ago
Imagine the nodes in those visualizations are not just a static state, but each have metadata attached to them used to infer the next state in the "chain", which is keyed on a value assigned from a mysterious lookup table based on
876.
by devmor 2y ago
Does anyone know if the fix for this vulnerability removes the ability to use your own arbitrary BLE devices on the FindMy network? I haven't personally looked through the technical details of how that has been accomplished in the past
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by devmor 2y ago
I think those challenges (especially leetcode) are heavily misused. When my team conducts technical interviews, we are asking for a couple simple programming solutions - but we're asking because we want to hear the candidate talk throu
878.
by devmor 2y ago
I had similar experiences the first time I tried a recreational drug - it was with my father and we watched Nova on PBS. We spent hours convinced we had novel theories on spacetime and wrote them down, believing we had stumbled upon revolut
879.
by devmor 2y ago
What US centered industry has continued to innovate new technologies in their fields that have benefits other than increasing shareholder value at all costs?
880.
by devmor 2y ago
No, the subject of this post is that they are now charging for downloading images.
881.
by devmor 2y ago
What exactly do you think is hosted on dockerhub, making it useful?
882.
by devmor 2y ago
Entitlement like building a business on top of free open source tech, relying on free open source to build and support your userbase, then using your cheapest line item as a cudgel to coerce subscriptions?
883.
by devmor 2y ago
https://x.com/elonmusk
884.
by devmor 2y ago
People will tell you it has something to do with covid, but this movement has been growing since the late 90's with the rise of the dot com millionaire nouveau riche - a large class of fairly uneducated people with a lot of money to sw
885.
by devmor 2y ago
I have heard it much more aptly described as “enforcing the social contract”. You agree to uphold the contract of tolerance with everyone that participates. If someone refuses to uphold the contract with others who do, then you have no obli
886.
by devmor 2y ago
This is the general problem with nearly all of this era of generative AI and why the public dislike it so much. It is trained on human prose; human prose is primarily a representation of ideas; it synthesizes ideas. There are very few uses
887.
by devmor 2y ago
An anecdote from one of my former physics professors was that there are theories that PMBs are being constantly generated and annihilated near-instantaneously all over the universe and that odds are astronomically low but one could form ins
888.
by devmor 2y ago
Are you really saying you’ve never heard anyone recommend something based on anything other than objective fact?
889.
by devmor 2y ago
s/slack/irc
890.
by devmor 2y ago
An over-militarized police state is an entirely different issue than suppression of speech as national policy. Still extremely serious, but not at all the same thing.
891.
by devmor 2y ago
Didn’t Germany just have a recent major free speech issue where people were jailed for using “the wrong language” while protesting? Doesn’t seem like it’s a good policy.
892.
by devmor 2y ago
100% The majority of corporate breaches are a combination of poor Least Privilege practices and phishing/smishing. Even with well secured, alert personnel, you often see ISPs and Telcos socially engineered to gain access to an employee
893.
by devmor 2y ago
Zack’s video on this subject was definitely the most clear and informative- definitely needed given the huge spread of misinformation.
894.
by devmor 2y ago
The emotion in this article hits home to me. There have been several points in my career where I worked hard for long hours to develop a strong, clever solution to a problem that ultimately was solved by something cheap because the ultimate
895.
by devmor 2y ago
I did try waypipe, but unfortunately there was both a significant memory cost and network overhead that does not exist with ssh -x. To be fair I am using it in a very niche and limited way, but it still sucks to see it get pushed out in an
896.
by devmor 2y ago
Until it can actually be used as a graphical server like x, it is useless to me and I loathe every attempt to force it down my throat. It feels like it was built as a replacement for only the majority happy path of what X was used for and a
897.
by devmor 2y ago
But you just explained how it fits perfectly in your last comment. That’s literally the same thing that happens in the book.
898.
by devmor 2y ago
You put a great deal of prose behind it, but what you have said is “don’t trust data from the administrators of this program, trust my personal anecdotes”. That is not and should not be a compelling argument to anyone, for anything. Surely
899.
by devmor 2y ago
There is a deeper inspiration as well I believe. It seemed to me like the play-within-a-play that drives you mad is exactly what we see happening to the main characters in TD1.
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by devmor 2y ago
That's a cool viewpoint but again, your entire premise on this situation is based on something you made up, that is provably wrong.

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