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by mden 4y ago
That's an interesting article, thanks for the link. It doesn't support the original claim very strongly however. It showcases there's a flawed process for obtaining user data (which is still obviously bad) but it's far r
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by mden 4y ago
To be clear I'm not saying there isn't an extensive surveillance apparatus. I'm saying the claim that giant tech companies are willfully providing unrestricted access to user data to the intelligence community is not at all a
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by mden 4y ago
You're making a wildly different claim than the initial one. The initial claim is "obviously Gmail and such are piped directly into global intelligence databases". Portals for law enforcement which likely require some kind of
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by mden 5y ago
Chiming in with the rest. Most, maybe all, anti-vaxxers I've interacted with (friends, family, acquaintances) have provided reasons such as 1) the vaccine changes my dna, 2) micro-chips (by an Amazon SWE!), 3) the vaccine only affects
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by mden 5y ago
What do you mean by single screen? There's no technical reason for that to be the case and there are already games that have multiple screens, even past the basic main menu + main game loop ones. You can find multiple functioning and f
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by mden 5y ago
One of the potential negative externalities is overwhelming hospitals, pushing out others in need of help.
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by mden 5y ago
Calculus is a subset of analysis. It's not really its own subject. Generally what people call calculus is a collection of results that are part of analysis.
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by mden 5y ago
Doesn't internet+oAuth+ecosystem essentially cover the metaverse concept already or am I missing the big picture? > The metaverse will be persistent That's already the case. Your email, facebook posts, photos, game history, cha
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by mden 5y ago
I don't buy into the argument that if those people limited their travel and consumption then all of the sudden the non-believers will start believing. There's just no evidence that's an effective way to have societal impact.
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by mden 5y ago
> You've missed the point and taken it out of context 1. I find the original quote, at least as presented without additional context, pretty difficult to see as anything but nonsensical. You following it up with "Honestly, I th
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by mden 5y ago
That's not relevant to the point they are making. CIS is a different major than CS.
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by mden 5y ago
Even if that's the case, it doesn't explain why that's bad? Generally that's how progress is made, exceedingly rare is the core of an idea original.
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by mden 5y ago
I've done about a 10 mo break after my first job and after my second and it has never been an issue with employment. You're overestimating how much hr and hiring managers care.
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by mden 5y ago
I've used it quite a bit but I've had it desync from the server state somehow on multiple occasions making the experience not all that pleasant.
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by mden 6y ago
Something I plan on making when free time exists - yet another tool for note organization but with features that I find missing from ones I've seen. Table stakes: - Open source - Bring your own client (i.e. you can use any editor
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by mden 6y ago
I think that's rather naive. A lot of work engineers do involves either keeping systems afloat or minor alterations that in cohort lead to a new feature but each minor alterations itself not doing anything meaningful. Evaluating indivi
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by mden 6y ago
Sure but why do you care about the person having a picture... It's Github, look at the code, it's what it's there for.
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by mden 6y ago
I think it's more like laws (of man, not nature) than art or math. There are complex rules that define how a computer and a programming language on that computer function. Even if we assume these rules are perfectly defined and not bug
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by mden 6y ago
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Infamous strategy of Microsoft esp in the 90s.
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by mden 6y ago
"Corporate executives have a fiduciary duty to maximize shareholder returns" My understanding is that that's an oft repeated myth - https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are
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by mden 6y ago
This type of mentality stunts discussion and equally applies to your comment as well as the post. If you truly believed in what you wrote you would simply ignore an opinion piece that you didn't like instead of commenting on it.
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by mden 6y ago
Which part of my comment is not true? That corporate culture changes with time? That you can't trust companies like you can humans? I'm genuinely curious with which part you disagree. It's nice that you can feel morally super
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by mden 6y ago
"They are not dumb" - and neither are most of the employees of nearly every other company that does unethical things. That's not an argument. "By the past they have proven numerous time that they have a lot the sense of
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by mden 6y ago
I think there's also a sort of a tension with this approach of little tasks with little trust and the complexities of modern code. Many small tasks involve a pretty in-depth understanding of a large stack to do correctly. This understa
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by mden 6y ago
Playing with Bevy and its ECS made me shocked (in a really nice way) how much like a dependency injection framework it worked. Writing a system and simply specifying what resources and queries it needs as function arguments and it magically
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by mden 6y ago
Const values are inlined at compile time wherever they are used. Const functions let you run code to define const values. This code will be run at compile time before the const values are inlined. For example let's say you have a const
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by mden 6y ago
Most of the alternate approaches have their own severe failings: Ask pertinent questions - a lot of candidates are bad at immediate summation and dissemination of information. There are many good engineers who have not learned how to sell t
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by mden 6y ago
Capital One uses microservices with multiple layers for privileging and is "true devops" with devs typically deciding IAM policies. One of the big issues with microservices is that you need to invest a whole lot more into infrastr
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by mden 6y ago
And then when you click on Success you get this graph (which is a bit sad) - https://shachaf.net/pet.txt
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by mden 6y ago
Just want to second how solidly built the game feels. There's definitely a learning curve which keeps on going for many hours (and I think that's a big part of the appeal) and there's some missing in-game information that I&#

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