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by harryf 4y ago
The real question that needs answering is what the cost of lockdowns was and for that we’d need to compare to suicide statistics for the same period.
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by harryf 4y ago
Misleading title. It's not all of Germany it's one state AND it's not a general ban just a ban from schools. > "The central German state of Hesse’s local Data Protection Authority (DPA) has banned the use of Microsoft
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by harryf 4y ago
The notion of smart contracts might have a perfect use-case when it comes to setting up and maintaining infrastructure on AWS. E.g. something like "I want an Amazon RDS PostgreSQL instance with such and such specs. full daily backups a
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by harryf 4y ago
Ditto. If those concerns aren’t directly tied to profit or costs it’s hard to justify why time is required to work on them. Also - and perhaps this is just me - but the world “guild” just makes me think of Dwarves and fantasy games. “The dw
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by harryf 4y ago
> AI experts and researchers are warning developers to take a step back and focus more on how and why a system produces certain results than the fact that the system can accurately and rapidly produce them. We need to find a way to incen
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by harryf 4y ago
Replying to myself as I haven’t seen it discussed yet… Specifically the design of algorithms in dating apps is interesting. In effect Tinder at all could play “eugenics” with users based on who they show / hide. I would assume that’s a
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by harryf 4y ago
Match.com (who own Tinder among others) just got a new CEO who used to be the CEO of Zynga (FarmVille etc) https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/03/match-names-zynga-presiden... And Match.com owns 40%+ of the dating
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by harryf 4y ago
It's a nice idea to things like this _in theory_. Medium has something similar they called Snowflake - https://github.com/Medium/snowflake ... but note the disclaimer... > Heads up: Medium isn’t using this tool
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by harryf 4y ago
There’s a great episode with Blake Lemoine on the Duncan Trussel podcast (Duncan created the Midnight Gospel on Netflix) - https://open.spotify.com/episode/0NXNvJtRQSuWl4HM1MvhD0?si=V... Listening to that it seems clea
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by harryf 4y ago
Well either way there are direct consequences that the author of the code will feel - which is the point here. And usually pager duty is done in rotation, rather than you only get paged for your own code. It's one thing to ruin your ow
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by harryf 4y ago
I think you’re onto something. From the article… > our role is to enable and facilitate developers in getting features into the hands of customers The problem here is this creates the wrong kind of incentives for developers… somehow elev
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by harryf 4y ago
> Another interesting thought experiment is, how many digital services, modern tech and so on would you be willing to trade for something mundane, say your dishwasher, a hot shower, the toilet, a car, soap, if you could only have one or
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“You used to just switch on a light” – breaking things with features [video](youtube.com)
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by harryf 5y ago
No and I’m not saying it’s a conspiracy. They were opportunistic. I remember back then hearing an interview with the writers who were describing writing each episode of 24 on a weekly basis between episodes. And the article I linked to des
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by harryf 5y ago
Exactly. And it came out Nov 6th 2001... not even a month after 9/11. Probably did a lot to shape an angry publics willingness to use torture as a tool in retribution. The writers of 24 (and later Homeland) talk about it here https:&#
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by harryf 5y ago
It doesn’t need a treaty for something to be clearly wrong… and like wrong at any level. I mean the poster at the top of this thread immediately tries to make some justification… > This is the kind of stuff that probably makes some peopl
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by harryf 5y ago
I’ll just live dangerously and out https://yandex.com/ in here. They actually have great results for many things including local businesses (when you’re in Switzerland). Of course they’re Russian and may get blocked soon
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by harryf 5y ago
> But it doesn't make sense that a nation as sophisticated as Russia would accept such a high risk of loss. Which means that they might actually believe the risk of NATO intervention is low. Or they see it like Poker as an "all
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by harryf 5y ago
You’re right. But let’s be happy it isn’t. Better that stays fragmented across the globe
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by harryf 5y ago
Thanks for the tip on Libby. I tried Audible on iOS for a while and found the UX too annoying. I can’t remember specifics but in general I remember it was annoying to use with AirPods while using my phone for other things. Felt like it need
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by harryf 5y ago
> The Nazi flags, the Gadsden flags, the Trump flags, the fact that they're saying racist, sexist, homopobic stuff in the Zello? The fact that their contributions are from right-wing US sources and the extreme right press is giving
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by harryf 5y ago
> It has terrorized women, queer people and people of color on the streets. Seriously? This smells like an attempt to paint the truckers as extreme right. Any quality sources for that claim?
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by harryf 5y ago
There's a good summary of why Cardno uses Haskell here - https://medium.com/@cardano.foundation/why-cardano-chose-has... - functional programming seems to have been a key influence in how Cardano's approach
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by harryf 5y ago
We live in an attention economy, both outside and inside companies. The rules that apply to B2C marketing largely apply inside companies as well. Despite that we still have people that assume “I sent an email and I’m important therefore eve
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by harryf 5y ago
At the end of this... > Why did this happen in the first place? > My answer is something I call “consistency sin”. Understanding the cause lets us avoid similar situations in the future. Oh seen this happen. Something like... Random b
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by harryf 5y ago
The product is _designed_ to be something humans will relate to and "become part of your lives", much like a housepet. Watch Amazon's own intro video narrated by the little girl - https://www.youtube.com/watch
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by harryf 5y ago
I don't get it. Just starting with the three main benefits listed on the website, none of these are compelling... > Safe: Implemented in Rust programming language and using Tokio runtime ensures memory and thread safety. Does memcac
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by harryf 5y ago
> The program had mushroomed to include 5.8 million users in 2020 Interesting number. Wonder if that gives us a rough idea of the global ratio of celebrities to normal people? 8 billion people on the planet vs. 5.8 million celebs means t
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by harryf 5y ago
Having worked with both, to me an untalked about advantage of memcached is it's a simpler tool - there are less ways to shoot yourself in the foot with it. From a code point of view the only real choice is whether you let LRU exclusive
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by harryf 5y ago
This is a great video that explains the success of OnlyFans - https://youtu.be/nsK_6VSmlMI Also this video does a reasonable job of analyzing the UX and understanding the user base https://youtu.be/auG2E53dF

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