jeffk_teh_haxor

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by jeffk_teh_haxor 7y ago
I've come to the realization that planetary colonization is sort of a dangerous and anesthetizing science fiction fantasy. It allows us to mentally defer our reckoning of the finite nature of our planet and its resources.
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by jeffk_teh_haxor 7y ago
Prusa makes the best open source 3D printers. This makes it cheaper. No different than when RaspPi announces a new board.
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by jeffk_teh_haxor 7y ago
If the period lasts months, then sure. People go on meds for temporary events all the time, e.g. Seasonal Affective Disorder.
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by jeffk_teh_haxor 7y ago
That's usually SOP at companies which have suicides. Suicidal ideation is contagious. They'll bring in a grief counselor, and encourage you to talk to them , instead.
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by jeffk_teh_haxor 7y ago
My brother, a GP doctor, said that he writes a lot of scripts for antidepressants every performance review season. Performance management sucks. The racial tenor of this article seems bizarre and over the top, though?
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by jeffk_teh_haxor 7y ago
* Everything is a "workflow" and you often find yourself stuck in some terminal error state for no reason. * No JSON, everything's a page load. * ...or, if there is JSON, it's done badly and you have an unholy combinatio
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by jeffk_teh_haxor 7y ago
https://www.propublica.org/article/secret-border-patrol-face...
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by jeffk_teh_haxor 7y ago
Self-hosted, I'm assuming? Their hosted service is shutting down. https://sandstorm.io/news/
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by jeffk_teh_haxor 7y ago
The HN hivemind leans very pro-regulation these days.
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by jeffk_teh_haxor 7y ago
Misaligned incentives cause good people to make bad decisions.
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by jeffk_teh_haxor 7y ago
Also, what if the TV communicated with its OEM's backends instead, which communicated with malicious third parties behind the scenes?
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by jeffk_teh_haxor 7y ago
Is this a fiat gateway for USDT? (aka Tether, the "stable coin" which is the subject of NYAG’s lawsuit: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/20978/ny-attorney-genera... ) EDIT: Ahahahaha. Nope. You can bu
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by jeffk_teh_haxor 7y ago
Most--if not all--coins are just scammy as hell, and the US has resources to fight crypto-related crime.
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by jeffk_teh_haxor 7y ago
What if the communication is benign? What if the TV is simply refreshing a list of recommendations? Everybody - including this forum - is so primed to read nefarious motives into basically anything a computer can do now. Soon we're not
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by jeffk_teh_haxor 7y ago
I like clipless because they enforce better form and don't stray into the chain.
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by jeffk_teh_haxor 7y ago
It's fascinating that Netherlands made a deliberate, pragmatic step to take their streets back from cars in the 60's and 70's. I had assumed that they had simply never lost their love of the bike. But no, the positive situati
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by jeffk_teh_haxor 7y ago
>With the current system, you have to hold your phone really close to the reader for a few seconds You do? Mine is almost scarily eager to pay the bill.
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by jeffk_teh_haxor 7y ago
Uh huh. You should visit the Building 17 courtyard sometime, it's basically a graveyard for defunct MS products.
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by jeffk_teh_haxor 7y ago
Author is a developer on Brave.
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by jeffk_teh_haxor 7y ago
The ISA is virtualized (and much faster) if you have KVM installed and your processor supports VTx extensions.
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by jeffk_teh_haxor 7y ago
A week ago Lyft driver who drove like a maniac. Will he get a saucy exposé too?
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by jeffk_teh_haxor 7y ago
So every DNS change is stored into the blockchain, forever? Will you have to download terabytes and terabytes of the blockchain in order to serve as a node? Why is that kind of audit history necessary? Why is the solution to every problem &
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by jeffk_teh_haxor 7y ago
You're probably using dedicated FTP clients, right? FTP browsing on a web browser is a hack. Uploading files, downloading multiple files at a time, doing _anything_ is just pure pain.
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by jeffk_teh_haxor 7y ago
The threat to privacy and security is more fundamental than anything that can be remedied by a GDPR nastygram.
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by jeffk_teh_haxor 7y ago
At the very worst it is a blight on the environment. 27kWh of energy burned per transaction, with a maximum scaling limit on the order of 5 or 6 transactions per second. If everybody in the world used Bitcoin, then you'd be entitled to
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by jeffk_teh_haxor 7y ago
What if, like, you had a quantum computer that could guess every password simultaneously? Checkmate, nerd. Give me my bounty.
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by jeffk_teh_haxor 7y ago
This just seems like investment in open infrastructure? Any tool can be used for evil. Are contributions to the Linux kernel, then, a kind of contribution to the surveillance state? What a ridiculous criticism. The media hysteria is boiling
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by jeffk_teh_haxor 7y ago
The Earth will be swallowed by the sun before you guess that GUID.
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by jeffk_teh_haxor 7y ago
Also, they wouldn't funnel money to human rights antagonists, as per this fine article.
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by jeffk_teh_haxor 7y ago
What took them so long?

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