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by handrous 5y ago
> I doubt the Android renderer is really broken and no-one has noticed until now, so I’d guess the font either has bad hinting, or more likely it’s just being displayed at an awkward size and vertical positions are being rounded in an aw
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by handrous 5y ago
I can see that, but that sense of the term (which is, I'm confident, the main one in use by a long shot) dates to, like, the aftermath of the JFK assassination and early Roswell-related groups, no? The term itself is older, but I mean
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by handrous 5y ago
> It seems like you already bought into their propaganda for justifying surveillance but you don't like the result. I think one can arrive at the opinion they would prefer not to have their recommendations flooded with stuff from fr
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by handrous 5y ago
Yeah, I'm aware it's not a perfect analogy, but it's still the best you're going to get for communicating the idea succinctly (just with the name, even) to a lay-person. Alternatives like "vault password" or &q
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by handrous 5y ago
Right: a vendor's not forced to care whether any bitcoin they accept was stolen, but they are forced to care whether a credit card they accept was stolen. Doing a sufficiently shitty job of keeping out purchases with stolen cards can
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by handrous 5y ago
> Assuming the marketplace is functioning, the demand for these sort of "features" (aka: non-features) would assume there would be a rational supplier to give it. The assumption that a "functioning" market will do a g
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by handrous 5y ago
AFAIK that's the official pronunciation, inherited from the Greek.
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by handrous 5y ago
> Not only that, I have had payments mysteriously fail with big online merchants, and after following it up through multiple layers of support I was told that particular email services are automatically flagged. You can guess which ones.
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by handrous 5y ago
Actually, I wouldn't have guessed at the eviction moratorium, so it was interesting that that was the chosen example. If that's the kind of thing in question then clearly this is a fundamental difference in perspective on where t
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by handrous 5y ago
> “IANAL” is used to avoid liability for offering legal advice in settings where it’s not permitted. It’s not used to hand wave away that you don’t know what you’re talking about. It's exactly and only the latter, actually. Consider
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by handrous 5y ago
"Master password"'s advantage is the connection to the term, from the normal, non-computer world, "master key".
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by handrous 5y ago
In the context of a master password, it doesn't make sense to change it. It's analogous (closely, but not perfectly) to "master key", a term which non-nerds may be familiar with from the world of physical keys (and whi
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by handrous 5y ago
I doubt iOS devices contain enough pirated material on-disk, on average, to make that worth any part of the cost (money, reputational).
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by handrous 5y ago
Ah, I've got you. Sorry, I probably read poorly or something. Aggregating the differences, part of it is that the stakes are so much lower in a foreign occupation and that withdrawal to save any of several sorts of costs involved is a
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by handrous 5y ago
Hey, I'm in a city that sits either on the tail end of 2nd tier or the high end of 3rd, I suppose, so I sincerely don't mean to dig at Omaha too hard, and I have no problem whatsoever with Nebraska (it's not the kind of bas
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by handrous 5y ago
> It’s another way of saying they aren’t the same in various ways. Yes, I guess I just... figured it was extremely obvious that a foreign occupation resisted by locals and a civil war or domestic insurgency are very different, largely on
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by handrous 5y ago
Yes, I would agree that private arms rarely, bordering on never, have much effect either way, unless a government is already extremely weak, and then the arms often aid in establishing (perhaps another, rather than a new one) tyranny, not
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by handrous 5y ago
Ok, so the eviction moratorium? Maybe we just have very different historical perspectives, and that's why I don't get it. "Abandon centuries of liberal democratic tradition and hard fought freedoms" seems like wild hyp
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by handrous 5y ago
> But of course Covid is killing people, so we should abandon centuries of liberal democratic tradition and hard fought freedoms to continue the great work we've done stopping it. I'm entirely confused by this sentiment. What&#
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by handrous 5y ago
> Probably because people want to spend what they make. If you live in SV, you see people driving Teslas, and you think, "I want to do that too." So, next time you fly first class for the family vacation, and stay at the pricey
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by handrous 5y ago
Some of it's keeping-up-with-the-Joneses, some of it's that living anywhere that's particularly pleasant to live and also near your employment, is usually expensive because other people want to live there, too, and some of
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by handrous 5y ago
Yep. When you see places like this in the US it is basically always the case that local incomes are shockingly (to a coastal or mountain-west sort) low, maybe coupled with stagnant or very slow population growth. You end up with decades wor
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by handrous 5y ago
Cities (usually, but not always, smallish 4th-tier sorts of cities, like Omaha—no dig intended, I actually like Omaha quite a bit) with huge, nice-looking houses at shockingly low prices in the US exist because the jobs there pay like shit,
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by handrous 5y ago
Last I messed with it, Electron is structured such that the UI thread is decoupled from where you're supposed to run your "logic" (for performances reasons, I assume—similar patterns are really common in GUI systems, in gener
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by handrous 5y ago
I have to treat each Electron program as having ~5-20x the system resource footprint of an equivalent native program—because they do. So they're going to get cut, or I'm going to pick a competitor to begin with, more often than a
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by handrous 5y ago
This is 100% where the tools-in-the-cloud thing is going. It's going to be a major selling point for a lot of buyers (companies).
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by handrous 5y ago
There are lots of options for making your dev environments reasonably quick & easy to set up if you're mostly doing web stuff, or developing for a very small count of platforms, and mostly or entirely with open-source tools. Chan
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by handrous 5y ago
Mosh provides a noticeable improvement in SSH reliability even on a home fiber connection in the US.
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by handrous 5y ago
> They would need to overpower gov AND the privately armed non-supporters. Compared to only the gov if the people would not be armed. (unless you assume the tyranny group is actually unarmed because they follow the law but this seems wei
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by handrous 5y ago
> You say they are different, but you don’t say why. Sorry, didn't occur to me to note the differences. The incentives, motivations, goals, costs, and resources for a foreign government fighting on your soil are all very from your

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