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by majewsky 5y ago
There are plenty of things that you cannot do in an apartment. If it's a building with multiple tenants, you'll be forbidden from doing stuff that's an unnecessary disturbance to other tenants. But even apart from that, there
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by majewsky 5y ago
> If all the major cloud vendors were to make it so regular consumers are unable to spin up a server and participate in mining, then what makes it 'distributed' and fair? Not everything is cloud. You can still have regular colo
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by majewsky 5y ago
> I'm not sure what happened in second case and why pamac left system in broken state FWIW, as a vanilla Arch user, I have not encountered this issue. I remember a time when pacman updates were kind of iffy (and in fact, pacman itse
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by majewsky 5y ago
Please recalibrate your irony detector.
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by majewsky 5y ago
I'm surprised that you're surprised. "Absolutely no human check" may as well be Google's tagline.
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by majewsky 5y ago
Is this not too little syntax, though? The two JSON documents { "foo": true } { "foo": "true" } would both have to map to the same TAO representation: foo [true]
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by majewsky 5y ago
Ungoogled link: https://www.macrumors.com/2012/01/12/apple-researching-motio...
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by majewsky 5y ago
That's cool, but you do realize you're the 0.001%, right?
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by majewsky 5y ago
* I know there's a config, but I'm not on my own machine * I know there's a config, but this is my work machine and corporate IT has blocked the browser prefs dialog via group policy
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by majewsky 5y ago
I love how the first comment at the end of the page asks which CDN and which load balancer the site is using, as if he's filling entire racks with this simple static website. Absolutely hilarious.
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by majewsky 5y ago
I'm also German. Once, when I was asked for my zip code at checkout, I asked what they use it for. The cashier said it's being used to decide where to distribute physical advertisements (those store-branded magazines that land in
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by majewsky 5y ago
If you want to discover actual usage patterns, there is a much more efficient way: Sit down with 10 users and observe them while doing their everyday work or while performing a predetermined set of tasks. This is even easier nowadays thanks
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by majewsky 5y ago
> they knew they could make better decisions with more information. That's an unproven assumption. More information does not lead to better decisions, it just leads to more confidence in those decisions (whether justified or not).
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by majewsky 5y ago
Telemetry is part of a toxic pattern: It gives people a sense of control, which makes them feel more confident in their decisions, even though that confidence is usually not actually backed up by anything meaningful.
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by majewsky 5y ago
FYI, if you ever have this same usecase again, look at mp3splt. It does just splitting of MP3 (and some other formats), with the significant benefit that it does not decode-and-reencode. It also works as a pure CLI tool by just giving the i
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by majewsky 5y ago
> I suspect that thing is profitable. According to a Bloomberg article from January 2017 (just before the release of the Switch) concerning Nintendo's yearly earnings report, > While game consoles are usually sold at a loss early
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by majewsky 5y ago
This does not invalidate the original argument: This crowd here is representative of who first adopted GMail and spread the word. Without these early adopters, the other billion users would likely not have followed suit. I cannot comment on
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by majewsky 5y ago
Not in my experience. At my workplace, dev teams started setting up their own Slack workspaces by themselves, sometimes funded by private credit cards. After more than a year, the company gave in and purchased an enterprise subscription to
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by majewsky 5y ago
You're absolutely right, I misremembered that.
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Also, it's worth noting that this is usually done with good intentions: News outlets are highly incentivized to be the first one to break any particular story, so if a press release is not embargo'd, everyone will rush as fast as
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by majewsky 5y ago
+1 vote for Hetzner. They don't do a lot of things compared to AWS etc., but the things they do are rock-solid at unbeatable prices. The only downside (depending on your place of residence) is that they only have data centers in German
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by majewsky 5y ago
> there is no way that this will provide eradication FWIW, it is not feasible to eradicate SARS-CoV-2 anyway since it can survive in certain types of animals as well. All the germs we eradicated thus far were limited to human hosts. (Sou
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by majewsky 5y ago
It's not bullying to point out that some information sources are of poorer quality than others, and that social media selects not for information quality, but for flashiness and ability to enrage.
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by majewsky 5y ago
Yes. I've heard this argument being made by Christian Drosten (a German virologist specializing in coronaviruses) in his podcast a few months back.
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by majewsky 5y ago
> take the attempt to make torrenting/pirating illegal. Look how that turned out. 95+% of people don't use torrenting/pirating. That worked out fine. Not great, but it's not the total failure you make it out to be. &g
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by majewsky 5y ago
You don't need a ten-thousand year head start to be widely adopted. Bitcoin is 12 years old now. PayPal was that old in 2010/2011. PayPal was definitely more widely adopted at that age than Bitcoin is now. And besides, claiming th
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by majewsky 5y ago
> I'm not sure how you would go about banning a cryptocurrency (it's been tried 100's of times) The same way we ban heroine. Or murder. We just make trading cryptocurrencies illegal and prosecute people who are found doing
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by majewsky 5y ago
It's absolutely commonplace for newspapers to publish op-eds. In fact, I'd be more surprised if any particular newspaper didn't do it. In print, it's usually not a source of confusion because the op-eds are on their ow
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by majewsky 5y ago
Tobacco warning labels definitely cover the health impact of the surrounding people as well. Some translated samples from across the EU (from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_packaging_warning_mess... ): > Prote
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by majewsky 5y ago
If you absolutely want to golf it into one line: #[inline] const fn is_valid_scalar(c: u32) -> bool { matches!(c, 0..=0xD7FF) || matches!(c, 0xDE00..=0x10FFFF) } But I prefer your version for its clarity. It should compile

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