echlebek

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by echlebek 6y ago
> HTML by itself can't receive input or create output. Neither can an ELF binary. It needs a loader to execute it. > It can't run or be executed. Yes it can, with a runtime that understands HTML. > It doesn't transfo
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by echlebek 6y ago
I don't know if death can really be considered a disease, since it's a fundamental part of evolution. If anything, lack of death could be detrimental to a species.
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by echlebek 6y ago
You should be able to expect it, and you should be able to keep it. Tech employees, especially Canadian tech employees, must unionize.
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by echlebek 6y ago
If you read the follow-up book, Lila, it becomes clear that the philosophy is not coherent.
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by echlebek 6y ago
No. Go to this website. https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#cases_totalcases Do you see how many people have died? That's right. over 195,000 people. It's not convenient for anyone that this is happenin
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by echlebek 6y ago
No. I will never willingly use facebook or facebook products.
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by echlebek 6y ago
Millenial here, looking to buy my first house in the next couple of years. My budget will be $1.5M to $2M for my "starter" home in Vancouver, Canada.
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by echlebek 6y ago
We're doing pretty well with legalization up here in Canada, so, counterpoint, it actually is a good solution.
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by echlebek 6y ago
> I have basically no CS knowledge You could take some computer science classes, then you'd get some CS knowledge.
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by echlebek 6y ago
I don't see how it's sad for anyone but Facebook.
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by echlebek 6y ago
Exactly. Even if you do care, you can only exert so much influence on the platform you're developing for, unless you're working for a company like Apple or Sony. Even then, there are many, many layers to the latency problem.
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by echlebek 6y ago
Bullshit. Where is the peer-reviewed research?
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by echlebek 6y ago
I had to laugh at their test. Two hours? Many people can sustain a high pace of work for two hours. But how about as time wears on? There's a lot of assumptions going on here.
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by echlebek 6y ago
Funny you should say that, I just blacklisted hotjar this morning in noscript!
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by echlebek 6y ago
You have a good argument about why copyright violation is wrong, but you didn't respond to GP's arguments about why it is not theft.
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by echlebek 6y ago
Here's some background on how things like that work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adder_(electronics)
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by echlebek 6y ago
The demand for electronic and online voting is so high that I fear it will be implemented in a compromised way, before the problem is actually solved. As I understand it, all known descriptions of electronic voting are worse than paper ball
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by echlebek 6y ago
No. Cannabis is largely the same stuff it was 35 years ago. Potency is mainly a function of light (cd/m^2) and so it comes down to grower ability. Also, anyone who says pot used to be weaker back in the day is a cop.
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by echlebek 6y ago
There wasn't much drama in the mailing list discussion as I read it. Mostly comments asking "can you make this easier for us to review?".
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by echlebek 6y ago
That's racist nonsense and it has no place here.
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by echlebek 6y ago
You can't seriously be equivocating Uber and Gandhi?
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by echlebek 6y ago
Market rates being unstable don't make them stop being market rates.
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by echlebek 6y ago
That's something for parents to do for their children, and for me to not care about.
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by echlebek 6y ago
Sorry to hear you are struggling with internet access, but I don't see how the actions of India create legal precedence in Belarus?
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by echlebek 6y ago
You literally quoted their assertion and then responded "No".
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by echlebek 6y ago
I also disliked the article. Systems are complex, so it's suddenly pointless to try to understand them? Or, if you don't understand every detail of a system, you don't understand the system? Give me a break. I suppose we may
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by echlebek 6y ago
I'm skeptical that giving someone that doesn't understand databases a tool to automate their use will result in a better situation long term. A determined programmer can always make a huge mess. I will admit: I'm an ORM disli
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by echlebek 6y ago
> machines with only 176 and 184 cores I chuckled, this seems like a massive number of cores to me. :)
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by echlebek 6y ago
I hope they get good lawyers and tell the prosecutors to pound sand. What a sick joke.
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by echlebek 6y ago
I wish slack seemed fast for me. It's like typing into molasses.

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