jrockway

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by jrockway 3y ago
Imagine correspondingly that you could put a box in your house that pumped gas into your car at the rate of 1 gallon per hour. That's what electric cars owners do.
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by jrockway 3y ago
> with their career on the line Accessing the SAT system to re-read all the tickets to the reporter sounds like the easiest possible way to get fired. Obviously someone is going to review every access and be very skeptical of anyone vie
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by jrockway 3y ago
I think MCAS was one of those organizational failures. I could see myself implementing something like that. I imagine the conversation would go a little like this: "We need to replicate the pitch performance of the 737-800. These en
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by jrockway 3y ago
It's a tough balance. Postel's law is from a world before security mattered. It is incompatible with correctness. The early Internet definitely wouldn't have worked without a thick layer of "you set this flag wrong in
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by jrockway 3y ago
Yeah, I think describing a program in a data structure is fine. I honestly prefer it to any syntax that a "real" programming language has brought me. It's so consistent and you can really focus on what you care about. What
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by jrockway 3y ago
At this point, I even prefer plain JSON to YAML. What pushed me over the edge is that "deno fmt" comes with a JSON formatter, but not a YAML formatter. It's a single binary that runs in milliseconds. For YAML auto-formatti
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by jrockway 3y ago
Yeah, I'm very sad that helm won. We do OSS k8s stuff at work, and 100% of users have asked for us to make a helm chart. So we had to. It is miserable to work on; your editor can't help you because the files are named like &quo
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by jrockway 3y ago
Revenge porn is already illegal.
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by jrockway 3y ago
Is there any non-deceptive advertising?
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by jrockway 3y ago
Mortgage interest is the big one.
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by jrockway 3y ago
You can't really prevent "I stole your phone just to cause chaos". What Apple did with Find My was to remove the financial incentive to steal phones. What Apple does with this is protecting your iCloud account from someone
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by jrockway 3y ago
A random aside... I have a friend who works as support for a major credit card issuer and they did the same outsourcing. She says that pretty much every call gets escalated and the customers are just madder than they would be if someone ha
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by jrockway 3y ago
OK I'm definitely weird and that's not Google's fault. Well, maybe a little. No, the support situation is weird. You have to have a contract with some third-party company, in our case, SADA. You then send all your support
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by jrockway 3y ago
I think it was early 2005 when I wrote my first database app, and I didn't find it that hard to not mix user data with SQL. (I think I even ran my CGI script in "taint mode". Remember that!?)
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by jrockway 3y ago
Good thing my password is ROLLBACK.
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by jrockway 3y ago
Does Apple want to spend a lot of money to be #5 in the cloud after AWS, GCP, Azure, and Oracle? Who is going to switch? I feel like all of the big spenders on those platforms are there because they got the best sales pitch (best basketba
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by jrockway 3y ago
Personally I'm not doing too well on the whole diet thing. I'm well aware of the importance and make grand plans. Then I get really hungry and like eat a pound of noodles or something. I literally can't sleep if I'm h
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by jrockway 3y ago
Yeah, I mean, we're not resource constrained anymore. It's easy to not gain weight when there are literally no calories available. You also don't contribute much to the economy and you're miserable all the time. Certai
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by jrockway 3y ago
So, I don't think exercise is going to have the effect that people are looking for. I have a BMI of a little less than 30 and exercise an hour every day. Like not an aspiration to exercise, documented evidence of doing an hour every
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by jrockway 3y ago
Memory efficient, it says. So I guess they got rid of 1/3 of the fields from task_struct? Amazing.
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by jrockway 3y ago
I don't know if we need any more military scope creep. The military already has to deal with Russia v. Ukraine, Israel v. Gaza, pirates blowing up ships in the Suez canal, North Korea rattling its sabers, and an almost-inevitable inva
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by jrockway 3y ago
Why did you buy a non-smart TV with an OS?
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by jrockway 3y ago
Yeah I kind of jumped around to figure out what the meat of the argument is. I didn't figure it out, but I do feel bad for the authors. If everything around you is consistently terrible and every waking moment is agony... it might no
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by jrockway 3y ago
I'm not really sure that Ubisoft is to blame here. Blizzard pioneered this with World of Warcraft. You never "own" the game because all the value comes from the server, and if you don't pay you can't connect to th
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by jrockway 3y ago
> If historic Broadway theaters in NYC transitioned ... We should get a "Landmarks Preservation Commission" for corporate cultures.
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by jrockway 3y ago
Speaking of TGIF, the day it moved to Thursday is where I start my "beginning of the end" counter.
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by jrockway 3y ago
Interesting! I always try to guess how these things work before I read the article. My imaginary design would have the kite pull a heavy weight up and as the weight moves, it rotates a generator. When the weight reaches the end of the tr
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by jrockway 3y ago
You don't need a router. I've used it on `lo` before.
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by jrockway 3y ago
This little tool is showing its age: https://gfblip.appspot.com/ but as you walk around you'll probably notice that you aren't getting any packets through to the Internet at all. That's why your video drops
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by jrockway 3y ago
Yup, I did. I had that thought like, wait, can that big a ship fit through the Panama canal? The answer is... no ;)

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