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by mceachen 7y ago
I couldn't get my Dad off Windows, even though he kept getting malware and viruses and ask his helpdesk (me) to repair the damage (which meant hours of formatting and reinstalling windows and N apps and ...). Inertia and "but this
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by mceachen 7y ago
Perhaps broach the fact that social networks are really just advertisement delivery networks, and that they found that partitioning audiences by interests let them sell you for more money. Try opening an incognito tab and search for flat ea
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by mceachen 7y ago
Copy on Write, presumably to save them from crypto-locking ransomware. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryptoLocker
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by mceachen 7y ago
This is like asking "what insurance do you have?" Some people will carry health, auto, life, home, flood, and earthquake insurance. Some people opt for some or none, depending on applicability. An insurance broker will happily tal
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by mceachen 7y ago
I'm in your shoes too. I've got 457 stars (and I don't think I've ever un-starred a project). I think it'd be a reasonable default for most people to start with though. Perhaps offering the projects that you `watch`
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by mceachen 7y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19989684
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by mceachen 7y ago
I think we're there already. A generic getting-started-with-AI online course will do a reasonable enough job at object detection and identification to be dangerous.
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by mceachen 7y ago
> Are you going to use a third party application for backups? macOS, Windows 10, and Ubuntu Desktop all come with built-in, incremental backup solutions that work well (at least for me), so I think that need is taken care of. There are a
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by mceachen 7y ago
I agree that messaging apps (including gmail) are used to enrich the targeting cloud for a given user, but many use a secure-ish app by default (iMessage). Also, if you use an adblocker (like ublock origin), those should mostly muzzle pixel
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by mceachen 7y ago
I'd suggest going an extra step: keep the imagery of you and your family out of the cloud altogether. Spending a decade in adtech, ML, and behavior targeting scared the willies out of me, and I'm building something for my family
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by mceachen 7y ago
It's not just the first gen. My second gen nexus 7 bricked. And my 2 Nexus 5X died from fatal bootloops. And there are screen issues with Pixel, Pixel 2, and Pixel 3 (and slowdowns/lagging/battery issues from recent firmware
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by mceachen 7y ago
For a LEAF, $2.3k for a refurb, and >$6k for new. https://electrek.co/2018/03/26/nissan-leaf-battery-pack-repl... Unfortunately, that's in the ballpark for a used LEAF.
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by mceachen 7y ago
If you own the lamppost, perhaps you could own orchestration of power delivery as well? If load exceeds tolerances, the EV plugs apply a "rolling blackout" that oscillates through the network every N minutes, to give every car at
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by mceachen 7y ago
That makes a lot more sense in the UK with 220V, where standard wall juice has some kick. In countries with 110V, the car charger that comes with your EV is a trickle charger. Non-teslas (like a LEAF) only charge at 3-6 miles of range per h
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by mceachen 7y ago
Coupled with weak infrastructure around third-party library selection. npms.io has a "quality" score (which npm pulled in recently), but that magick number includes things like download counts, if the homepage is on a custom domai
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by mceachen 7y ago
We weren't there. He might've needed to be someplace else. People leave all the time during talks, and I've been to talks where most people left as soon as Q&A started.
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by mceachen 7y ago
From one developer in a crowded marketplace (mine is photo management software) to another (you're describing a CMS), I'd spend some quality time researching open and closed source alternatives, and have a ready answer for how you
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by mceachen 7y ago
You're assuming that most recruiting pipelines are reasonable.
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by mceachen 7y ago
Perhaps this could be dismissed as semantics, but saying that we don't subsidize fossil fuels seems to not jibe with the reality that the only countries that have lower gasoline prices in world are countries whose economies are predomi
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by mceachen 7y ago
FTFA: ... memory previously stored in microarchitectural fill buffers of an Intel CPU core may be exposed to a malicious process that is executing on the same CPU core. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. (CVE-2
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USN-3984-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities(usn.ubuntu.com)
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by mceachen 7y ago
Nice. I actually KISSed and just added a bunch of aliases that start with 'cd' to hop into common directories, like alias cdp='cd ~/src/photostructure' for example. I found I only really needed < 10
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by mceachen 7y ago
Right. I was assuming many of the 150k visitors are there as presenters or have some sort of ticket discount. Either way, that's not chump change.
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by mceachen 7y ago
Oops. You're correct. FWIW I'm using GitLab CI for the cross-platform build pipeline of PhotoStructure (8 jobs over 3 OSes), and it's really great.
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by mceachen 7y ago
Many years ago I discovered CDPATH, and months later, I determined, never again will I walk into that valley of madness . It breaks so many things.
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by mceachen 7y ago
> How do you verify that? I think if they required a user or org-namespaced package name, you'd get that. For example, if https://exiftool-vendored.js.org was `@mceachen/exiftool-vendored`, or `@photostructure/
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by mceachen 7y ago
Gitlab's CI pipelines look an awful lot like github's new Actions tab.
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by mceachen 7y ago
Doesn't this bifurcate the namespace of literally every packaging system they are supporting, or are they requiring `@author/`-namespaced package names? In the livestream he pokes around a github repo, sees it's one author, a
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by mceachen 7y ago
Unless they require code signing, how does this help trust issues?
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by mceachen 7y ago
This is such an epic, annual celebration of learning and creativity. Losing it would be a tragedy. How do the economics not work out here? 100-150K visitors/year, each dropping (on average? $20 for entrance ticket)? Don't they req

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