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by philsnow 3y ago
> The immune system is a giant random number generator. Your body randomly generates antibody patterns in the womb, so everyone is different. I read about this in the book "Immune" [0], and it blew my mind. I just want to call
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by philsnow 3y ago
> Wait Until 8th asks parents to sign a pledge, when their children are in elementary school, that they will wait until 8th grade to give them a smartphone. The pledge only takes effect once ten families in that child’s grade have signed
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by philsnow 3y ago
I got my older kids apple watches set up in family/parent/whatever mode for this. They have cell modems (requirement for family setup, they're $5/mo each on my t-mobile plan), can send and receive texts, can send and re
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by philsnow 3y ago
> The cops did nothing of course. Let’s assume for the sake of argument that you 100% found the right guy. Now, consider how the incentives work. Depending on where you live, the police might already have more than they can handle just
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by philsnow 3y ago
> I would still hold BOTW as one of the prettiest Switch titles +1; I don't usually care much about graphics (I play ASCII roguelikes for crying out loud), but there have been several moments in BotW where I found myself soaking in
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by philsnow 3y ago
> or cook 100 hearty durians I also really don't like the BotW cooking mechanic, but mostly because it's so tedious to sit through the mini cooking cut-scene. Cooking and crafting in Stardew Valley have zero ceremony, you just
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by philsnow 3y ago
> I find the video utterly fascinating and I think the world is a better and more interesting place now that it exists. It's a fascinating path permutation of the human condition / state space traversal. The Thomas fire [0] was
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by philsnow 3y ago
I appreciate the summary of the changes in the javascript ecosystem over the last decade+; all of that happened after I had kids and I didn't have the motivation to keep up with it, so it's a complete blur in my mind. I've
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by philsnow 3y ago
What's the mdf underneath for? Would another sheet of plywood (offset from the one above, for strength at joints) work better, but is more expensive?
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by philsnow 3y ago
> I think any insurance company would have a lifelong suicide exclusion if they could I suspect you're right. There certainly are desperate people who go to Vegas, lose their entire savings, and choose to end their life because they
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by philsnow 3y ago
Exactly; when you click the padlock icon, the browser shows you the parsed representation of the x.509 certificate chain, not the ASN.1 bytes.
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by philsnow 3y ago
You’re saying that compressed HTML, because it is text, wastes 15% (could be however much, the number doesn’t really matter) over some binary format that would express the same content? What binary format would/could that be? I’m just
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by philsnow 3y ago
There's one more cache that people often run into / get foiled by: various applications like browsers and JVMs also cache DNS responses. In firefox, see about:networking#dns , in chrome it's chrome://net-internals
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by philsnow 3y ago
I'm not claiming that it uses NTP, but: > NTP can usually maintain time to within tens of milliseconds over the public Internet, and can achieve better than one millisecond accuracy in local area networks under ideal conditions htt
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by philsnow 3y ago
I think it also uses ligatures to render words from the "phrasebook", where you can take a word like "friend" and change the font from Times to this font, and it renders it as 朋友. Beautiful.
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by philsnow 3y ago
I took an architecture course with Dr Kogge (author of the book the SECD machine is described in) and chose Erlang for building an SECD machine emulator, because Erlang's pattern-matching syntax for defining functions perfectly matched
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by philsnow 3y ago
I get a ton of value out of having my shell history available (both for search but also to try to reconstruct steps of what I did yesterday when my memory is hazy) I guess you could set up an entropy scanner and flag history lines that have
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by philsnow 3y ago
[assuming United States for everything here, in case it wasn't obvious] In addition to the brackets, there's tons of other deductions, exemptions, etc that are higher or double for married-filing-jointly tax returns. Just one exam
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by philsnow 3y ago
pihole is really lightweight, you could just run it on your local laptop and save yourself the hop to your home network for all DNS requests
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by philsnow 3y ago
> ensure you get the ones you want Also to try to avoid having to special-case any logic in terraform etc. Say you're working on a family of sites for tradespeople like plumber.io, electrician.io, carpenter.io, etc. A fair number o
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by philsnow 3y ago
“inModem” then, because it’s Intel that needs to supply the brains rather than windows
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by philsnow 3y ago
Watch to the end, the presenter responds to one of the audience's very erudite questions with an additional slide and it's just chef's kiss
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by philsnow 3y ago
On mine you can keep scrolling to the right and I see “0.99 lbs”.
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by philsnow 3y ago
You’ve just reminded me that I lived in a time when my desktop machine was not powerful enough to decode and play MP3s in real time. I had to decode to wav files and play those. This was in a time when far fewer instructions were accelerat
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by philsnow 3y ago
That would also work well, yeah
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by philsnow 3y ago
I skip most of the Ted Lasso scenes with Mr Gruff and lil' Ms SideBusiness. If you had told me back in season one that I'd prefer watching the scenes with Mr BoringHomeLife, I wouldn't have believed you.
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by philsnow 3y ago
I wonder whether some of the media streaming companies are going to try to use the sports streaming playbook, where you get penalized for canceling and then resubcribing within <12 months. Those penalties could be "we just won'
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by philsnow 3y ago
> To be honest other than the Yubico demo website, I've never come across a resource in the wild that uses Yubikey OTP mode login anyway. :) A company I worked at years ago used Pritunl as its VPN (which uses OpenVPN under the hood)
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by philsnow 3y ago
Which is the "shitty" part, 2FA on apple ID or iCloud Keychain? Both?
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by philsnow 3y ago
> showing ID to a phone store clerk is sufficient for iCloud recovery Can you walk me through how that works? I don't know how Verizon, for instance, could get me that access. Or did you mean at an Apple store or something?

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