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by maemilius 7y ago
So... git? It's already designed to be decentralized. Hosting a public read-only repo would be as easy as standing up NGINX and pointing it at your repo folder, afaik. At my previous job, we all had individual dev machines that we eac
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by maemilius 7y ago
My guess here would not be to have the entire interface equidistant from the user, but, rather, to have the equivalent of a wrap around monitor. We're already used to having flat screens to interact with and simply curving the display
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by maemilius 7y ago
> The print volume matters. Someone tell CVS. I don't think I've gotten a receipt from them shorter than a foot in length.
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by maemilius 8y ago
This brings a whole new meaning to culturing cheese.
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by maemilius 8y ago
Unlikely. Self-checkout kiosks can process cash and give change just fine. My assumption is that this is to protect the buying power of the unbanked - which are predominantly low-income, as I understand it.
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by maemilius 8y ago
Might depend on where you are. With the exception of Food Stamps, pretty much every transaction I've seen from lower income people in my area is cash based. I usually feel like an outsider since I generally carry no cash in an area wh
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by maemilius 8y ago
I would direct you to the numerous things that _are_ standard on automobiles. For example, CAN bus[1] which is used in almost every single car you'll encounter these days and is what allows their modern electronics to communicate with
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by maemilius 8y ago
That's a fair point. However, the parent was responding to whether init - in particular - had been audited. So, bringing up other, larger projects that systemd subsumes is a bit disingenuous, imo.
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by maemilius 8y ago
According to the ASPCA: > A factory farm is a large, industrial operation that raises large numbers of animals for food. That's an _extremely_ broad definition that says nothing about the condition of the animals.
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by maemilius 8y ago
Even that can be a difficult distinction. Colonies of trees, for example, have been shown to respond to damage and illness. IIRC, trees release specific substances into their root systems in response to damage or illness in order to commun
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by maemilius 8y ago
This touches on the idea of "poisoned fruit" or, more specifically, the "fruit of the poisonous tree". To quote Wikipedia: > Fruit of the poisonous tree is a legal metaphor in the United States used to describe evide
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by maemilius 8y ago
The difference here is that the former (your example) is automatically correctable whereas the latter is not. If I highlighted that entire function in my editor of choice and hit TAB I'd get exactly the "correct" indentation.
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by maemilius 8y ago
I feel like there's an argument to be made that every firebombing mob started with a single person wishing some consequence. An idea has to start somewhere.
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by maemilius 8y ago
As far as I'm aware, the only thing WhatsApp competed with Facebook over is Messenger, and even that seems like a stretch to me. My impression of the situation is that Facebook bought WhatsApp for its data and user-base; not because it
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by maemilius 8y ago
TIL there's a separate term for the male in this case. Looking it up, it appears the distinction between fiancé (for the man) and fiancée (for the woman) has been falling out of style. This isn't helped by the fact that the distin
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by maemilius 8y ago
I think I can kinda see this argument, actually. The punishment for violating HIPPA is not placed on the individual, it's placed on the company. I work for a company that operates on HIPPA-protected data; if I leaked any of that, I wo
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by maemilius 8y ago
If there was some way to ensure that this never got bigger than China, I doubt there would be as much opposition. The problem arises when you ask the question "Who, next?" Who, next, wants all of Google's information about p
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by maemilius 8y ago
Replacing people might be easy, but it's never cheap - even in industries with an abundance of candidates. The real issue with having your work-force leave is three-fold. First, you lose all the accumulated knowledge of your team. Se
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by maemilius 8y ago
Nah, they'll assign that one to something python related. (Get it? pi-thon. I'll see myself out...)
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by maemilius 8y ago
I strongly doubt that this is some kind of active modification and not an error.
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by maemilius 8y ago
I'm in the same boat as you. One thing I've learned over the last few years is that the problem with "phone addition" has more to do with the lack of boredom than any physical effects. The really short version is that t
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by maemilius 8y ago
This article was posted days before any of the links you've given. According to the metadata for the site, it was originally published on 2018-10-14 and last updated 2018-10-16. Facebook's own article about the feature came out 5
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by maemilius 8y ago
My understanding of SRP is that the _implementation_ of those two things should be separate, not the interface.
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by maemilius 8y ago
Unless I'm horribly misinformed, the Google breach is absolutely nothing like the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica deal. CA got huge amounts of information about users. The G+ breach just gave out contact information. It's similar o
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by maemilius 8y ago
I feel like the group of people that know Facebook owns Instagram and WhatsApp are not mutually inclusive of the group that knows that Facebook will collect literally everything it possibly can about you. My impression of the issue is that
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by maemilius 8y ago
I don't really get this. How is any language's stdlib _not_ someone else's work? The language itself is "someone else's work". The only difference, in my mind, between a "standard library" and a &qu
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by maemilius 8y ago
What about the energy used to design and build the infrastructure? There's a lot more that went into this project than just the static site, which is something the article touches on. To illustrate, I'm going to invent some numbe
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by maemilius 8y ago
This is why I now start every git problem-solving session with "Do you want me to fix it or do you want me to help you fix it?"
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by maemilius 8y ago
Steam has had voice chat (group and 1-on-1) for a much longer period of time than that. I've used it on a regular basis for the last 5 years or so, well before the current updates they've made. What they added was voice chat to s
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by maemilius 8y ago
If Microsoft's goal is to become a better corporate citizen, isn't anything they do to progress on that goal "furthering their own interests"?

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