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by rectang 2y ago
Could be from a concrete mixer. (Credit: rando YouTube comment.)
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by rectang 2y ago
After trying and failing over several days to track down a squirrely segfault in a C project about 15 years ago, I taught myself Valgrind in order to debug the issue. Valgrind flagged an "invalid write", which I eventually hunted
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by rectang 2y ago
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/least-rac... Number 1: New Zealand. Number 73: USA Methodology: > The WVS survey asks respondents from more than 80 countries dozens of questions, including one th
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by rectang 2y ago
It seems likely that the miles put on a "commuter bike" used for commuting twice a day for 10 years are within shouting distance of the miles put on a bike used for several hours of deliveries every day for 3 years. The company is
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by rectang 2y ago
Answering my own question... > Do those technologies prevent the merchant from getting raw CC info? They do: https://www.worldpay.com/en/insights/articles/how-does-a-chi... > An enabled EMV terminal
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by rectang 2y ago
Apple Pay is set up as a front for my credit card, which is a Visa card I get through my credit union. Whether it's Apple Pay or Google Pay (or PayPal, or others), I think the card provider is always going to have full records — in ad
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by rectang 2y ago
I've used PayPay a lot over decades, starting with when they were mainly a way of paying on eBay, but I haven't thought of them as "making the rest of the web an alternative to Amazon". Perhaps that's because PayPa
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by rectang 2y ago
I was talking about buying from online merchants. I’m less familiar with the security implications of chip-and-pin or contactless card for in-person transactions. Do those technologies prevent the merchant from getting raw CC info? Rightly
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by rectang 2y ago
Apple Pay has raised my confidence level about buying directly from smaller internet sites. Since those sites don’t get my raw credit card info when I use Apple Pay, I don’t have to worry about whether they’ve implemented CC handling well (
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by rectang 2y ago
> I do eat my own pudding, though. I made my living for a decade off of FOSS I originally authored, and was highly active in FOSS circles for much of that time. Being well acquainted with the economics of open source I am thus inocula
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by rectang 2y ago
Everything falls into place if you think of the arguments as aimed at reducing resistance to the abolition of copyright rather than actually helping musicians.
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by rectang 2y ago
Everything you've posted on this page leads up to this. The postings about musicians livelihoods seem haphazard and half-hearted. But this, getting government out of copyright, is a point I sense you cherish deeply.
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by rectang 2y ago
The record labels fight tech, which as an industry is substantially more abusive to musicians than the labels. The Archive provides a valuable service, but if they're gonna die on this hill I'm going to fight them alongside my all
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by rectang 2y ago
This is a tech forum. If you find musicians here, they will be downvoted into oblivion because their positions are unpopular and the HN rules encourage downvoting for disagreement.
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by rectang 2y ago
Because tech will siphon off all the money for distribution of music, having lobbied relentlessly to cut the musicians out of the deal.
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by rectang 2y ago
From a 1977 video embedded in the article: > Dolli Dimples, the singing hippopotamus, is powered by a computer system capable of handling 450 instructions per second.
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by rectang 2y ago
Thank you. My life is better for having read through this long discussion to stumble upon this profound and hilarious fable. I will now remove the goat from the room and go do something productive.
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by rectang 2y ago
Cultural hostility among a subpopulation to electric vehicles as "woke"? Ordinary sentimentality and the natural human discomfort with change?
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by rectang 2y ago
It's whether or not the government subsidizes your private school via vouchers. The consequence is that public school budgets are further diminished, reducing and eventually eliminating the project to educate the whole citizenry, furt
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by rectang 2y ago
I’ve done essentially the same thing for years, working for small remote companies at rates below what my resume would justify. There are labor force bargains to be had for companies that offer workers flexibility.
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by rectang 2y ago
Meanwhile there are those who expect you to process every Slack ping, making them in some ways worse those who interrupt in person — since they don’t feel the distress of the person they’re interrupting through the screen. A workplace’s cul
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by rectang 2y ago
> even when there are better things that already exist That's a "big if". Lots of times what's there is a nightmarish tangle of technical debt left by previous greenfield devs. The dev who gets to maintain and ev
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by rectang 2y ago
Whatever. The original point I was trying to make was a comparison of usability between Bluesky and Mastodon. But everything has to be about Elon Musk, so here we are.
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by rectang 2y ago
LOL, humans are a uniquely vicious species and will never lack for either assholery or self doubt. There will always be sufficient human misery to foster growth.
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by rectang 2y ago
I suppose that time will tell. Twitter is in the midst of an experiment to see if social network effects will keep users around despite unlimited levels of political hostility, abuse, and algorithmic shenanigans from the ownership. My imp
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by rectang 2y ago
There’s a deep lesson in the victory of Bluesky over Mastodon about the general inability of Open Source projects to provide a simple, intuitive end user experience. It’s unsurprising for those of us who have participated in Open Souce for
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by rectang 2y ago
Of course you’re right, however: 1. If we’re talking about bamboozling people who are either ignorant or willfully obtuse, excess precision is a stupid but useful tool for getting a realistic multiple of 3x-4x past them. 2. If the target au
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by rectang 2y ago
Multiply by π — it's more accurate.
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by rectang 2y ago
All artists are credited if known — and most are, if only because they've signed their work. It's hard to imagine MOBA doing otherwise — they're already copying without permission (I assume), and deliberately suppressing art
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by rectang 2y ago
So have I.

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