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by jjcob 1y ago
I don't know. I think it's a lucky coincidence, but I genuinely think that cloud based solutions are better. Local first tends to suck in practice. For example, Office 365 with documents in the cloud is so much better for collabor
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by jjcob 1y ago
I tried running the file segments through a binary diff with Hex Fiend As far as I can tell: - 0x7800 bytes were replaced at file offset 0x00aa0000 - 0x2200 bytes were replaced at file offset 0x00aa8000 I can't tell if the replacement
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by jjcob 1y ago
If you talk to Mac devs they all complain about it. It sucks.
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by jjcob 1y ago
Apple already rejects a lot of apps. Half of my submissions are rejected for bullshit reasons (eg. I submitted an app that shows data from health kit, and it was initially rejected for unnecessarily using health kit) The problem is that the
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by jjcob 1y ago
Thank you for your encouragement :) I read a bit more about the topic, and it seems that the issue with my approach is that the decimal representation might end up exactly halfway between two floats, and then the result of parsing it depend
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by jjcob 1y ago
Thank you for pointing me to all the prior work on this! I am surprised how complex the issue seems to be. I assumed there might be an elegant solution, but the problem seems to be a lot harder than I thought.
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by jjcob 1y ago
One problem I was struggling with: What's the shortest, unambiguous decimal representation of a float? For example, if you use single precision floats, then you need up to 9 digits of decimal precision to uniquely identify a float. So
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by jjcob 1y ago
16e with a skinny case, and you have a completely flat phone
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by jjcob 1y ago
People can't tell the difference in any domain. People copy what they see. It's why James Bond stopped smoking in movies, and people smoke far less now. Mainstream porn sites show a lot of weird practices (what's up with that
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by jjcob 1y ago
In physics, you typically learn about error propagation quite early in your studies. If you make some assumptions about your error (a popular one is to assume Gaussian distribution) then you can calculate the error of the result quite elega
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by jjcob 1y ago
It's funny that the original idea for HTTPS was that there should be private communication between clients and service providers, and it somehow got turned on its head and now its just private communication between you and Cloudflare,
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by jjcob 1y ago
That, and billions of government contracts and subsidies.
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by jjcob 1y ago
This guy tweets all day and the press talks about every little thing he ever does, there are hundreds of videos of him on youtube, dozens of his employees and ex-employees telling stories about him on the net. How much more do you think you
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by jjcob 1y ago
I think you should focus on things you can enforce. For example, in Austria companies are required to provide certain information in job ads (eg. salary range, weekly hours, type of contract) and it's trivial to enforce because you can
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by jjcob 1y ago
Sorry I got confused by the many meanings of practice :)
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by jjcob 1y ago
So I don't know what medical education is like in other parts of the world, but in Austria it involves a lot of practice. Doctors spend a lot of time practicing medicine under supervision before they are allowed to practice on their ow
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by jjcob 1y ago
When you're a EU company or a EU government it makes a difference if your supplier is subject to EU surveillance laws or UK surveillance laws. As far as I can tell it comes down to: - are you afraid of foreign espionage vs. - are you a
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by jjcob 1y ago
24?
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by jjcob 1y ago
I don't understand this. There is a red light. You will have to stop. Why do people still cross a solid line (which will get you a fine if police sees you) to overtake me and then stop directly in front of me? It makes no sense. It&#x2
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by jjcob 1y ago
In general I agree that messing with ecosystems sometimes has unpredictable consequences. In the case of mosquitos, though, they cause so much suffering, that it would be stupid to not work on eradicating them because of possible negative c
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by jjcob 1y ago
I don't live in the US, I live in Austria. Different country, same hypocricy.
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by jjcob 1y ago
Not sure if stuff like WERO will help. I talked to a social worker who works with sex workers, and apparently a major problem they have is that local banks refuse them as customers. Which is ridiculous. Why should a sex worker not be able t
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by jjcob 1y ago
Unfortunately that part never became practicable, and the only use cases that gained traction are speculation, fraud, extortion, and dark web marketplaces.
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by jjcob 1y ago
In austria QR codes for sharing payment info are getting popular. Many invoices have a QR code on them. You can then use your banking app to pay the invoice. Banking apps can also generate a QR code for receiving payments. They are not quit
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by jjcob 1y ago
Most people with Down Syndrome require a huge support network to achieve anything resembling "independence". Their parents (usually the mother) will end up spending all of their time to care for the kid. Other kids in the family w
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by jjcob 1y ago
There's also croc: https://github.com/schollz/croc
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by jjcob 1y ago
Syncthing is for syncing folders like Dropbox It's not a good solution to send individual large files.
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by jjcob 1y ago
What they mean by "cleaning up the mess" is killing, starving or displacing all Palestinians in the Gaza strip and developing Israeli settlements while simultaneously expanding into the west bank as well.
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by jjcob 1y ago
Yeah, we really need more verification that people are starving in Gaza. Why would people starve in Gaza? It's not like anybody has been bombing the city and blocking supply routes. Why would anybody starve there? We are going to need
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by jjcob 1y ago
Maybe International Driving Permit? Our local version of AAA issues them, but you don't have to be a member.

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