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by jrockway 3y ago
I guess I don't have enough context to really understand this. It takes 1.5 hours to calculate what dependencies Home Assistant needs? Wouldn't you normally amortize that out for each top-level dependency you add to the project
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by jrockway 3y ago
I think idle CPUs still exist, people are just afraid to share them now. For example, for lowest latency you want your application servers close to your end users. Your end users probably all go to bed at about the same time and wake up a
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by jrockway 3y ago
According to the linked executive summary, there are no tests for this condition, so the Department of Agriculture won't be testing for anything. The big worry is what happens when unicorns start eating this stuff.
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by jrockway 3y ago
The problem is then the reputation to humans reviewing links. A legitimate company sending from legitimate-company-transactional-emails.com looks exactly like a phishing scam sending from legitimate-company-scam-emails.com. This can be mi
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by jrockway 3y ago
yup, meant to say "a factor of 2".
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by jrockway 3y ago
I mean, some CI system should be checking that "if_code_compiles()" blocks compile somewhere. It should be an error until the CI system has that header and can test both variants. People are really quick to add optionality like t
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by jrockway 3y ago
I go into the duvet cover with the duvet. Hold the two upper corners, put the duvet cover over your head, attach each corner of the duvet to the corresponding corner in the duvet cover (I buy ones with strings for this purpose). Then extr
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by jrockway 3y ago
Yeah, it's tough to figure out who was harmed here. "Can we install an SSL MITM attack on your device?" "Sure, for money!" "Here's some money." I mean, this is literally every big company IT departme
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by jrockway 3y ago
Car crashes are the leading cause of death by injury in New York. It's not as safe as you think.
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by jrockway 3y ago
1 ton of fumes / 50 people is better than 0.1 ton of fumes for 1 person. The buses are being replaced over the next few years in the MTA capital plan anyway.
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by jrockway 3y ago
"Nobody drives here, there's too much traffic." is a classic backpressure quote.
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by jrockway 3y ago
Have the security guard serve food to someone once per shift. Now the minimum wage is $2.63.
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by jrockway 3y ago
gzip is really, really, really slow, so it's pretty easy to make a thing that uses gzip fast by switching to Zstandard.
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by jrockway 3y ago
I think it's all about how many clues you leave behind. If you make a HN account that you only access via Tor through a browser with Javascript turned off and stick your writing through some AI editing service, it's probably pret
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by jrockway 3y ago
I agree very much with this. Something that annoys me is how much information tar files leak. Like, you don't need to know the username or groupname of the person that originally owned the files. You don't need to copy around a
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by jrockway 3y ago
Montreal isn't the only city that failed with a too-far-away airport. Tokyo built Narita against much local opposition (they still check your ID before you're allowed inside the airport, to make sure you're not an angry loca
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by jrockway 3y ago
These are just easy pickings for Nintendo to bully. When they go after Twitch is when the real case law will be made. I honestly think game streaming is a grey area that could easily be made illegal by the wrong company getting sued for it
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by jrockway 3y ago
How come Satoshi Nakamoto can remain anonymous in spite of his worth in the billions of dollars, but emulator developers, worth almost nothing, can't hide from Nintendo? Opsec mistakes, or just no opsec at all?
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by jrockway 3y ago
I spent a half a day or so relatively recently trying to build our CI base image with Nix (at the recommendation of our infra team), but it was huge, and some stuff didn't work because of linking issues. One issue that really bugged me
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by jrockway 3y ago
Hopefully more cities pass laws like this. Minneapolis must be enjoying a reduction in traffic congestion as people move onto public transit.
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by jrockway 3y ago
TikTok gets people's ideas in front of other people. That's a printing press.
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by jrockway 3y ago
An AI company going for investment banks as customers, eh? Pretty smart idea!
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by jrockway 3y ago
Why WASM and not gVisor, which runs any program compiled to your architecture with similar isolation from the host kernel?
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by jrockway 3y ago
The law in the US is that you can't make radio transmissions on TV / AM / FM frequencies without a license, because left unchecked, everyone doing what they want would make radio useless for everyone. The government has a cl
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by jrockway 3y ago
"I'm going to smash all the printing presses because people are reading dumb books" is exactly why the first amendment exists.
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by jrockway 3y ago
Is international influence something that should be stopped? Like, I should check the citizenship of someone before I listen to their ideas? It just doesn't make sense to me. If someone tells me nonsense I can ignore the nonsense.
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by jrockway 3y ago
I don't think we should "lowest common denominator" to oppressive regimes. Our Constitution says "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridgin
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by jrockway 3y ago
I mean, landlords are going to pass on their costs directly to tenants. If you raise property taxes, then rents simply go up. None of these tax increases are going to magically make a 20% down payment appear in someone's bank account
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by jrockway 3y ago
If I were a politician using this against an opponent, I'd write the following press release: Websites in the range 54.239.0.0/8 often host problematic content. My opponent visited several addresses in this range overnight and hi
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by jrockway 3y ago
In addition to what's mentioned in the comments, timing attacks are also possible. If you see what time every packet is sent and received, then you can correlate streams with each other. This is how they figure out who is visiting wh

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