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by hliyan 5y ago
Exactly. Perhaps if lots of little video hosting companies existed, this wouldn't be an issue. "Too big to do the right thing" seems like an even worse version of "Too big to fail".
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by hliyan 5y ago
My personal belief is "that won't scale" is not a good reason for bypassing ethical or socially responsible behavior.
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by hliyan 5y ago
Should we be more forgiving of harm done by faulty algorithms than by negligent human beings? It was the company's choice to save money by automating a process that normally only human beings can do reliably. The consequences to the vi
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by hliyan 5y ago
Can someone create a system that stores and parses all this company registration data to instantly dereference the person behind any shell corporation?
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Writing a Simple Operating System from Scratch [pdf](cs.bham.ac.uk)
4 points by hliyan 5y ago|0 comments
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An Introduction to Libuv (2016)(nikhilm.github.io)
1 points by hliyan 5y ago|0 comments
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by hliyan 5y ago
I can run in dreams, but more agile motions fail me: jumping over a small fence, fighting someone. Then it's like either there are lead weights attached to my feet, or my arms and legs are like those of rag dolls. Don't respond to
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Mina: Lightweight, Constant-Sized Blockchain(github.com)
20 points by hliyan 5y ago|5 comments
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Comp.lang.c Frequently Asked Questions(c-faq.com)
124 points by hliyan 5y ago|54 comments
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by hliyan 5y ago
This is also me, but as an engineer. It's not how the average user's mind works.
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by hliyan 5y ago
Lot of potential theories here. Allow me to offer one of my own: it's our physical posture and ergonomics. When on the desktop, you're usually sitting down in front of a desk after deciding to set aside some time for the express p
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Libreddit: Private front-end for Reddit written in Rust(github.com)
170 points by hliyan 5y ago|82 comments
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HyperTalk(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by hliyan 5y ago|0 comments
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Biophilic Design(en.wikipedia.org)
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Epistemic Trespassing (2018)(researchgate.net)
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by hliyan 5y ago
The metal-filled trenches in the silicon need to survive high temperatures, so according to the article copper is out of the question. They "experimented with ruthenium and tungsten" but it's not clear whether they actually b
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by hliyan 5y ago
Strangely, I have found that stress, or more accurately crises, have stimulated my creativity and shook me out of tired old modes of thinking more than anything else. Perhaps long lasting, low grade stress is bad, but the occasional spike i
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Seeing Red(profgalloway.com)
2 points by hliyan 5y ago|0 comments
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by hliyan 5y ago
On a perhaps related note, I have noticed that a Google Meet that consumes just over 1Mbps on Google Chrome consistently consumes close to 4Mbps on Firefox. Same settings, same window size, same participants. I cannot help but wonder whethe
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MongoDB 5.0 Supports Resharding(docs.mongodb.com)
2 points by hliyan 5y ago|0 comments
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David Sabatini Tormented by Steaming Turds(forbetterscience.com)
4 points by hliyan 5y ago|0 comments
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by hliyan 5y ago
Agreed. I only accept people from my own industry, and whenever I see more than two professionally irrelevant or just plain annoying posts from a connection, I just unfollow that connection. My feed looks fairly informative. I've disa
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by hliyan 5y ago
Is it possible to apply this same technique to video codecs? If not general video, then at least video streams where the center subject is a human face?
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by hliyan 5y ago
I remember only two international crises -- the Gulf War and Serbia. when protecting the Earth against asteroid impacts started receiving what felt like more than its fair share of news coverage, even as a teenager I knew that the world mus
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Square to acquire Afterpay for $29bn as ‘buy now, pay later’ booms(ft.com)
2 points by hliyan 5y ago|0 comments
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by hliyan 5y ago
I agree in principle. But I think there has to be a difference in punishment between unrepentant perpetrators who get caught, and perpetrators who come forward on their own volition. If I remember the original Reader's Digest article,
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A Few Days on Antibiotics Are Often as Good as Weeks(scientificamerican.com)
1 points by hliyan 5y ago|0 comments
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by hliyan 5y ago
Also not from the US, but I think read about him many many years ago in Reader's Digest. It was a long form that had a lot more information. I recognized the story because of this anecdote: "I passed my blue book out the window to
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by hliyan 5y ago
Or, insert 'use async' inside the target function body (just like with 'use strict' now).
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by hliyan 5y ago
What if this is baked into the runtime as a mode? 'use async';

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