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by paledot 4y ago
In 2022, the strongest possible argument against using HTTPS is "it's not strictly necessary". That's it. It's not expensive, it's not hard, it's not slow. The worst case is you've done something unne
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by paledot 4y ago
And all unicorns are horses.
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by paledot 4y ago
As a web developer who is increasingly getting into tinkering with embedded systems for fun: The first step of displaying a test pattern, sending test bytes between devices, etc. is the biggest one, and in my case usually involves finding a
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by paledot 4y ago
At $20b/mo, you could literally buy the TV networks and show whatever programming you wanted. Or make a decent down payment on Facebook.
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by paledot 4y ago
No, pretty sure "million" means 10^6 everywhere.
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by paledot 4y ago
I've set up an automatic reply email to Facebook recruiters telling them in detail why I'm not interested in doing "the most meaningful work of my career" for them. Although, come to think, I haven't heard from them
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by paledot 4y ago
Depends, if I were writing low-level code like firmware or embedded systems, I would be casting envious eyes and dreaming of the day in 10 years when I'll get to start using it in production code. As a web dev, that's the way I us
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by paledot 4y ago
Ooh, that's all I have to do to watch American capitalism die?
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by paledot 4y ago
> we have developed a method of fording this linguistic barrier I twice misread this as "fjording" and found it quite clever, but alas.
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by paledot 4y ago
Is it? I'm glad it's an option, but I'm also glad retiring at 40 is an option (depending on a lot of stars aligning just right of course). My answer to "how long do I want my career to be?" will never be "until
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by paledot 4y ago
I reversed the numeric row of my keyboard layout so that the symbols are typed without the shift key and the numerals use the shift key. With that arrangement, a number pad is important for any meaningful numeric input. But as a programmer,
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by paledot 4y ago
I had thought we as a species had evolved past that particular design wart.
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by paledot 4y ago
I want to hear more about what you expect the rotary encoder to be used for. You clearly put a lot of thought into making it happen, so - why? I feel like there must be some interesting use cases, but I'm drawing a blank.
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by paledot 4y ago
For my money, they're still not aware and wouldn't know what it meant if someone told them.
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by paledot 4y ago
Privacy should be a right, with limits (like all rights). I'm not sure where in the world privacy is a constitutional right beyond unreasonable-search-and-seizure.
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by paledot 4y ago
Let's hope the Supreme Court will have come to its senses by then. (Although I agree that the premise in a broader sense of trusting a Chinese company over an American one is flawed.)
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by paledot 4y ago
If you're correct, the current intermediate condition where people have removed themselves from the (true) information loop but remain in the decision loop is the scariest state in that decline.
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by paledot 4y ago
A world where proof-of-work meant "prove that you cleaned your/my/someone's kitchen" would be a much better world.
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by paledot 4y ago
The PDF I got from the Microsoft Press Store was watermarked but DRM free.
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by paledot 4y ago
In the case of my local (urban) grocery store, it seems to be the reverse. Coke and beer arrive on their own 18 wheelers that barely fit down the street. Produce is another 18 wheeler owned by the grocery company. Bread, fish, meat, dairy,
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by paledot 4y ago
Followed by a cookie prompt that takes up most of the screen on my phone.
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by paledot 4y ago
Something needs to do harm in order to be harmful. If I drink a bottle of distilled water a day, I am healthier (better hydrated) than if I do not drink that bottle. That is the opposite of harmful. Replacing tap water or bottled water with
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by paledot 4y ago
Sounds exactly like the panopticon surveillance feature of Teams that Microsoft got rightfully roasted for a few months ago, only laser-targeted at developers (or their keepers) instead. > What this is not: A monitoring tool that will te
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by paledot 4y ago
How did this hit the front page? Your comment is word for word the same as "Leclerc1", and every other comment is by someone identifying themselves as associated with the company.
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by paledot 4y ago
Because your statement is demonstrably false and people here are nothing if not pedantic.
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by paledot 4y ago
My "Rust" experience apparently qualifies me for a job as an aircraft painter.
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by paledot 4y ago
And this is why we can't trust the threat of class action to hold companies accountable.
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by paledot 4y ago
Likewise! It has fewer features and is less convenient to use than a regular browser due to constantly having to log in to sites, which is 100% also a feature to me. The extra steps to access Facebook have allowed me to kick my Facebook hab
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by paledot 4y ago
Okay, but if his startup isn't named Sisyphus Energy, I don't know what he's doing with his life.
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by paledot 4y ago
You presume that I can gain any insight at all by copy-pasting a series of arcane invocations from the internet.

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