samtho

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by samtho 3y ago
> I've seen smart engineers with a C++ background get tripped up on and very confused working with TS, because it's not clear to them what concepts are "language fundamentals" and what concepts are "the TS transp
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by samtho 3y ago
One thing that I can’t help but to lament the loss of is the wealth of information contained within public forums. Everything is shut away in Facebook groups, discord servers, and other such private-by-default means. Most public forums, and
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by samtho 3y ago
If you choose to drive around in a public place, there is no reasonable expectation of privacy. While I don’t agree with the surveillance state that the US is drifting more and more to, license plates are a valid means to identify vehicles
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by samtho 3y ago
> Why bother? Because knowing about the presence of a condition is better than not. Depending on the severity, untreated ADHD during the years of life where a child begins to establish good study habits, management of the condition, and
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by samtho 3y ago
Has there ever been a confirmed case of snooping on cellphone traffic for the SMS with the one time password? I hear this argument a lot but the barrier here seems sufficiently high enough to make all but the most motivated bad actors seek
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by samtho 3y ago
This is a dangerous road to travel, as the exact same thing can be said about most other tools that can be abused. Knee-jerk reactions like this are shortsightedly ignorant and do nothing to mitigate actual harm being done. Flipper zero’s c
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by samtho 3y ago
That’s fair, I would actually love to have a ‘Symbol.compare’ to implement so instances can be sorted and checked for equality.
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by samtho 3y ago
The language is good at creating literal objects of no particular type/class/prototype. The concept of a Set is closer to an Array of unique Numbers than one of literal objects: const s = new Set([1,2,3]); The resulting i
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by samtho 3y ago
Did Google really say that? It makes sense to treat it as a different category of link. An organic back link from a blog or website is putting the weight of the website’s name/reputation behind it whilst UGC has users putting their nam
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by samtho 3y ago
Link to project: https://fold.it/ Biochemistry mystifies me in same way that most other sciences to do not. It’s amazing to me that they can, in theory, derive useful insight or scientific leads from people playing. Does an
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by samtho 3y ago
Even though the direct effects of the pandemic have mostly disappeared, it still does not undo the years of staying at home that we have become accustomed and habituated to. Rapid inflation didn’t help, either. For those lucky enough to sur
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by samtho 3y ago
Its amusing to think that part of this decision is to save on bandwidth costs.
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by samtho 3y ago
The industry is very entrenched in regulation that is not going to change anytime soon. I just find it difficult to imagine any room for disruption with an agency like the FAA having full control over who and what gets to pilot an airplane
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by samtho 3y ago
This is hard to say because an alternate universe where the car didn’t exist would be quite different and may have not led to our contemporary understanding and management of risk in the first place.
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by samtho 3y ago
This is a problem with using metaphors. Blueprints very accurately describe the role of genes by the way the article here describes them. I think they don’t have a precise understanding of what blueprints are, which means now semantics of t
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by samtho 3y ago
> Not really. They are more like incomplete recipes that depend on external factors to fill in the missing information. As someone who has worked in construction, you have literally described blueprints. Blueprints specify key elements o
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by samtho 3y ago
> I like a lot of what they're saying, but I actually find all of their redesigns to look worse than the original. I don't prefer the typeface they've selected, and their boxy buttons look two decades old. The actual desig
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by samtho 3y ago
Federally, health insurers cannot use this data under GINA[0] and SB41[1] in California requires explicit permission be granted by the customer in order for the data to be shared with 3rd parties. In general, however, insurance companies ar
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by samtho 3y ago
> Quality seems to be decreasing. I found many similar stories This is a drum that mass media beats every few years because it’s low hanging fruit. It all comes down to the survivorship bias. In 10 years, we’re going to see a lot of thes
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by samtho 3y ago
The only protection in the Us is technically “collection of personal information” via COPPA[0] which you can argue would kneecap social media. Any parent can provide consent for their child, however. Children themselves can also just click
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by samtho 3y ago
I don’t think “blameless” and “shared responsibility” are mutually exclusive, in fact, they are two halves to this same coin. The dictionary definition of “blameless” does not encompass the practical application of a “blameless” culture, wh
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by samtho 3y ago
It’s unfortunate that the everything really becomes enshitified. It’s a slow march as generational knowledge is lost and we collectively forget what we were trying to escape only to be trapped in a cage made of that very thing - only this t
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by samtho 3y ago
Most discussions around this argue about the implementation details the technology, perhaps as a proxy for those to signal disapproval of the proposed legislation. I’m guessing it’s because of either not wanting to directly express oppositi
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Either via RF or line-of-sight IR. The RF method works the same way ILS for aircraft works: multiple lobes of differing frequencies to a compatible receiver that will only accept the data if both frequencies are present and the interference
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by samtho 3y ago
The amount of spent uranium that will need to stored is infinitesimally small compared to the amount of energy that is produced in contrast to the waste that is produced by any other non-renewable source. It will typically get buried deep i
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by samtho 3y ago
Central sever architecture is dominate because it’s easy. I can buy an IP address within a a data center and it will be routable. The lack of IPv4 addresses made giving every client on the internet an unique IP cost prohibitive for ISPs so
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by samtho 3y ago
> This wasn’t some clickwrap thing you have to click through to play Angry Birds, it was the agreement for signing up for the developer program. Both of these operate under precisely the same principle. The same principle is applied when
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by samtho 3y ago
The ToS isn’t law and we desperately need to stop pretending it is. A ToS a “shrinkwraped” contract. In Apple’s case, it’s enforceability was yet to be tested. We can agree to a lot of things in a contract, but in general, we cannot consent
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by samtho 3y ago
This is the real failure. The software is neither smart nor dumb, it’s a machine. In this case, it was broken, but people who actually have the ability to critically analyze and judge situations deferred to the output of a machine that they
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by samtho 3y ago
Maintenance of bearings was a thing from the mid century up until the 80s when automakers starting putting out parts that had a service lifetime that exceeded the service lifetime of the vehicle. When is the last time you had your ICE vehic

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