lithos

16 ms·

181.
by lithos 4y ago
It can be used for cabling, though that's going to be industrial connections (like an inch or so in diameter, and connections between 400V equipment). Though those types of connections a practically babysat with inspections every year
182.
by lithos 4y ago
Is rhetoric like "an ocean of contributors whose identities and motivation are often obscure, making it hard to hold them accountable.", "Experts are worried that blind spots about the people who run open-source software make
183.
by lithos 4y ago
The article barely cares about that in the article. It's obsessed with unmasking identities of open source contributors.
184.
by lithos 4y ago
The successful have one rule, don't get caught. They got caught and get to be removed for it. Cancel culture is just an extension of that to lower classes.
185.
by lithos 4y ago
I've remade missile command in every language I've learned except COBOL (and node if you count it as distinct from Javascript). Not actually a programmer, electrical engineering (larger electrical gear for Datacenters). It's
186.
by lithos 4y ago
The US supreme court already believes it's dubious that an AI can create an original work: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.natlawreview.com/article/pa... Though has ruled that training AI on copyri
187.
by lithos 4y ago
Could take a look at ladder programming/diagrams that electrical engineers use for PLC programming. Works well enough for a lot of people there. Personally I think something technical turns to spaghetti far faster than text(from looki
188.
by lithos 4y ago
It is an absolute cash cow around three million usd a month: http://www.gridsurvey.com/ (website works it's just painfully slow). Able to run on server hardware from the early 2000s. (There are also other major sour
189.
by lithos 4y ago
Anthem would have been great if it was finished. Core movement systems were good, and theming of power armor was great.
190.
by lithos 4y ago
Honestly tomatoes gene edited with natural pesticides like caffeine (from coffee) or Caspian (from jalapeno) sounds like an amazing niche in the market. (Spicy tomato sounds good). Especially considering that the genes for both of those na
191.
by lithos 4y ago
You mean blond jokes?
192.
by lithos 5y ago
NFTs offer new paths to addiction mechanisms, related to ownership, trading, and investing (all sorts of logical fallacies and mind traps to fall into). Essentially AAA lootboxes are addictive/"juicy" enough to be illegal on
193.
by lithos 5y ago
You're lucky this person cares. If there's not an easy unsubscribe I just report it as spam, and hope enough other people do the same that the firm becomes untrusted. Pitting a corp against Google's customer support is a nice
194.
by lithos 5y ago
I agree here, it's insane the number of dependencies JS developers are willing to take on. A decent sized project will see tens of thousands of extra files added to it (even if a lot of it is noncode stuff like licensing). From an ou
195.
by lithos 5y ago
Do you still tell your kids about Santa? (Or whatever your equivalent is)
196.
by lithos 5y ago
Yep shipmate is only used against people too new to know you’re actually insulting them (in boot camp and earlier schools it’s more of a cute jest), and when someone is so fucked up that they’re not worth reading the name on their uniform.
197.
by lithos 5y ago
VR and AR solves every problem advertisers have with browsers. Browsers are: sandboxed away from the OS, are easy for users to manipulate with addons, lacking in new data streams to monetize. Meanwhile in VR land: Root/super user&#x
198.
by lithos 5y ago
The US does not always have stricter environmental policies than China. There are occasionally looser regulations like live stock cesspools not being required to be covered and installed with energy capture systems. Or cases where China i
199.
by lithos 5y ago
Can’t tell if this is sarcasm.
200.
by lithos 5y ago
Bit coin is international trade, even trading with your next door neighbor very heavily involves international partners to complete the transaction. A very heavily regulated field. While crypto involves very little real cryptography, but i
201.
by lithos 5y ago
Tipping is a semi frequently covered political topic here. Anything from corporate corruption, dumb Americans, any anecdote, and similar easy observations that don’t need you to read the article. Especially when “top comment” is on such a
202.
by lithos 5y ago
Developers are responsible for all card fees related to refunds, fraud, and scams. Some indie devs are seeing Steam cuts of 46% due to fraud purchases and refunds. The Steam store is also set up so that “the customer wins” so heavily tha
203.
by lithos 5y ago
Very publicly his flight attendant, then fired her, and then left death threats on her phone’s voicemail. Yeah he’s comfortable enough with blizzard culture to willingly make recordings.
204.
by lithos 5y ago
Trial periods and take home assignments also exclude vast swathes of society. Anyone who can’t have an uncertain job, who doesn’t have lots of extra time, is currently employed (compared to a college student getting their first job), and
205.
by lithos 5y ago
I have never seen anyone have good things to say about consumer grade printers. Even when recommending printers, it's a matter of arguing why something is less worse than the others. Printer's and copiers are probably older than c
206.
by lithos 5y ago
I like this approach to explain some of antivax as well. Essentially big pharma has just finished up a massive campaign that was the opioid pandemic. Essentially there’s going to be a large correlation between people with jobs that get th
207.
by lithos 5y ago
Very Silicon Valley mindset, grouping people up and getting them to only interact with people like themselves.
208.
by lithos 5y ago
Dig up the old news stories from a few years ago about hedge funds buying cellphone data from phone apps, to make bets on oil prices (based on where technicians were driving/flying to). This type of surveillance is going to get more c
209.
by lithos 5y ago
Oh yeah, and after Facebook went down recently they probably saw how much better their numbers look without Facebook.
210.
by lithos 5y ago
Facebook is not a benefit of the doubt kind of company, so much so that random blogs on the internet will seem more reliable.

More ›