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by gwillen 7y ago
I was also seeing a surprising cost of about twice what I expected, but since I rarely use AWS I was assuming I had just calculated it wrong somehow. It's maddeningly difficult to see your usage history of services -- I still can'
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by gwillen 7y ago
When I was a Google SRE, during one trip to Zurich I complained that I hated the lack of my standard vice, Diet Coke, in Europe (they have "Coke Light" instead). My boss didn't believe me that I could tell the difference... s
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by gwillen 7y ago
Indeed not, and I am EXTREMELY skeptical of the claim that birth times are reduced TWO HOURS (!!!) by the addition of art. That's the kind of effect you see in papers that get retracted for outright fraud, let alone dubious and irrepro
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by gwillen 7y ago
Oh, and don't post all over the internet about it. ;-) But I see you're using a throwaway, which is a smart move. As the reddit PF link will also tell you, don't go around telling everybody about it. In fact, for now don&#x27
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by gwillen 7y ago
There is some really good basic guidance on dealing with windfalls, available on Reddit's personalfinance board: https://old.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki/windfall I recommend you read it all and tak
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by gwillen 7y ago
This only became illegal on January 1, 2019. Before that there was a grace period. So you're going to see a lot less of it.
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by gwillen 7y ago
Zarf also invented the game Capture the Flag With Stuff, played twice a year by hundreds of people at Carnegie Mellon University. Current rules (2017 edition): http://www.cmukgb.org/ctfws/ Zarf's original rules (1
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by gwillen 8y ago
I find Urbit's significantly more pronouncable. I wonder if it was inspired by proquint.
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by gwillen 8y ago
I see this as a control group in the great Internet advertising experiment. It answers the question: "How often will someone click an ad, given that the advertised product is certain to be unwanted?" That is, how often will someon
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by gwillen 8y ago
Quantum tunneling effects are generally (maybe always?) exponentially unlikely, in the sense that the probability of tunneling will decay exponentially with the discrepancy between energy-available and energy-required.
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by gwillen 8y ago
No, they only need to be able to contact you. However, as far as I know, even if you change your listed address, your _past_ addresses are still published, unfortunately. There was some movement towards ending that, but I don't think i
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by gwillen 8y ago
I have a home internet connection that is a resold AT&T U-Verse connection. I doubt any of these fixes are available to me -- the extremely user-hostile equipment provides essentially no user-configurable options, and I have been told i
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by gwillen 8y ago
Fortunately: https://sci-hub.tw/ Yes, technically it's copyright violation, but if you ask any of the actual authors, or any human being with any _legitimate_ interest in the papers therein, they will encourage you to
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by gwillen 8y ago
Channel takeovers aren't really a thing on modern networks with good services. The Freenode decloak trick still works, though.
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by gwillen 8y ago
The photo of Shockley's lab in Mountain View is at least two teardowns out of date now. The small plaque visible in the picture is gone in the latest construction, but in its place there is a larger plaque, and several huge, towering s
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by gwillen 8y ago
BEWARE. This app is severely insecure. Nothing against the creators but they clearly don't have much familiarity with web security. I can list things that are obviously wrong with it that they haven't spotted, but even if they fix
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by gwillen 8y ago
The "bag in the back" slogan makes sense, but I wonder if it wouldn't also make sense to encourage childcare facilities to treat an unexpected missed dropoff as a potential dangerous situation until the parent is reached to c
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by gwillen 9y ago
I don't know who's downvoting this, but this is exactly what my high-paid CPAs told me. I'm hoping the IRS gives guidance, and I'm extra-hoping that they give sane guidance, but the law simply doesn't appear to allo
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by gwillen 9y ago
I assume that having gone through academic hell, at least as a grad student so as to get your PhD, is basically a hard requirement to do the sort of thing you do now in industry, though? As a person without a PhD, my sense is that "res
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by gwillen 9y ago
Funny you should talk about shared spatial computing environments. Have you seen what Alan Kay's research group is doing lately? :-) https://dynamicland.org/
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by gwillen 9y ago
This is a UI/UX felony. Anybody who writes an interface that does this should go to UI jail.
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by gwillen 9y ago
I had forgotten about that, but I've totally had this experience too. A sufficiently low-latency response feels like it has negative latency.
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by gwillen 9y ago
If you're regularly selling amounts more than 25k USD worth, don't use an exchange. Try these guys, for example: https://genesistrading.com
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by gwillen 9y ago
What you're describing is a payment channel. The Lightning Network is that _plus_ protocols for negotiating the routing and chaining of payments across multiple channels.
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by gwillen 9y ago
I'm not involved in this project but I'll bet you're seeing these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_hyphen
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by gwillen 9y ago
In addition to the comment below about CrashPlan requiring you to use their client software, which limits abusabiliy -- I am also seeing signs of strain from CrashPlan. They have always had a policy that claimed they would delete data from
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by gwillen 9y ago
Having hung out with Tom 7: Grad school didn't make him like this, he just has an absolutely insane level of drive to create cool things. I don't think he could stop if he tried. And like most things, the way you get good at &quot
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by gwillen 9y ago
God, I loved that game. I should see if I can find a copy. I had memory/sound trouble with that, X-Wing, and World of Xeen.
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by gwillen 10y ago
In the US it feels to me like it's gone the opposite way. The textbook publishers are increasingly able to block people from using pirated books, or even buying used books, by including one-use online codes in the books. Then they can
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by gwillen 10y ago
I can think of a slightly more general solution to the problem of not being sure if A and B are different views on the same file or not, especially if you plan to hardlink one to the other: Hardlink A to a tempfile, hardlink the tempfile in

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