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by elric 1y ago
Baader-Meinhof phenomenon at work; I commented about the ultrasound/handedness the other day. I wonder whether the political actors in question don't understand correlation != causation, or whether they hope that enough of the pop
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by elric 1y ago
Ultrasound can be used to blast tumours or break kidney stones. And according to Wikipedia there seems to be a really weird correlation between having an ultrasound and being lefthanded. But that sounds almost too ridiculous to be true.
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by elric 1y ago
As far as we know, it really doesn't, at least not at the energy levels used in practice. Blasting 2.4GHz at the same energy levels as a microwave oven would cook your flesh if you were sufficiently close to the emitter. But that doesn
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by elric 1y ago
It's galling that this press blurb only focuses on happy (supposed) health monitoring benefits, and fails to address the privacy concerns in the slightest. This can be abused in so many ways, like watching how people's heart rates
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by elric 1y ago
I thought it made for a clear and pleasant read. Not sure what your hangup is, but to each their own. "Un-prose-like" sounds like a compliment.
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by elric 1y ago
Their heading a bit misleading: "See what's behind the link before you click." really should have said "see what's behind the link after you click but before you release the button".
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by elric 1y ago
I disagree entirely, but I'd love to hear your arguments (other than vague allusions to "popularity" and other languages). Improved checked exception handling in Streams would be nice, but that's my only gripe with them.
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by elric 1y ago
Brian Goetz mentions Guy Steele's 1998 lecture "Growing a language" [1]. It's worth a watch if you haven't watched it yet. It's been discussed on HN several times [2]. Java gets a lot of flack in these parts, m
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by elric 1y ago
> Java is controlled by Oracle. That's factually incorrect. Oracle owns the trademarks, but the language proper is governed by the community, most development is done in the open as part of OpenJDK, which is the reference implementa
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by elric 1y ago
> As someone who enjoyed Linux phones like the Nokia N900/950 and would love to see those hacker-spirited devices again Why haven't we seen a spiritual successor to the N900? It's a little strange to me that it's chea
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by elric 1y ago
Oh come now, that's putting the onus on the user who might not know the first thing about headers or browsers. The refer(r)er header is a relic from a distant past when the internet was a very different beast, and when people had very
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by elric 1y ago
Back in the 90s I had old school visitor counters on all my websites (the kind that looked like an odometer). I got rid of them after I was displeased with how few visitors I got, and it felt like a badge of shame more than anything else. I
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by elric 1y ago
Not an American and am not in the US, so I have no idea what your snarky comment was meant to accomplish.
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by elric 1y ago
The final paragraphs were the more interesting ones IMO. Especially the closing sentence: > The tragedy isn’t that China is winning, it’s that the West stopped imagining better futures. This one hits close to home. I saw an improvement i
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by elric 1y ago
That, and staying away from anything that funnels money to Google.
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by elric 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese_(recreational_drug)
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by elric 1y ago
That is disturbing, but it does explain a lot.
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by elric 1y ago
Some anecdata: I have a buddy who runs a smallish consulting firm, and another buddy who's a software recruiter. Both are telling me that they've stopped hiring developers except for senior developers. From this limited sample siz
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by elric 1y ago
I have a few pet theories of why software in the medical space is so often shitty and insanely expensive. One of them is that working with doctors is often very unpleasant, which makes building software them unpleasant, which drives up the
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by elric 1y ago
One of the commenters on the article wrote this: > Throughout the 80s and 90s there was just a feeling in medicine that computers were dangerous <snip> This is why, when I was a resident in 2002-2006 we still were writing all of ou
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Major password managers can leak logins in clickjacking attacks(bleepingcomputer.com)
11 points by elric 1y ago|2 comments
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by elric 1y ago
I hit Cloudflare's garbage about as much as I hit Anubis. With the difference that far more sites use Cloudflare than Anubis, thus Anubis is far worse at triggering false positives.
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by elric 1y ago
Looking at this book, it seems very similar to how I was taught in the late 80s early 90s. We were forced to use fountain pens, and would get berated if we got ink on our hands. I'm not sure if I can tell the difference between Tamblyn
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by elric 1y ago
1. If people drove the speed limit, there would be no need for privacy invasive traffic cameras. The blame there does lie squarely with the people who can't seem to get that, and who keep killing and maiming thousands of people every y
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by elric 1y ago
Irrelevant. Speed kills. Slower is better.
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by elric 1y ago
It's interesting (and a little sad) how all git "forges" (for want of a better word) converge on the same layout. An alphabetical list of files, when they were last modified, and an expanded readme file. IMO a list of recent
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by elric 1y ago
Not a very good one, given the apparently large number of complaints by presumably legitimate users in this thread. Seems like it doesn't like users who take privacy enhancing measures.
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by elric 1y ago
I strongly disagree with the issue handling & CI/CD part of your comment. Those are concerns are orthogonal to distributed version control and greatly complicate any system. Not everyone even has to learn Jenkins/GH-Pipelines&
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by elric 1y ago
That was their original intent, but of course, once you have a dense network of cameras that can sort of reliably track individuals, people find all sorts of other uses for them.
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by elric 1y ago
Instead of radar, more and more places are installing ANPR (aka ALPR) cameras here. They measure how long it taked you to drive between two locations, if it's faster than the speed limit, the fine will find you. Tiny Belgium already ha

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