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“Privacy Rights and Data Collection in a Digital Economy” by Maciej Cegłowski [pdf](banking.senate.gov)
2 points by l0b0 7y ago|0 comments
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by l0b0 7y ago
Which is why lobbying needs to be tightly regulated and the relevant numbers made public. Democracy is about equal rights, not extra rights for the rich.
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by l0b0 7y ago
Yes. Millions are already doing it. Considering how much press privacy enhancements such as ad blocking gets, and how basically nobody is discussing how their search result quality went down afterwards, it seems pretty clear what people h
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by l0b0 7y ago
People will still do illegal/subversive/socially unacceptable things and be paid for them. So a "cashless" society would generate a massive demand for alternative forms of currency. There are already plenty of those, inc
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by l0b0 7y ago
Please don't, some of us have families to feed! On a more serious note, I wonder how hard it would be to introduce even semi-realistic Newtonian physics to a voxel-based game world.
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by l0b0 7y ago
This sounds like a clear case of consultant software. The people building it won't be dogfooding the result - at most they'll be clicking around the UI on their powerful desktop machine and patting themselves on the back because
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by l0b0 7y ago
You do realize that's several logical fallacies in one? "smell about right" "spot checks suggest they're reasonable" "generally reliable in my experience"
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by l0b0 7y ago
The "source" is just a list of almost 200 publications, with no indication of which numbers come from where. So it's effectively unsourced. That means it's either bullshit, terrible reporting, or both, and there's n
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by l0b0 7y ago
Re. linting, I'd highly recommend Black with whatever line length you want - it'll reliably reformat your code, and once you lose the urge to reformat while typing it's fantastic. It's like deleting a bunch of useless
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by l0b0 7y ago
Definitely - I've been doing this for about five years with all my machines. A rough overview of the setup: - A public repository with a Nix configuration file: https://gitlab.com/victor-engmark/root . This does th
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Docker Hub Is Down(dockerheart.com)
8 points by l0b0 7y ago|1 comments
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by l0b0 7y ago
High-level software development is basically building Jenga towers with thousands of (let's be real) mostly not very good parts. Hands up: how many developers think 100% code coverage is the absolute minimum? Then consider that you c
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by l0b0 7y ago
I'm not proud of it, but I worked on SharePoint at CERN IT. Some examples of how dysfunctional it was: - When asking about version control I was told that if I really wanted to use it I could have Visual SourceSafe 6.0 or something fro
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by l0b0 7y ago
Is there a dark side to this? A lot of the "not invented here" and chasing the latest tech could be caused by workplaces not realizing that there are less breaking ways to learn new things. Agile is great at this, by encouraging s
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by l0b0 7y ago
I don't believe for a second that actual 10x developers behave this way, because there's nothing 10x about this behaviour. A real 10x developer would be someone who enables their fellow team members to be 2x developers. Or who c
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by l0b0 7y ago
My first though was the same as the snarky sibling comment, but after reading TFA I realized these are all features I've used in other languages and detest. The walrus operator an complex string formatting are both character-pinching
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by l0b0 7y ago
It's sad how every such article is flooded with excuses basically amounting to "it's not identical to the our situation in every single particular, so it couldn't possibly work for us." The world would be a much bet
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Tor Browser Developers signing key spammed(github.com)
1 points by l0b0 7y ago|0 comments
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by l0b0 7y ago
Entire screen blocked by sign-up form? Closed so fast bits were flying off.
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by l0b0 7y ago
No, what happened was that a lot of people said "web 2.0!", a bunch of other people said "AJAX!", and only the AJAX thing actually happened. Web 2.0 meant the semantic web, not the asynchronously loaded web.
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by l0b0 7y ago
The current web isn't anything like Web 2.0. Web 2.0 never happened, except in tiny isolated pockets. It's a terrible name anyway - it indicates a natural progression (which never happened), a clear improvement (which didn't
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by l0b0 7y ago
Not disputing these findings, but there are so many "X is worse than Y" reports these days I feel like reporters are playing rock/paper/scissors, each one with different rocks, papers and scissors.
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by l0b0 7y ago
> Once I had a robust mental model of the problem and its solution, writing code for it just felt like a perfunctory task. Based on every piece of software ever it sounds like OP just doesn't appreciate just how deep the rabbit hole
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by l0b0 7y ago
Should be https://www.alwaysownyourplatform.com/
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by l0b0 7y ago
Being asked to "improve" a piece of internal software with not a single hint of what actually needed doing. After two meetings where nothing more concrete than "make it better" came up, I quietly continued working on act
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by l0b0 7y ago
This is a part of something which could become a very powerful pattern: community-wide templates which include many best practices in a single commit: - Pre-commit hooks for linting/formatting and unit tests. - Basic CI pipeline config
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by l0b0 7y ago
This is a fantastic idea, except I would print some real code rather than a toy project. Unlike natural languages there's no way you'll be able to understand a piece of non-trivial code deeply without also being able to write it.
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by l0b0 7y ago
Sounds like misspelling "139" as "-1E9" could be profitable...
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by l0b0 7y ago
As a fellow Awesome WM user my "solution" to this is two Git repos - one to set up the system using Puppet, and one with user configuration such as rc.lua. I've got to basically the same list as OP plus * low power warnings f
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by l0b0 7y ago
Something similar to the displacement happened with birds during vacation recently. I was just relaxing on a porch, and one by one groups of birds would occupy the lawn for a while. It must've been four or five different species, in gr

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