jlarocco

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by jlarocco 3y ago
> Instead they've got a precedent-setting ruling that makes the chatbot a huge liability. Good.
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by jlarocco 3y ago
But the expensive part in most places is the land. Even if the material and labor were free, an empty lot here in Boulder would cost over $500k, and you won't find any. I imagine it's the same problem in most cities (though maybe
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by jlarocco 3y ago
Must have been an Ubuntu problem. I install Firefox via Debian's package, and have never had 'snapd' installed.
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by jlarocco 3y ago
We can hope.
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by jlarocco 3y ago
> But people are (at a much greater rate) willing to pay with ads. Not really. Most people just don't know how to block them, and browsers won't block them by default because of they have a conflict of interest.
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by jlarocco 3y ago
Out of curiosity, why will people buy "your" book when they can generate their own?
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by jlarocco 3y ago
BLE is basically designed to work that way, so it’s very easy. On Linux you can start a bluetooth device scan (using “scan on” in bluetoothcl), and all of the nearby devices will show up as DBus objects under “org.bluez”. You can manipulate
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by jlarocco 3y ago
Yeah, BLE is really neat. Over the summer I bought a RaceBox Mini, thinking it was a fancy GPS logger, but instead of logging it broadcasts the current location over BLE whenever there's a device connected. RaceBox makes an app, but s
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by jlarocco 3y ago
> We need more people who are immune to lobbying in government positions. What we need to do is stop pretending people like that exist, and come up with a system that works despite people's self-interest, greed and corruption. Maybe
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by jlarocco 3y ago
The rule of thumb I've always heard for C++ is that anything non-primitive should be passed as a reference (or a pointer if you really have to) unless you have a good reason to pass by value (and normally you won't). Partly becau
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by jlarocco 3y ago
I don't necessarily want Firefox to go away, but as it stands right now it's not independent from Google and can't take a hard stance on privacy or web standards.
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by jlarocco 3y ago
I'm an on-and-off Firefox user, and I always find these pleas kind of lame. It's a good enough browser, but the other arguments aren't very convincing. It's a contradiction to claim Firefox is better at privacy when Moz
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by jlarocco 3y ago
Can you really say that when Firefox makes most of its money funneling users to Google?
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by jlarocco 3y ago
> Why can't I get my messages from Apple using friends in a secure way on my Pixel without serious hackery? Because you bought a product that doesn't allow that. In fact, goes out of its way to prohibit it.
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by jlarocco 3y ago
Neat. I wrote a binding to wiringPi ages ago ( https://github.com/jl2/wpi ) for a GPS project I was working on. No idea if it runs on modern RPis, though.
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by jlarocco 3y ago
Memoirs are one thing, but archives of mundane daily business? No thanks.
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by jlarocco 3y ago
His first sentence about privacy and security is nonsense, but his second sentence hits the nail on the head. If the richest company in the world wanted their chat app to run on Android, it would by now. It's strange Apple doesn't
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by jlarocco 3y ago
> On the contrary, third-party clients is a gigantic security hole, since Apple can't even know if a client app is spying on users. Security isn't about Apple knowing if an app is spying on users, but about THE USERS knowin
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by jlarocco 3y ago
Seems counter productive to me. The first snippet is much easier to read, and using this technique to get around your 100 line rules seems to be missing the point of the rule - or purposely subverting it.
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by jlarocco 3y ago
Presumably convenient for the group who really added the backdoors.
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by jlarocco 3y ago
San Francisco and Los Angeles
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by jlarocco 3y ago
Part of the reason it's so expensive here, though, is the swath of city and county owned open space around the outskirts of town. Maybe some day it'll get developed, but I think it'll be a long time before that can happen.
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by jlarocco 3y ago
Hence super expensive. I don't know why our city council and planning boards waste so much time on "affordable housing" when it's clearly not fixable. The economics don't make sense to have a highly desirable place
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by jlarocco 3y ago
Section 10.7 of "The Design and Evolution of C++" has some good ones from the early 90s: "When (not if) garbage collection becomes available, we will have two ways of writing C++ programs." "I suspect that a garbage
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by jlarocco 3y ago
In a lot of cases the libraries are developed by researchers and academics in physics, engineering, biology, and other sciences. Having a huge pool of CS graduates isn't very helpful, except for the subset getting Phds in one of those
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by jlarocco 3y ago
> The source is available, you can make your own changes, you can distribute them or even start a business but that's not enough for most people/companies. You really can't in the original sense, though. A person using Fa
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by jlarocco 3y ago
I feel modern "open source" is kind of a parody of the original intentions and it completely misses the forest for the trees. Wikipedia says the goals of the GPL are "the four freedoms to run, study, share, and modify the sof
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by jlarocco 3y ago
That technique worked in Windows 95, too. I used to "cheat" on Diablo 1 using WinHex to max out my gold and modify some item stats.
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by jlarocco 3y ago
> Genuine question, not trying to be snarky: isn't JS a great way to address most of those concerns that you list? I genuinely don't think it is - Javascript is just a language. Why not implement Async I/O and WebWorkers
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by jlarocco 3y ago
"Collusion as a service." The clients have plausible deniability because how can they know if everybody else is using it, and the service provider is "just a recommendation", so they're not guilty either. If it&#x27

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