krisrm

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by krisrm 7y ago
"Alberta next door gets its power largely from coal" If the government is to be believed, not by 2030 they won't: https://www.alberta.ca/climate-coal-electricity.aspx
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by krisrm 7y ago
"What is out there that I could do that would make me excited waking up every day for the next 45 years that could also earn me enough money to cover my expenses?" This isn't to diminish what the author says - I'm glad h
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by krisrm 7y ago
I like the intention, and I hope to see more of this... but it's kind of hard to imagine that the end goal here is "Responsibility", when the business goal is "how many ads can we sell?"
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by krisrm 7y ago
Mildly off-topic: is "earthed" a European-ism? I've only ever heard "grounded" until reading through this article and thread.
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by krisrm 8y ago
I'm deploying a simple SPA I wrote as a sole developer for a client later this week, and the clients have been thrilled with it so far. I've written less code than in other traditional webapps, the app is responsive and works well
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by krisrm 8y ago
Great article. I never understand why "financial advisors", when making pitches for consumer frugality, invent a wildly optimistic interest rate (12%?!) and say things like "you could have had $X million dollars, IF ONLY. Wel
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by krisrm 8y ago
A self administered course with no mention of MCAS . How deep does the rabbit hole of bad decisions go here? If the MCAS system was a difference between the two models (737 vs 737 Max), why wouldn't it show up in a transition course a
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by krisrm 8y ago
There's no reason why we can't do both at the same time. Companies, especially tech behemoths like Facebook, should be held accountable for egregious security oversights like this.
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by krisrm 8y ago
Do you have any more details on how this technology is supposed to classify drowsiness?
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by krisrm 8y ago
Storing passwords in plain text is beyond a simple slap-on-the-wrist mistake, and it has real security implications.
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by krisrm 8y ago
I guess that's true, yeah. Will be interesting to see if there are fines from the EU.
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by krisrm 8y ago
Posted this on the other thread from Facebook, but at what point do we start imposing strict fines on companies that are found to have done this? Granted, I guess we wouldn't be hearing about this instance at all if there was to be som
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by krisrm 8y ago
At what point do we start imposing strict fines on companies that are found to have done this? Granted, I guess we wouldn't be hearing about this instance at all if there was to be some sort of fine attached - it would have just been s
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by krisrm 8y ago
I agree with this sentiment. I work primarily in web dev, and the stacks are already so sprawling with different technologies... config file generation debugging just sounds like unnecessary hassle. Had not heard of protobuffers before thou
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by krisrm 8y ago
I think the constant advertising is a different kind of threat than being stalked by a chatroom random on AIM, though. And I can't really say which is "worse". The advertizing is legitimized and normalized by the entire syste
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by krisrm 8y ago
Maybe I'm just being jaded, and I'm certainly not a researcher or statistician, but I don't see how removing "statistical significance" from scientific nomenclature is going to prevent lazy readers (or science repor
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by krisrm 8y ago
I get that this is snark, and I don't disagree with your point entirely (I recall some of the discussions after VW was found to be gaming emissions tests... there were definitely software engineers that knew exactly the consequences of
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by krisrm 8y ago
I'd assume it's just aereosolized vegetable oil... it is a bit of a weird question so maybe the waitress didn't understand? I haven't actually been to one before... sounds like it'd be fun to try once, but not somew
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by krisrm 8y ago
Noticed the same thing. I have a deep seated distrust for "point" cards. I guess I don't really fly much either, so airmiles are useless towards me. I just don't see the benefit of acquiring points in a corporation'
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by krisrm 15y ago
I can see why the whole Metro UI thing is gonna make a bunch of long-time Windows users sad. Microsoft knew that.However, I feel like they're solving much bigger problems with Metro - namely, the huge gap that currently sits between tablet/