mjevans

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by mjevans 7mo ago
The filled out ballot is intended to be fully anonymous. It is then slipped into a security sleeve to make it harder to read within the envelope. The envelope is sealed and signed by the citizen. Security is provided by the envelope which i
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by mjevans 7mo ago
The log needs to document, at least in broad steps and critical details, what the next operation is and what key parameters were provided to it. A human, or an 'agent' can use those to figure out why said next step might have gone
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by mjevans 7mo ago
I stopped reading at 'for profit'. Basic functions of society should never be run by 'for profit' standards. Do you want a 'for profit' fire department, medical care system, or law enforcement systems? These
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by mjevans 7mo ago
There are many references, it's more important to have a general sense of what's happening and the relative costs than hard numbers (which tend to shift as hardware gets closer to ideal and software becomes worse at avoiding bloat
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by mjevans 7mo ago
Are they a rare artisan rather than a commodity? Maybe a subtype or cross-trained variation of some other wider job role?
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by mjevans 7mo ago
I'm wondering what the heck will pay the bills on all that 'AI' hardware that's being put out there. So far the number of ideas that sound like an episode of some tech-horror show far outweigh the ones that sound like a
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by mjevans 7mo ago
Anything that is infected by UCS-2 / UTF-16 garbage should be revised and reconsidered... Yeah UTF-8 has carve outs for those escape sequences... However JSON is even worse, you _have_ to use UTF-16 escapes. https://en.wiki
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by mjevans 7mo ago
I think that's likely to work as a no-op
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by mjevans 8mo ago
Taking such a fee also has transaction costs, in the time if nothing else. To liken this back to the old days - the difference in time between flashing a valid transfer slip (of paper) and having to drop change into the automated till.
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by mjevans 8mo ago
That's my observation / fear as well. It makes delivering something that sort of works easy. It makes doing that well more difficult by obscuring the problem domain from the humans and expanding the standard library of tools int
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by mjevans 8mo ago
Were the market functioning, there would be sufficient additional housing near jobs that investors could not sit on and rent-seek reselling property near those jobs as a source of profit. The market is not free. It is heavily regulated by
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by mjevans 8mo ago
The foil is the 'meat' the rollers are the bread.
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by mjevans 8mo ago
I suspected it wasn't just battery farms, but more like what you see in less mass market scifi where the humans are used for more than just batteries... they'd also be some storage and processing for the system (and no longer huma
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by mjevans 8mo ago
IMO there was one other fatal mistake. Dialup internet was also at and passing it's peek. This was the moment when anyone serious about connecting to anything wanted at least DSL if not one of those fast new 'Cable modem' c
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by mjevans 8mo ago
No - Kid friendly should be something site's Attest to and claim they ARE. That becomes an FTC enforceable market claim (or insert other thing here). Foreign sites, places that aren't trying to publish things for children? The d
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by mjevans 8mo ago
It's been too long so I only vaguely remember Wave. It was a little too early to market. Common PCs weren't quite good enough, and common Internet was very not good enough. The UI also didn't quite help shape normal user wor
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by mjevans 8mo ago
The silly move from /bin to /usr/bin broke lots of distros. Probably would have worked out if they'd had cp --reflink=auto --update to help ease migrations from files in /bin to /usr/bin and then just sy
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by mjevans 8mo ago
I recalled there were some new instructions added that greatly help with this. Unfortunately I'm not finding any good _webpages_ that describe the operation generally to give me a good overview / refresher. Everything seems to e
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by mjevans 8mo ago
How about just requiring browser, OS vendors, and phone makers to give parents real child accounts that are easy to use and keep kids off the Internet?
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by mjevans 8mo ago
No, but you can establish limits, like the total set of possible solutions.
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by mjevans 8mo ago
That's the mindset isn't it? *Punitive* use of force. ----- Batman usually doesn't do too badly. Not only is it fiction but they're often against fiction level villains who are 'hardened' criminals in literal
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by mjevans 8mo ago
Empowering the 'User' (hardware owner) should have always been the focus. From that mindset what makes sense are hardware vendors including a cache of trusted third party root certificates from known other vendors. Today this wou
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by mjevans 8mo ago
It has never _not_ been time to build all the power plants we can environmentally afford. More power enables higher quality of living and more advanced civilization. It will be put to use doing something useful, or at the very worst it&#x2
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by mjevans 8mo ago
Should still count if you can be 'drafted' into an 'office job' right?
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by mjevans 8mo ago
Is that a reference to one of the sources of the civil war in the US? Voting rights for disenfranchised (literally enslaved) people?
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by mjevans 8mo ago
Your company is selling the 'valet service' more than the products. There are people willing to pay for convenience AND security at the same time (hire someone else to manage the problem, and they're the 'key').
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by mjevans 8mo ago
NT4 started with a kernel mode, user mode, security model and drivers had to be written and validated accordingly. 9x, me, and even compatibility parts of XP (up to some service patch IIRC? Might have been SP2) would still allow dos mode r
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by mjevans 8mo ago
Mutate things so fast cancer looks like stable.
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by mjevans 8mo ago
I'm fine with this, as long as they DO NOT require any form of ID or 'age' verification. Instead this should be attacked from the profit side, by banning any form of advertising which might target children. If there's n
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by mjevans 8mo ago
I'm convinced 'attendance' at those games is a form of worship / tribal participation.

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