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by nirvdrum 3y ago
Hulu did (does?) this and the form rejected my email address as invalid because the domain portion had three parts to it. Of course, they were able to continue sending me emails so some system knew it was valid. It was likely a bad assumpti
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
IRAs have much lower contribution limits though. If you want tax-advantaged savings for retirement, those with access to a 401(k) have a huge advantage over those without. I would expect as a society we want people to properly prepare for r
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
> Honestly, there's nothing immoral about charging market rates. I think the debate is far more nuanced than that. Dislodging families, eliminating the ability to save for retirement, sucking up capital that could otherwise be put t
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
Likewise. It's amazing how much SMS spam I get on Google Voice number relative to my primary number. Google Voice makes it easy to blackhole numbers and at least some form of spam filtering. If it's going to rule out potential emp
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
Graal is a JIT compiler. Truffle is a framework/DSL for building self-optimizing AST interpreters. Truffle also provides a partial evaluator that works with Graal for the metacompilation part. However, any interpreter you build with Tr
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
For years I thought it was odd that GitHub didn't let you do basic tasks in their mobile site. You couldn't browse releases. You couldn't look at the files in a PR. Then one day I accidentally hit my thumb over the middle of
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
> You've agreed to their terms that don't violate the law I don't think there's much agreement going on with data brokers beyond very broad "we reserve the right to share your data with third parties to improve s
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
It doesn't really matter what the BOM is. The product was sold with that functionality built into it and it's now being removed. Sure, we can debate whether that's a lifeline or rent seeking. But, consumers are rightfully ups
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
Testing your memory detects if you have bad RAM, which ECC isn't going to help with anyway. Perfectly fine memory will experience random bit flips from environmental factors. Your PC components and UPS also degrade over time and can ca
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
You likely wouldn't know if you had random bit flips. It'd manifest as silent data corruption. You might be okay with that. Others aren't. It's not a matter of overclocking. Bit flips are a fact of life running with 32+
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
I currently run a 3700X with 64 GB ECC. I've been interested in a jump to an AM5 series, but have found the matter of ECC compatibility frustrating to research, particularly because DDR5 has limited ECC built in and that confuses the d
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
The product was sold with the monitoring baked in. There was no expectation by consumers that they would have to pay an ongoing fee for functionality that was included at the time of the purchase. I don't have the BOM either, but $400
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
> The point of the whole sub thread is that a merchant can always accept a credit card but still incentivize use of debit or cash by giving a discount. I was replying to the point made by the parent; it wasn't a meta comment for the
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
There's a huge network effect that's effectively led to a 3% tax on the economy. Since every other store accepts credit cards, you need to too. It's not a case where a credit card allows someone that was going to buy a $500 T
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
Target also gives you a 5% discount for using their RedCard. It's your typical store-branded loyalty card. Except, instead of giving you "points" on your purchase you get an upfront discount. Target is unique in that they mak
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
I suppose this is all relative. Paying people a paltry wage, cutting their hours so they can't get employer-sponsored healthcare, routinely committing wage theft, forcing minors to be use unsafe equipment, requiring doctor notes for ti
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
In Subversion at least, you'd do a partial checkout. If you don't need a particular directory you just don't check it out. If you lay out your repo structure well there's no problem. It was incredibly convenient. I'
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
I've been pretty happy with financier.io as a replacement. I pay the $12 a year for hosting, but I think you can get by running a CouchDB server somewhere. The author basically stopped working on it so its future may be in question, bu
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
Here I was referring specifically to pulling in a web browser as a dependency. Chrome pumps out security releases regularly for all sorts of issues. If you're essentially making Chromium the core of your application, you inherit those
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
The indignity! Don't do it if you don't want to, but let's not pretend sorting a plastic bag is a major imposition. Just because something is a worse polluter doesn't mean we can't improve anything else.
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
I can't see users caring about it all being one single codebase and I don't think that they should. Every cross-platform development tool like this means awkward, non-native UIs. Maybe there's something to new feature develop
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
I think there's two different arguments going on. A key difference between today and the two thousand years that came before is you can make a perfect replica of the source material. Selling a bit-for-bit copy of a song or book is fund
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
Then consoles all but killed arcades because it turns out no one really wanted to keep feeding quarters (and then dollars) into an unfair game even if that turned out to be cheaper than buying a game outright. Removing that monetization str
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
> I don't think creators 'deserve' anything, but I think a hard 10 year period is about okay to the original creators or the publishers to monetize the product, then move on to an another product, or do whatever they want.
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
I think it has a bigger impact than you realize. The last iPhone I owned was the 3GS. I don't particularly like iPhone or Android; I'm hardly a fan boy. But, I'm seriously looking a iPhone 15 variant as my next phone. I have
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
I get your point, but it's a blog post by a Ruby & Rails core member, published on a Ruby-oriented blog named "Rails at Scale", with a particular audience in mind, and is written as a response to an ongoing discussion in
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
Maybe I misread your intent, but it sounded like a "gotcha!" on the original post because the author didn't dive into something with even worse privacy protections. Google and Android don't need to be brought up every ti
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
I think the problems with click fraud are orthogonal. They're a different domain with different characteristics and different solutions. Facial recognition has been deployed to combat shoplifting [1][2]. Amazon Go is a store built arou
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
The article is about Apple because Apple is the one billing itself as the vanguard of privacy and as the privacy-preserving opponent of Android. It's also quite possible the author doesn't have or use an Android device. If you&#x2
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by nirvdrum 3y ago
Given companies are doing subject tracking with in-store cameras and can use facial recognition to tell who you are, cash isn't going to be sufficient. They'll be able to build a pretty compelling shopping profile and can tie asso

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