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by masto 7y ago
It’s discarded today. Natural gas itself is a byproduct of drilling for oil, and there are places where, due to a lack of convenient pipelines for transporting it, huge quantities of natural gas are just burned as waste. Edit: citation. It’
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by masto 7y ago
As I like to put it when I have to come up with a “fun fact” for corporate icebreaker activities, “I have programmed in APL for money”. It’s not really that hard. The notation is certainly a stumbling block if you’re trying to read these ar
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by masto 7y ago
1 day later, it’s an A. I wonder how that works.
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by masto 7y ago
My high school's administrator password was “math”. I think the statue of limitations has expired by now. I got it by writing a simple login spoofer in Turbo Pascal. The funny thing is I never bothered to remove it and after I graduate
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by masto 7y ago
Oh god yes. I got mine a couple of weeks ago and almost immediately experienced the worst customer service ever from a bank (and that’s saying something). I was considered documenting my story and sending to The Verge or something, because
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by masto 7y ago
If you read the Google thing, there’s a proposal for doing exactly that with a privacy budget. The browser would allow access to information until it becomes too specific to a user and then cut it off.
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by masto 7y ago
Definitely not that.
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by masto 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_clumping
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by masto 7y ago
Indeed. The ones he rated poorly were the ones that tried to prevent him from breaking Los Angeles City Municipal Code 63.44.
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by masto 7y ago
The headline makes it sound like they tested all the scooters you can buy, but it's specifically talking about 5 rental scooter brands in one location: "We’ve restricted our entrants to scooter-type vehicles available on the stree
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by masto 7y ago
There is some motivation. Imagine you're Tim Apple and you wake up one day to find The Verge has a front page story detailing all of your secret Apple Car technical details and plans through 2022 courtesy of a "source with firstha
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by masto 7y ago
The SRE book ( https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/chapters/being-on-ca... ) says that engineers are compensated for being on call in the form of cash or time off. Personally I think this is a fair system,
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by masto 7y ago
I find this journalism suspect. These devices all have local control. You don't need the cloud to turn on the AC unless you want to do it remotely. Ditto for door locks.
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by masto 7y ago
We got one of these. It's been great. https://www.fisherpaykel.com/us/kitchen/dish-washers/dishdra...
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by masto 7y ago
You don't say where you are, but I hope you are including your company's lawyers in the conversation. Some countries have very particular rules that you need to be aware of.
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by masto 7y ago
A rising tide lifts all boats. I'm just happy there are an increasing number of EVs coming on the market. And people will have their reasons for choosing one or another, so it doesn't have to be that one car is objectively best ac
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by masto 8y ago
I'm sure when you're in the medical field for a while, it's impossible not to think of people as meat, but it is frustrating to be judged for making difference choices. My mother, over the past few years, has been going throu
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by masto 8y ago
Unless you push out a bug that is triggered by some combination of events so distant from the release that you could never have caught it in testing. Perhaps a bizarre interaction between multiple unrelated systems from different vendors th
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by masto 8y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_clumping
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by masto 8y ago
Obviously not authorized to release more details than have already been made public, but when the book hits the real world sometimes you find new failure modes, software has bugs, or humans find creative mistakes. It's also very hard t
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by masto 8y ago
Middle school was the worst years of my life. It was absolute torture, the bullying, the teachers' petty power trips, the pointless lull in actual education before high school. Technology was my refuge. I passed the hours just waiting
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by masto 8y ago
There's a version of this in SRE where the performance your system delivers becomes the performance people expect. And then they build their systems to depend on that performance, regardless of what your actual SLA is. Paradoxically, d
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by masto 8y ago
Imagine a state actor with the resources and motivation to engage in serious sabotage (a-la stuxnet). These processes are so sensitive and complex, I bet they could come up with a really devious way to introduce a contaminant that isn'
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by masto 8y ago
I remember those days. I was working at a small company, and a coworker and I had Dreamcasts. He also had small children and felt that the cost of games and their short attention span was a good excuse for piracy. He downloaded everything p
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by masto 8y ago
There is exactly this: https://basicengine.org/ The catch is that you have to build it yourself, and there is some surface mount soldering. I put one together and found it to be an enjoyable project.
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by masto 8y ago
It has a nice logo though I can't find a link to the merch store or author's Patreon.
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by masto 8y ago
I thought everybody stopped doing this.
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by masto 8y ago
Because there's nothing wrong with it.
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by masto 8y ago
The reason it looks sensationalistic is that it is. This is the result of an anti-science advocacy group called EWG that put out a press release that's being republished by various lazy news outlets. This is the same group that has mad
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by masto 9y ago
There's a sort of running gag at Google that "An Update On Foo" is how the company announces that they're canceling Foo. So my first read of this headline was.. different.

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