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by infoseek12 5y ago
If it is an exercise in deterrence the actor responsible might see displaying a calculated degree of belligerence as a feature not a bug.
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by infoseek12 5y ago
It seems like a lab leak was always the most parsimonious explanation. Now that we aren’t in the middle of Covid and don’t have a distractingly incompetent administration I think we are going to see a re-estimation of probabilities and a lo
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by infoseek12 5y ago
I hope my thinking on this is overly pessimistic but I think wearing masks is going to be perhaps the biggest lightning rod in America for a while. It’s going to act as a proxy issue for many other sociopolitical and psychological issues th
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by infoseek12 5y ago
Is there anyone alive who completely understands a latest generation iPhone down to the bit level? It would be impossible for someone outside of Apple to have the access necessary. But even if everything was completely open source would it
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by infoseek12 5y ago
I think my favorite quote from the article is: “If they then choose to ignore the indicators and ride with the In&box inactive, that's on them and we can expect it not to inflate in the event of a crash.” When their product doesn’t
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by infoseek12 5y ago
Directly attacking the health of US personal would be a hugely provocative act. I’m not saying the Russians wouldn’t do it. There are reports that they paid out bounties in Afghanistan to attack US troops. But launching a campaign to enfeeb
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by infoseek12 5y ago
In Soviet Russia Charizard grades you.
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by infoseek12 6y ago
I've always thought of Twitter as an indigestible enormous chatroom, that users interact with via the aid of different kinds of filters. The format and platform do sometimes exasperate negative tendencies but I think the primary design
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by infoseek12 6y ago
The main thing that has me cheering Wayland on is that it seems like the only, really viable, path forward for the Linux desktop environment. The developers of X11, and more or less the rest of the Linux community, decided that X11 wasn’t t
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by infoseek12 6y ago
Can you explain how this relates to hackers being the new Luddites? I haven’t had a chance to listen to the podcast yet but I can’t see how it’s description or yours relates to the title.
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by infoseek12 6y ago
I wasn't sure either and had to look it up. I believe it stands for “fuck outta here”.
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by infoseek12 6y ago
Yeah nearly every person I encounter does not want to be eaten. Yet they love to eat. An odd disconnect there for me.
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by infoseek12 6y ago
Ya, the Library of Congress collection is great, it’s practically the only place I’ve been able to find images of art that is at least 3840 pixels wide that doesn’t need to be upscaled for 4K monitors. Does anyone know any other sources of
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by infoseek12 6y ago
I would very much like to know how much testing Google did on the “Black-owned businesses near you” feature. I know they extensively test algorithm changes to their search engine before rolling them out to everyone. It would be really distu
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by infoseek12 6y ago
Also kind of like religious syncretism, bridging the emac vs vim divide, there is evil mode.
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by infoseek12 6y ago
You might want to check out Eric Flint’s 1632 series. A small Virginia mining town is sent back in time and translocated to 1631 Germany, the series goes into how they try to build up a more technologically advanced civilization. S. M. Stir
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by infoseek12 6y ago
I use i3 as well, I think it provides a lot of the advantages that tmux does but there are some features that tmux adds which can be useful. You mention persistence, which is sometimes handy (though you will need a plug-in like tmux-resurre
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by infoseek12 6y ago
I think what you're saying about causation has a lot of truth to it. I believe one of the other fundamental considerations is simple numbers. Looking at the pictures of the Capitol riot it doesn't look like there were more than a
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by infoseek12 6y ago
An unrelated rant about benchmarksgame. Has anyone noticed that the Python implementation of regex beats a lot of the Rust and C implementations? That’s because it uses the PCRE2 library (written in C) which it assumes is installed on the O
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by infoseek12 6y ago
I think this is a very real concern. On the other hand, now that we’re approaching the limits of miniaturization specialized silicon seems like the clearest path, on the hardware side, to achieve continued performance gains.
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by infoseek12 6y ago
I think that is the key quote but I believe their conclusion about balancing risks is mistaken. People don’t statistically assess risks the way actuaries do, even the most rational people don’t think like that. There’s already a significant
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by infoseek12 6y ago
I’ve often wondered why no commercial satellite provider provides any kind of RF platform. I believe you could tell which power plants and factories are active and at what level from the amount of RF emissions. It seems like you could get l
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by infoseek12 6y ago
2020 strike again! Seriously though, this article makes some assumptions I’m not sure about. One of them is that Mapbox’s move will be successful. I’m not sure it will be, most users of Mapbox probably won’t upgrade to the new version or wi
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by infoseek12 6y ago
You may be right, it’s certainly a complex area. But I do think this will put a lot of wind in the sails of Mapbox’s competitors. The inevitable fork of version one will serve most people’s needs and it may pick up some real momentum. But m
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by infoseek12 6y ago
An incredible ironic statement since what you’ve done is only possible because of open source. If you don’t realize that taking a huge dump on the open source community will have profound consequences for Mapbox then you’re in for a surpris
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by infoseek12 6y ago
I can’t address many of your objections but I don’t think putting it in a van would be a problem. Organizations sometimes use fiberglass body panels that look like normal metal ones but are transparent to RF in these kinds of situations.
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by infoseek12 6y ago
For me, one reason I avoid Java is because it’s what I used in college when I was a much less proficient programmer. I remember it being confusing and a lot of hard work. That association probably has more to do with learning programming th
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by infoseek12 6y ago
Let’s be honest, Google knew this was going to blow up and they didn’t want to have a public conversation about whether she’s “abrasive”. Whether you agree or not with what Google did, it seems clear that they wanted to fire her for a while
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by infoseek12 6y ago
Googles search functionality seems to be getting worse and worse. A lot of the time now, when I try DuckDuckGo it surfaces what I’m looking for in instances where Google just gives me a lot of irrelevant links. Is it just my imagination (or
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by infoseek12 6y ago
I agree, I think a lot of people are going to look back on this period with more than a little embarrassment. What will make it worse for them is that so much of what they said and did will remain preserved forever. It is kind of entertaini

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