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by dmazzoni 3y ago
They just generate a sine wave and do some processing on it. The results are very similar but because the processing depends on functions like fast fourier transform, plus the exact algorithm in the browser code, tiny differences emerge.
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
Yeah, it doesn't tell a website who you are. Instead, it allows them to recognize you again when you come back to visit again, even if you clear cookies. This is particularly a problem with big advertiser networks because they can trac
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
The essence seems to be that the web audio API has a lot of algorithms that do a lot of math, and every browser has a slightly different implementation, and the exact results depend on the operating system and cpu too. So if you use the web
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
I don't think that's unique to X windows, though - pretty much all GUI platforms have a similar concept, otherwise any time you accidentally drag your mouse outside of a window you'd start sending events to another applicatio
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
This seems to go against YAGNI, and I'm not sure I agree it's good advice. A system I worked on recently modeled users as potentially belonging to more than one organization, even though there wasn't a good use case for that
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
Sadly a lot of landlords have learned that they make a lot more money by doing exclusively short-term rentals on AirBnB. That reduces the supply of long-term rentals and drives prices up even higher.
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
In my city in California, developers are replacing old single-family homes with multi-family (apartments, condos, townhomes). It's great, it's needed. Every time a new development gets started in our neighborhood, Facebook neighbo
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
FWIW, the highest property taxes in the country right now are <2.5% So your idea is fine, but the numbers are way off. My proposal would be more like: Primary residence: 1% Rental property with 1y+ lease: 1.5% First seconda
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
We should dramatically increase taxes on: 1. Homes that are vacant for more than 6 months out of the year 2. Homes that are short-term rentals for more than 6 months out of the year Incentivize owners to either get long-term tenants in, or
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
The homes aren't where the jobs are, though. Who cares if there are vacant homes in downtown Detroit for sale or rent? If you moved there you wouldn't be able to get a job
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
Well, Southwest was a successful well-run regional carrier that grew as large as the big mega-airlines, while trying to keep running the business the same way. There are still 20 smaller regional airlines in the U.S. and hundreds around the
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
For those of us who enjoyed the book, that'd be removing the best part. For me this was one of those books that was more about the journey than the destination. 2001: A Space Odyssey could easily be trimmed to 25 minutes or less if all
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
It sounds like you're making a distinction between the plot and the theme. I'd argue the plot is entirely about Godel's incompleteness theorem. It's not just "mentioned in passing", the entire book is centered
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
I loved GEB, I read it twice and found it mind-blowing. That said, I don't think it was life-changing in the sense that it gave me any interesting perspective on life in any way. I didn't find any of the philosophies to be useful
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
I use Kaiser Permanente as my health care provider. For those who aren't aware, it's one of the few "integrated care" providers in the U.S., meaning they act as both the health insurance and health care provider. Now, Ka
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
I worked at Google for many years. Google is so huge that it's extremely common to know you have an important bug for another team, but not to be able to route it to them because you can't find their team name. Most teams have &qu
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
One of the implicit assumptions in your post is that if you ask a custom question, ChatGPT won't do as well. Is that a reasonable assumption? I've found ChatGPT does surprisingly well on many novel DS&A questions I pose. It fe
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
You can't only ask those questions, because some people are extremely good at bullshitting. I always start interviews by asking them to explain their own projects. However, sometimes I'll find someone who's great at explainin
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
It sounds to me like Boeing has been making incremental changes to the 737 over the years. Clearly now it's NOT the same plane. But was there a clear point in time where they crossed the line and it really should never have been certif
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
Exactly, and that means that airlines like Southwest wouldn't even consider it. One of the ways that low-cost regional airlines save money is by standardizing on a single aircraft. For Southwest, that's the 737. Every single pilot
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
I was surprised to discover that even with a backup battery, a typical solar install is not designed to power your whole home in the event of a power loss. Only some inverters support it, and most backup batteries can't generate enough
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
I thought I would avoid those issues by buying a system outright, rather than financing it. I had the cash to spare and thought it would be a good investment. I went with a local company. The owner was an electrician and knew what he was ta
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
I think it'd be a lot more interesting if you could feed it information about how often each rule is used. For example, add some code to your live site that periodically samples the DOM from a random subset of real user - for every ele
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
Did you see all of the links below the test "here’s how the page looks with various settings"? It's admittedly a pretty trivial page to test it on, but it works.
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
But if someone DID pull the update, the old commits would have still been in their local repo and they could have run "git reflog" to retrieve them.
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
I've worked on projects with thousands of developers committing to the same repo daily. Git is far from perfect, but in my experience it's been far superior to any of the alternatives I used before it (cvs, svn, p4).
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
But it doesn't lead to data loss. The commits that were overwritten by "force" are still there on the server. Any admin could recover them pretty easily. They're probably still present in the local repo of the person who
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
What if someone pushes something inappropriate? Shouldn't there be a way to delete it? As an example, what if someone pushes: - A private key or password - Copyrighted content - Illegal content In cases like this, it needs to be possib
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
Let's say instead of AI, it was cheap artists in a third-world country reproducing art in their style. How would you feel then? That's completely legal. Artists don't own a "style". And nobody has the "right&qu
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
But today there are thousands of (human) artists who create original works "in the style of" other famous artists, and my understanding is that this is completely legal. Artists own a copyright to their actual works. Not to a &quo

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