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by pdkl95 7y ago
From PBS Frontline's "United States Of Secrets" (part 2)[1]: LIZ FIGUEROA, (D) State Senator, CA, 1998-06: We walk into this room, and it’s myself and two of my staff— my chief of staff and one of my attorneys. And
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> I shudder at the thought of a Turning Machine running on it A mechanical bf interpreter in Opus Magnum[1]. Self modifying code hell appears to result in a much more compact machine... at the cost of sanity. [1] https://www
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Steering with the Windshield Wipers(locusmag.com)
1 points by pdkl95 7y ago|0 comments
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Apple's growth strategy is a textbook case of antitrust abuse(boingboing.net)
3 points by pdkl95 7y ago|0 comments
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YouTube's DMCA Double Standard(youtube.com)
1 points by pdkl95 7y ago|0 comments
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> I don't see why "poor urban blacks" buying $200 sneakers is a "desperate wealth-singalling purchase". Far too often sending the right kind of signal is a required prerequisite[1] to e.g. being granted access
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by pdkl95 7y ago
The malicious code can simply write an executable somewhere in the profile (or /tmp, or anywhere). It is highly unlikely that the profile (usually in /home/${USER}/) is on a filesystem mounted with the "noexec&quo
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by pdkl95 7y ago
The solution is to define the categories by the specific physical traits that are beneficial to the competition (sort of like the weight classes used in boxing). Gender is an indirect indicator. Instead of dividing in to [men, women, ...(ot
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by pdkl95 7y ago
Trust isn't a single static Boolean value. It depends on the situation, reputation, and many other factors. Trust is continuously re-evaluated; just because someone's coding ability was trusted in the past does not imply that thei
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> Software as a Service is impossible to pirate and generates continuous income Service as a Software Substitute (SaaSS)[1] is also inherently spyware, an increasingly popular feature as surveillance capitalism[2] infects our economy. [1
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Unionization, Steady Careers, and Generations of Games Culture(youtube.com)
1 points by pdkl95 7y ago|0 comments
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> Alsa Modular Synth Another good option is SunVox; it's part modular synth, part tracker in a really cool UI. It includes a bunch of simple examples that demonstrate how to use the synth modules. http://www.warmplace.ru&
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Negativland – More Data(youtube.com)
2 points by pdkl95 7y ago|0 comments
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“Games as a service” is fraud(youtube.com)
2 points by pdkl95 8y ago|0 comments
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> Indifference that does not cause a business problem remains indifference. More generally, indifference to small "trivial" problems eventually normalizes the deviant behavior[1]. Evil behavior doesn't happen in one step,
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by pdkl95 8y ago
3Blue1Brown has an extremely good explanation[1] of the intrinsic uncertainty, and why it's separate from measurement uncertainty. (the previous episode[2] is a recommended prerequisite for background on how the Fourier Transform works
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by pdkl95 8y ago
Mushroom management: feed them shit and keep 'em in the dark. Unfortunately, this ha-ha-only-serious joke is least several decades old.
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by pdkl95 8y ago
If they actually cared that much about making the results "relevant", they wouldn't mix a bunch of irrelevant suggestions into the results page, each marked with "missing: <query_term>" pointing out exactly ho
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by pdkl95 8y ago
After they serve the page from their cache, they learn which which link you clicked on. That first click is tracked similar to a /redirect?url= tracker.
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by pdkl95 8y ago
So what happens when an HTML-compliant browser renders a document with <amp-img>? It won't be what the author of the document intended, because the browser will skip the <amp-img> tag. The document is only interoperable if
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by pdkl95 8y ago
That's interesting... could you provide an example of such an event?
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by pdkl95 8y ago
That is patently not true. From mmastrac's [1]: > Resources such as images, videos, audio files or ads must be included into an AMP HTML file through custom elements such as <amp-img> From: https://github.com/a
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by pdkl95 8y ago
Unfortunately when talking about physics, sloppy human languages and our tendency to anthropomorphize when describing very non-human-like things cause a lot of communication/learning problems. Concepts like "experiencing an enviro
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by pdkl95 8y ago
Yah, it's kind of hard to show the magnitude of the spillway and the repair work in a few pictures. Juan (blancolirio) posed a very good time-lapse/montage (including footage from the DWR) that shows the entire repair project. The
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by pdkl95 8y ago
It's also very effective at excluding people like me. Even when logged in to a Google account with a very benign history (mostly used to watch youtube) with years (>4) of regular activity, Google won't[1] even attempt reCAPTC
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by pdkl95 8y ago
They can use real user data if they ask [1] for it first. Let users browse their poor-quality/failed interpretations, recent commands, etc, and submit the data they want. If you're clever with the UI, you might even get them to a
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by pdkl95 8y ago
In the recent-ish drama about FB's memo regarding their culture that valued "connecting people" regardless of the cost (even safety), some employee comments[1] were almost cult-like and seemed to confuse "integrity"
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by pdkl95 8y ago
Rails is (and has been) a pleasure to use for fast, easy-ish development if you usually stick to the "Rails style" recommend naming schemes, etc. If you are trying to adapt an existing project/db that uses some other style, R
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by pdkl95 8y ago
> Have you ever had someone close to you commit suicide? Yes. My girlfriend who lived with me for several years. > If so, is that truly a better outcome than undergoing ECT? Yes, absolutely, for the reasons imperio59 and others have a
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BioWare Working Staff to Tears and Calling Its Mental Abuse “Magic”(youtube.com)
34 points by pdkl95 8y ago|5 comments

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