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by mcherm 3y ago
I don't know that I've ever heard that combination together before. Can you share any thoughts on how to do both at the same time?
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by mcherm 3y ago
See also this article (shared on Hacker News 2 weeks ago): https://www.sligocki.com//2023/10/16/bb-3-3-is-hard.html Basically, they showed that a VERY small Turing Machine -- of a size many had hoped we
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by mcherm 3y ago
Yes, there is a way to protect against that attack! All you need to do is have triggers in place that will shut down or slow down your service when the costs are exceeding some amount. (If you get a moment of viral growth, you can always di
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by mcherm 3y ago
> it's unfathomable to me how an unauthenticated user can just make shops go offline with a false claim That behavior is strongly incentivized by US law (the DMCA), which holds Shopify liable for any copyright infringement by the sh
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by mcherm 3y ago
That's not quite the right way to analyze it, because AirBnB's response (or lack of one) will be part of the story that gets amplified.
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by mcherm 3y ago
> It also sucks that you have to provide strong identity to the payer or payee, [...] That’s a bug, not a feature. No, it is a feature, just not a feature for the customer . It's also not a feature for the bank or fintech. The stri
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by mcherm 3y ago
I haven't heard this concept before, but it is an interesting one. I immediately recognized that for me, Rust (which I am teaching myself) is a "puzzle language" centered around pleasing the borrow checker. Most of my time I
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by mcherm 3y ago
My summary: Your sense of touch wants to measure forces. It actually measures deformation of the flesh. BUT, flesh has some hysteresis: push left then quickly right and the first push affects the deformation during the second. This paper sh
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by mcherm 3y ago
I think your math is wrong. If (as was stated) Google's Chrome is based on KDE, than any user of Google Chrome is necessarily impacted by KDE. Meanwhile there could in theory be some user of KDE who has never used Chrome. So the set
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by mcherm 3y ago
Actually, there IS one thing to see here: apparently a notable failure of journalism from The Economist.
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by mcherm 3y ago
What is your estimate of the amount of work needed to create a minimum usable version of this extension? If the answer is "a month's worth of Sunday afternoons to make it work, plus about double that to make it polished", the
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by mcherm 3y ago
I think it would be better to outsource it than to simply NOT fix anything for any customers OR only fixing issues for customers who manage to get a lot of attention on Hacker News.
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by mcherm 3y ago
I have long had an idea that the best way to handle this is a community supported prioritization service. In other words, a community (hacker news, some subreddit, or perhaps an independent site) would invite people to post problems that ou
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by mcherm 3y ago
That sounds like a WONDERFUL practice!
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by mcherm 3y ago
No, you cannot because they are not on the ballot. They are not on the ballot because successfully getting attention when running for office requires huge amounts of money.
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by mcherm 3y ago
If the goal is to prevent brigading then works that have very few reviews wouldn't need to be protected. That combined with restrictions on reviews before publication might be a viable approach.
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by mcherm 3y ago
> these school districts bought a $250 computer 7 years ago I have not tried to confirm this myself, but the petition ends by stating that some of these products are still available for purchase today. > you can easily install a Linux
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by mcherm 3y ago
That is an interesting and relevant point, but it does not apply in case of Jake and others like him -- he has no alternative where he might live. In my opinion, the FDA ought to be more open to allowing experiments in cases where it is cle
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by mcherm 3y ago
I don't want to talk you out of opposition to the Democratic party or to vilification of ANYONE, including the wealthy. But I DO have a perspective you might be missing: You write: > As someone who [...] worked their ass off to beco
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by mcherm 3y ago
https://www.mcherm.com/ Not updated nearly often enough, but it is not entirely abandoned.
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by mcherm 3y ago
...at which point the code written in C will suffer from BOTH categories of bug, while code written in any language whose compiler guarantees memory safety will not. Guaranteeing memory safety isn't just an overhyped benefit meaningful
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by mcherm 3y ago
Yes!
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by mcherm 3y ago
Confidence that Verizon (my internet service provider) would not know what article I was reading (although they would still know what servers I was connecting to) and would not be selling that information to anyone.
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by mcherm 3y ago
> To me, the answer to all of the questions was crystal-clear. That's not particularly surprising. But you may be asking the wrong question. If you want to know whether the rules are clear then I think that the right question to ask
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by mcherm 3y ago
You COULD say that, if you define "working for" in a particular way. But if define it that way, then "working for" becomes a phrase that has no real use. "X is working for Y" just means "Y has a lot of inf
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by mcherm 3y ago
> What does Amazon have a monopoly on? Audiobooks. https://doctorow.medium.com/why-none-of-my-books-are-availab...
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by mcherm 3y ago
Interesting topic, but I'd rather see an article that had some actual INFORMATION on the lawsuit(s).
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by mcherm 3y ago
I don't think the article in any way suggested that non-Asian = Caucasian, merely that "Caucasian" was the group whose reference point they compared it to.
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by mcherm 3y ago
Sure, the title is clickbait. But the message seemed useful: if your test rigidly requires every call be made in exactly the way it is made now, then your test will be brittle. For a less brittle test, re-implement the functionality in a si
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by mcherm 3y ago
https://vlemmy.net/

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