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by roel_v 6y ago
I switched to KeePassXC a few months ago from KeePass. The UI is quite clunky in places, but that's easier to live with than being beholden to some online service...
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by roel_v 6y ago
To a degree of course, just 'but it might work' would be enough I guess, the same way someone needs to at least not be told something is a placebo for a double blind study to be "valid" ("methodologically sound&quot
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by roel_v 6y ago
When circumstances change, risk profiles and trade offs change. News at 11. I mean you can rage about the unlikeliness of people concocting explosives from various liquids, but that is entirely besides the point here.
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by roel_v 6y ago
Yes that's how it's used. That depends on people believing polygraphs work though, which is why polygraph companies for decades have been litigating against people who question polygraphs. Sometimes just the idea that there will b
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by roel_v 6y ago
Yes, and I built a very simple one in law school, to illustrate the concept (well to be honest I was an engineer who went to law school as a hobby, and then I took every excuse I could find to build technology things as a hobby within a hob
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by roel_v 6y ago
Yes, when you study assembly as a general programming language, the same way you learn another language. But again, for people who are interested in reverse engineering, the focus is different, and you'll find that if you start looking
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by roel_v 6y ago
One of the main reasons for learning assembly today is to do reverse engineering, for which the plumbing is just as important as the concepts.
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by roel_v 6y ago
"I'm going to get comfortable headphones for their school-issued Chromebooks" Have you researched this yet? I'm having a hard time finding good headphones for children.
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by roel_v 6y ago
Why would anyone use mutt when you can have 'local' (ie on a machine you ssh into) Maildirs? That's one of the selling points for using mutt. Imap sucks, it's just something we have to put up with for lack of something b
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by roel_v 6y ago
That's fine when you run mutt on your local machine, but the whole reason to use mutt is so that you have a dedicated email machine that you can ssh into and use screen to access email from anywhere. And then things like this become 10
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by roel_v 6y ago
shrug Sure I guess one can take any interpretation. My point was more that I think it doesn't make any sense to do so. I've played hundreds of games over the years where you kill, murder and maim humans (and animals, and alien l
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by roel_v 6y ago
There is no indication in factorio this is what's happening. Maybe they just instinctively attack pollution because it smells bad to then without knowing higher level implications of it.
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by roel_v 6y ago
"As an illustrative example, you might have 20% of workers working at 120% efficiency, 50% of workers working at 80% efficency, and 30% of workers working at 10% efficiency. This example comes out to about 67% productivity overall.&quo
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by roel_v 6y ago
At first reading this comment felt like it was going to a story of a guy going to work in a bikini - but alas.
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by roel_v 6y ago
You're right, from an evidence-based medicine perspective there is little to no proof that masks work, and some indication that they are counter-productive. There are plenty of people posting links with dozens of papers claiming to pro
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by roel_v 6y ago
I'm not sure it's (only) an educated vs uneducated thing. I have a friend who is an anesthesiologist who is a (somewhat) anti-vaxxer, and university professor friends (yes, more than one) who are (again, somewhat) conspiracy theor
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by roel_v 6y ago
There are quite a number of studies on this in sociology, psychology and psychiatry literature. I don't have any at hand, and as usual it would take a bit of trial and error to stumble upon the right jargon in each subfield to unlock m
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by roel_v 6y ago
I put in my contracts with architects that I want the source files to any drawings they make. Not a single one has ever refused to work with me for that reason. Surveyors, too.
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by roel_v 6y ago
No, ezperienced C++ devs with the math skills you need to do 3d dev make 60k or more, 45k is just above fresh graduate level. I don't have an online source, just from what I know from companies and people I know, and doing hiring mysel
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by roel_v 6y ago
Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfIqCzQJXvYj9ssCoHq327g , How To Make Everything, a guy trying to replicate (IIRC) a steam engine starting from nothing; i.e. making stone tools first, making pots from clay,
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by roel_v 6y ago
*weather (sorry for nitpicking)
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by roel_v 6y ago
shrug Sure, theoretically, but someone who wants to ensure a positive review can just as easily collude with someone who didn't do any of the work. And then still - yes it's possible that a completely bogus paper gets signed off
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by roel_v 6y ago
I disagree. What sports are we talking about here? The sledding in the OP? Who goes into sledding thinking "whelp I can choose between flipping burgers and sledding, guess I'll go sledding"? I expect exactly 0. This sort of n
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by roel_v 6y ago
"people put their life and health at risk for the merriment of the couch potatoes" This is not true. People would do it anyway, it's just that the couch potatoes now provide a way for the people doing it to actually get paid.
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by roel_v 6y ago
Thank you for writing this. Your examples were lethargic. I know I should stay away from the 'academia is broken duh duh' threads here but I get sucked into them anyway. They're always full of armchair experts who don't
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by roel_v 6y ago
"Upper caste hindus have no problem seeing a converted christian as their equal" I know nothing about this at all, if you don't mind answering - how do you signal this? Do you wear a cross in a very visible way? In my experie
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by roel_v 6y ago
I've used one to run my growhouse (vegetable seedlings and herbs, not mj) for years. I use a power supply from an old pc. Cheap and very reliable.
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by roel_v 6y ago
I do that too, out of interest, but I'm under no illusion it will help me against data exfiltration or protect my privacy. There is lots of software of which you just don't know what it is, or that plain doesn't work when blo
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by roel_v 6y ago
"Basic cashier knowledge they should be teaching you on day one." About 10ish years ago I had an idea for a product that would essentially provide online training on this for cashiers. Back then I thought 'but everything is m
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by roel_v 6y ago
Uh? All airbnb does is try to push you to their 'experiences'. And God forbid you ever gave Uber your email address, they'll try to get you on Uber Eats for many rounds of the 'unsubscribe me from yet another list I neve

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