jlarocco

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by jlarocco 7y ago
Well, honestly, I don't use my ISP's DNS, either, but that just highlights another way this is annoying: Firefox is overriding my decision with their own. And like I said, I trust my ISP more than I trust Firefox and CloudFlare, s
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by jlarocco 7y ago
I wish they wouldn't do this. I trust my ISP more than I trust Firefox and whatever company they chose for DNS over HTTP. This "We know better than you" attitude is why I stopped using Firefox so many years ago. I switched
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by jlarocco 7y ago
The article mentions using a bunch of GPUs in AWS to do the processing, so I'm guessing that's a pretty firm "no" in this case...
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by jlarocco 7y ago
"Machine Learning" is the wrong tool for the job here. Tesseract OCR can do this, using only the Raspberry Pi, at a "good enough" framerate for any real driving situation.
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by jlarocco 7y ago
It's too bad more people don't realize the answer is to vote third party. Voting for somebody you don't want to win is the definition of "throwing your vote away."
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by jlarocco 7y ago
I'd be interested in reading more about that, too. I'm familiar with both Python and Common Lisp, and to me they've always felt very similar.
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by jlarocco 7y ago
That's not how laws work, though. Just because something is technically possible doesn't mean it has to be legal. There's no way to technically prevent murder or assault, or dumping chemicals in a river, but it doesn't
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by jlarocco 7y ago
My point was that corruption isn't inherent to any economic system, but an unfortunate part of the human condition. Trying to scapegoat a particular economic or political system as inherently corrupt is naive at best, and disingenuous
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by jlarocco 7y ago
> So capitalism is a healthier way for greedy people to compete, versus other systems that become corrupt messes due to human greed. Yeah, that never happens with capitalism...
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by jlarocco 7y ago
Your reply comes off a little condescending. You don't know the technical ability of the people posting in the forum, or what they realize or not. It doesn't take any special qualifications for a person to hear the the fan turnin
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by jlarocco 7y ago
Undefined behavior in C++ and C means that it's up to the implementor to decide what happens in a situation. Usually it ends up being whatever is most convenient or most performant on the target architecture. One consequence is that p
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by jlarocco 7y ago
It's crazy how big it is. https://www.nso.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/full_image_wi... That image covers an area 2.5x the size of Earth, but it's showing less than 0.1% of the Sun.
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by jlarocco 7y ago
> Copy/paste works between many iPad applications. Meanwhile, on desktop I can't paste between Emacs and Confluence because Atlassian went out of their way to break it. I know what people are trying to get at here, but I think
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by jlarocco 7y ago
That's not really true, though. It's true that if I buy some stocks for $100k I have (presumably) already paid taxes on that $100k. But if I sell the stock for $600k two years later, that extra $500k hasn't been taxed as inc
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by jlarocco 7y ago
At this point it's hard for me to feel sorry for anybody still using either Google or Microsoft. They've both been bad actors for years now, and the excuses people come up with to keep using them anyway have worn very thin.
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by jlarocco 7y ago
> Since we're talking about the idea of different treatment under the law for rich vs. poor (well, "comfortable", in this case), tax law in the US is a fine example: the more income you make, the higher your marginal earni
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by jlarocco 7y ago
> It's easy to shit on everything. Let's hear some real solutions. My solution more and more is to just not bother with it. If a site is unreadable because I'm using uBlock and uMatrix, and I have to spend more than a min
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by jlarocco 7y ago
Am I the only one who thinks this is wrong? An alternative headline could be something like, "Entitled College Kids Learn How To Keep Parking Like Assholes Without Paying Fines." And it's a pyrhic victory anyway, because cha
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by jlarocco 7y ago
Well, apparently there's something more important to you than moving closer to work. That's your choice.
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by jlarocco 7y ago
After bike commuting for 10 years and now working from home, I ask that question all the time. My only guess after asking around is people think they "have to". People put their head down and forget to think about the bigger pict
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by jlarocco 7y ago
I do like Bing's "Bird's Eye View", but I have to disagree about their Street View coverage. Here in Colorado, for example, Bing Maps doesn't cover anything in the western half of the state, not even larger cities a
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by jlarocco 7y ago
I've been using Fastmail for several years now and love it. I can't directly answer your question about a comparison, though. I know I looked at several alternatives before signing up, but I don't remember exactly why I chos
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by jlarocco 7y ago
I don't see the problem. There's still privacy benefits to be had by cutting Google out of your life 90% of the time, or even 75% or 50% of the time. I've largely cut out Google, but still occassionally use YouTube, Maps (us
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by jlarocco 7y ago
Expert systems from the 70s and 80s had a capability similar to this. They could explain how they reached a conclusion by reporting the rules they used to get there. The problem was that interviewing experts and coming up with a huge rule
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by jlarocco 7y ago
I don't think the numbers don't come from China, they're measured by satelites. https://www.livescience.com/49196-nasa-satellite-oco2-carbon... China shows up very red, but they have 5x the people living in a
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by jlarocco 7y ago
You've got to be kidding... United States per-capita CO2 emmisions are 17.5 tons per year vs China's 6.18, and that's not even taking into account the fact that China emits a lot of CO2 producing cheap products to sell to the
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by jlarocco 7y ago
> I would say that the overall idea of performance being traded for programmer time is definitely happening despite the emergence of Rust. In some sense Rust is in that same vain - reducing certain errors and the need for tools like Cove
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by jlarocco 7y ago
I don't know what the OP's "guessing" comment was about, but the whole process is asinine. The IRS already knows the numbers on W-2 forms because they get the same data from employers. Financial institutions also send t
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by jlarocco 7y ago
So what's the advantage of this over existing libraries?
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by jlarocco 7y ago
No offense to the author, but it might be poor teachers. My high school chemistry teacher was one of the best I've ever had. She made it very fun, and had a stream of kids taking her classes and ultimately getting 4s and 5s on the AP

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