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by mcherm 5y ago
> Removing DRM on something you own for personal use is perfectly legal. Perhaps some places. In the US, it is perfectly legal to "violate" copyright restrictions for purposes like fair use. But if the data is protected by any
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by mcherm 5y ago
I used to think that was true. But these days, I think a huge portion of companies are placing advertising or user tracking software on their websites produced by advertisers or user tracking vendors who DO capture and sell the data.
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by mcherm 5y ago
> Instead of a four-year new hire grant (standard at many tech companies), employees will receive annual grants, sized at one-year targets that vest in their entirety each year. So... this means that the stock option compensation is less
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by mcherm 5y ago
As the article states: > Gaze research needs careful consideration, including being mindful of the correct use of such technology — applications should obtain explicit approval and fully informed consent from users for the specific task
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by mcherm 5y ago
> It’s a little surprising how much effort went into things early in the pandemic that didn’t pan out. It's not surprising at all! We had a choice between taking actions some of which might be wasted (like manufacturing large quant
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by mcherm 6y ago
Do you have any evidence that they were, in fact, created from USD? Given the strong incentives to produce such evidence and the complete lack of it I am highly skeptical.
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by mcherm 6y ago
> The biggest red flag is struggling with personal finance. As it turns out, being unable to get a job (at least one that pays a reasonable wage) is a common cause of "struggling with personal finance".
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by mcherm 6y ago
He basically did. He was creating frameworks for understanding self-replicating systems before the nature of DNA had been determined.
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by mcherm 6y ago
> I want to be able to define `plus` on my datatypes and I want to be able to define `+` on my datatypes. So, I take it we agree that expressing the quadratic formula for BigDecimals as "x.pow(2).multiply(2).plus(x.multiply(3)).minu
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by mcherm 6y ago
Yes, the color of the spoon DOES matter. In fact, the color of the spoon (the syntax and expressiveness of the language) is probably why Python won out over Perl; it is certainly why I switched somewhere in the late 90s. Also... If your nic
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by mcherm 6y ago
When you propose a "green credit" instead of a "carbon tax", what do you mean? Is it just a different name for the same thing, or would it work differently? If it would work differently, then HOW? I'm assuming that
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by mcherm 6y ago
It doesn't. But I'm not going to bother trying it at "3 notes for free".
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by mcherm 6y ago
All of the carefully crafted typefaces featured in the article emphasized recognizable style. None of them emphasized readability. Personally, I prefer the typeface found on my Timex. It's nothing fancy, but it is very easy to read at
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by mcherm 6y ago
> this seems like the sort of thing that incurs a large cost when it comes to updating your mental model of how the compiler works Why? If you simply do NOT update your model won't that work just fine? You would continue to avoid ce
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by mcherm 6y ago
I just want to make clear that for me, write ups containing this level of detail analyzing the error that occurred give me greater confidence in the company rather than less confidence. Greater even than if I had never heard of the original
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by mcherm 6y ago
How is generation of fibonacci numbers parallelized? I mean, I can think of some ways to do it but I have trouble believing that any compiler could generate them.
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by mcherm 6y ago
Ratifying it requires 2/3 agreement in the Senate. That is impossible to achieve in the current political climate.
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by mcherm 6y ago
Did you ever take a look to try and figure out where the extra verboseness came from? For instance, was it spread equally across all functions or concentrated in those doing numeric computations (or whatever)? It would be interesting to lea
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by mcherm 6y ago
Depends. Allowing users to make reports is NOT the hard part -- I can throw together an HTML form and a DB for reports in about 1 day. The HARD part is finding a way to make these reports useful and actionable. To make sure that they ADD va
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by mcherm 6y ago
The premise is simple: explain the difference between bill-by-the-hour and fixed-price-project and how they vary when growing a company from a single proprietor to a small number. I wish the article also addressed the OTHER huge difference:
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by mcherm 6y ago
I saw the title and thought to myself, "No one has the right to tell open source volunteers how to spend their time! The only way an article with that title is acceptable is if it's talking about benefits to the DEVELOPER, not the
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by mcherm 6y ago
Because there are existing court rulings declaring that lethal injection (with a particular cocktail of drugs) is not considered cruel and unusual punishment. If any other method were tried the accused would appeal on the grounds that the m
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by mcherm 6y ago
No, journalists do NOT have that norm. Which is why the NY Times' behavior in the case you refer to was criticized in many journalism circles. [1] https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/slate-st..
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by mcherm 6y ago
I'm a Judge of Elections in Pennsylvania, USA. You write: > If people choose to announce their party affiliation, that's something else. In PA (as in most states) one's party affiliation is public by law. In PA it's i
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by mcherm 6y ago
Depression is an incredibly complex system of effects. The best model for its workings that I have read was this: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/the-precision-of-sensory-evidence It's a long read, but
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by mcherm 6y ago
> And, it's not a court of law. At best, it's "allegedly moved files when they weren't supposed to". Are you operating under the assumption that nothing should ever be stated as a fact unless determined by a cour
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by mcherm 6y ago
Can you elaborate? Outside of bugs, I was under the impression that SVG was actually pretty well specified and that (except perhaps for pathological examples created intentionally) the rendering of an SVG was quite consistent. What am I not
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by mcherm 6y ago
I'll add that I believe there is a meaningful (perhaps not overwhelming) percentage of people who would be interested in getting exposure to things "outside their bubble" simply for the sake of self-improvement and better und
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by mcherm 6y ago
From a [flagged][dead] comment: > This is not an economic move for the company. I'm not at all sure I agree with you on this. I've worked for quite a few years as a software engineer in banking. At one of the companies where I
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by mcherm 6y ago
> The price of a stock is the value of its discounted cash flows. Nearly. There ARE a few other reasons to own a stock, such as the right to influence the governance of a company. (I agree that shorting is an important market mechanism t

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