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by lazulicurio 5y ago
It's due to the "unattended upgrades" feature. You can blacklist FF from getting those upgrades with a change to /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades. Add "firefox" to the "Unattended-U
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by lazulicurio 5y ago
While that is true for certain denominations, it is most definitely not universal[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_views_on_Hell
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by lazulicurio 5y ago
My point wasn't so much that Christianity is a solution, but rather that despite how widespread Christianity became since its founding, one of it's core messages hasn't culturally sunk in.
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by lazulicurio 5y ago
FWIW I think that this attitude is at the core of issues such as mass shootings and police violence. That I think it's largely cultural is also why I'm not convinced that gun restrictions will be super-effective at combating it. I
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by lazulicurio 5y ago
New plan: 1in = 2.5cm 1ft = 3dm 1yd = 9dm 1mi = 16092dm I'm not sure whether it would be more or less likely than eliminating imperial units entirely :/ (edit: This wasn't entirely snark. For reference: the circumference of t
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
You could do something similar to how FF implemented their new cookie isolation. Make the key (original domain ^ final CNAME). Which probably would still have issues, but I think it's worth looking into.
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
> For a concrete example, there was a recent initiative in my state (California Prop 16) which was reasonably unpopular and ended up losing by a 14 point margin. But most journalists strongly favored it, and reported from that perspectiv
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
> It’s the same reason why judges and courts strive to avoid the perception of substantive bias. I see the point that you're trying to make, but I'll also turn it on it's head: when a judge makes a ruling does that mean th
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
Yes and no. If you read other pieces of his, he goes into more detail about how there's a difference between objectivity and partisan neutrality. He calls partisan neutrality the "view from nowhere"---a framing device that di
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
There's plenty to criticize about both the modern media landscape and modern "wokeness", but this piece seems more cultural grievance than productive critique. Personally, when it comes to political journalism, one of my favo
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
A very good article. A section that really spoke to me: > Prior to the rise of the “intellectual property” as an umbrella term, the different legal regimes it refers to were customarily referred to by their individual names. When you wer
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
In a related vein, is there any sort of theoretical transform that can be used to convert cyclic dependencies into a tree? Similar to how lambda lifting eliminates free variables. (Other than the obvious one of treating the entire cycle as
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
> I also think linting rules are important, not for what they actually do, but just to get everyone to stfu about variations in code style that dont matter and arguing about more important things. Agree. I don't think that there&#x2
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
To me, I think that the core of his criticisms are still valid, but it seems like he's adopted an accelerationist's take on politics. That it's possible to provoke the security state to self-destruction. Which I feel is, at b
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
Reading this, I'm reminded in many (not good) ways of the .NET build system. Where trivial projects look simple, but once you pull back the curtains there are horrors to behold.
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
This exact issue is actually what prompted me to switch to Kubuntu/KDE. It's still not perfect out of the box, but it's matched my expectations way better than recent versions of GNOME have.
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
> Not sure how many people are still stuck with flash My mom is a school teachers and a lot of the web materials provided for their curriculum are still flash-based. Although the publishers have started to transition, the older flash app
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
According to this[1] Twitter thread, it's a matter of convenience outweighing security. Phones keep the encryption keys used for most apps in memory so the apps can do background work while the phone is locked. [1] https://t
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
To be slightly more accurate, the public relief got stuffed into the rear end of an end-of-year omnibus spending bill. The CASE act provisions also happened to be stuffed into the bill, along with many other things. The resulting bill was o
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
To quote myself: > Although the economy is a complex system and it's dangerous to try to over-simplify, my personal opinion is that there are two main and intertwined causes: 1) the cost to participate in the US court system. 2) the
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
> Therefore, in a universal "loser pays" system, it's even riskier for a poor (or even middle-class) person to sue a company given that they could be responsible for bankruptcy-level legal fees if they lose. The simple[1]
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
It will, but looking at the SQL Server implementation[1] it looks like they're already aware of that. [1] https://github.com/rmalayter/ulid-mssql
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
I don't consider being aware of your data distribution to be "hacking the engine". It's part of a good DBA's job. For any data set of appreciable size you can't treat the data as a black box. Even if you'r
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
I "independently invented" ULIDs for a past work project. Not a criticism, but something to be aware of, is that SQL Server doesn't sort the uniqueidentifier data type as one would expect. Instead of being ordered by bytes 0-
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
>> But fintech doesn't take deposits. The one central problem with banking is gone. > All banking regulations are due solely to the fact that banks take deposits? There is no other reason one could imagine for why banks, FinTe
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
Let's just say that I find that survey less than convincing. The wording of the question almost certainly calls to mind bills with tacked-on “convenience” fees that serve to enrich companies more than provide convenience to the consume
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
I don't quite follow. Was that supposed to be a reply to the parent instead of me?
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
> Separating security patches from feature updates is better but doesn't 100% guarantee there are no data-losing bugs. It's a nice thought to separate "security" and "feature" updates, but I'm not sure
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
> that doesn't mean that we invented inflation on purpose as some kind of social engineering tool. We didn't invent inflation, but we absolutely do set a target inflation rate as a social engineering tool. And the reason that d
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by lazulicurio 6y ago
> So now we should be penalizing unproductive assets? When did we all decide that was ok? We already do that---it's called inflation. And the justification used by economists is that the economy will collapse without inflation to in

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