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by mkatx 3y ago
This book is why I went to school for computer science. Good sheet right thur.
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by mkatx 3y ago
I've always felt like laws should be reviewed every so often, maybe even re-passed, to be sure they are still relevant, make sense, and to see if they worked as intended. There are at least some laws that don't make sense anymore
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by mkatx 6y ago
I can fully get behind the thesis of this post. But I still love using my thin laptop. My solution: run desktops at home as your own private cloud and use them in various ways from you laptop or phone. Create your own services or use oss se
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by mkatx 6y ago
I second Charles Petzold's book Code! It was my first technical book and probably the reason I'm going to school for computer science right now. I recommend it to anyone interested in learning how computers work, even non-techies!
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by mkatx 6y ago
> Many more people are dying from toxic street drugs than are dying from COVID-19. It’s a “shadow pandemic” In America, the worse year of the opioid crisis killed ~65k people from my recollection. The "real pandemic" killed tha
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by mkatx 6y ago
Math is the foundation of science, right? Things in science are provable because of the rigorous mathematical proofs applied to data, correlating with reproducible results, is my perception. There are many models of societies currently and
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by mkatx 6y ago
Haha, your right.
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by mkatx 6y ago
Reminds me of working at amazon doing prime deliveries and using an Android app where you can create flow charts to automate grabbing hours. The difference is amazon at the time didn't care. We even reported what we were doing as a bug
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by mkatx 6y ago
I would equate crypto currency more with trading collectables. If Haskell was financed with profits from trading magic the gathering cards, would it be different? Some people trading MTG cards might be unsavory, some might try to scam you,
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by mkatx 6y ago
Are they Children's Online Privacy Protection Act compliant? And if they are compliant, are you saying their product is unusable if you refuse consent? I would think their design mimicking Twitter would put them under COPPA.