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by jzl 3y ago
This topic has pretty much been the headlining crisis in SF news for the last 20 years. (Well, along with a bunch of other equally dire problems.) There’s even an award-winning independent film about the topic (a fictional drama) from 2019
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by jzl 3y ago
Ahh wow, thanks. Indeed, I do use 1.1.1.1.
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by jzl 3y ago
I can never get past the endless captchas on this site.
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by jzl 3y ago
Paywalled, but there’s a great Radiolab episode about this: https://radiolab.org/podcast/corpse-demon
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by jzl 3y ago
Can we all agree that the hacking/coding session in The Social Network was actually pretty darn good?
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by jzl 3y ago
Yeah, that’s exactly what the reporter was trying to get him to admit. He says so basically, but Dara refuses to admit it.
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by jzl 3y ago
Beat me to it. This is a superb article and I highly recommend that everyone read it in full.
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by jzl 3y ago
Why else do you think they’re fighting tooth and nail to preserve their 30% App Store cut?
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by jzl 3y ago
MIT used it extensively for most of the campus file system for years. Does anyone know if they still do?
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by jzl 3y ago
Not just the House. The Senate is de facto gerrymandered as well. Two senators for 700k in Wyoming vs 40M in California.
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by jzl 3y ago
CA and NY are passing tons of legislation to fight climate change. They are 100% leading the charge.
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by jzl 3y ago
The depiction of Randi in the piece was frustrating.
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by jzl 3y ago
I've never used any of the fancy features of Evernote (web clipping, OCR, etc), but I have a lot of notes still left in it. I'm gradually moving them all over to google docs finally. The main advances in recent years for google do
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by jzl 4y ago
Hahah, this is great. Never knew about the general topic of dummy pronouns. Hey, it looks like even linguists don’t all agree. From the wiki: Some linguists such as D. L. Bolinger go even further, claiming that the "weather it" s
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by jzl 4y ago
Post title reminds me of the following head scratcher I read somewhere once: What does “it” refer to in the question “What time is it?” Cue an hours-long conversation about philosophy and language.
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by jzl 4y ago
I’ll check this one out, thanks. You might enjoy “From Eternity To Here” by Sean Carroll, which is a pretty deep exploration of similar topics.
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by jzl 4y ago
To each their own, but I thought this book was at best just ok. Had some neat parts but overall I didn’t get very into it. To anyone reading this comment, it’s from 2006 btw, not that the OP specified new books in 2022.
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by jzl 4y ago
The most common solution to this on Reddit is to have multiple accounts. Most people have multiple accounts of their own volition because they don’t want their post and comment history in some communities to be browsable via posts and comme
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by jzl 4y ago
Noticed that too. Nice. He probably registers on nearly every tech related website to save his username at the very least.
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by jzl 4y ago
Neither the article nor any responses I see have mention the fact that Apple updated a billion live iPhones to APFS in 10.3 and there was nary a peep. Certainly that’s a testament to its stability. Anyway, the real test would have been to t
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by jzl 4y ago
I blame all typos nowadays on the sorry state of autocorrect on phones. Nine out ten “typos” from me are bad autocorrects that I missed.
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by jzl 4y ago
Ah yes, you see it’s really quite simple. You start with the file “twitter.rb” and just start following the function calls from there.
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by jzl 4y ago
Twitter has been publishing about their architecture and all the updates to it for years and years, and given countless presentations on it. https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/
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by jzl 4y ago
It’s bad planning because 64-bit time stamps were supposed to provide coverage for “22 times the expected lifetime of the universe”, but by being the only OS to use those 64 bits to count nanoseconds, they only bought a couple more bits ove
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by jzl 4y ago
We’re only about 60-70 years into the age of computing and have no idea how long legacy software systems will truly last. Also imagine uses cases like exploratory or orbiting spacecraft which might have useful shelf lives into the triple di
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by jzl 4y ago
I was surprised to learn that Linux has a “2262 problem” because of 64-bit time being used to store nanoseconds rather than seconds. That seems like a huge problem without an easy solution either. Yes there are almost 250 years to fix it bu
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by jzl 4y ago
One of the most mind-blowing images on Wikipedia is this one of the first ever Ferris Wheel from the Chicago World's Fair in 1893: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Chicago-... Not
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by jzl 4y ago
Shouldn’t a lending pool have safeguards against a single borrower taking out too much? Maybe lending pools will need to start adding such safeguards now. Recent tweet about this: https://twitter.com/cryptadamist/status
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by jzl 4y ago
Doesn't help that a few thousand Porsches on the way to the US sunk to the bottom of the ocean a few months ago. https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a39139830/salvage-oper...
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by jzl 4y ago
If you pay to get through the paywall, you get what is shown in the search results.

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