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by flywheel 6y ago
The post-mortem of this administration is going to be horrific. It may sound conspiracy-theoryish now, but if things play out how we've seen from so many other examples of bad behavior from this administration, I can't help but th
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by flywheel 6y ago
LEDs get a lot of attention from people without any kind of training with electronics, but they aren't as simple as people think - LEDs consume a lot of power . If someone isn't careful and doesn't know what they are doing,
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by flywheel 6y ago
Pretty simple to do this honestly, it's been done many times before. There are phone apps that do this that have been around for a while. After all it's just assigning an x/y value to a position that a color was detected at.
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by flywheel 6y ago
It really depends on the job - I'm interviewing jr. devs, and a lot of these questions are good for testing their basic knowledge. Not every front-end job is about cutting-edge javascript.
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by flywheel 6y ago
The 75th anniversary of the first nuclear bomb test was just a few days ago, on July 16th. It's been in the news a bit lately, and this topic is related.
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by flywheel 6y ago
Practically all traffic over a VPN is encrypted because most traffic going over them is encrypted, so I'm not sure how much traffic a VPN provider is really going to be able to sell. They aren't really going to be see very much of
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by flywheel 6y ago
I don't know of any company that would be using a public VPN service for anything related to work. Typically "work VPNs" are running on systems that the employer controls, set up by someone employed by the company, and meant
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by flywheel 6y ago
Elections have consequences - play stupid games, win stupid prizes. This is the worst administration the US has ever had.
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by flywheel 6y ago
Didn't Twitter buy "Moxie Marlinspike"'s company specifically to get him to fix their security? I guess they didn't really get much out of that. Now I'm starting to get nervous about the security of Signal.
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by flywheel 6y ago
The fact that doctors generally don't ask about a patients diet says more about doctors than it does about the importance of what you eat. Diet has a huge influence on so many aspects of health and well being.
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by flywheel 6y ago
>* SpaceX will put a colony on mars, and they will only drive Teslas on mars You keep saying some interesting things and then you say something ridiculous that makes the rest of what you say seems pretty questionable.
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by flywheel 6y ago
Hobbyists don't make up even a tiny sliver of their revenue. And if you're a hobbyist and paying any money at all for Analog Devices (or other semiconductor manufacturer's parts) then you're kinda doing it wrong - most o
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by flywheel 6y ago
That applies to other animals, but not humans. It's almost bizarre that you would assert that because the exact opposite is true. Humans are in every way more "advanced" than other animals on the planet precisely because the
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by flywheel 6y ago
I'm hosting a photo sharing SPA on S3/Cloudfront/Lambda with a robust user system including email verification, and a few GB of image files, and I pay $0.25/month at most. Yeah, it's a personal/friends-only sit
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by flywheel 6y ago
I think you misread this because he certainly did not say or imply "I was working on problems close to the gods", in fact the phrase he used was "when I seemed to you to be concerned with problems close to the gods", mea
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by flywheel 6y ago
That's not how trademarking works. They are in quite different industries, there should be little to no confusion that a package manager is going to ship a deck to you.
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by flywheel 6y ago
The year of "Linux on the Desktop" may actually be coming if enough developers want to keep Intel and apple finally drops support for x86 with their software updates (and they absolutely will at some point). Dual-booting between L
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by flywheel 6y ago
Cambridge Analytica was evil from the start. Blackwater was pretty evil from the start. Yeah, companies can be evil.
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by flywheel 6y ago
I don't think an artificial intelligence has to resemble anything we would recognize as human intelligence, while still being "intelligent". The motivations of humans and the motivations of computers are very different. If we
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by flywheel 6y ago
I don't think their product is really that viable. The amount of setup, process, work, materials and money it takes to produce a 10 minute clip is just about the same amount it takes to produce a 30 minute episode. I've enjoyed so
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by flywheel 6y ago
The cellphone killed the wristwatch.
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by flywheel 6y ago
I mainly write nodejs code, and now that it supports threads I've been hammering my CPU with all kinds of parallel tasks. One common thing I do is crunch a few thousand 16MB+ JSON files in parallel. Multiple cores saves quite a bit of
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by flywheel 6y ago
I've been using this exact trick to track hits on my github repos for years already. If/when Github gets around to fixing it, I've already had it working for many years so even if it wasn't "meant to last", it&
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by flywheel 6y ago
Sorry, but don't project your needs onto others. It is still useful enough to know if someone looked at your github repos when you're looking for a job. Typically this is useful when a visitor also hits other sites related to you
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by flywheel 6y ago
I deleted my reddit account last week after 13 years. It's really gone down hill, the level of discussion there is simply awful. Not visiting the site after a week has really been a good change. Reddit probably jumped the shark a while
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by flywheel 6y ago
I've run into far too many aggressively toxic, self proclaimed "libertarians" on the internet. So when the article mentioned "libertarian" in the context of the "boogaloo" idiots, it didn't surprise m
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by flywheel 6y ago
I just deleted my reddit account of 13 years. Reddit has become overly toxic, and the premise of this article is definitely in effect on reddit. The trolls are winning over there. HN was a sometimes-read for me, but now it's becoming a
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by flywheel 6y ago
Maybe you don't remember BBS systems. I know a bunch of people who hosted BBS systems "in their basement", hooking up multiple phone lines (4 or more) and multiple modems connected to a C64, or an Amiga, or a PC. And yes, we
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by flywheel 9y ago
Far too many people think of Apple as infallible. I often think even Apple thinks of themselves as infallible. The more people that are aware of the inherent risk involved with using computers - any computer - the better.
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by flywheel 11y ago
Wow, the fade in between pages is just sooooooooo looooooong and annoooooooooying. It's like 2 or 3 seconds transition time. Ridiculous.

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