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by m12k 5y ago
Thanks for referencing that. Maybe it's semantics, but as someone coming at this from a game design perspective, 1 and 2 are clearly strategic, but I'd have said 3 is tactical rather than strategic. Tactics are the mid-level actio
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I recently discovered that search-replacing text in a PDF without changing the layout is much harder than I thought it would be (a customer forgot to change their billing address, and now that the invoice is finalized, Stripe won't let
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> What does the author mean when they say "implement a speculative approach"? My guess is that they want to speed up testing by being able to say "this PR only touches these files, and we know they are only tested by these
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The way I think about cancer: Each and every one of us is playing Russian roulette daily with a revolver with a giant drum with tens of thousands of empty slots and a single bullet. And some people load more bullets in the drum by smoking,
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by m12k 5y ago
Thanks for the correction, I didn't realize the term went back that far (but good point about the lack of articles). But at any rate, you're right, no matter where the term originated, it's still good form to respect the Ukra
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Something I learned recently is that calling it "the Ukraine" rather than "Ukraine" is apparently using the Russian term for the country, rather than the country's own term for themselves. Similarly the spelling Kyi
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Do you trust them to salt and hash your password using bcrypt? (rather than store it in plain text). Do you use a password manager to generate strong passwords that are at least 16 chars long? If you can answer yes to both, then it doesn&#x
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Try "Impaler, Vlad the"
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Devices with notifications are little skinner boxes for our brains. There's perfectly valid reasons for people to want a device where notifications are not even an option, just like there's valid reasons for alcoholics to not want
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Twitter exists because you can't write long posts. Snapchat exists because you can't view past messages. Tinder exists because you can't just talk to anyone unless they are interested in you too. Limitations and missing &quot
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I think it means the existing payment market is so massively profitable that you can undercut them and still make a killing.
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At the end of the day, the communication system was being used to make promises, based on an assumption that all the institutions involved in the transfer had the incentive and means to keep their promises. The latter is also being drastica
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I mean, a UN peacekeeping force would have worked too. A neutral banner instead of NATO, that Putin sees as a direct threat. We don't even need the force to be able to actually fight off a Russian invasion, we just need them to be ther
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>The author doesn't get it Or he does, but he considers it understood that the logic of mutually assured destruction rules out "pre-emptive strikes" on nuclear nations like Russia. And if you realize this, it doesn't
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Another what-if option that I wish had been discussed here: What if the EU had placed a peacekeeping force in white uniforms in Ukraine? (in theory a week ago, but that might just have prompted an even faster Russian attack, so it probably
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Since when have gun grabbers have any success in the US? From the outside, it seems the US has decided it would rather just live with regular school shootings than deny its citizens access to lethal weapons. See also https://en.w
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The right to have a private conversation is one of those fundamental rights that society exists to protect. Undermining that in the name of law enforcement is putting the cart before the horse. I'm sure the police would also have a muc
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Right, I was asking about the other half of your claim: How does the NFT provide proof of the "limited edition-ness (aka scarcity)" of the good that it provides proof of ownership for? I don't see how the NFT or blockchain al
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by m12k 5y ago
>NFT provides publicly verifiable record of ownership and limited edition-ness (aka scarcity) Could you explain how the NFT provides the latter? Because it sounds like that's what your contract process and legal assurances ensure -
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It's also a bit of a curious coincidence that it's a company founded in Denmark, Unity, transpiling a language invented by a Dane, C#, into another language invented by a Dane, C++.
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Just like the last couple of years have turned us all into amateur epidemiologists, the last handful of years have turned us all into amateur epistemologists. The very foundations of how we as a society collectively decide on what reality i
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The timer also really doesn't mesh well with the slow "letters falling down" animation between rounds. The UI is sending very mixed signals with "how quickly can you do this?" and "hold on, gotta wait here for
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Is it just me, or has crypto massively increased the number of "digital bank robberies" taking place? Or did stuff like this commonly happen previously as well, but we just never heard about it?
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Yep, overall I'm really happy with the GDPR. The main thing I'd like to see changed is that consent dialogs should be a built-in browser feature with a standardized interface that all websites were required to use instead of comin
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The problem I have with BAT is that it tries to give me power over the commercialization of something that I don't want commercialized. It's like someone launched a "Basic Sexual Favor Token" to empower me to take contro
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It seems like a lot of performance optimizations that used to require custom kernels can now be implemented using io_uring instead. Does anyone know if any such performance improvements are making their way into places where they can be fel
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>Annoyance 4: Sometimes, only the left or right AirPod plays sound. Taking them in/out of your ears doesn't fix it, you need to put it back into the case and take it back out, which sometimes, doesn't fix it. So you need t
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Does anyone know if there's a tool out there similar to https://railsbump.org/ that would allow me to quickly check how many of the gems I depend on are compatible with ruby 3? I know ruby 3.0.x has been the recommende
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by m12k 5y ago
I wonder what C++ would feel like if instead of making it a burden to add const everywhere, you made it a burden to remove it? E.g. everything was const unless you added a keyword (e.g. mut).
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by m12k 5y ago
Is Crystal the name of the author of this post? I couldn't find any other mention of the name, neither in this article, in its source or on the about/faq page of the site. This doesn't look like it's a personal blog wher

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