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by howdydoo 5y ago
As it turns out, unreliable storage is not as valuable as reliable storage.
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by howdydoo 5y ago
Ransomware has been around since (at least) the 80s, long before bitcoin. https://www.knowbe4.com/aids-trojan
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by howdydoo 5y ago
Would you get rid of your iPhone if you found out criminals used Apple gift cards?
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by howdydoo 5y ago
What do you normally do with code after you compile it?
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by howdydoo 5y ago
>This is a direct reduction in net welfare of the system Mining rewards are incentive to secure the network. Security increases the net welfare of the system. Let's compare apples to apples. If you're including mining rewards i
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by howdydoo 5y ago
>efficient LED lighting This isn't as clear cut as it sounds. The Jevons paradox: as enegry efficiency goes up, enegry demand goes up by more. Or, put another way: humans wasted less electricity 20 years ago with incandescent bulbs
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by howdydoo 6y ago
Also, don't link your bank account using Plaid. Use deposit verification (or old fashioned bank wire) instead.
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by howdydoo 6y ago
That must mean cancer is sexist. No wonder people hate it so much.
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by howdydoo 7y ago
> You can use Cmd/Ctrl + Z to undo the format rendering within the text box, if that helps? This is the one that got me. Yeah thanks, I've been using text boxes since the 90s, I know how to undo. Now we'll get to find out
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by howdydoo 7y ago
Thanks for the link! It looks like it's on track to be implemented this year. I must admit I am _very_ pleasantly surprised to see a project of this scale on track to be completed in under two years (knock on wood). For everyone's
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by howdydoo 7y ago
Even that wouldn't be necessary. Here's an idea – when receiving a call, the receiving network could separately connect to the claimed number and verify its authenticity. No match? Reject the caller. The owner of a number (and thu
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by howdydoo 7y ago
How does Svelte help with static analysis? Genuinely curious here. I've had my eye on this issue[1] for a while. I'm excited about the idea behind Svelte, but without static typing support, there's no way I could feel comfort
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by howdydoo 7y ago
The rate at which technology advances doesn't change whether a good is considered a durable good or not. That term has a specific meaning in economics. There are 50-year-old cars still in service today. I wouldn't drive one, bec
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by howdydoo 7y ago
I built a PC seven years ago (i7-3770K). It's lasted through multiple apartments and multiple jobs. I do all my dev work and gaming on it, and it's even able to run Slack. How much longer does something need to last before it&#x27
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by howdydoo 7y ago
Our company trialed Ember this year alongside React, Angular, and Vue for a new SPA. Ember was the worst of the bunch: - It is stringly typed. All over the place you're globally registering names as strings (or worse, using strings tha
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by howdydoo 7y ago
>deployment profiles In other words, not all functions in the stdlib of Ada, Pascal, C and C++ can be used in all possible target environments? Sounds like a failure to quality gate those standard libraries.
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by howdydoo 7y ago
Firefox: >JSON.stringify(1n) TypeError: BigInt value can't be serialized in JSON Chrome: >JSON.stringify(1n) Uncaught TypeError: Do not know how to serialize a BigInt at JSON.stringify (<anonymous&gt
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by howdydoo 7y ago
You might also like: - Polar bear shot dead in Iceland I can't say that I would. I guess this is as good a place as any to ask – what's the value of interrupting the article halfway through to link me to other article
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by howdydoo 8y ago
Safari on iOS reminds me of Windows 95 and Active Desktop. Whenever IE crashed, it took the entire shell (explorer.exe) down with it.
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by howdydoo 8y ago
https://codepen.io/anon/pen/NzQQJm This is a gross abuse of html, but if you really want that syntax, you can have it. I can't say I understand all the complaining here. You want to make $200K a year sittin
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by howdydoo 8y ago
As someone who has worked on several legacy JS codebases, I can tell you with certainty that in some kinds of projects you'll find in the "real world", `f` being undefined is infinitely more likely than a divisor being zero.
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by howdydoo 8y ago
In a parallel universe, a candidate who is worried about a divisor of zero has his head stuck in the tiny details and is unable to do big-picture thinking. Personally I've gone my entire career without seeing a divide-by-zero bug. It&#
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by howdydoo 8y ago
Not all cryptocurrency users are anti-government.
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by howdydoo 8y ago
Oracle has the right to charge money for their products if they want to. Most people here make a living from exchanging things for money that are better in some way than things you can get for free. (I didn't downvote you, btw)