meekrohprocess

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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
They could also do it at arm's length. A lot of MTurk-style sites have loads of jobs along the lines of, "click this ad, fill out this form, get $0.02".
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
>I absolutely don't get those wide open questions like "How would you design 1-hour delivery?" Quick tip: interviewers often design that kind of question to be intentionally vague. If you get a question like that, they pro
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Right, exactly. The habit is gross, not the person. "Social-media-using" should be treated like an adjective that modifies the individual, not a noun that defines them. It's a shame that nuance seems like the first thing to g
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
It's amazing how quickly ARM has become adopted by so many mainstream companies (for ordinary "desktop" operating systems). My pet theory is that we can thank Chromebooks and SBCs like the Raspberry Pi. About 5 years ago, my
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Shaming people who use mass-scale social media could help. Sort of like smoking: people used to do it because it was cool, even after the enormous health problems were well-understood. And it didn't stop being cool until enough people
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
I am having trouble finding a way to describe Facebook's behavior here besides, "evil". They are running and maintaining the infrastructure for a modern-day Stasi, and they steadfastly refuse to do anything about it. The targ
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Maybe you could have hash-based blocklists, and mandate that everyone subscribes to an "illegal" list which governments could freely contribute to. But then you'd have a new problem: what if someone posts an image of the Tian
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Okay, I guess we could start sending SWAT teams to throw quarantine violators in prison; that does seem like an apt analogy for the war on drugs. But I should have said "treating" instead of "fighting". Hurting someone i
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Really? For a whole year period? That seems shockingly high. It makes me wonder why we haven't been spending anything close to 1/5 as much time and effort on ~~fighting~~ treating opioid abuse as we have on covid. Especially sin
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Just play at your own pace. Once you get past adolescence, life will happen and you'll fall behind recent releases. Launch bugs will cease to matter. Hey speaking of, I just found this cool new game called Borderlands - it's a sha
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
You get there, only to find out that there's no there there. Don't worry, there are more things to do than there are years in your life. Try something else. Go visit some tall mountains, learn to drive/pilot something new, ma
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
I understand your misgivings, and I'll admit that I don't literally have enough carbon paper to make a suit out of warnings. But I do have a lot of them, and no actual tickets from those areas. I have had multiple K-9 searches wit
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Civil asset forfeiture makes it really annoying to travel through some of the prettiest parts of America. Say that you like the parks and forests in places like Montana, Arkansas, Utah, New Mexico, etc. You're going to do a lot of driv
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
IMO, you could highlight the differences between similar titles. It's easy for recommendations to get stuck on a local maxima if they only look at one metric at a time, like "similarity" weights. But if you have a lot of meta
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Is eLua still maintained, or do you just build Lua into your firmwares?
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
As a student, it always felt like a mixture of "better to have it and not need it" and bog standard corruption. Most teachers didn't use the advanced featutes, disliked that students played games on them during class, and had
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Ironically, the 1st Amendment protects Twitter's ability to block anything that it likes. Fundamentally, the government can't dictate what anybody chooses to publish (or not) on a website that they own. They can seize it and prose
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
You might be able to get an insurance company to sign on to that sort of thing; have you shopped for quotes? They'd probably want to look at a representative sample of "cloud overrun" events and see how much they cost, how li
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
They work fine, as long as you never update them within 3 weeks of a new OS release. And if Apple's authentication servers are up. Using them at work is a blessing and a curse.
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Interestingly, the USB 2.x specification states that a device must not draw more than 500uA (~2.5mW) while it is not being actively addressed by the host. I frequently wonder how many devices actually adhere to that requirement. Probably no
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
A government didn't create them in the first place, at least not in the US. The Constitution and Bill of Rights were drafted by small committees, and later ratified by each state outside of the existing (paralyzed) governmental process
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Yeah, it does seem like the best jobs are the ones that you don't have to jump through arbitrary hoops for. Ideally, your employer or client will respect you as a human being who has something valuable to bring to the table. When I fin
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Could be a good sci-fi plot. A sleeper ship full of time-delayed embryos crash-lands on an alien planet, and the people are left to grow and develop a civilization with only a ship's computer to nurture and guide them. Sort of like Los
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
It is one of the fun things about graphics programming. Bugs can also sometimes be funny enough to dispel the frustration. But when you've been futzing around with quaternions all day, and your camera finally stops acting like a hypera
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
There doesn't really need to be an "else". It's a handheld platform with an FPGA instead of a CPU, and it costs less than a flagship smartphone. The order of magnitude lower speed is an expected byproduct of the hardware
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Stagefright was ~5 years ago now, though. I remember it, because the company I worked for at the time flipped out and banned all Android phones from their network for over a year. It was fantastic; I got a whole year of not being able to se
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
>But years ago if you wanted information about a restaurant on the web... was it even there? Yes, it was. ~10-20 years ago, local restaurants and businesses would pay high school / college kids a pittance set up a simple website fo
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
See also: Espruino: https://www.espruino.com/ JerryScript: https://jerryscript.net/ Running javascript on microcontrollers is surprisingly popular. Personally I keep returning to C, but these frameworks can
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
You can disable interrupts when modifying locking primitives, and save/restore the CPU context when interrupts are entered/exited. You can also minimize the amount of changes that any interrupt handler can make within the interrup
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by meekrohprocess 6y ago
Oh yeah, cool - I missed that. Finally! An Espressif chip with WiFi, Bluetooth, and USB!

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