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by mckn1ght 3y ago
Yep, private leaderboards are where it’s at for me. Global pseudonymization dilutes accountability. I much prefer the book club feel of paying with people I know and trust, who all discuss the solutions as they work through them and are hap
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
Geez, the number of support requests I’ve sent to Strava over the years asking them to clean up their data. I don’t know about Android, but iOS can fairly reliably tell the difference between walking, running, bicycling, driving… They shoul
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
> I'm utterly mystified by folks who are interested in making the leaderboard or even solving AoC puzzles with AI assistance This reminds me of the Project Euler position on people posting their solutions publicly. The assumption is
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
I agree that two leaderboards would be a fine middle ground. Just put a checkbox next to the submission box.
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
The problem there is that bagged soil is very expensive, and has to be trucked around a couple times to get it to the store. I picked up like 3 cu yds of compost/topsoil mix from a local horse farm for about 1/5 of the price. Can’
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
You’re of course free to think the feature is horrible, but hopefully you realize that’s your opinion on the matter, and not some kind of objective truth. Chesterton’s fence: why did Apple make this feature in the first place? There is a
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
No need to apologize. I didn’t say they are equivalent, I’m trying to draw analogies. If you leave your car sitting for 5 years, you will probably have a bit of a hard time starting it too. If you leave a garden or house untouched for 5 yea
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
> Fixing hardware isn't that different from fixing software. It absolutely is different. How do you propose even changing the software when there is an interlock preventing access? Should Apple also be responsible for people who ena
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
But now we’re just going down a path where it’s not a binary broken/not broken but “how broken is it?” If I change the oil in my car but forget to put the plug back in and then start it and drive off and seize my engine, it’s basically
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
Sure they do. You’ve never accidentally broken something you owned?
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
Hard to know without running the experiment again without the controls to see how much more theft would result were they not in place. I doubt the theft issue would be better without them. You are just letting the perfect be the enemy of th
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
It’s not Apple’s fault that people don’t RTFM and disable the locks before getting rid of their old devices. It’s absurd to claim this is Apple’s MO or that it would make a dent in their numbers. If you have proof, show us the receipts. Tha
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
I wonder if the new one is a different generation than your original set, I don’t think they’ll work together if that’s the case. They have tiny model numbers printed on them, do they match? They probably gave you the right one since they’d
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
> taking the time off doesn't even seem like an option You don't get what you don't ask for. If you're asking and you feel like you're being overworked and reasonable requests for breaks are denied too much, work
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
Can you imagine how thick each day’s newspaper would be if it mentioned all the nice–or even just neutral–things people do each day? There are billions of people on the planet. Plenty of good and good enough to go around.
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
What an awesome writeup. Just wanted to add a link to a good website tracking the progress of the Hampton Roads Bridge Tunnel expansion project, something near and dear to me as someone who has suffered much frustration driving through the
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
Check out the plan to truck gold ore from a mine to a processing facility 240 miles away, passing through Fairbanks, with an 86 ton, 95 foot double trailer truck every 24 minutes, around the clock, for 4 to 5 years. https://manhc
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by mckn1ght 3y ago
I made a GitHub repo mirroring it: https://github.com/armcknight/john-mccarthy-numerical-facts Also saw someone else just added it to one of theirs: https://github.com/bbarclay7/bb-emacs/blob&
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by mckn1ght 4y ago
I wrote a similar one I called Forgery that’s in a repo of the same name in my github account (which can be found in my user profile… just created this account and didn’t want to post a link in my first post, thought it might get automodded