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by mbreese 3y ago
More like we can’t name things (eg. gene names) the way scientists want because of needing to work with the data in Excel. So instead of OCT4 we get a different name because Excel mangled the name into a date for decades. Excel is still the
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by mbreese 3y ago
I’m trying to think about what kind of tools would benefit from such an option… An obvious first tool would be “ls” to produce an easier to parse output. From there, maybe a “grep” to search fields and “sort” to sort by fields. I guess I ca
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by mbreese 3y ago
While I think that ASCII including a specific record delimiter character (0x1E) that isn’t used is a missed opportunity, I actually think the lack of a set interchange format is a benefit. No format will work for everyone and if there was o
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by mbreese 3y ago
There are some terminals that can display inline images, but those features aren’t commonly used. Why? Text works. Text is the lowest common denominator for working with data. This is why terminals are still primarily text based. This is al
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by mbreese 3y ago
It’s really sad that we all basically have to design code and data fields around the behavior tools like Excel. R will do the same thing for numeric fields (strip leading 0s), so it’s not just Excel here. But in the R case, you rarely read&
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by mbreese 3y ago
External GPUs working over thunderbolt is a thing. So, you can at least get part of this today.
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by mbreese 3y ago
> too often are these kinds of statements thrown about without any qualification, as if they are self-evident truths It's because different people think in different levels of abstraction. One admin might be thinking about a handf
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by mbreese 3y ago
Has there been any indication of who was behind the attack? Notoriety usually requires knowing who was responsible first. But at this scale, I doubt someone is trying to do this just for the fun of it.
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by mbreese 3y ago
I understand that this is the prevailing wisdom (and it makes a ton of sense). But that’s exactly what the article is arguing against.
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by mbreese 3y ago
This seems to discuss roads and cities… not stairs in a tower. If the direction of the stairs was so important, why isn’t that mentioned? Either is was very obvious to the authors (so not included), or not thought to be an important factor.
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by mbreese 3y ago
As soon as I read the description, that was my guess too. It was such a simple game and I spent a lot of time playing it. If you wanted to be patient, it was almost impossible to lose. But if you hurried, it was anlmost impossible to win.
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by mbreese 3y ago
It looks like the M2 socket will be connected with a flexible ribbon, so it is possible that it could be mounted below.
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by mbreese 3y ago
Looks like a few places are blowing embargoes (or at least the release time wasn't well coordinated). From the original Farnell email links, products aren't available to purchase yet (the links go to the RPi4 landing page). From:
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by mbreese 3y ago
From: https://www.meta.com/smart-glasses/wayfarer-shiny-black-plan... Camera 12 MP ultra-wide Image framing / resolution - Portrait default / 3024 X 4032 pixels Video - Vertical default / 1440 x 1920 pi
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by mbreese 3y ago
Design operates within the contexts of a system. A perfectly viable design can be made bad by a change in the system for which it was designed. Does this current design require disabling SIP? Then I don’t think it is worth my effort to use
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by mbreese 3y ago
I used the Amazon tool recently to get a very particular type of screw. It was really easy to find exactly what I wanted. Then I still got the wrong part delivered. It doesn’t matter how great the selection tool is, the rule is always: garb
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by mbreese 3y ago
I don’t think that’s right. As soon as developers have other options for distribution (that is cheaper), that’s what they will use. Look at Epic for an example. I used to play Fortnite with my kids on my iPad, but can’t anymore. So, my choi
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by mbreese 3y ago
> They're infinitely more open than their mobile counterparts, yet there's barely any issues there. That are marginally more open than mobile, but by default, there are still a lot of protections that (certain) developers com
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by mbreese 3y ago
There doesn’t have to be a link… there has to be a competitive market. Giving away something that someone else sells can be anti-competitive, in certain situations. For example, if the goal of Google with V8 is to create a JS engine monopol
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by mbreese 3y ago
> Break off Chrome into its own company that can serve it's own interests in making a good browser that serves the user That’s nice in theory, but historically, browser only companies haven’t been very successful in the market. N
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by mbreese 3y ago
Technical limitations aren’t excuses for a bad design. If it’s not a good design due to a technical limit, the answer isn’t to sacrifice security for functionality. If it really isn’t technically possible (which I think you might be able to
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by mbreese 3y ago
So why don’t they run a Darwin VM that doesn’t need SIP and control it in the same manner?
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by mbreese 3y ago
And that’s a good thing? I’m not sure the benefits of containers would be worth disabling SIP. Maybe for an automated test CI/CD running system (which is probably the main use-case), but not on anything that users would interact with
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by mbreese 3y ago
Namely because it would have been too obvious. To have this work, that person would have to have set limits well below anyone else. So low that it would have been obvious when someone just so happened to offer BTC at a much reduced price. T
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by mbreese 3y ago
> the default assumption is that there's a scam and the employee is guilty until proven innocent. To answer your real question - my guess is that this was a place that had a history of moving fast and breaking things. But probably
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by mbreese 3y ago
A tie is a “push” where neither the player nor the dealer wins. Everyone keeps their money (you keep your money and the dealer doesn’t pay you).
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by mbreese 3y ago
Want to talk about inline replies vs top-posting next? That’s always another great frustration. We’ve apparently already had that discussion though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22801233
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by mbreese 3y ago
I do academic research and write a ton of code to support this. In grad school (many years ago) at a Midwestern state school, I try to release some code under GPL and get blocked by the school's tech transfer department. It's a pr
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by mbreese 3y ago
> bands play each others songs without asking Live performances are a different act than recording and selling albums. Live performances are always (?) allowed, but IIRC, the songwriter/composer is due a royalty. How often that h
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by mbreese 3y ago
And Go apps require recompiling them to use their version of the http. ListenAndServe function. I’m not sure if this counts either… https://unit.nginx.org/configuration/#updating-go-apps

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