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by fsociety 3y ago
The last link the in the chain of payment processors pay for it.
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Took someone’s identity on the platform, even worse because they have established it for 16 years. Taking it because they rebranded to X on a whim is silly.
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by fsociety 3y ago
Preach. Many years of therapy have significantly changed how I look at my life and childhood. It does not mean your parents aren’t wonderful people, and you aren’t a tight-knit family. But there may be parts of your life you re-evaluate wit
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by fsociety 3y ago
Gabor Mate proposes that genes determine your susceptibility to having ADHD, but environment is the trigger. Russell Barkley proposes that ADHD is largely inherited through genes, quoted 65%-75%, and the rest is environmental. The big diffe
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by fsociety 3y ago
Just wait until you add a bunch of dependencies. Then you get to discover the nasty parts.
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Nil is a carefully chosen name in Go, and was a trade-off which was made. It’s not quite right to compare it to null in other languages. I agree it is not as safe as a language like Rust, however it was the right trade-off to make in my opi
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by fsociety 3y ago
Okta is also a prime target for hackers, and likely has a smaller security budget than Microsoft.
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Measure over a long period of time and you can measure the variance of the performance. Which determines if you should care about the time of day.
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by fsociety 3y ago
If society has proven anything, it is that criminal justice systems are imperfect and laws are arbitrarily defined by the most powerful individuals in a country.
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by fsociety 3y ago
Do you have conclusive scientific evidence on your hypothesis? It doesn’t sound like it is based on science and might suffer from the replication crisis. The Gottman Institute has produced solid work for relationship counseling.
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They have been rolling out E2E chats in messenger for a while now. So yes, they will and are doing it.
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Reading and untangling code is the best part of coding in my opinion. It’s like solving a fun puzzle and trying to incrementally evolve a system. What I hate is inconsistency. Inconsistency is what makes code intolerable to work with, becau
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by fsociety 3y ago
I agree charity is not the right way to frame it. But if this was a pure money decision they would save time and effort forking the language and improving it as closed source. They have the expertise to run a language fork and because of th
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by fsociety 3y ago
Alternatively, companies aren’t willing to pay for an automated security scanner that attempts to exploit potential vulnerabilities under fear of what it might do to their systems.
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by fsociety 3y ago
There was a time when Facebook almost became decentralized, long long ago. It is promising to see this line of thought repeat with Threads. My only hesitancy is how the product will evolve, but the saying always goes “you don’t mess with th
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by fsociety 3y ago
Perhaps it’s not meant for you. Does not mean it’s not meant for others.
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Surely some of the users technically fall in the category of half-human half-robot.
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We don’t need more garbage on our internet. MDN has been a high quality source of information forever now. This is a large step backwards. That’s the viewpoint.
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When I worked at FB, I felt like I was treated most like a human vs. a work robot at other jobs. Experience is dependent on which org you join, and the hedonic treadmill will always exist in capitalism.. but these articles on their posters
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by fsociety 3y ago
Of course he announces this as he still beats his drum of free speech https://twitter.com/VivaTech/status/1669722321119068165 . Also amazed at the folks responding to his tweet, thanking him for banning this "
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by fsociety 3y ago
Ditto. It’s hard to shake the feeling of what life could have been with an earlier diagnosis. Things are still challenging, but they are challenging for the right reasons.
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I disagree that higher resolution alone makes it worth talking about. Meta can churn out high quality screens as well as Apple, for a price. The more compelling angle is how they have nailed the interface with eye and hand tracking and if t
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by fsociety 3y ago
Systems Engineer means different things in different contexts. The fact that you are getting your Masters in Systems Engineering and work for a large aerospace corporation suggests you mean the tradition term, whereas the article and person
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Just install Apache Spark they said. It will be fun they said. If you have the money, having a managed Spark instance with a bunch of added features can be a big win for some. There is a lot that goes into Spark maintenance.
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My life has improved immensely from practicing this form of communication. I had to learn to sit with a lot of discomfort going through this process. It eventually translated into me not putting up with other people’s shit in my professiona
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The original event this post was referring to, was someone dropping out of a conference because they were asked to give a keynote talk and then pulled from it last moment. They decided to opt out of the lack of professionalism and not go. N
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Unfortunately being in the position of, “I don’t see color” or “I don’t care about your sexuality” might work in an ideal world but leads to more inequality in the real world. For example, LGBTQ are in a war with a government party who want
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Not at all what they said.
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Unless you import a dependency which totals several hundred thousand lines of code.
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Those saying ADHD could be wrong, could be right. Many things look like ADHD and ADHD looks like many things - the differentiating factor being ADHD is throughout your entire life. So be curious, if you feel the need, but if you seek diagno

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