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by jrmg 4y ago
Does the latency of video conferencing feel more annoying to Japanese speakers? I know that in English, it’s most noticeable when waiting for potential replies or when trying to interject. It seems like it could really mess with aizuchi tim
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by jrmg 4y ago
Lots of comments here from people who haven’t read the article and don’t know about the scalper-eliminating on-demand pricing it’s actually about. Or that it addresses supply-and-demand near the end with some interesting comments on Garth B
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by jrmg 4y ago
You’re being downvoted and all you’ve done is state fact! Are _margins_ increasing (I don’t know) - because that would be the required condition to conclude nefariousness.
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by jrmg 4y ago
I think a lot of people have genuinely just forgotten what they liked about office-based work. We returned to the office part-time recently, and the sentiment of ‘I’d forgotten how great it was just seeing everyone in person!’ is often expr
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by jrmg 4y ago
I love that this is a blog post and not a video. I can read in my own time, not disturb others around me, and really peer at the pictures without having to pause at the exact correct moment.
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by jrmg 4y ago
I think it’s the latter. Like, people (perhaps justifiable for non-technical users) expect it to do the impossible, like hide your IP address from sites you visit, or DNS queries from your DNS provider. And not even just from them, but from
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by jrmg 4y ago
Thanks - great explanation. Smart contracts on blockchain scare me, because I just don’t think humans are capable of writing (or auditing!) perfect code.
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by jrmg 4y ago
I can’t be the only one that doesn’t understand what any of this means. Can someone ELI5? Or, ELI am a software engineer with no web3 knowledge, at least?
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by jrmg 4y ago
Did they give you any explanation as to what happened, or why they chose to review the block (probably because of this attention…)? I’m not sure how to ask this in an answerable way, but did they ask you not to talk about what happened and&
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by jrmg 4y ago
This is almost ‘mainstream’ news at this point - it was discussed in a recent This American Life episode: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/770/my-lying-eyes
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by jrmg 4y ago
A pint in the USA is 16 fluid ounces. In the UK (in the ‘imperial’ system) it is 20. [Technically the fluid ounce is also different in the two systems, but not enough to matter at this scale.] Some US bars will serve imperial pints on reque
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by jrmg 4y ago
Or it’s an elephant powder, and they just think that it’s doing something. What are the symptoms of an ‘unclean’ Mac? It should be possible to say with some exactness what’s causing them with the use of diagnostic tools like ‘top’, or just
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by jrmg 4y ago
In the 40s-50s the FBI had a radio show: https://archive.org/details/OTRR_This_Is_Your_FBI_Singles
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by jrmg 4y ago
It’s a fascinating article though!
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by jrmg 4y ago
Not after a row is filled, even if you haven’t moved on to the next row yet.
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by jrmg 4y ago
I would like to be able to undo any part of a calculation without trashing the whole row.
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by jrmg 4y ago
The acts of 9/11 should have been considered a crime, and the remaining planners and perpetrators - and those planning and training for future actions - brought to the USA and tried. That’s what a country the USA aspires to be in its b
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by jrmg 4y ago
In democratic countries, if it’s being implemented by the local authorities, you can’t really say it’s ‘without a vote being cast’. Elected representatives of the people have bought into the ideas. They’re not only allowed a choice, they’re
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by jrmg 4y ago
I'm pretty sure that's also because the number of households that get newspaper delivery now is so low, and so the density so low, that it's necessary to have a car to do it.
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by jrmg 4y ago
Format shifting: ripping a CD to play on your MP3 player, or cassette tape in the car. Time shifting: recording TV on VHS to play later.
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by jrmg 4y ago
Many (most?) things demanding my phone number as a ‘second factor’ don’t give that option, unfortunately.
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by jrmg 4y ago
This is why I’m something of a two factor authentication Luddite. I (think) I understand the benefits - but the fact that every factor is an additional single point of failure freaks me out.
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by jrmg 4y ago
All the answers here boil down to “you’re right, it’s complicated, so a normal person will just completely lose access”.
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by jrmg 4y ago
My MacBook ten years ago quickly developed a very obvious, when off, imprint of the key shapes on its screen.
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by jrmg 4y ago
The reason (or a reason, at least) we have poor implementations, though, is that the protocol stack is so incredibly complicated.
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by jrmg 4y ago
Ah. Quite. I not only misunderstood that, I fell into the trap you’re complaining about, read your comment too fast, and associated ‘crypto’ with ‘cryptocurrencies’. Related, and perhaps to salvage something productive from my confusion: I
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by jrmg 4y ago
‘Byzantine’ is good now?
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by jrmg 4y ago
Yeah - I just set up Gentoo for the first time, and the wiki is _excellent_. I had this preconception that Gentoo was ‘complicated’, but the excellent documentation has made everything easy (and I’m coming round to the opinion that Gentoo i
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by jrmg 4y ago
I think an entire week’s worth also seems high. But, yeah, on the whole you’ve convinced me. This does seem like a ludicrously inefficient form of energy storage.
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by jrmg 4y ago
I’m questioning the amount (which is what the whole argument about this being impractical is based on). Do you really need to have a store of 11% of the city’s entire yearly energy usage? Like, 5 (almost 6!) entire weeks of energy? That see

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