glaucon

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by glaucon 3y ago
> Even though I can show countless examples of people within 200km causing their, and their family’s demise Can you expand on this ? Do you mean their deaths, or some sort of economic suffering?
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by glaucon 3y ago
I was referring to this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37615985
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by glaucon 3y ago
I'm interested at your suggestion that Digicert et al are doing some sort of "keeping the streets safe" checking. I have zero experience of using them but I thought all they were doing was confirming the applicant represented
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by glaucon 3y ago
I try to avoid it, primarily because the badge spam obscures anything you might actually be looking for. OSM works for me.
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by glaucon 3y ago
> A senior partner once told a writer, “There is no institution on the planet that has more integrity than McKinsey" Perhaps a well meaning individual who wanted to make it entirely clear that whatever they said on the company'
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by glaucon 3y ago
Well it was a Lightning talk which, at least at those pycons I have attended, can be about anything the speaker wishes to talk about. Perhaps dotCloud had significant mind share amongst Python users ? I don't have any recollection of t
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by glaucon 3y ago
Oh, OK, I didn't know that. That does at least suggest that it's on a par with hosting phpBB, or similar, yourself.
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by glaucon 3y ago
I agree with not using Discord as a forum but suggested alternative number one is Discourse which starts at USD50/month[1]. A bit of an ask for my "failed side projects". [1] https://www.discourse.org/pricing
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by glaucon 3y ago
I hadn't heard of it either. In addition to the PEP this link may be useful https://realpython.com/python311-exception-groups/#exception... . The feature was new in 3.11. BTW RealPython is quite boring about wanti
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by glaucon 3y ago
> I'm honestly seeing little value in asterisks They're essential ! How else would we encourage the average user to use as short and and as simple a password as they can get away with ?
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by glaucon 3y ago
Surely what's key to enabling such occurrences is using some form of communications to co-ordinate the participants? Whether or not the event is live-streamed seems, to me at least, very secondary. Happy to be corrected if there's
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by glaucon 3y ago
Top marks for humourous response ... unless 'scream' is an unintentional typo in which case forget I mentioned it.
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by glaucon 3y ago
There's significantly more detail in the timeline[1] which is linked to from the cited page.The links aren't all that obvious if, like me, you are looking at the page on a phone. My favourite part of this story is how the picture,
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by glaucon 3y ago
>Gamifying reputation was one of the worst things Agreed and I don't know this for sure but the points lust, it seems to me, is not limited to questioners and answers, some of the behaviour I've seen from mods seems to be drive
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by glaucon 3y ago
> The cost of Apollo program is $178 billion in today's money And the cost of Afghanistan/Iraq (in money) was $3,000 billion and yet, somehow, that project survived for twenty years. I don't want to make light of the human
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by glaucon 3y ago
I'd just like to add that the fact the Lunar Module was flown successfully, when there was zero experience of flying it in 1/6 normal gravity, was a remarkable achievement, even more so when first time it was done there was 20 sec
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by glaucon 3y ago
Failing for me too on both Firefox and Chrome.
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by glaucon 3y ago
I was very surprised to read that even avoiding traditional publishers he's only receiving 30% of retail in, at least, one case.
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by glaucon 3y ago
I assumed this stuff leaked out of Social Media look and feel where the vaguest indication of date is sufficient, I loath it. FWIW my default would be "sort of 8601" (2023-06-26 15:03) and there could be a settings option for othe
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by glaucon 3y ago
named anchors (at least) are so good when you're telling someone else to go and look at part of a document. It's the difference between "read this section http://example.com/foo.html#bar " and "go to
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by glaucon 3y ago
I'm sorry this isn't a complete answer but I came here to mention named anchors - I love those things but they're not used as much as they could be. While looking up a reference for that I came across this https://
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by glaucon 3y ago
Sorry I didn't make myself clear. I understand that if there's a steady decline in BTC (perhaps due to Silk Road disposals) then going short on BTC would be beneficial but how does the other leg, going long on QQQ, protect you fro
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by glaucon 3y ago
> Who are people who are against typing in this day and age? People who don't find the benefits of typing are worth the overhead? Python is, after all, a dynamically-typed language, so it is, surely, not too surprising that those wh
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by glaucon 3y ago
I know next to nothing about options and so I have a question. QQQ appears to an ETF with 'usual suspect' holdings[1] so what is it about QQQ that make it useful for your purposes ? From my limited understanding of options going l
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by glaucon 3y ago
It's visible in archive.org but, unsurprisingly, doesn't actually work https://web.archive.org/web/20150307011526/http://txti.es/ . There's information about how to use it here http:
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by glaucon 3y ago
So the streetsblog article[1] says "with cheaper prices for electric, hydrogen and plug-in hybrid cars vs. all other engines" but the citation from globalnews.ca [2] says the opposite, "Whether electric, hybrid or internal co
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by glaucon 3y ago
> open plan offices were the norm until the 1960s. I remember visiting the workplaces of both of my parents in the 1970's and neither were anything like open plan. I know you said "1960s" but the buildings my parents were
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by glaucon 3y ago
I feel obliged to point out that the term 'abandoned' might be misinterpreted here. I use pinboard every day, have done so for a decade and it works exactly as intended. The fact that there have been no recent new features trouble
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by glaucon 3y ago
Interesting, thanks. I certainly don't know this but my impression is that outside of the US (specifically in New Zealand) the Netflix catalogue would be significantly smaller than that, around 1/10th of both categories ? ... this
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by glaucon 3y ago
> was that Netflix could buy the disks from anywhere (even the local Walmart, if they had to), and lend them to customers Is that actually true ? I thought buying a disk and then lending it for money was a breach of the copyright ... isn

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