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by mmagin 11y ago
Gotta love folks who say "anti-terrorism" and "anti-riot" in the same sentence.
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by mmagin 11y ago
Are there companies with >100,000 employees who are not highly dysfunctional?
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by mmagin 11y ago
Fortunately, ideas and attitudes are contagious between groups of people.
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by mmagin 11y ago
To expand on this, are there good models for translating concentrations of toxic substances in vacuum cleaner dust into actual exposure of people who live or work in those spaces? It seems like it would be a lot easier to get people scared
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by mmagin 11y ago
You already have SF placing a maximum (not a minimum) amount on how much parking is built per new housing unit. Theoretically people are supposed to use mass transit more as a result, but the city government repeatedly cripples SFMTA, as I
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by mmagin 11y ago
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then err... Microsoft doing lots of Linux stuff to remain relevant.
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by mmagin 11y ago
TIL that Read The Docs is a product and not just a condescendingly-named website with mirrors of python docs. :)
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by mmagin 11y ago
I'll just leave this here: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Roko's_basilisk
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by mmagin 11y ago
My own take is that this suffers the same problem as all the other "Teach everyone to code" initiatives. Learning to be even a moderately good programmer requires the willingness to keep screwing around with an annoyingly stupid,
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by mmagin 11y ago
Alternatively, could this be an unpowered antenna that is picking up signal from a nearby powered one? I'm pretty sure this is what's happening. From past experience with high voltage arcs (admittedly at 60hz, not ~1 MHz), I d
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by mmagin 11y ago
Do the countries you mention want immigrants who are not likely to benefit their economy significantly and who probably don't have fluency in the local language?
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by mmagin 11y ago
Well, I'm in the US, though I think the UK plug is great. I've found tons of products even sold on amazon which are not UL listed. And most consumers don't realize how bad these things can be.
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by mmagin 11y ago
Aside from the fact that ring mains should probably be eliminated, and it's hard to trust cheap appliances to have properly safety-rated fuses in the plugs today, I don't see what else has changed.
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by mmagin 11y ago
It's a good subject, but the article neglects that the reason for the fuse is the rather high current "ring main" which was a copper-saving measure. If you don't need the fuse in the plug, the Schuko plug is pretty nice
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by mmagin 11y ago
That essay seems unnecessarily ad hominem and I find it hard to read with the unnecessary amount of neologism. Certainly people are welcome to find ideas advocated for by fairly socially well-off groups to be suspect, but it doesn't m
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by mmagin 11y ago
Well, BSSID, not the easily-changed ESSID (as commented below.) Presumably some manufacturer of ultra-cheap wifi gear isn't properly setting a unique BSSID range into the units they make, and some stolen-phone operation has the same BS
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by mmagin 11y ago
I'm assuming the conductivity is a lot better than existing conductive glues, though I really wish their article had actually provided some comparisons to those glues so it was easier to understand the motivation.
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by mmagin 11y ago
There's actually a low-tech solution to this problem as well, it's called a broom.
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by mmagin 11y ago
It is my understanding that very few, if any ARM SOCs support ECC RAM.
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by mmagin 11y ago
"manspreading" is a word?
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by mmagin 11y ago
That's not a 300 line if statement, it's broken down into many functions. But anyway, I see the world of enterprise Java has reached Python.
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by mmagin 11y ago
"If ECC were actually important, it would be used everywhere and not just servers." Ha. I wish I could get laptops with ECC RAM.
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by mmagin 11y ago
I think it's incredible that most of the comments here seem to accept or even defend that this is just the way things are, even explaining all the ways they work around it, rather than considering that this is a serious browser securit
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by mmagin 11y ago
Well, there's Bitcoin. Its very existence encourages a lot of energy to be spent on a fairly small transaction volume.
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by mmagin 11y ago
kill -9 is like rm -rf. Sometimes you need it, but it's the path of maximum destruction. In the case of kill, signal 9 (SIGKILL) is a signal that processes cannot trap, so they immediately end without any chance of cleanup or saving
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by mmagin 11y ago
I think what the GP may be getting at, with respect to building codes, is that while some of them are valid safety concerns, there's a lot of them that can be attributed to "regulatory capture" -- At least here in the US, I&#
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by mmagin 11y ago
While I realize you have tried a lot of medications and are probably not feeling the energy to try more, I think you need a better psychiatrist and/or medications. Also, knowing someone with a less-common variant of bipolar disorder wh
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by mmagin 11y ago
All I can conclude is that in US politics, it's far more politically suicidal to give things away to individuals for free than to waste government money.
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by mmagin 11y ago
Surprisingly they have less of the deliberate yes-we-have-diversity than the usual selection of stock photos used on such a document by a big company.
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by mmagin 11y ago
"They may be the byproduct of systems and institutions that have taken on lives of their own and serve no one’s interests. That can happen if some industries have simply become giant make-work projects that trap everyone within them.&q

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