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by gwd 7y ago
> "Thou shall not steal" has nothing to do with the the victim, only the actor. But in the context in which "Thou shalt not steal" was written, the punishment had to do with the victim: If you stole something, you had
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by gwd 7y ago
FWIW Audible emails me every month to tell me have a new credit available. Possibly put in place after your experience; but it seems more like just "keeping people engaged in our service" is a better way to sustain subscriptions
2043.
by gwd 7y ago
> the compiler is free to assume that it won't be changed asynchronously. This seems like it might possibly have been a reasonable assumption 30 years ago, when multi-processor machines were tens of thousands of dollars; but now tha
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by gwd 7y ago
Oh, right! All Linux has to do then is link pthread into the kernel and all their problems will magically go away.</snark> The original purpose of C was to write operating systems; at some point that was basically discarded, and
2045.
by gwd 7y ago
I think part of the problem is the fact that there's a real phenomenon that's important to talk about and describe, but rather than invent a new term, that the word 'racism' has repurposed to describe it instead. 200 yea
2046.
by gwd 7y ago
> What's the formula to calculate the volume of a conical pyramid, off the top of your head? I don't need to know the formula off the top of my head; I need to know what a conical pyramid is, what volume is, what a formula is,
2047.
by gwd 7y ago
fivethirtyeight.com did a really insightful series of podcasts on gerrymandering. Everyone agrees what North Carolina is doing is bad, but it's actually quite difficult to say what "good" is. Definitely worth a listen: htt
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by gwd 7y ago
The only reason to use a "bad word" is to make people upset. "Swearing is a weak mind trying to express itself forcefully."
2049.
by gwd 7y ago
Yeah, I was quite disappointed. Dietary cholesterol doesn't cause arterial cholesterol. "Fat" is a necessary nutrient, and there are different kinds -- polyunsaturated vegetable fats are different than saturated fat (found
2050.
by gwd 7y ago
To be fair, long amounts of time practicing is how you get to be a really good musician, or basketball player, or skateboarder, or anything. But that doesn't preclude practicing in the same general area as other people with similar int
2051.
by gwd 7y ago
> It would enable Apple to get rid of a shedload of insecure , spammy apps that provide minimal benefits to users in a crowded app market. But those apps would still be Apple's problem, because they run on Apple's operating sy
2052.
by gwd 7y ago
One of the worst things that could happen to the Apple ecosystem would be for them to gain real dominance, either in phones or in the desktop / laptop space. Then all these "integrations" which are harmless / annoying n
2053.
by gwd 7y ago
> concentration camp. n. a place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area It's literally a camp where you "concent
2054.
by gwd 7y ago
> It does? macOS seems to do well enough on the privacy front. And my laptop is a lot more expensive than my phone. Look, you're presumably complaining because you either own, or want to own, an iPhone, in spite of there being dozen
2055.
by gwd 7y ago
This is nonsense. You can just buy a different phone -- there are dozens of companies out there. Apple's "tax" allows them to pay for software without selling my data. At the moment, I have a choice: 1) Buy software funded
2056.
by gwd 7y ago
I think this is one of the key things -- so many things in technology are just given to you as-is with no way to change them. The realization that all of this is mutable -- that the computer is just going along doing exactly what it was
2057.
by gwd 7y ago
After reading a biography of Salieri, and hearing some of his opinions on the "right way" to write opera, I was interested to hear some of his music, and so bought a couple of albums, mostly of his overtures. I really enjoyed the
2058.
by gwd 7y ago
I don't think he defined his terms very precisely in his document; but as my comment says, yes, there are two levels. There are people who can approve changes to the implementation of Go, and people who can make changes to the speci
2059.
by gwd 7y ago
Actually, I think the other key argument is here: > I believe that every successful language must have a coherent vision that is shared by a relatively small group of people. He points out that there are over 100 committers, nearly half
2060.
by gwd 7y ago
> Your truth is not the only truth. I don't think this is a helpful way of saying this. There is, in fact, only one truth in terms of what the facts are. All of us have different models in our head of what the world is like; the
2061.
by gwd 8y ago
I've always thought that "Neuroticism" was kind of a weird thing to include in "Personality". Sure, it's a long-term behavioral trait that typically doesn't change; but I wouldn't call that a part of
2062.
by gwd 8y ago
Citrix has had 2FA for logins outside the corporate network for years. They also lock your account after 3 consecutive failed login attempts (even internally). Not saying Citrix security is perfect, but protecting yourself from this kind o
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by gwd 8y ago
They have had 2FA for years.