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by jl6 5y ago
I had half a feeling that the warning against using spaces in names pre-dates computing, but after a little research into library call numbers and archive accession numbers, which turn out to have both historically included spaces, I have f
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by jl6 5y ago
How did the study compensate for the incentive for participants to give the answers that are least likely to result in them having their Instagram taken away?
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by jl6 5y ago
I don’t buy it. This law doesn’t prevent competition outside working hours. The employee who wants to be seen to go “above and beyond” doesn’t need a time-specific prompting message to decide to work an extra 15 minutes. The boss can easily
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by jl6 5y ago
> the pursuit of artificially created stimuli in an imaginary world A description which could apply to all of art, ever?
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by jl6 5y ago
> However, a proposal to include the so-called "right to disconnect" - the legal right to switch off work-related messages and devices outside office hours - was rejected by Portuguese MPs. I genuinely don’t get this. It seems
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by jl6 5y ago
The speed of light isn’t a blocker if we can figure out how to live slower and longer (and maybe going inward is a part of learning to tolerate long stretches of time). If a lifespan was 1,000,000 years, a 40 year journey to alpha centauri
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by jl6 5y ago
Are there any interesting Long Bets being made about the future success or failure of the metaverse? I could imagine making some money on the following: “by 2030, the number of VR users of the metaverse will be less than 1% of the number of
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by jl6 5y ago
Although the description of the phenomenon sounds plausible - it triggers the “oh yeah, I’ve definitely met one of those types” reflex - the incredibly broad set of examples makes me question the idea’s explanatory power. We’re offered ev
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by jl6 5y ago
There are plenty of ways to inject violence and excitement into modern life if that’s what you’re missing!
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by jl6 5y ago
It’s not that modern devs have forgotten techniques so much as they now spend their time on techniques that operate at much higher levels of abstraction. Every abstraction layer is designed to be multi-purpose, meaning not optimized for a s
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by jl6 5y ago
Fantastic work. Can you add a feature to do cache invalidation too?
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by jl6 5y ago
Problem validation is a brilliant idea. Unique names though… there’s a certain safety in numbers that a common name affords. A unique name is very easy to target in searches.
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by jl6 5y ago
> We're one of the most conservative nations in the world when it comes to almost any social policy matter. Struggling to understand this one…
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by jl6 5y ago
Quite right that these concerns apply to any software, but they are significantly mitigated by sourcing software from organizations you trust. There’s no way I would be able to spot the operation of malware-masquerading-as-browser without c
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by jl6 5y ago
Doesn’t help if the exfiltration only occurs monthly and you only monitored for a week, or if there’s something locally malicious, or if side channels are involved, or if it’s manipulating data sent to legitimate sites (e.g. instructions to
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Clinical Lycanthropy(en.wikipedia.org)
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by jl6 5y ago
Sure, I could review the source code. And then review it again next week when a change is released. I don’t want to have to though. Trust matters. I don’t trust Mozilla not to push ads, but I do trust them not to build in intentional backdo
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by jl6 5y ago
So my choice is to trust one of either: 1. The Mozilla developers who are capturing telemetry, but probably just using it to push ads (at worst, and possibly not even that). 2. Some new devs who may have good intentions, but who are unknown
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by jl6 5y ago
What scale are you working at and how have you made it cost-effective versus a stack of external HDDs?
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by jl6 5y ago
What are we to make of, e.g. Google’s claims that their data centers run on 100% renewable energy? How can temporal workload shifting help reduce carbon emissions in the cloud if the energy source is already renewable?
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by jl6 5y ago
I don’t get why storage isn’t sexier compared to CPUs. Vast amounts of cheap and fast storage is the enabler of our current computing paradigm, every bit as much as CPU tech. And it’s just as cutting edge! NAND is working right up against t
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by jl6 5y ago
With you until the point where it is suggested that Web 3.0 can solve anything!
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by jl6 5y ago
In school, we are drilled into thinking reading is an unqualified good thing. Reading programmes exist to boost the amount of reading children do. Parents chastise their kids for watching TV instead of reading a book. Against this backgroun
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by jl6 5y ago
> how capable are we as a society even to recognize the propaganda and lies when we see them I would argue that many of the things that get categorised as Truth or Lie are actually not so easy to distinguish as we might hope. We do not e
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by jl6 5y ago
Sorry, I’m afraid it’s intentional. Easy navigation of hierarchical/structured links just encourages visitors to turn sideways away from the content they are being funnelled towards. The cattle farmers that currently run the web only w
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by jl6 5y ago
Fun fact: Ian Fleming’s Goldfinger was named after the brutalist architect Ernő Goldfinger: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernő_Goldfinger Goldfinger was known as a humourless man given to notorious rages. He sometimes
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by jl6 5y ago
I don’t find it unreasonable to assume that the building will comply with government fire safety regulations and that those regulations are at least somewhat adequate.
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by jl6 5y ago
Time for your holonic irrigation.
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by jl6 5y ago
Increasingly, media consumers don’t know anything about chemistry, or industry, or manufacturing, or have any contacts in that world, which, to be fair, is increasingly outsourced, subcontracted, offshored, and inaccessible. But they do spe
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by jl6 5y ago
We don’t think enough about decommissioning settlements. Whether coastal towns threatened by rising tides, or desertifying inland villages, there are many places that used to be habitable and will soon not be. This is nothing new, in the lo

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