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by jwalton 3y ago
Just imagine a trial where Google is trying to explain to a jury of less-than-tech-literate-folk that they claim they don’t track you, and they don’t track you, but they do track you.
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by jwalton 3y ago
War and Peace is 3mb as uncompressed plaintext[1]. 1mb a day is a lot. 1: https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/2600
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by jwalton 3y ago
> Sure enough, The Software Alliance—a Washington, D.C. anti-piracy organization—claimed digital piracy declined by 37 percent in 2017. Since The Software Aliance only estimates piracy of PC software, this seems like a weird source to qu
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by jwalton 3y ago
In North America a kettle maxes out at 1500W, because we have 120V power and a standard circuit has 15A breaker (and especially older breakers are only rated for 80% continuous load). The oven peaks at 3kW, but once it reaches the set tempe
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by jwalton 3y ago
It doesn’t even use 3kWh per hour, since a stove’s peak usage is 3kW, and its average is much lower than this. Their price they give for running an oven is much lower than 3kW continuous too. Their table at the bottom also appears to show
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by jwalton 3y ago
Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38746664
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by jwalton 3y ago
What’s the cost of removing all this NOX from the atmosphere and safely disposing of it? Seems like they should have paid that plus a punitive fine.
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by jwalton 3y ago
On the one hand, you’d think the copy would just have a prototype that points to the same as the original’s prototype, and that would make this all work out. I’m surprised that’s not what happens since in 99% of cases it would be fine. On
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by jwalton 3y ago
A lot of Lodash functions are implemented as combinations of other Lodash functions, so importing a single function actually imports half of Lodash under the hood: https://github.com/lodash/lodash/blob/main&#x
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by jwalton 3y ago
The ticket for murdering two people didn’t carry jail time. Why would driving without a license?
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by jwalton 3y ago
What was this guy doing while the vehicle he was supposed to be controlling ran a red light at more than twice the posted speed limit? The article is lacking on details here. If he was, say, watching a movie on his phone, then he should go
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by jwalton 3y ago
You might enjoy this: https://www.joeydevilla.com/2004/07/30/the-breakup-style-of-...
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by jwalton 3y ago
> But when there's a turn into a pedestrian crossing, and the light's red, no stop is required. If you’re turning right on a red (at least in Ontario and Quebec) it’s like a stop sign - you are required to come to a complete st
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by jwalton 3y ago
Tim Berners-Lee has been working on something very similar to what you’re proposing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_(web_decentralization_...
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by jwalton 3y ago
I am typing this sitting in my 2015 Leaf (in a parking lot), which still has 11 out of 12 segments left in the capacity meter. When I first got it (second hand) it had 155km of range on a fresh charge. Now it claims to have around 140-some
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by jwalton 3y ago
My carrier charges too much for voicemail, so if I block these calls they just go to the void.
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by jwalton 3y ago
I’m not an Apple Music subscriber. The other day I was in the car and my daughter wanted to hear a particular song, so I asked Siri to play it (since I knew it was on my phone, I didn’t think this would be a difficult thing for Siri to do)
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by jwalton 3y ago
Assuming it has no imports or requires, and no references to meta, it’s a bare JavaScript file, and whether you treat it as esm or cjs shouldn’t matter, no?
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by jwalton 3y ago
I’ve often wondered why node doesn’t do 1 in this list. It would solve 95% of the problems, I’m sure.
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by jwalton 3y ago
> The messaging company can embed the police's encryption key in the app but not have possession of the corresponding decryption key. Once three people have access to a secret, it isn’t secret anymore. Once hundreds of thousands of
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by jwalton 3y ago
My strategy was the add a pair of clear stick on bumpers to the back bottom corners of my frame (the kind you stick on cupboard doors so they close softly) to push the bottom out a little bit and straighten them out.
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by jwalton 3y ago
I’ve been using Microsoft OneNote. You don’t need an office subscription to use it, it syncs between all my devices and computers.
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by jwalton 3y ago
The real problem here is monopolies. If there were five to ten different short term rental marketplaces servicing this area, then they’d have to actually have customer service and compete with each other.
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by jwalton 3y ago
By way of counter argument, I would point out that in almost any country on earth where free speech is not enshrined as it is in western democracies, minorities fare far worse. I don’t want free speech to help justify oppression, I want fr
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by jwalton 3y ago
What it really means is that you accidentally went to www.reddit.com, and you should have gone to old.reddit.com.
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Mischievous NPM Publications(blog.phylum.io)
78 points by jwalton 3y ago|25 comments
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by jwalton 3y ago
I also argued strongly against this proposal. To me the biggest problem with private members, as it was implemented, is that is takes classes from “syntactic sugar on top of prototype inheritance” to something very different than that. It
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The Rust Book (Abridged)(jasonwalton.ca)
3 points by jwalton 3y ago|0 comments
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by jwalton 3y ago
> Who gets to decide what is "potential evidence"? Ultimately, the courts do, but if something is possibly related you’re supposed to preserve it. > turning the chat history off doesn't really destroy anything IANAL but
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by jwalton 4y ago
It’s fairly easy to take a jocon apart, and the joysticks are pretty cheap on Amazon. I’ve started taking mine apart and fixing them myself when they start to drift. It’s a pain, but it’s less painful than shipping them off to Nintendo.

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