jdormit

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   by jdormit 9y ago

   Do you think the chances of false positives would make a bloom filter a bad choice for this?
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   by jdormit 9y ago

   I will get
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   by jdormit 9y ago

   Yeah, "ownership" isn't really what's at stake here. I guess, "consumption" would be a better term? DRM limits the ways in which consumers' can consume media - specifically, it enforces copyright. I think
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   by jdormit 9y ago

   Could you publish that list somewhere?
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   by jdormit 9y ago

   I'm pretty sure you can just go to the steamapps directory and run the .exes directly
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   by jdormit 9y ago

   A better analogy would be to landlords rights vs. renters rights. DRM sets conceptually equivalent restrictions on protected media as leases set on rented property. The difference, of course, is that it is very hard/impossible to break
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   by jdormit 9y ago

   Except for unfortunate auto-correct errors, of course... ;)
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   by jdormit 9y ago

   > Bitcoin is a pyramid scheme Why do you say this? I am certainly not a cryptocurrency expert, but it seems to me that BTC provides real value, in that it is an accepted currency and also in that it distributes the means of control over
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   by jdormit 9y ago

   Using it right now! It's very nice, feels native and we'll designed.
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    by jdormit 9y ago

    The developers behind Scuttlebutt [0] should apply for this! It pretty much perfectly meets Mozilla's criteria. [0] https://github.com/dominictarr/scuttlebutt
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    by jdormit 9y ago

    There's not a chance that he will get elected to represent MA. We are the bluest of the blue states.
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    by jdormit 9y ago

    > You don't need to rely or surrender to the cloud I would imagine that this goes through someone's server. It would be helpful if the readme gave a little more detail about how this works.
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    by jdormit 9y ago

    I help maintain Jus [0], an opinionated static site generator with a focus on simplicity. It has only two commands - jus build compiles your files into HTML, CSS, and JavaScript; and jus serve spins up a local development server with live-r
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    by jdormit 9y ago

    I love the about page on your website! It's very inspiring.
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    by jdormit 9y ago

    So she did something illegal and got caught? I'm not really sure what the takeaway is here - if you're going to do something illegal and not take even the most basic security precautions (set up a VPN, use TOR, etc.), then of cour
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    by jdormit 9y ago

    I can't speak for dyslexia, but I have ADHD. Something that not many people talk about is that there are two sides to the ADHD coin. On the one hand, I get easily distracted from things that I am not interested in. I have trouble focus
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    by jdormit 9y ago

    So are you hosting your own IMAP server? If so, have you any problems with your emails being filtered out as spam? EDIT: Bit of a brain-fart. IMAP is just a client of a mail server. So to rephrase my question - what mail server do you use?
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    by jdormit 9y ago

    What is an authoritarian-populist cycle?
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    by jdormit 9y ago

    Right, but what makes a design fluent? Are there guidelines? Other than using "light", "depth", etc.?
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    by jdormit 9y ago

    I read the article, and I still have no idea what "Fluent Design" actually entails.
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    by jdormit 9y ago

    > Cryptocurrency first being described in Cryptonomicon Really? That's crazy! I always thought that Stephenson had heard early ideas about cryptocurrencies and incorporated them into his book. Are you saying the Neil Stephenson inve
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    by jdormit 9y ago

    Do you mind if I send a copy of this to my representatives (Utah) as well?
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    by jdormit 9y ago

    Exactly this. "Internet Freedom" should really mean a decentralized, equally-distributed network in which my server gets treated the same as every other server in the network. By increasing the power of ISPs, the FCC is in fact in
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    by jdormit 9y ago

    > Or invent a system by which 10% of the ad revenue gets cut out to the end user. Brendan Eich is trying to do exactly this with the Brave browser [0]. Although it is a ways away, he wants to cut out the adware middlemen and give users a
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    by jdormit 10y ago

    > - Threads without data races - C++11 introduced a threading library as part of the language. We can avoid a lot of data races, deadlocks, etc. if you actually look deeper into how to implement the modern threading library well. So - we
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    by jdormit 10y ago

    I trust the advice of my dentist more than I trust Vox. And my dentist says if I don't floss I will probably get gum disease.
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    by jdormit 10y ago

    Very helpful, thank you!
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    by jdormit 10y ago

    Was mobile.twitter.com a PWA before? That's what I thought the big change was - using service workers to offer offline/slow connection functionality.
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    by jdormit 10y ago

    I think I missed something. If information is exchanged when machines are on the same network, how does the guy in New Zealand get updates from the guy in Hawaii? Is there a server involved, or does the New Zealand guy have to wait until he
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    by jdormit 10y ago

    Beautiful series! Very moving, although I couldn't tell you exactly why.