jgroszko

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by jgroszko 11y ago
I've noticed this in a few BBC shows vs. American shows. In a British TV show there will be characters that just happen to be black, but in an American show it's going to get talked about eventually. Admittedly they aren't th
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by jgroszko 11y ago
It will be interesting to see as we run closer and closer to the limits of observation and consciousness if we're on the verge of another huge paradigm shift in empiricism.
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by jgroszko 11y ago
From what I understand, in some cases where the couple didn't do any estate planning the deceased partner's family could seize the deceased partner's property out of spite, sometimes leaving the surviving partner homeless or
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by jgroszko 11y ago
The big ones are hospital visitation rights, being able to file joint federal taxes, and estate planning and inheritance benefits.
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by jgroszko 11y ago
I think a lot of the harm comes from people treating science as some sort of monolithic entity. Science says X! Science says Y! When really it's more like some scientists over here have found some evidence for X, some over here did som
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by jgroszko 11y ago
One I've had asked of me before is reversing a string, and then I was asked to re-implement it so that the string is reversed in place. I like this one over fizzbuzz because it doesn't require the candidate to know about the modul
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by jgroszko 11y ago
Yeah, this was supposed to be the replacement for Latitude right? You have to know exactly where it is in the app though to find it, it's really not very discoverable
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by jgroszko 11y ago
Yeah I don't see why it's better to have private companies hold the data either. Private companies have a different set of incentives, such as mining that data for advertising...
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by jgroszko 11y ago
The author here seems to be making the assumption that all these laws are considered purely from a 'public health/safety' standpoint, without ever being weighed against something else. If we wanted to evaluate laws purely und
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by jgroszko 11y ago
I also live in an urban area (Chicago) and started riding about 3 years ago. So far I've had spaces in parking structures where I could do some less involved things (changed my own oil a few weeks ago, wheee) without raising too many e
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by jgroszko 11y ago
Do consumers actually differentiate on these extras? I don't think I've ever heard anyone say "Yeah I picked up a Lenovo laptop because the antivirus they package is better than Dell's" or "I got a Samsung phon
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by jgroszko 11y ago
It would further orient Microsoft as a services company than a product company, so it would be consistent with some other moves they've been making (open sourcing .NET, selling Windows 10, Office as a subscription...)
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by jgroszko 12y ago
Which is great, until people start getting most of their news from him...
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by jgroszko 12y ago
I think Europe is more beer-centric than the US, but here you can always ask the bartender to put a lime in your club soda to make it look like a cocktail... Bartenders are usually pretty friendly to people that aren't actually drinkin
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by jgroszko 12y ago
Perhaps I'm conflating indifference with dismissal as conspiracy theory.
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by jgroszko 12y ago
The firmware exploits that were being talked about a few weeks ago are probably the most surprising to me. But IIRC a lot of the stuff that Snowden revealed was previously considered the realm of tin foil hat conspiracy theory.
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by jgroszko 12y ago
It's weird public discourse has gone from "Na, the NSA couldn't possibly be that widespread and invasive" to "Na, they're not doing anything bad with it..." It's like some collective denial of what
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by jgroszko 12y ago
That could be a cute business model, build Facebook once and then sell it over and over again to every guy that wants it for $500... "No but what I want is different!" "Yep, uh huh, sure, removes duck animation "
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by jgroszko 12y ago
I spent a few weeks this past fall trying to configure spamassassin to be useful, but I was getting up to 30 pieces of spam a day and it was getting obnoxious. I configured my setup to use greylisting and it wound up being significantly mor
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by jgroszko 12y ago
Isn't this title a little sensationalist without specifying who's under attack? I assumed it was a royal we and after clicking the link realized it was just this one site.
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by jgroszko 12y ago
All of my finance friends are pretty smart and were able to complete their engineering degrees. They just saw better hours and better pay for basically being able to play poker (commodities trading) all day...
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by jgroszko 12y ago
If it's not immediately apparent to me how to close it I get out dev tools and start slapping "display: none;" on things. If that takes more than 30 seconds I just give up and close the tab...
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by jgroszko 12y ago
Apple controls the entire hardware stack on an iPhone
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by jgroszko 12y ago
It'd be interesting to see a more general software section for Patreon.com. Maybe patrons could get support, prioritized features, etc?
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by jgroszko 12y ago
Could you link to some of those performance benchmarks?
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by jgroszko 12y ago
Those features were marked to be deprecated 2 major releases ago (2 years ago), per their deprecation policy. At some point features or behavior will need to be deprecated so the framework can move forward. That doesn't sound broken at
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by jgroszko 12y ago
Microsoft's attitude towards open source is no longer adversarial. They also contribute to Mono...
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by jgroszko 12y ago
Is Coke Zero any better? I thought there was some research around how the artificial sweeteners trigger the same metabolic response without providing the actual calories, causing even more appetite...
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by jgroszko 12y ago
What's amazing to me is how all the conditions are just right for this stuff. How much different would Earth's orbit need to be, or the composition of the planet, before we no longer have these cycles, or even plate tectonics?
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by jgroszko 12y ago
TRAMP to me seems to be the worst offender here. If your connection is slow or you mistyped the domain you pretty much just have to wait for it to time out

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