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by imron 7y ago
> Tunnel boring is a complex, multi-faceted civil engineering discipline with a large number of well-funded firms that are aggressively competing and innovating. In this space Elon is utterly insignificant. 20 years ago you could have sa
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by imron 7y ago
> It doesn’t write for you. Modern ones kind of do - for example, gmail's spell checker now comes with predictive input.
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by imron 7y ago
> Its not obvious that the error would have been easier to spot if it had been written using Go's `!= nil` pattern or Rust's `?` pattern. I like Rust's `?` operator (and Swift's `guard` statement also), but it's
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by imron 7y ago
> Long story short, it was way too much of a pain in the ass. Kubernetes has a model for how your infrastructure and services should behave. If you stray outside that model, then you'll be fighting k8s the entire way and it will b
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by imron 7y ago
That's..... incredible. I guess the design company had to justify their payment somehow.
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by imron 7y ago
> Maybe they've changed it by now? I think they might have. I used it about a year or two ago and remembered the UI as horrible. I then had to use it a few weeks ago and didn't have the same negative reaction I had the first t
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by imron 7y ago
> As a software developer by day, farmer by night, I'm not sure there is much overlap Depends what you need it for https://tractorhacking.github.io/
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by imron 7y ago
> Why would we want to switch to 128 bit addresses? How else are you going to have more than 16 exabytes of RAM?
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by imron 7y ago
$5k from one customer. I bet it wasn't the only time he did this.
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by imron 7y ago
> OK it's not surprising that rogue insiders – whether it's a regular ads employee, manager, or a site-reliability engineer – can attempt this kind of tampering. In this case, it was a "contractor". Next time, it wil
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by imron 7y ago
"And there are entirely non-LEGO machines that could do it, although what fun is that?"
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by imron 7y ago
The film Gattaca explores some of these themes.
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by imron 7y ago
You are correct, updating the UI and the underlying storage mechanism are almost certainly separate things falling under a broader umbrella of "lets change up Mail instead of fixing long-standing bugs". I would really love to see
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by imron 7y ago
> but I also have to believe the designers at Apple are trying to make things better Except they're not trying to make things better. They're just changing things - often ignoring their own UI guidelines to do so - and introdu
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by imron 7y ago
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
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by imron 7y ago
Create an app password [0], and then use something like ssmtp for sending the mail. Your app then then just call out to ssmtp, passing in the relevant mail information (to, from, subject, message, etc). 0: https://support.google.
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by imron 7y ago
> There are no e-mails involved That's not obvious from the sign up dialog, and like the top post I closed out of the site as soon as the dialog appeared.
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by imron 7y ago
Don't learn emacs, because vi is better ;-)
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by imron 7y ago
Second paragraph: > Some other companies have the same sort of thing going on. They don't always get the same name applied (sometimes they're just "kitchens"), but similar behaviors seem to follow them around.
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by imron 7y ago
> I just want to point out that SpaceX has not yet successfully put a human in LEO 5 years ago, you could have said the same about SpaceX and reusable rockets, and look where they are now.
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by imron 7y ago
> What about ... which do not allow us to "repeat and predict," as you say? "if you can't repeat and predict, stop calling it science" seems like a nice bright line. For what it's worth, there is science mee
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by imron 7y ago
> which is that no one can give a bright-line rule[2] to distinguish between the "real" science and pseudo-science "if you can't repeat and predict, stop calling it science" seems like a nice bright line. Peer-re
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by imron 7y ago
> Why Nerds? Ask the verge. 'Nerd' was their word, not Warren's. https://elizabethwarren.com/plans/congressional-independence
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by imron 7y ago
Case sensitive search is all I want.
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by imron 8y ago
On the flip side, anyone who obtains the physical device likely has access to the key (your fingerprints are all over it)
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by imron 8y ago
> Why is this still a thing? Movies.
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by imron 8y ago
> The president cannot shut down the government. And yet for all intents and purposes he has, because he's wielding his veto powers and congress hasn't passed a law to stay open by default. Now imagine the dynamic where congres
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by imron 8y ago
This was my first reaction as well, but then I thought about it for a bit, and realised that congress still getting paid is an essential check and balance on executive power. Congressional salaries need to be free of the influence of presid
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by imron 8y ago
> Businesses don't refuse particular customers out of a sense of social justice - they do it because continuing to service their customers harms their reputation, and thus their business And yet this case shows the exact opposite, a
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by imron 8y ago
Nope. I have a 4s, and that hasn't seen any updates in over 2 years.

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