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by m12k 5y ago
To me it means the contrary. If they had to make those $620M back by just selling password management, then we'd all better expect it to get crazy expensive soon. But if they branch out and start making money on other products and serv
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by m12k 5y ago
That story about how Mitchell Baker helped set up the SQLite Consortium is interesting, hadn't heard of that before. She gets a lot of flak for the direction Mozilla has been heading, so it's heartening to hear how she advocated t
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by m12k 5y ago
China is very willing to play hardball and throw multinational corporations out unless they cooperate. The US is only just starting to consider actions like that (cf. Huawei and TikTok). I wonder if that's the next big shift in interna
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by m12k 5y ago
I've heard it described that Rust allows you to write programs in a specific way. If you try to write them in any other way, you're going to have a very, very bad time, and fight the borrow checker every step of the way. But if yo
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by m12k 5y ago
Maybe lawyers are just super expensive where I live, but I honestly wouldn't expect to be able to find one that could see this kind of case through to completion for less than $12560.
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by m12k 5y ago
>I keep feeling like I’m missing something You are missing something - a huge position in crypto. Like the article points out, your existing investment would benefit from all the hype that a slew of crypto-oriented services and products
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by m12k 5y ago
Sure, but being secretive about your DNA seems like the prudent course of action until those laws are in place
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by m12k 5y ago
One of the other comment threads indicates that the data, that you need to do that kind of annotation of the sequence, is to some extent available for home use as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29695449 I'm
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by m12k 5y ago
I'm really curious about what I could learn by getting my DNA sequenced, but I'm worried about my rights to not have it recorded and shared without my consent if I got someone else to do it for me - so any advance toward an afford
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by m12k 5y ago
Do modern graphics cards have optimizations for applying a kernel to a texture? If so, that should work well with cellular automata too
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by m12k 5y ago
Yep, there seems to be this tendency to evaluate all the actions of all the people inside a company as a single coherent whole, expecting there to be single coherent thread running through it all. It's almost like people think of the c
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by m12k 5y ago
Yep, if it's a one-liner that's important enough that it is worth shipping immediately on its own, it's probably got enough gunpowder behind it to blow off your foot.
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by m12k 5y ago
Here's my take on microservices: It's a form of modularization. Like all modularization it can be useful to uncouple larger parts of a system - to enforce an architecture, avoid unintended cross-dependencies, make explicit the dep
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by m12k 5y ago
Oh that's neat - let's make a format string shorthand for eval_from_url() so it's easier to interface with, e.g. from a logging framework.
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by m12k 5y ago
That gem collection game looks like a fairly direct rip-off of https://lightbot.com/ If you have kids that you'd like to introduce to some programming concepts in a fun way, I highly recommend it.
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by m12k 5y ago
> Apple have done their homework and they will not release ANYTHING unless they think they'll either make money from it or at the very least, not LOSE money from it. It's all about money, nothing else. > It's coming whe
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by m12k 5y ago
Yeah, this should come with a note that this is intended for people with slow redeployment pipelines, to protect them until they can actually deploy a permanent fix.
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by m12k 5y ago
Could you elaborate?
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by m12k 5y ago
I'm torn between considering this terrible as an end-user, and being happy that this is painful enough that there might finally be enough oxygen in the room for actual competitors again.
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by m12k 5y ago
A former colleague told me years ago that us-east-1 is basically the guinea pig where changes get tested before being rolled out to the other regions, and as a result is less stable than the others. Does anyone know if there's any trut
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by m12k 5y ago
> punk is dead I heard he was reborn as a cryptobro
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by m12k 5y ago
It's not novel - crypto-skeptics have been saying this for a decade. And crypto-believers and speculators have been ignoring it for just as long. But I don't think the comment was aimed at explaining this specific correction, I th
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by m12k 5y ago
A good rule of thumb is that the more a dog looks like a wolf, the less inbred it is.
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by m12k 5y ago
I mean, if you put all the text from a book into a txt file, how is it not an ebook? Does being an "ebook" come from being a digital representation of a book, or is it a reserved title for something in a specific file format creat
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by m12k 5y ago
The house toy has a cute little easter egg: If you remove all the foundation pieces of the structure, the remaining structure above starts bobbing up and down slowly, hovering - very subtle way to acknowledge "yep, I did in fact think
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by m12k 5y ago
Comes with speakerphone you say? I can only assume this will be ironically used in the conference room of some hip startup.
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by m12k 5y ago
In order for there to be an evolutionary pressure toward becoming less severe, having higher severity has to give some disadvantage - e.g. killing the host before it can spread the disease or giving stronger symptoms so hosts can be isolate
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by m12k 5y ago
Exactly that. Ideally, nothing gets allocated or freed during a given frame, it's just previously (upfront) allocated entities getting flagged as active or inactive.
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by m12k 5y ago
I think they bought what they needed, but that was enough to block others from getting produced.
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by m12k 5y ago
Yeah, based on the headline I actually thought the article would be about electric power conversion for dummies. I guess both topics are on-topic for HN.

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