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by gknoy 9y ago
Ken blogs about Legal Things. We probably know of him from his "seriously, shut up!" post about talking to police/investigators, or his chronicling of the (karmatically satisfying) downfall of the people who would post their
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by gknoy 9y ago
I'll admit that I do that sometimes -- Patrick's blog over the years has been full of gems that are well written, easy to read, and make me feel like I could put into action were I braver / had better ideas / insert-excu
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by gknoy 9y ago
> me and my girlfriend fell aslep on it in the middle of the day for no reason. Unfortunately it lasted just few years I love that an un-careful reading of this accidentally implies a Rip Van Winkle style experience, where you and your G
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by gknoy 9y ago
You're right -- the cats themselves are pretty durable (other than my ancient 18 year old Cat A). For me, the instructions are less for the cats themselves, as it is preventing the mess they will make at times. - Refill all four water
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by gknoy 9y ago
You could also leave instructions, just like you would for a cat: - water N times per day, use this cup to this measure. - check the soil; if it's moist, do/don't water (don't use these instructions, I have no clue about
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by gknoy 9y ago
I'd LOVE an automated kiosk (or even person) that let me specify some numeric encoding of my entire order. I always order the same thing at In-n-Out, for example, and would love to say, "Give me a 557-343-901-043" -- or bette
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by gknoy 9y ago
I think I could care less about the touch bar, because I am one of the few willing to admit that I don't use vim. ;) However, I am _much_ more frustrated by the lack of MagSafe. I am a tremendous klutz (as are my kids, and my cats, et
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by gknoy 9y ago
> Why would people add these IANAL disclaimers, especially on an anonymous forum I would imagine it's partly a courtesy ("You should take this with a grain of salt") and partly a CYA ("Under no circumstance should yo
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by gknoy 9y ago
What can we do to prevent such things from happening? Would having a trust, rather than an estate, prevent this? (I am not even sure if that is an intelligent question.)
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They could have also added, "... and could even be used as evidence against you in court".
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I've had a remarkably difficult time getting this kind of thing to register when I try to take screenshots -- probably an issue with my case? -- so it is probably worthwhile to practice doing this ahead of time.
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by gknoy 9y ago
I work on a web application, and would love to have some metrics which I would consider "logging". The distinction I would make is, - Data collection is about learning things about your users - Logging is about learning what your
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by gknoy 9y ago
As does the fact that we now consider "the border" to include anything within 100 miles of the border.
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> shall turn off the roadway wherever sufficient area for a safe turn-out exists, in order to permit the vehicles following to proceed I'd love to do that. Unfortunately, even at a slow speed, it can be _challenging_ (to say the lea
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by gknoy 9y ago
If they feel that only their culture can appreciate the goodness of the food adequately, then _why do they care_ about what foreigners or Michelin judges say about it? Cook the same great food you normally do, and don't worry about th
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by gknoy 9y ago
> I'll be looking forward to trying a fidget spinner once the fad has gone away. If you feel it would be beneficial to try it, why wait until the fad dies before trying one? This seems like it might be an optimal time to have the ma
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by gknoy 9y ago
Vaguely pertinent, but ViaWeb was founded in 1995 by pg (and others). Amazon was apparently founded in 1994, but wasn't called Amazon until 1995 -- or, at least based on my cursory skim of Wikipedia. So, I don't know that it was
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by gknoy 9y ago
Our family adores "Blue Moo", as well -- the Personal Penguin song is our favorite, but many others on that album are adorable.
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by gknoy 9y ago
That's exactly what I was trying to say -- thanks! I still _want_ that kind of test coverage, esp when there's weird edge cases, but when looking for dead code, it's probably good to look at only the acceptance / integra
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by gknoy 9y ago
At some point, I decided I wasn't even going to bother with a chair. Every time I sit on the tall chair at work, I'm just Not Productive compared to standing.
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I used to experience weird "I know there's something there but can't see it" (e.g., words, my hand) at particular angles from the center of what I was looking at. It turned out that my blood pressure was so low that I wa
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by gknoy 9y ago
The damage is not the cost of getting a new SSN, but the cost of verifying that your info is safe (still safe?). This is why companies routinely list the _cost_ of dealing with hacking incidents (scrub all the servers, pay people overtime,
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by gknoy 9y ago
Naming things is one of the hard things in computer science. :) Anonymous functions, when appropriate, let us avoid having to think about that. For example, `f` is a refactoring of an anonymous function: function f (item) { ret
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by gknoy 9y ago
I don't think it would work as well as we'd hope. Our projects aim for ever-increasing code coverage; it seems silly, esp as we get closer to 100%, but it seems to be pertinent here. If I were to refactor some function to no long
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by gknoy 9y ago
I've often hypothesized that most people are more likely to leave a negative review when they are upset, than a positive review when they like something. It certainly holds in my case: I nearly never review things, because it's a
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If you want more than a one-line lambda, however, you're in for a rough time, and need to go the route of def foo(): # ... four lines here ... modified = map(foo, items)
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Documentation sounds like it would do very little to deter rendition by a nation-state.
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by gknoy 9y ago
You might enjoy reading the Gervais Principle [0], which discusses the social strata in many organizations. One might not agree with it, but it's still interesting reading. 0: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-pri
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by gknoy 9y ago
If I put a copyrighted image into an internal presentation, I am still copying and redistributing this image. Without permission to do so, that seems like it's straight-up infringement. I don't believe it usually meets the crite
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I think the key was that the gleaning you mention was collection of unharvested _leftovers_, whereas the article talks about waltzing into someone else's yard and taking things off of their trees. I didn't notice the author imply

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