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by mankyd 4y ago
My kids watched different content at 2, at 8, and at 16 years old. Anything beyond late teens maybe could be chalked up to "advertising BS" but I would push further that my older parents watch markedly different content then I do
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by mankyd 4y ago
Indeed. I don't understand the outrage at wanting to know the age of your customer, especially when: a) there are laws involved b) you have a variety of content/products specifically aimed at different ages I won't speak to g
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by mankyd 4y ago
Nah, you simply must have missed one of its addictive hooks at some point. Maybe it was a bad map, or some other lucky/unlucky coincidence. I have friends who are engineers who tired of it quickly, and friends who aren't who quick
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by mankyd 4y ago
Eh, is it really "dodging that"? If an alien landed on our planet, took over our resources, filled our air with mutating pollution, and shot at us anytime we tried to take them back, we wouldn't give them a pass just because
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by mankyd 4y ago
I used to work on Pagespeed. People were always so puzzled that adding Google Analytics or Maps to their page would lower their score. "This is your own company's tools! They shouldn't count! Make them fast!" We always r
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by mankyd 4y ago
There's an interesting question that arises when you says "when you alphabetize them place related variables next to each other". Let's say you have some non-trivial class that includes, among others, some 2d rectangular
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by mankyd 4y ago
Yup. I myself get along fine with my neighbors and wouldn't be concerned, per se. I simply think folks should be aware. There's plenty of lawsuits in my state regarding "illegal wiretapping" and not everyone has good rel
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by mankyd 4y ago
Weird caveat, but I wonder about the legality of this in various jurisdictions. In my own state in the US, it is generally illegal to record audio without consent. There are various interpretations of this, and probably putting a sign up sa
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Eugene Parker, Namesake of Parker Solar Probe, Passes(news.uchicago.edu)
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by mankyd 5y ago
Except the lower of bar of the bike would still have the (now) 2 pieces of the seat post attached to them and wouldn't be able to close shut. A committed thief could, of course, take it from there and have time to remove the remains of
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by mankyd 5y ago
They don't. You can click through and take the test. It doesn't ask you if you know what any of the words mean. It simply presents you with words, some esoteric, some common, and some _imaginary_. You are simply asked to sort the
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by mankyd 5y ago
Eh, sort of. As an east-coast resident who has worked for both tech startups as well as large companies, (currently one of the large SV companies), I will say I still view SV as a very different vibe than any work culture I regularly experi
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by mankyd 5y ago
> Google will share this data with law enforcement, also on request by evil and/or totalitarian regimes. This is true of one's employer in general, no? "this data" is theoretically all related to one's work.* If
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by mankyd 5y ago
Very much so: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/03/technology/wordle-word-ga...
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by mankyd 5y ago
Agreed. Honestly, I often jump to a faq early in my research when I'm thinking to myself: "just give me the highlights." It's context dependent though. If it's a one page, cliff notes style faq, great. If it's
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by mankyd 5y ago
> Given the difficulty, I would estimate it as a two character password. Sorry, but that is _way_ off. I can run through 2 character passwords by hand in a few hours at most, likely faster. (Assuming a qwerty keyboard, 62 alphanumeric, p
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by mankyd 5y ago
As someone who used to live and breath css, but has been out of web development for about 6 years now, I find info like this awesome.
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by mankyd 5y ago
As someone who used to live and breath css, but has been out of web development for about 6 years now, I find info like this awesome.
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by mankyd 5y ago
Indeed, I feel the same way. I used to be a big user of CrashPlan, largely because it had a straightforward UI: highlight a bunch of directories; choose a backup destination; choose a backup frequency. I do like the idea of being able to tu
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by mankyd 5y ago
Expert witnesses are hired as contractors; paid for their testimony. If they were being subpoenaed - compelled to be a witness - I am sure the matter would be different.
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by mankyd 5y ago
USD - you can buy and/or sell on the major platforms for that price.
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by mankyd 5y ago
Going to give a guess as to more pragmatic reason this came about: they don't have a requirement or test for it. Some engineer was asked to make a feature. That feature happened to break 3rd party seeking. It probably wasn't inten
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by mankyd 5y ago
OP isn't suggesting what Jobs did should be disallowed. Merely they are expressing disappointment in what was probably a poor decision healthwise.
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by mankyd 5y ago
> If anything I think people are grappling with the fact that the Internet just makes data scraping and processing possible on a scale previously unimaginable, Agreed. I remember way back when FB first launched the "feed". Folk
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by mankyd 5y ago
> Don't let factories be shoved next to houses to prevent environmental contamination, but other than that, [...] Generally, yes, exactly. Zoning laws shouldn't be outright abolished, but they certainly should be scaled _way_ b
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by mankyd 5y ago
Because it doesn't sound like a lie to me? They're saying "we don't read your messages - unless you explicitly send us a copy".
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by mankyd 5y ago
Refactoring is where it's at for me. The ability to rename functions and variables across not just a local file, but all references in the code base is huge. Relatedly, the ability to find all usages of a symbol and navigate between th
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by mankyd 5y ago
I would think it would have to be closed loop. Material density is not always uniform (especially with something like wood) and that has one of the biggest effects on how your tool behaves. Even then, compensating for sudden release in tens
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by mankyd 5y ago
I find it particularly useful for video calls - both social and work. I agree I use it for little else, so a cheaper lens/sensor would suffice.
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by mankyd 5y ago
The author does not think it's ridiculous at all. The next paragraph exactly addresses your comment: > If we are only taking into consideration the information that is immediately available then the situation does indeed seem pretty

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