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by peeters 7y ago
The article: > That employee has been fired. He was arrested by Laval police but has not yet been charged.
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by peeters 7y ago
Yeah I bought a CX-5 recently and could write a case study on how to infuriate your users in every way possible. I like the car in general, but their infotainment would have been a dealbreaker if they didn't have Android Auto support.
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by peeters 7y ago
In the near term, because animals already in captivity were grandfathered in. But those animals won't live forever, so Marineland's days of whale captivity are numbered.
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by peeters 7y ago
Importantly, it's the animals that are grandfathered in, not the parks. So it'll take a while but this will eventually bring an end to Marineland's captivity program.
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by peeters 7y ago
> Wow, so they passed a national law that essentially targets just a single park? How often does that happen anywhere? (I know the back story but I never knew Marineland was the only place... not saying this is wrong or right, just surpr
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by peeters 7y ago
I'm confused from that summary why any of the left-pad debacle should be pinned on Kik. Maybe there was something behind the scenes I'm not seeing? From the post mortem NPM gave, this was entirely on Azer for rage quitting NPM (
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by peeters 7y ago
My point is some of the information available now is that historically, companies that respect your privacy today might not tomorrow. And might only be respecting your privacy to get a monopoly on your data so they can exploit it later.
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by peeters 7y ago
Problem is, today I agree, 10 years ago it would've been a tossup, and 5 years from now, who knows? These "trusted central broker" privacy models are nicer than giving your info to dozens of individual actors (when you trust
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by peeters 7y ago
> The problem is that police are being involved in the job of social workers. Isn't the whole point of this that they can't be expected to be social workers? > For example, a police officer may be called to respond to some
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by peeters 7y ago
The vehicle's clearly worded warnings can be at odds with the reality of how they market their vehicles. If you don't believe me, read your car's manual some day. They go to the point of pretty much warning you to never dri
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by peeters 7y ago
Well at this risk of being a mouthpiece for a propaganda machine, the other option is that he took refuge in an embassy for years so that he would appear to be a political martyr as he escaped justice for rape.
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by peeters 7y ago
What makes you think that has anything to do with the "rape prosecution"? The U.S. is not hiding the fact that they're seeking Assange's extradition on conspiracy charges. Don't see what this has to do with the al
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by peeters 7y ago
Yeah that's a very material piece of the puzzle that seems intentionally buried: > Lisa Gallaudet, the landlords' attorney, said the smart lock was on a single door and that tenants were able to enter a numeric code to get in a
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by peeters 7y ago
Why do we allow pay-per-minute phone services to even exist? There's no point to them in this day and age. If someone wants one of those services, there are plenty of ways to make it pay-per-minute without the phone company acting as
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by peeters 8y ago
> Yet the executives are escaping prosecution because the company employs so many people. The DPA doesn't prevent criminal proceedings against individual executives, in fact the entire point of it is to focus the punishment on those
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by peeters 8y ago
Basically the equivalent of a programmer saying "garbage in, garbage out". He's saying MCAS chews on the AoA sensor, and the AoA sensor was malfunctioning (therefore shifting the blame to the user, who is responsible for mai
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by peeters 8y ago
Doubtful. I'd guess it's a general utility library like Guava, where they're doing something with heterogeneous type "vararg" methods. Often they'll have a number of overloads to give the most type help, befor
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by peeters 8y ago
I wouldn't take this disclosure as an indication that they won't do a public post-mortem. The latter takes time and you want to get it right and to be thorough, on the other hand you want the disclosure to come as soon as possi
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by peeters 8y ago
I get that argument for Twitter. I don't get that argument for taking something that the masses already hate and making it even more invasive and annoying.
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by peeters 8y ago
I always wonder if the people that invent these technologies are bragging, like: "You know all the crazy dystopian technology that has ruined the world in futuristic sci-fi movies? I make that!"
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by peeters 8y ago
Awesome! If you see this comment, can you answer me this. I see you guys correct titles all the time. I never know if you guys are just incredibly active comment readers, grep for comments like mine, or rely on flags or something else?
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by peeters 8y ago
To which the obvious counterpoint is "ok, so mentally incapacitated people shouldn't have rights because they can't articulate them?"
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by peeters 8y ago
Title is incorrect. It is a Maori River, not The Maori River being talked about here. It is The Whanganui River. National Geographic's title is also confusing, but not outright incorrect as posted here.
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by peeters 8y ago
Is that any different from foldl, foldr, reduce, map? If you have a generic data type you want your operators to be generic, regardless of whether they exist as methods or as separate functions. The only difference is that the object is f
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by peeters 8y ago
My general test for most new technologies is that the desire to use it has to have arisen out of the pain of not using it. If I'm looking at a framework for any reason other than having shouted "there has to be a better way!&qu
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by peeters 8y ago
Bilateral certification agreements. Canada and U.S. have one as well (it goes both ways): https://www.tc.gc.ca/eng/civilaviation/standards/int-baa-usa... . It's good in theory (cutting down on a giant a
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by peeters 8y ago
Yeah it's an observable phenomenon that I've seen on Stack Overflow et al, as well as every Wiki site I've been a part of. Content creators don't give a shit about process, so they don't participate in the moderati
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by peeters 8y ago
Yes, I am quoting what was itself a quote from an earlier blog post . But it was new to me and is being cited as a challenge facing the next CEO. So I'm still glad to see he's treating it with a lot of importance.
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by peeters 8y ago
> One thing I’m very concerned about, as we try to educate the next generation of developers, and, importantly, get more diversity and inclusiveness in that new generation, is what obstacles we’re putting up for people as they try to l
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by peeters 8y ago
> presumably because Southwestern Airlines is a major operator of these misengineered deathtraps and is based in Dallas. Or maybe, just maybe he spoke out because he chairs the senate subcommittee for aviation?

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