jlokier

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by jlokier 5y ago
Not any more: - Login authentication requires the phone, even for the web app. - Card payments require the phone to approve them. Two of my banks require the phone during the authentication step to login their web apps. Both of them are bu
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by jlokier 5y ago
Fun fact: Tips are subject to income tax, donations are not. That may be relevant to people seriously monetizing their hobbies. (Whether something is, for tax purposes, a tip or a donation is determined by the reason the money is given, not
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by jlokier 5y ago
I may have written the first ZX Spectrum emulator, for some definition of emulator. In the 80s I had a BBC Micro with a Z80 second processor attached to its "tube" bus. Usually the Z80 ran CPN, a business operating system similar
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by jlokier 5y ago
I learned to program without having an actual computer, from a wonderful full-page magazine advert of a ZX Spectrum, just a photograph of it in glorious full colour. I didn't have access to a computer, just lots of old magazines and bo
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by jlokier 5y ago
> You thought the Europeans were the dry ones? Actually yes. Although the teams I worked with were almost all people in Europe, one was from USA, and another was in Canada (though guessing from their name, perhaps their family came from
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by jlokier 5y ago
Counterpoint to the European thing: I recently worked for an all-remote team where almost everyone is Europe based, and there was no humour at all in their meetings, and very little personal anecdata of any kind. It was very dry and profes
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by jlokier 5y ago
> What's wrong with hosting a server from your house? Nothing, but if you're hosting just your own site, that's not what people mean by decentralised. If you're part of a swarm all hosting replicas of the same data
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by jlokier 5y ago
> Have a system by which each coffee comes with a unique code on the receipt. This code grants you 1hr on the WiFi before terminating your session. I went to a place like that a few years ago. I could never comfortably finish my drink
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by jlokier 5y ago
Storage maybe, RAM less clear. Some web apps use more RAM (in the browser) compared with the equivalent native app, and on a laptop people like to run multiple apps at the same time, whether web or native.
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by jlokier 5y ago
It's unlikely to be website memory leaks. If it was, on "memory flush" it wouldn't drop to about the same amount every time that fits comfortably in RAM, with no visible effect except the pause. This event does not unl
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by jlokier 5y ago
> Are you serious? There is nothing comparable to strace on MacOS? There's dtruss, but the information and options are nowhere near as useful as strace, and for some system calls it prints errors instead. read() and write() print a
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by jlokier 5y ago
> What do you find lacking in the m1 to make it your dev machine? For me, the 16GB RAM limit on the MacBook Air is the principal reason not to get one, otherwise I would have already. As soon as you go to 32GB or more with M1, it's
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by jlokier 5y ago
> What is this custom database? The current application is Ethereum L1 state and state history, but it has useful properties for other applications. It's particularly good at being small and fast, and compressing time-varying block
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by jlokier 5y ago
A lot depends on the type of queries. You could have tables the size of the entire internet and every disk drive ever made, and they'd still be reasonably fast for queries that just look up a single value by an indexed key. The trick
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by jlokier 5y ago
> Isn't web3 mostly just the use of decentralized systems? You don't need crypto for that. Maybe you do need crypto for that. One of the properties of large, decentralised systems with high stakes things running on them is tha
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by jlokier 5y ago
I find the "three meals assumption" quite bizarre, as I don't remember the last time I ate three meals in one day. I usually have one meal a day, sometimes zero, sometimes two. It hasn't occurred to me to eat three meal
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by jlokier 5y ago
> It was surprisingly difficult to find a decent way to render nice-looking web pages with reasonably modern CSS to PDF without having things get cut off or reflowed. I had to use a specific prerelease build of a webkit-based tool to get
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by jlokier 5y ago
I used to work on a hardware compiler written in SML, which compiled a language called Handel to logic circuits for FPGAs. Mostly I worked on fancy optimisation passes, and a fast gate-level simulator. Similar to languages like Haskell whic
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by jlokier 5y ago
> If this is true, then why is the government collecting any taxes at all? If any amount of debt is sustainable, I am livid that I have to work for the government 4 months/year. If government services were paid for only by governmen
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by jlokier 5y ago
(I'm not the person you replied to.) I find I generate executable ideas much faster than I can execute them, and that can get burdensome, so I don't particularly look for ways to get more ideas. But here's a method that may w
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by jlokier 5y ago
Potentially: "This argument provides the indispensable theoretical basis for recently proposed tests of non-classicality in gravity, based on witnessing gravitationally-induced entanglement in quantum probes."
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by jlokier 5y ago
Last time I had an MRI scan, I had strong sensations throughout my body where exposed to the MRI's radio emissions. I rather enjoyed the sensation, it felt like a massage and I would have enjoyed it for longer. I was surprised, as they
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by jlokier 5y ago
No, it wipes all local changes to tracked files in your worktree that haven't been committed yet.
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by jlokier 5y ago
I've thought about this a few times. If I struck rich or won the lottery, I'd want to start doing CEO work, while funding my own rather ambitious projects. It would be unlikely to be someone else's company, but perhaps if
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by jlokier 5y ago
I don't see how CockroachDB ends up in your list of DBs that lead to vendor lock-in or being unable to run a cluster locally, because it's open source and you can run your own cluster. Is there something about it I haven't s
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by jlokier 5y ago
> I was refuting an absolute. I stand corrected, thank you. I had to re-read both your comments carefully to understand them from that perspective. Though you didn't intend to generalise, your refutation can be (and clearly was) par
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by jlokier 5y ago
I believe the thrust of the GP's point is that your position is quite particular to you, as there are plenty of highly-skilled, highly-paid professional software developers, even in the US, who struggle to find good, well-paid work qui
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by jlokier 5y ago
The best refactor is the one you accidentally commit using the smooth, virtuoso commit command only for masters of the art, "git reset --hard". Fingers have a mind of their own sometimes. (Next was something to snapshot the VM, f
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EU Parliament Passes Privacy-Busting Crypto Rules Despite Industry Criticism(coindesk.com)
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by jlokier 5y ago
In Britain, specifically, one of the issues is that the law says a subset of people are to be denied banking. Banks must check; those people are not allowed to open bank accounts, or be added as users of shared accounts. That's the

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