drb91

10 ms·

61.
by drb91 7y ago
Yea I wish we could keep the browser in document mode and switch to app mode if someone is an asshole enough to embed an article in a single page app that loads the content asynchronously.
62.
by drb91 7y ago
> The Host City Contract, as written by the IOC, stipulates where any profits would go. 20% goes to Olympic organizing bodies and the part that LA gets to keep can ONLY be used for youth sports initiatives—not affordable housing, homeles
63.
by drb91 7y ago
Haven’t you ever seen Cool Runnings? Bobsled is the ONLY sport I’ll watch.
64.
by drb91 7y ago
Of course, they won’t build housing, schools, libraries, services, or hospitals, so it’s hard to see how this will benefit the people of LA at all.
65.
by drb91 7y ago
The last time was also a mistake.
66.
by drb91 7y ago
I believe I covered that—authors who don’t contribute. Also, I know too many angry grad students to believe that contributors always get credit.
67.
by drb91 7y ago
Hosting the olympics is such an embarrassment to LA. https://nolympicsla.com/faq/
68.
by drb91 7y ago
At 8mpg I’ll wait for the electric or mass transit edition.
69.
by drb91 7y ago
Terms of service should not imply consent to a transaction: that is inherently a dishonest and exploitative method of running a business. Also, the idea of paying to use a free service is an oxymoron. Google is not and has never been free,
70.
by drb91 7y ago
My understanding is that academic authorship credit is political: authors don’t always contribute, and contributors don’t always get credit. Is this not the case?
71.
by drb91 7y ago
Assuming the exfiltration can be differentiated from normal behavior!
72.
by drb91 7y ago
I believe you can disable incoming calls at the telecom level. Not sure who offers this but I do some phone banking and run into this about 1/100 calls. Apple really needs a way to enable permanent do not disturb for just phone calls,
73.
by drb91 7y ago
You can just tell people exactly what to say honestly, I’m not looking for someone to chat with.
74.
by drb91 7y ago
> If walled gardens were universally and unconditionally bad, it is implausible that they would have such broad market acceptance. This has got to be a joke.
75.
by drb91 7y ago
We have public transit today!
76.
by drb91 7y ago
Honestly they could start by building voice controls that people want to use rather than the voice assistant bullshit. Idk what the google one is like, but siri is a toy.
77.
by drb91 7y ago
Latency is also much less important with highly cacheable content. At least, I can’t really think of examples to the contrary. My patience for loading pages browsing is many orders of magnitude higher than realtime uses. Bandwidth seems to
78.
by drb91 7y ago
Not everyone has realtime needs. If you're not voice chatting or playing realtime games it's not that bad.
79.
by drb91 7y ago
You can’t make out in the changing room online.
80.
by drb91 7y ago
> On one hand, it's great this can be researched to avoid a bad hire like above, but I guess I also feel sorry for Joe or Jane Cop who was dismissed from the job for using cocaine or shoplifting and now it's easily searchable 2
81.
by drb91 7y ago
Well we aren’t meat robots, we are linguistic creatures and yet have no luck teaching this trick to actual robots.
82.
by drb91 7y ago
Make some developers happy* The tradeoffs swift chooses make a lot of sense for mobile app development.
83.
by drb91 7y ago
The love you have for a lover is exactly equal to the love you have for jewelry? I would hope these refer to entirely different concepts.
84.
by drb91 7y ago
Sometimes love is less in the outward expression and more in the intent and shared understanding of the world. There is no companionship with a robot—at least, not without AGI.
85.
by drb91 7y ago
You can also easily enable runtime failures so the point is indeed moot.
86.
by drb91 7y ago
AI is “do you wish you had a slave”. I can’t think of any other definition that fits all the use cases. It’s also more obvious why it’s a snake oil term: slaves are people you can communicate meaningfully with in both directions.
87.
by drb91 7y ago
I refuse to defend any gnu or unix naming conventions.
88.
by drb91 7y ago
I don’t see any reason to assume that intelligence is strongly correlated with parent intelligence. Weakly, sure, but nurture factors contribute immensely. I attribute my own success not to genetics, though my parents are successful, but to
89.
by drb91 7y ago
You can always log to stderr with a stack trace and exit with a non zero static code. I’m guessing they’re referring to the fact that the built in panic keyword can be “caught” further up the stack a la an exception.
90.
by drb91 7y ago
Self respect, I guess.

More ›