epsylon

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by epsylon 11d ago
How dare the Chinese government use mass surveillance against its own citizens.
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by epsylon 17d ago
I don't think Apple will hear your complaint if you keep giving them money.
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by epsylon 3mo ago
> Midway through the day, though, we ran into a huge problem: it turns out bus schedules are different on Sundays, and more limited. Which meant we couldn't actually go to our primary destination (the Model Village), and had to cut
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by epsylon 3mo ago
What sort of legitimate requests do you get refused?
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by epsylon 3mo ago
> SpaceX was pushing the envelope of "interplanetary" travel/species We already have a perfectly usable planet. It just need to be taken care of.
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by epsylon 7mo ago
> Junior devs have always been useless. You used to give them tasks that take them a week or two even though a senior engineer could do it in a couple hours, not because you wanted them to contribute, but because you wanted them to learn
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by epsylon 8mo ago
Public transportation is the backbone of a functioning economy. It doesn't need to be fully paid by riders precisely because the rest of society benefits from it multiple times over.
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by epsylon 8mo ago
Most of the world's population lives in places where trains and public transit works far better than cars. Density doesn't move around, people do.
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by epsylon 8mo ago
many services that require SMS 2FA outright won't work on VOIP providers
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by epsylon 3y ago
the transfer fee isn't the main appeal of Wise, the currency exchange rate is. I've never seen a bank that offered anywhere near close as theirs.
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by epsylon 3y ago
> Honest question, what does Bandcamp provide? Actual money going to the actual people who make the music you listen to on spotify.
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by epsylon 5y ago
The killer app of cryptocurrency is tax evasion
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by epsylon 5y ago
Classic Faustian bargain. Offer people money, obtain control in exchange.
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by epsylon 6y ago
I'm pretty sure that this took more than 1 junior engineer-month.
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by epsylon 6y ago
I love that you're being downvoted for saying something so utterly non-controversial. It's almost as if the fact that there were large matriarchal societies inhabiting America for centuries (arguably millenia) before the first Eur
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by epsylon 6y ago
"at the launch" mac os at large has a quality problem. I have gotten more kernel panics on my personal and work laptops in the last 6 months than I have on my windows machines in the past 5 years.
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by epsylon 7y ago
> I think that the main reason for that is that they have their own French speaking view of the planet in which they happily live. Americans also live in their own universe. And so do many others...
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Seedship(johnayliff.com)
2 points by epsylon 9y ago|0 comments
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by epsylon 9y ago
China has better rail infrastructure than the US, and is much bigger as well.
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by epsylon 9y ago
"Why did you FedEx your SSD to the destination? Do you have something to hide? You're gonna have to follow us."
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by epsylon 9y ago
Only if your time is worthless.
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by epsylon 9y ago
> I find PowerShell a delight to script in, but terribly cumbersome to use interactively. That's because you can't be both ! The shell wants to be both an API and a user interface, and these are two goals that are fundamentall
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Can you spot the vulnerability?(guidovranken.wordpress.com)
3 points by epsylon 10y ago|0 comments
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Collectly(collectly.co)
1 points by epsylon 10y ago|0 comments
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by epsylon 10y ago
Yep, that guy totally seems like a reasonable and unbiased POV: https://twitter.com/ArgBlatteTalar/status/831600862866898954
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by epsylon 10y ago
> The reality is that these days there generally isn't any packet loss I don't know which reality bubble you live in, but this is utterly false. I live in the country side and get routinely an average of 40% packet loss on many
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Audioscope – A Perceptually Meaningful Audio Visualizer(medium.com)
2 points by epsylon 10y ago|0 comments
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by epsylon 10y ago
Do you have any reference for most of the stuff you are talking about in the comments here? I'd like to understand it better. Thanks.
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by epsylon 10y ago
QBasic supports subroutines (called SUB for procedures and FUNCTION for functions). You can write very structured code with QBasic; pretty much the only thing it lacks is pointers, but it's a very capable language otherwise.
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Hiring Group Dynamics(richg42.blogspot.com)
2 points by epsylon 10y ago|0 comments

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