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by landonxjames 5y ago
The term I have seen used in some more vitriolic corners of the internet is "carnist"
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by landonxjames 5y ago
I believe that is provided by the Ion Schema Language https://amzn.github.io/ion-schema/docs/spec.html
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by landonxjames 5y ago
There was a long article in Wired yesterday about Amazon's retail side privacy failures https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-failed-to-protect-your-da...
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by landonxjames 5y ago
"We have never shared two threads on a core between EC2 instances" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ4H6XO-iao&t=2485s Interesting that AWS has been mitigating for side channel attacks since before they beca
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by landonxjames 5y ago
Is “They did a CT scan on a pumpkin” the next evolution of “They did surgery on a grape”[0]? [0] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/they-did-surgery-on-a-grape
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by landonxjames 5y ago
Peter F. Hamilton’s Commonwealth series[0] and Vernor Vinge’s Zones of Thought[1] both scratch a similar itch to Stephenson novels for me [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Saga [1] https://en.
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by landonxjames 5y ago
I came across a very thorough analysis of the Paul Saladino episode [0] the other day when I was researching him after a friend recommended his book. Seemed like he was cherry picking evidence pretty hard and that the majority of the eviden
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Olbers' Paradox(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by landonxjames 5y ago|0 comments
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by landonxjames 5y ago
Deno (a Node-like runtime by the original author of Node) has a security model kind of like this [0]. Its unfortunately not as granular as I think it should be (only operates on the module level and not individual dependencies), but its a s
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by landonxjames 5y ago
I was worried that my Eero routers were going to get roped into this, but thankfully the CEO confirmed on Reddit[0] that there are currently no plans to involve their products in Sidewalk. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/ee
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by landonxjames 7y ago
> had I known better I'd have gone into computer science because that's where I see the most progress being made. Interestingly this is similar to what my two advisors (one from the math department and one from CS) suggested to
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by landonxjames 7y ago
The Afghanistan Papers[0] were published a few weeks ago and didn't get nearly as much traction as I hoped they would. A stunning documentation of the incompetence of America's strategy in the Middle East over the past two decades
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by landonxjames 7y ago
Hainbach, whose website is linked to so he might have created this, has a really cool youtube channel where he repurposes old engineering equipment to make music. Heres one of my favorites https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19K
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by landonxjames 7y ago
> But read the memo. Away wasn’t “clamping down on employee speech” — they were dealing with a serious PR crisis. What company in the midst of a PR crisis would not tell employees not to talk about it? I think they were pretty clearly cr
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by landonxjames 7y ago
I don't think you can just outright rule that as undesirable. Personally I strongly desire a reversal of the current rates of economic and population growth and I know many other people who do as well. Most of the opposition I see to t
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by landonxjames 7y ago
>Even though this feature came with some amount of darkness I could guess at what you mean, but don't want to be wrong. Could you elaborate on what kind of darkness you were referring to?
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Amazon Climate Pledge(sustainability.aboutamazon.com)
1 points by landonxjames 7y ago|0 comments
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by landonxjames 7y ago
This seems to be kind of a silly point. I don't think anyone would argue that predators should be held to the same moral standards as human beings.
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by landonxjames 7y ago
Not directly on topic, but I'm very interested in getting started in audio development. Any good suggestions for resources for someone with a strong math and programming background?
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by landonxjames 7y ago
Deno[0], a project from the original author of Node, will natively run TypeScript, so I'm hoping it will have some of those sorts of optimizations. [0] https://github.com/denoland/deno
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by landonxjames 7y ago
There are tons of resources out there about going zero waste and you can implement their suggestions to whatever level you desire. I think the biggest is just avoiding single use plastics in favor of buying in bulk. https://www.g
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by landonxjames 7y ago
I'd never heard of this, but wow the details[0] are pretty shocking. It was so blatant. [0] https://www.the-scientist.com/the-nutshell/merck-published-f...
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by landonxjames 7y ago
Ahh I misremembered which essay it was from. It is actually from a footnote on page 3 of this one http://www.columbia.edu/~col8/lobsterarticle.pdf
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by landonxjames 7y ago
In one of David Foster Wallace's essays[0] I read when I was younger he said: > To be a mass tourist, for me, is to become a pure late-date American: alien, ignorant, greedy for something you cannot ever have, disappointed in a way
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by landonxjames 7y ago
I'm looking for good tutorials for getting started with DSP stuff (in Rust if possible although I know that may still be too niche) if anyone has suggestions
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by landonxjames 7y ago
> My digestive system got wrecked trying to be on a mostly vegetarian diet over several years after the housing bubble popped. The gist of it is that the lectins (and other defense mechanisms in the husks) of legumes and nightshades disr
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by landonxjames 7y ago
I worked at an major insurance company that was evaluating AWS. As soon as Amazon announced they would be getting into the insurance industry[1] the project was immediately terminated. [1] https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com&#x2
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by landonxjames 7y ago
App level bluetooth permissioning is actually planned as a part of iOS 13 https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-13-preview/features/
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by landonxjames 7y ago
I tried Hákarl[1] when I was in Iceland and I do not think I have ever felt so betrayed by a food. It really destroyed my interest in trying any other aged fish dishes, but one of my friends loved it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by landonxjames 8y ago
I was recently listening to the podcast Now&Xen[0] about microtonal music and it had me thinking about the possible designs for and ergonomics of microtonal keyboards. Very interesting to see some of these potentially more flexible desi

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