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by ridaj 5y ago
I think the issue there, to continue your analogy, is that some carpenters are busy creating new levers, while others are busy repeating the same carpentry over and over again. Same trade, different aims. The "multiplicative effect&quo
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by ridaj 5y ago
Software engineers in Europe aren't "underpaid," there just aren't enough highly successful European tech companies to make the job market there as tight as in the US. So they're paid less than what they'd be p
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by ridaj 5y ago
What have been the great successes of recent years, as seen internally at Yahoo?
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by ridaj 5y ago
I would also recommend Emotional Design by the same author. It's a follow-up book that has been very useful for me to understand that great design isn't just usable and accessible, but should also be beautiful, and should respec
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by ridaj 5y ago
Whether consideration of gender should be allowed in setting auto insurance rates is indeed the subject of debate. It seems to be allowed in most US states but illegal in the EU https://www.investopedia.com/gender-and-insura
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by ridaj 5y ago
My personal view: kill the garbage that is UML with fire, and all the attempts at formal modeling. Design is too rich of a field to be modeled formally. I disagree with the author's apparent take that all there is is either formal UML-
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by ridaj 5y ago
Needing to have a legitimate purpose / justified reason is a higher bar than "not swinging at people". It means if you're a gardener going to work cutting down bushes it's ok to carry a machete, but if you're j
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by ridaj 5y ago
The EU is proposing to regulate the application of certain techniques to certain fields. There is too much vagueness in those definitions but the authors should pause to think about what else is regulating the ethics of using ML or even jus
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by ridaj 5y ago
https://www.all4shooters.com/en/shooting/knives/Legislation-...
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by ridaj 5y ago
The uni system couldn't afford to give tenured professors freedom to follow their fancy without the "underclass" working hard to make it possible in the first place — graduate students and untenured staff do the high-volume
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by ridaj 5y ago
I'd be surprised if they could deliver anything ahead of schedule, but I imagine they can tell people to stop what they're doing at 9am if they're in a dangerous area
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by ridaj 5y ago
The sentence sounds like the kind of email that a manager sends without having legal review it... This reads like it makes an unnecessary, potentially damaging statement ("...100% of the time..."), which lawyers I work with would
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by ridaj 5y ago
I think they'll work... Somewhat? As the card is pushed through the face, there's a small amount of spring energy that it stores by bending, which gets released when it makes it through the opening and propels it forward + downwar
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by ridaj 5y ago
Well and then harden that obv
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by ridaj 5y ago
I agree with the parallels with aviation regulation, there needs to be something forcing a supplier's hand to solve this. The way to protect against supply chain attacks is to invest in a security-hardened build system (eg don't b
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by ridaj 5y ago
I don't think they ignored it? Says it was addressed. I think it was OK to dispel the implication that the elaborate supply chain attack was allowed in the first place by sloppy pw practices. You don't want that to be the takeaway
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by ridaj 6y ago
? The war on drugs didn't prevent a massive rise in opioid medication
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by ridaj 6y ago
TFA features a very reasonable explanation in the next few sentences. If participants are going to a session where they'll be essentially locked in with a psychiatrist for a few hours and take only a placebo, they'll know it, and
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by ridaj 6y ago
I think the wellbeing play is more about preventing dislike-bombing than about protecting creator egos. Dislike-bombing is coordinated mass action against a video or creator, not by the usual audience of that creator, but by herds of non-wa
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by ridaj 6y ago
Keep in mind that downvotes will likely continue to be taken into consideration by recommendations and search. To be honest heavily downvoted videos don't usually show up much in my YouTube experience. I'm pretty sure comments on
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by ridaj 6y ago
Wrong, clickbaity title A correct summary would be: "YouTube experiments with removing public dislike counts"
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by ridaj 6y ago
It's sort of written backwards, but the notice says something like "Da Vinci (after) " ("d'après"), meaning it's a copy after the work of Da Vinci's. The actual artist isn't known.
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by ridaj 6y ago
It's because that one is a copy of the original (still old, but ~100 years posterior to Da Vinci's). According to https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/mnr/MNR00265 its last known owner was Friedrich We
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by ridaj 6y ago
Qui scribit bis legit
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by ridaj 6y ago
Good point by the author, but iiuc neighbors can just walk up and control the lamp too if operating on the lamp's presumably open wifi? Missing from the home IoT security works is a decentralized auth infrastructure story. I don't
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by ridaj 6y ago
Prior art: https://youtu.be/YnSKrzmpKGw
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by ridaj 6y ago
Tl;dr: not the usual Californians-leave-in-droves-for-redder-pastures story. Exodus from SF city has drastically increased, but is mostly still within California, or even within the Bay Area economic area. It has also increased relatively
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by ridaj 6y ago
That was one of the principles that made me enjoy https://www.hashapass.com , a password manager with zero storage. Not even local storage, because then you'd have to deal with backups. I'm glad to see so many applicati
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by ridaj 6y ago
I sort of freaked out the first time I saw something like this. Then Wikipedia held my hand and said everything was OK and this even has a name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fata_Morgana_(mirage)
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by ridaj 6y ago
Seems like they went with branding at the expense of utility. Not sure they were trying to do both.

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