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by mdavidn 3y ago
You forgot an important one: Your ancestors, descendants, siblings, and cousins share much of the same DNA but did not consent to its release. All of the above risks apply to them as well. I'd be most concerned about insurance companie
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by mdavidn 3y ago
These two forms are equivalent in modern Ruby, but they weren't always. The explicit &block required a heap allocation to close over the block's local scope. This is a "reified" Proc object. The implicit block could
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by mdavidn 3y ago
I have practiced this advice in line-of-business software to great effect. Popular ORM libraries operate on individual records, but that is quite slow when software needs to import a large number of objects. Restructuring the code to operat
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by mdavidn 3y ago
> Plus they are nerfing the desktops by only offering the all-in-ones with m2 I'm confused by this statement. The iMacs leapfrogged M2. The new models shipping next month will have regular M3 chips, replacing M1 models.
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by mdavidn 3y ago
The historical data is based on an analysis of air bubbles trapped in Antarctic ice cores.
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by mdavidn 3y ago
I’ve been a happy subscriber to Kagi ever since Neeva shut down. Kagi is much faster and yields better results for the kinds of queries I make. The domain filtering really makes a big difference.
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by mdavidn 3y ago
They do publish global leaderboards. https://kagi.com/stats?stat=leaderboard
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by mdavidn 3y ago
Radars do consume a lot of energy at the beginning of a game, but even just one placed early and running continuously will find the ore needed to produce exponentially more power. After that, I no longer think about radar power consumption.
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by mdavidn 3y ago
Huh? “Profit” is not ambiguous, even in your business. It’s a value you calculate each year on Schedule C.
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by mdavidn 3y ago
Not feeding my innermost thoughts to an ad network is absolutely worth $10/mo to me.
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by mdavidn 3y ago
Early mobile games were such a delight. I have fond memories of Angry Birds, Plants vs Zombies, Cut the Rope, Flight Control, Threes, Monument Valley, Bad Piggies... But then predatory freemium games like Clash of Clans and newer replacemen
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by mdavidn 3y ago
The Kinesis keyboards keep those keys. I've been using a 360, and the lack of function keys has bothered me less than anticipated. ... I use IDEs from JetBrains, a company that seems to view muscle memory for crazy keyboard shortcuts a
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by mdavidn 3y ago
Arguably, the Air France incident was both a pilot and software problem. Although the software worked as designed, it contributed to the pilots' confusion. This was particularly true of the stall warning, which would reject angle of at
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by mdavidn 3y ago
1Password has a similar feature to notify me whenever a site adds two-factor support or experiences a data breach. Password managers are (or should be) understandably uneasy about integrations, but this feels like a natural extension to tho
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by mdavidn 3y ago
I have the opposite problem: I recognize regular soda by its terrible aftertaste. Drinks sweetened with aspartame don’t leave an aftertaste in my mouth.
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by mdavidn 3y ago
Either, depending on which study you accept.
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by mdavidn 3y ago
How is higher net worth a benefit? Gains in a property are unrealized until sold or mortgaged.
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by mdavidn 3y ago
It's not that dissimilar to the sophisticated, non-deterministic failures already introduce over time by humans.
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by mdavidn 3y ago
The banging sound could be the Titanic itself. Something metallic may still swing in the shifting current after all these years.
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by mdavidn 3y ago
Google's concern here is not the output of generative AI (though that's certainly an open legal question) but the input. Coding assistance requires the transmission of context, such as internal source code around an edit, to the A
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by mdavidn 3y ago
I think this entire product line is a terrible idea but ... A wire to a pocket battery does seem like a good compromise.
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by mdavidn 3y ago
> if I heard correctly, the display on the front is 3d and gives different perspectives based upon the viewers This effect probably relies on a lenticular lens overlaid on an OLED screen. This was similar to the method used by the Ninten
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by mdavidn 3y ago
The AmazonSmile program ended a couple months ago. https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-closing...
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by mdavidn 3y ago
OAuth for devices was created for TV set top boxes and game consoles, network-connected devices with displays but limited password input. Device code flow is _widely_ used for this. To the user, this displays an activation URL or QR code. Y
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by mdavidn 3y ago
Password managers mitigate this. If the form doesn't offer to fill my saved password, that immediately raises red flags in my head. I immediately bail out or manually validate domains.
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by mdavidn 3y ago
I wonder the same thing about the regular prompts to change my default search back to Bing, all disguised in language about optimizing Edge with recommended settings.
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by mdavidn 3y ago
I despise JS clients because I hate waiting for the entire thing to download and initialize every time I visit a site to make a quick change. Looking at you, Hello Fresh.
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by mdavidn 4y ago
Learning to work with Rust's borrow checker leaves one with the sinking realization that every C program also has a borrow checker: The very fallible programmer.
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by mdavidn 4y ago
Yes, it is difficult to maintain. That might be a good moment to consider a proper graph database!
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by mdavidn 4y ago
I do love PostgreSQL, and I often reach for this approach when working with hierarchical data, but a word of warning: Recursive queries will not scale to handle _very_ large edge tables. The recursive query will always consider _all_ edges,

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