jeff_tyrrill

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by jeff_tyrrill 5y ago
I wouldn't choose to use the word "dishonest" but I sympathize - in nearly all news media explanations of "ranked choice voting", the description solely explains instant runoff, and makes no mention whatsoever that
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Microsoft Weighs Fixes to Code-Sharing Plan After Suspected Leak(bloomberg.com)
2 points by jeff_tyrrill 5y ago|0 comments
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by jeff_tyrrill 6y ago
Likely due to an intentional misdirection campaign by the carriers poisoning the mindspace of journalists: https://pxlnv.com/linklog/5g-pixie-dust/
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by jeff_tyrrill 6y ago
The parent isn't claiming that it's legal to take something so long as you have intent to return it. Just that the standard definition of theft requires "permanently" as an element, and maybe taking something temporari
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by jeff_tyrrill 6y ago
The rules are complex but the principle is simple. Apps are required to use in-app purchase if: (1) The customer relationship originated in the app; and (2) The primary nexus of the purchased item is to improve the purchaser's personal
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by jeff_tyrrill 7y ago
http://jayshah.me/2018/01/05/board/ (and discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16108235 )
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by jeff_tyrrill 7y ago
> Go shopping for a fridge, then buy one. You'll have fridge ads following you around even though you're not in the market for a fridge any more. This persistent meme commits the fallacy of believing that every person follows t
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by jeff_tyrrill 7y ago
> The us federal government via Congress can certainly pass laws that supersede state laws But it cannot force the states, specifically, to enforce them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenth_Amendment_to_the_United_..
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by jeff_tyrrill 9y ago
The grandparent doesn't say this specifically, but I've long suspected that a middleman adversary can identify, with high accuracy, which top-1000 website you are accessing (even through a VPN) based on the timing and bandwidth si
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by jeff_tyrrill 9y ago
icantdrive55, you've been shadowbanned for a long time, and I see no obvious reason for it in your comment history. I'd suggest getting in touch with the site admins to inquire.
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by jeff_tyrrill 10y ago
Many other requirements have been instituted from iOS version to iOS version that require substantial work to bring old code up to current App Store standards. Among them are things like screen size support and retina-resolution assets. Mea
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by jeff_tyrrill 10y ago
Nope (though I'd love that). By "merging" I mean things like folder trees. But Dropbox gets so many nice details right that competitors and homegrown solutions tend not to think of: * When syncing a folder tree (uploading or
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by jeff_tyrrill 10y ago
The value that Dropbox provides isn't the sharing, nor the protocol - it's the failure-free merging algorithm (I intentionally said "merging" not "syncing"). The magic is what happens locally - not on the netwo
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by jeff_tyrrill 10y ago
> Interlaced video files should no longer exist. Yes, they should, as should silent movies, black and white movies, old game consoles with exotic output formats like vector graphics, and the like. It is a worthy endeavor to create and ma
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by jeff_tyrrill 10y ago
But the reason the Internet Archive applies robots.txt retroactively is copyright, as explained in a sibling to the grandparent.
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by jeff_tyrrill 10y ago
Windows 98 was not intended to offer meaningful local security. The password prompt was used to collect the username/password to use to connect to network resources. (And also, perhaps confusingly, the password prompt was overloaded to
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by jeff_tyrrill 10y ago
The grandparent technique does not rely on physical access to the raw hardware - only mouse, keyboard, and power switch (intended human interface endpoints). The computer case could be behind a concrete bunker with the only communication be
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by jeff_tyrrill 10y ago
> I'd tend to prefer to store in UTC and store the associated timezone separately. This is exactly the wrong approach for calendaring software, because it results in appointments moving in time when governments change the daylight s
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by jeff_tyrrill 10y ago
That's terrible, because it makes using password managers impossible (while on your phone for example, or you simply don't have it open that instant because you didn't know when/if they would ask).
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by jeff_tyrrill 10y ago
> Is a cat video something that we need to make more secure? If I'm hosting a cat video on my website, I don't want my visitors' slimy ISPs adding Javascript-injected ads to my page and my visitors thinking it was me. But
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by jeff_tyrrill 10y ago
That was a quote from a photo caption in the news article, not the judge nor the decision (which I cannot find online). It's unlikely the judge was actually under this sort of misconception. (If you have a link to the decision text and
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by jeff_tyrrill 10y ago
Author here. This was a scratch-an-itch project. I often run Excel to do some quick crunching of lists and data without saving anything - text processing, find-and-replace, script generation, stuff like that. I often find that the data I&#x
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Show HN: Spreadsheets for hierarchical data – real-time collaborative editing(datascribbler.com)
5 points by jeff_tyrrill 10y ago|2 comments
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by jeff_tyrrill 10y ago
> Why is the business of the new employer to know how much I was making at my previous position? This isn't the question that I answered. It was asked how stating a specific, untrue salary might be fraud. Refusing to answer and givi
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by jeff_tyrrill 10y ago
Your salary involves two parties, and you are only one of them. The other party is your employer. By stating an untrue salary, you're fraudulently claiming that your current or previous employer (usually known to your negotiating count
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by jeff_tyrrill 10y ago
Nonprofits need CRUD apps just like any other organization. "Being a nonprofit" doesn't mean "developing open source software".
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by jeff_tyrrill 10y ago
The window manager is not semantically aware that a particular tab in a particular window in a particular browser is the canonical navigation target for switching to a particular app. A first class platform-native app provides this.
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by jeff_tyrrill 10y ago
> Alpha Centauri is about four miles away. Actually, around 500 miles. Distance to Alpha Centauri: 4.37 light years = 276,364 astronomical units. In your diagram, the Earth is 10 feet from the Sun. Multiply by 276,364 to get 2,763,640 fe
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by jeff_tyrrill 10y ago
Dropbox uses phone APIs that were designed to do exactly this. There are not "cloud storage" APIs that simulate a file system in desktop OSes. So Dropbox had to implement the syncing logic. And they also, now, have to implement th
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by jeff_tyrrill 10y ago
Hacker News would be immensely more valuable and useful to me if a poster such as abhi3 posted such a well-written summary on every story.

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