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by jwalton 6y ago
I’m not American, so please excuse if this is an ignorant question - didn’t Lincoln abolish slavery? What did he do to get his name taken off of schools?
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by jwalton 6y ago
> Every time we extract a chunk of code from a larger function into a smaller more encapsulated one, the code becomes just a little bit harder to follow. I, in most cases, disagree with this. If this were true, I suspect the best and eas
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by jwalton 6y ago
I have a friend who dropped a turbocharged engine out of an old 80s BMW into an RX-8. He ended up having to cut a hole in the firewall and completely redesigning the rack and pinion because the old rack would have gone through the middle of
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by jwalton 6y ago
How many prolog programmers does it take to change a lightbulb? no
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by jwalton 6y ago
I was listening to a talk a while ago by one of the founders of Cirque du Soleil, and he said they ran into a problem in (iirc - this was a while ago) a European country where they were told they had to stop performing one off their acts, b
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by jwalton 6y ago
This is a bit like saying “who should we trust to be king sounds hard to figure out, but that doesn’t mean we should settle for democracy.” > Not actively engaging is as dangerous as letting a specific group decide. Having the government
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by jwalton 6y ago
In Saudi Arabia, it is illegal to be an atheist, because of the hatred you are spreading for the state religion. It seems obvious to you what is and isn’t hate speech, and it seems obvious we should be able to outlaw it as a result, but I s
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by jwalton 6y ago
There is, perhaps, a slightly different power dynamic between you as a subscriber paying $9 a month, and you as a client of a huge near monopoly who can kill your livelihood at the whim of an algorithm.
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by jwalton 6y ago
> We need a provider that is willing to host content that abides by the laws of the host country. If the host country is China, and it blocks content critical of the government? What if the host country is Nigeria, and posting gay conte
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by jwalton 6y ago
The problem with ActivityPub is that federation is a poor substitute for real decentralization. I suspect anything based on ActivityPub will end with a small number of servers dominating the landscape, who will eventually turn off Activity
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by jwalton 6y ago
Email is a decentralized system with no moderation, and it isn't particularly a platform for child pornography or hate speech. (At least, my email box isn't.) Imagine a social network where you have an identity based on a key pai
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by jwalton 6y ago
I really like the idea of Scuttlebutt. I think there are a couple of things it needs on top of what it already has; Right now, your public key is who you are, which I think is a mistake. It's easy to imagine a world where we have a &
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by jwalton 6y ago
I’m in Canada. I get paid quite well in my non-FAANG role, I have way more vacation than I’d get at any company that size. I’d probably make a little more at a FAANG role but the salaries here are not the insane salaries they are in the US,
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by jwalton 6y ago
> Were any laws broken by Twitter? Yes, but not the ones you think. The FAANG companies are basically all illegal monopolies.
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by jwalton 6y ago
Correlation is definitely not evidence for causation. Also, if you reverse the cause and effect, what analysis do you get? When BTC prices are in the rise, it’s because people are putting money into crypto currencies. When people are puttin
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by jwalton 6y ago
A little further on, the article calls them apple’s “sleep” headsets, which I assume is meant to be sleek. Not exactly quality proof checking.
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This is a cool idea. It would be nice to be able to blacklist some tabs though. For example, I wouldn’t want the text of my banks website easily readable by any random process.
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Been a while since there was an update to this project...
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by jwalton 6y ago
This was in response to this: https://chromeisbad.com/
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by jwalton 6y ago
I built something like this a while ago, but mine is not nearly as nice. I etched an interlaced finger pattern on a big copper clad board, then put a tented piece of metal overtop of that, then some lexan sheets with a graphic inbetween th
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by jwalton 6y ago
I'm with you on that one. I'd say, for example, "We went to a lovely little park", rather than "a little lovely park." The second sounds wrong for some reason.
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by jwalton 6y ago
And you need to be in America.
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by jwalton 6y ago
Yeah, I 100% agree. I heard an interview with Daniel Craig once where he said that they couldn't make Casion Royale as fun and playful as the originals, because of "Austin Powers". He said they would have had to walk a de
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by jwalton 6y ago
> `/ip=([\d.]*)\n/` 1. This is going to break if your clients are using IPv6. 2. IP addresses are generally considered PII under GDPR[0], but IANAL and I don't know what that means as far as compliance. [0]( https:/&#
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by jwalton 6y ago
> There is no such thing as "more" or "less" accent from a purely linguistic point of view. Pretty sure what the parent meant by "the more of an accent a person has" was "the more a person's accent
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> mostly thanks to the big online marketplaces. I see you've never tried to shop online outside of the US. Let's take an example; my daughter has an Easy Bake Oven - it's a little plastic oven with essentially a 100W heate
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by jwalton 6y ago
I think what OP is suggesting isn't so much that Pis will use M1 chips, more that right now typically many applications are unavailable as prebuikt binaries for arm64, and maybe having more arm processors in the wild will make that sit
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by jwalton 6y ago
Twice now I've had, for reasons I can't explain, a folder on my Mac somehow gets renamed from "backgrounds" to "Backgrounds", and then syncthing complains it can't sync the folder for a day or two because
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by jwalton 6y ago
ASN.1 is indeed a spec. You'd need to find a library to use it, and there are more in C than in whatever fancy modern language you're probably using. But, there are lots to choose from. There's multiple canonical wire encod
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by jwalton 6y ago
I gather the protobuf/gRPC implementations are quite good for a lot of languages, but I can tell you typescript doesn't seem to be one of them. There's an etcd client for node which doesn't seem to be actively maintaine

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