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721.
by seoaeu 5y ago
1917: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchanan_v._Warley
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Many new computers don't let you turn off Secure Boot but do let you delete all the keys... which then sets the machine in a mode where any OS can be loaded
723.
by seoaeu 5y ago
I've always thought of it as running an education side-business for tax purposes
724.
by seoaeu 5y ago
Yeah, but back in 2013? Most of what you're talking about is much more recent. To have 8 years of AI/ML expertise already while also previously being a graphics expert requires a very improbable career progression
725.
by seoaeu 5y ago
> Chief among those use-cases being securely transferring commodities to people in countries that your own fiat regime's financial infrastructure refuses to deal with, for them to then convert to local fiat money. Ah, the "I wa
726.
by seoaeu 5y ago
> non-inflationary You have a pretty warped definition of inflation if you think Bitcoin is non-inflationary despite undergoing 70+% inflation over the last few months.
727.
by seoaeu 5y ago
The point of a database is to compute on. Nobody cares about the nanosecond precision time of when each event happened or the exact real-world ordering between them. What they care about is that all replicas process events in the same order
728.
by seoaeu 5y ago
There's definitely also a tradeoff. If you make the timeline too long then people will just assume that they can use the old version forever and get mad when that doesn't work out. Say because the project that needs "several
729.
by seoaeu 5y ago
Don't be silly! That could never happen to my crypto exchange
730.
by seoaeu 5y ago
Voter privacy for digital voting doesn't solve much. It doesn't seem to be possible to both cryptographically prove to a voter that their vote was counted correctly (integrity) while simultaneously preventing them from being at ri
731.
by seoaeu 5y ago
Amusing this definition of "the ability to do things the person next to you can't or won't do" basically contradicts the idea that DO THINGS can possibly be a great equalizer. Any equality that only some people can have,
732.
by seoaeu 5y ago
Frustratingly `git add -p` adds a new and exciting way to accidentally lose "work": You can type `git commit -a` and all of a sudden all your manual selections of different hunks to include/exclude are irreversibly gone
733.
by seoaeu 5y ago
Humans make mistakes. Well designed systems are resilient to those mistakes. That doesn't mean prompting after every single command, which as you point out would be super annoying, but it does mean making operations reversible unless t
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by seoaeu 5y ago
With other sorts of APIs you are given the choice between say the v1 version or the v2 version, with both endpoints being available at the same time. However, when it comes to command line programs for all practical purposes you can only ha
735.
by seoaeu 5y ago
In particularly well designed UIs, the interface for power users and the intuitive one are one and the same!
736.
by seoaeu 5y ago
The thing with command line interfaces is that since the same interface is used by humans and computer scripts, you essentially end up with an unversioned API that you can never make breaking changes to.
737.
by seoaeu 5y ago
The two commands aren't actually equivalent, because of course they're not. Usually when you create a new branch you'd like to switch to it, but git branch [name] actually doesn't do that, so you have to execute a seco
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Is there any reason to believe that asking would be remotely reliable? There's a reason that liquor stores don't just ask people whether they're over 21.
739.
by seoaeu 5y ago
What they might learn is that the crash was your fault. It isn't clear that's the legacy you'd really want to have.
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Yeah, 12 hours means you can't even count on watching during business hours, you need to constantly be checking evenings and weekends too.
741.
by seoaeu 5y ago
> In reality deposits only cover around 10% of the loan. This is called fractional reserve banking and it means that a bank loan is actually a money creation event! That's not how fractional reserve banking works. If I deposit $100
742.
by seoaeu 5y ago
Notably, this is only true of 64-bit floats. Sticking to 32-bit floats saves memory and sometimes are faster to compute with, but you can absolutely run into precision problems with them. When tracking time, you'll only have milliseco
743.
by seoaeu 5y ago
Personally, the nagging "I wonder if Google results would be better" is enough of a reason for me to not use Bing/DDG/etc. A search engine is a tool and it is hard to be productive when you can't trust your tools.
744.
by seoaeu 5y ago
If I recall correctly, the phone books even included instructions on them of how to opt out. And given that they were broadly distributed it was very apparent to people that opting out was necessary if they were worried about being stalked,
745.
by seoaeu 5y ago
Wait, what evidence is there that the virus was spreading in August 2019? From a quick Google search, this source [0] published not long ago claims they think earliest it could possibly have been was mid-October of 2019. [0]: https:/&
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Mobile devices are packed with sensors in a way that desktops aren't. And of course it doesn't help that users generally want those sensor measurements to be accessible to the apps they use.
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by seoaeu 5y ago
"Our best guess". The author of those tweets literally admits that they don't know what will happen. Personally, I'm not as inclined as them to give Google the benefit of the doubt until the absolute last minute.
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by seoaeu 5y ago
Lack of a dedicated home office, children/family members interrupting, noisy surroundings, bad setup, etc. I'd argue that "brain chemistry unsuited for WFH" qualifies as well.
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by seoaeu 5y ago
I'm sorry, but seriously how out of touch do you have to be that 14+ months into the pandemic you still think that people can't have poor WFH experiences for reasons out of their control?
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by seoaeu 5y ago
...the paper was also released on April 1st, which further boosts it being a joke.

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