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by john-shaffer 6y ago
I highly recommend "Probability Theory" by E.T. Jaynes. Don't be fooled by the generic title - the book is my Bible for reasoning with uncertainty. > In my opinion, this book is a required read for anyone who wishes to u
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
We've had decades of exclusivity deals for one console or another. Those actually prevented people from playing the games without shelling out for an extra console. Total War: Troy is exclusive to Epic Games Store for one year before i
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
Linux gaming is actually really solid now thanks to Lutris, DXVK, WINE, Steam, etc. Lutris especially makes it all work smoothly, and apparently it's Linux-only. Could Mac have similar gaming support if it were less hostile to OSS?
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
Which powerful, privileged people should get to decide what we are allowed to hear about? When the power is inevitably abused, how can we address that abuse when we may not be allowed to know about it? Is it even necessary for free speech t
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
I don't watch Fox News, but even I know that Fox invites Democrats on to talk about their opinions. Here is an interview where a BLM leader rants for 5 minutes: https://youtu.be/FTjBJiXalHU?t=59
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
Apple will ban them if they do that. You're not allowed to link to or even mention alternative payment methods. You can't even point out that the price is 43% higher to cover Apple's cut.
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
This is true, but I would hope that readers here know enough to at least keep WordPress up-to-date. Most attacks target old exploits. There are millions of small WordPress sites that may never get hacked if they stay updated. If you become
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
It's often a requirement that non-devs be able to edit the website. WordPress is okay if you have a site that you don't really care about and isn't worth hacking, or if you can afford to pay Wordfence $99/mo and take the
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
Epic had a lawsuit and an advertisement already prepared. They were not bluffing, and they were very confident that Apple would "call" them.
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
I agree that spamdexing is a huge problem, but could the rise of rel="nofollow" contribute just as much? The vast majority of user-generated content is marked as nofollow, but this is largely the same type of content that made ear
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
I'm not sure if this will work. Google results are absolutely horrible for me, but not for my brother. It may be because they don't have a profile on me, but they have years of data on him. Using a proxy search engine may result i
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
> I thought we are trying to stop hate for characteristics someone has no control over (sex, sexuality, race, gender, disability, nationality). Some of use are, but we seem to be losing. > Shouldn't someone be judged on their ch
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
How are landlords not a minority? Are 50% of people landlords? (Asking seriously - I don't understand what definition of minority is being used here.)
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
He could just use AWS.
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
KeePassXC asks for permission to share each credential with the browser, with a "Remember" checkbox. You can have convenience for your unimportant logins while keeping your sensitive credentials fully secure.
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
> Adam Smith... was hence a strong supporter of Labour Unions. Do you have a source for this? I can't find anything but SEO junk.
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
You asked "Put another way, are there many people devoting their entire working lives to OSS with no other compensation or resources, essentially going bankrupt to write OSS?" He answered, "I wound up nearly going into debt
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
There are lots of random downvotes for no real reason. Sometimes perfectly ordinary posts are dead. I try to upvote gray posts if they're not worthless. That said, my take (and that of siblings) is that I'm much better off buildin
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
There are massive differences in how much of a problem this is across different platforms. With Clojure, I can think of 2 times ever when a dependency caused an issue. It was extremely obvious since the issue was "won't compile&qu
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
> Why people in US think that working a lot makes you rich, when the opposite is true? Because many of us know people that worked their ass off and became wealthy. Does that not happen in Europe?
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
I've never thought about it before, but I've consistently used "image" ever since I learned about the <img> tag as a kid. It's very interesting that you can segment groups by which word they use.
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
That's because he has much more detailed knowledge of Android's backward compat story than he does of Windows's.
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
> [Google] contracted with a company called Bitnami to create a bunch of “click to deploy” solutions, or perhaps I should write “solutions”, because they don’t solve a fucking thing. They’re just there as checkboxes, as marketing filler,
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
This is a completely useless discussion if you're going to assume that code depends on "very weird edge cases" with no idea of what the code actually does.
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
While life in prison remains theoretically possible, your link makes it seem that it will most likely never happen: > On July 10, 2009, Chadwick was ordered released from prison by Delaware County Judge Joseph Cronin, who determined his
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
> > Have fun debugging code that worked perfectly well for years and now produces unpredictable results. > This describes my everyday experience with any language or codebase. That is horrifying. That should absolutely not be norma
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
You're talking about hypothetical code, but I am talking about actual code that worked fine but no longer works after an upgrade. Perhaps it was poorly written, but it was not buggy. I can't think of a single time that I've s
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
I've had the exact opposite experience. It's unusual for an upgrade to not break something. There are dozens of breaking changes in this release alone: https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/96c7d42a3ca
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
Such a proxy would be a completely different beast than affirmative action. Affirmative action means that uber-rich minorities are helped more than dirt poor Asians/whites. I don't think that any race-neutral proxy could ever appr
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by john-shaffer 6y ago
That's unlikely to happen simply because it might actually work. Many political figures want people to feel oppressed. If people's circumstances were improved enough (or their perception changed enough) that they no longer felt op

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