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by nix0n 3y ago
> I will continue to do these in a terminal and Python REPL for all the reasons you bring up. Do you have a way to prevent terminal utilities from accessing the network?
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by nix0n 3y ago
> the category of labor historically done by men to provide for a family With cost-of-living increases, are these jobs still paying enough to provide for a family? If they aren't, then it's possible you have cause and effect ba
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by nix0n 3y ago
> These types of rules may have unintended consequences, for example requiring that you collect a street address before providing pricing. They already do this. In fact, they will collect your street address before informing you whether
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by nix0n 3y ago
> there should be some amazing games capable of running browser now The first one that really blew me away was the demo of Superhot[0]. [0] https://superhotgame.com/superhot-prototype
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by nix0n 3y ago
> It's a lot of filtering I have to do as a user For me, 95% of the time it is enough to read the first couple lines of the question, then hit the "End" key and read the least-upvoted answer.
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by nix0n 3y ago
Originally built on Java
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by nix0n 3y ago
It will reduce the strain on transportation infrastructure if more people can live close to where they work, or have "reverse" commutes.
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by nix0n 3y ago
The reason that this is Engineering as opposed to Science, is that the hypothesis is just, "hey, maybe this will work". Nobody has really explained why it works.
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by nix0n 3y ago
There's no spaces at the end of the line. Every thing lines up exactly.
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by nix0n 3y ago
So, the 3 hard problems in computer science are now: 1. Cache invalidation 2. Naming things 3. Requirements 4. Off-by-one errors
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by nix0n 3y ago
I think a cloned whole chicken is a real chicken, but I don't think a part of a chicken is a real chicken.
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by nix0n 3y ago
> This would be real meat. I'm not sure if I agree with that. It's definitely not real chicken.
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by nix0n 3y ago
It's a "program-diffing" tool, not a "Free-and-Open-Source-program". The title would be less confusing if written as "Diaphora, the most advanced, Free and Open Source, program-diffing tool".
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by nix0n 3y ago
The current theory is that the pilot of MH-370 was able to disable most of the tracking equipment, while the plane moved away from any major population centers. The radio operator of the Titanic was trying very hard to let everybody know wh
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by nix0n 3y ago
> For people who actually know, it once again seems good. If the way to make it work is to use "site:", to me that doesn't count as "searching the web" anymore.
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by nix0n 3y ago
> existing, reusable code to do so Is there a library that you recommend for this?
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by nix0n 3y ago
In some US jurisdictions, theft below some dollar value is considered not worth prosecuting, i.e. legal. It is not as though Amazon is really going to miss one copy of Zelda, so it's morally not too bad. > I wouldn’t call stealing,
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by nix0n 3y ago
In my experience, caffeine addiction and "other stuff in diet cola" addiction are two separate things. It might not be possible to kick both at once, but I feel like my life is better since switching mostly to coffee. Good luck!
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by nix0n 3y ago
We need one more layer, for machines that watch how much you're spending on the machines to watch the machines that watch the machines.
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by nix0n 3y ago
> any military that commits to using them will have a huge advantage ? I don't think that's true. If autonomous weapons are deployed, the advantage will go to whoever has the best hackers.
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by nix0n 3y ago
If it's the delay that killed it, that's really still an unforced error. They had Windows CE in the 90s, and Windows Mobile in the 2000s. They were in a good place to be able to release a smartphone in time.
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by nix0n 3y ago
Note to the author or anyone else having similar problems with a Thunderbolt/USB-C dock on a Dell running Linux: Try hard-resetting the dock. (Just yank the power and put it back in.)
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by nix0n 3y ago
> mobile experiences that are more addictive than what would be allowed in American casinos Does the Nevada Gaming Commission have a specific standard here, which could be copied by other government bodies?
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by nix0n 4y ago
Getting sued can be expensive, even if there is little chance of losing the suit.
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by nix0n 4y ago
> "have some free stuff, p.s. we only spent time optimizing it for things we sell" The funny part is, that's exactly what Intel did with their C++ compiler. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_C%2B%2B_
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by nix0n 4y ago
In many places within the USA it is illegal to sleep in a car.
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by nix0n 4y ago
> Time of flight camera staring at the driver’s face is kinda normal in car industry What?
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by nix0n 4y ago
The problem is that the "dimmable" LEDs I have aren't actually dimmable, they just get flickery. The article has a similar sentiment: it's hard to translate from what the box says to how it'll actually perform in th
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by nix0n 4y ago
> and it might be that "blue light glasses" also work I've got the more subtle blue light blockers (I wear them basically 24/7) and unfortunately they do not help with this.
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by nix0n 4y ago
People are already misusing statistical models, in ways that are already causing harm to people. See this HN thread from 2016[0], which also points to [1](a book) and [2](PDF). I definitely agree with you that it's going to get a lot w

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