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by shaftway 1y ago
Nice. We'll try this during our next team-building. I've got two suggestions for games: Gartic Phone (garticphone.com) is a telephone-like game, suited for online play. Each player comes up with a phrase (e.g. "cat on a hot t
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by shaftway 1y ago
They've already demonstrated that they're willing to use secret courts and gag orders to prevent Apple from disclosing what they're doing (referenced in the article). How would you know if they're abusing it?
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by shaftway 1y ago
This is a back-door. Just because they have to ask the door manufacturer for a key, that doesn't make it "not a back-door". If anyone has access to your encrypted data other than your intended recipients, that is a back door.
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by shaftway 1y ago
It's likely for Bluetooth access rather than WiFi. It's not uncommon for IoT devices to use bluetooth for setup, and it would be trivially cheap to put BLE beacons on every subway station exit in NYC, essentially giving you fine-e
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by shaftway 1y ago
FuckedCompany.com was the source for tips about this. We'd check it every morning, and it predicted our company's layoffs like clockwork.
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by shaftway 1y ago
This happens at a much smaller level too. We knew an au pair that the host family particularly liked, and wanted her long term. A typical au pair contract is for 1 year, maximum is 2. They worked with an immigration attorney to craft a &quo
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by shaftway 1y ago
Isn't this PEP 750: t-Strings? It's approved, but not released yet AIUI. https://peps.python.org/pep-0750/
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by shaftway 1y ago
Every game is easier to learn when you start with simple rules and then add new ones as you go. We teach people Liar's Dice. It's a very simple game, especially if you build it up like this. Everyone gets five Dice. You roll them
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by shaftway 1y ago
Comin' again to shoot the motherf**ing pigs, yeah!
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by shaftway 1y ago
The cost of living in California makes the gas taxes irrelevant. Let's compare them. I've picked Vallejo, CA versus Wheeling, IL. Both are about 30 miles from the nearest major city (San Francisco / Chicago). Both are pretty
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by shaftway 1y ago
I mean, in all fairness I stole that bit from somewhere about Clinton, so it's been done.
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by shaftway 1y ago
As a fellow California independent, does it? If it turns out that Obama is in the Epstein files, my friends won't have to get rid of their Obama hat, or their Obama sneakers, or their Obama cologne, or their Obama watch, or their Obama
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by shaftway 1y ago
There's a good read that was put out by OK Cupid (the dating site) 15 years ago outlining exactly this. They had a lot of personality questions that they'd use to match people, so they had a lot of this data correlated with a lot
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by shaftway 1y ago
It should be some multiplier of the mean salary of the population you represent. In California this would be about $96,000. In Mississippi it would be about $54,000. There's a congressional district in New York where it's $31,000.
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by shaftway 1y ago
Self-taught programmer here. Went to university in '97, but flunked out after two years. The first couple years were easy. It was before the dot-com bubble burst and I lived in the bay area, so finding jobs was trivial. I worked at Ado
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by shaftway 1y ago
Most importantly it's dimensionally stable. As the seasons change it won't get significantly longer in one dimension. This is most important for the back of the cabinet because it has to deal with grain going different directions,
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by shaftway 1y ago
FWIW, I use a Shaper and I think there are four areas where it is better than a gantry. If I was just blasting out flat parts, I'd go for a typical gantry setup. But I very rarely do that. 1.) Cuts that are not easy on a gantry. It wou
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by shaftway 1y ago
The Origin also talks about repeatability. They sell a fixture that has an image of the tape fixed along with positive stops. The idea is that you can batch out parts quickly by setting up a workspace and swapping parts in. No idea if these
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by shaftway 1y ago
> I don't do my day-to-day work in the monorepo Is this one of the repos that uses Gerrit? Does JJ play well with Gerrit? IIRC Gerrit was super picky about amending commits and I was worried JJ's laissez faire attitude about cr
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by shaftway 1y ago
I distinctly remember interviewing for a QA position in the 90's where I was asked how I would test a soda vending machine. I was dinged because I didn't mention that I would make sure the sodas were cold.
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by shaftway 1y ago
Android also supports a `<blink>` tag in layout XML. It's not documented well, but it's still in the latest source: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/...
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by shaftway 1y ago
> Amazon regularly pays $0/year in taxes. They * were* able to, because they * were* able to offset the cost of developers instead of having to amortize it out over 5 years.
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by shaftway 1y ago
I always find this take amusing, because there are ads. They're just for Apple services and they do a better job of blending in. Case in point, the largest screen in the lead image in the linked article does nothing to showcase this ne
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by shaftway 1y ago
Neat technique. I was on the original SVG team at Adobe back in '00 and built some of the first public demos that used the technology. This kind of 3d work was some of the first stuff I tried to do and found it similarly lacking due to
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by shaftway 1y ago
And you can bend surprisingly thick wood with steam. I attended a demonstration where someone bent a maple 2 by 4 (1.5" x 3.5"). It took about 6 people and two tries (the first one splintered, probably not steamed enough).
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by shaftway 1y ago
Does it need to be exactly the same? I assume it's a perceptual hash with a liveness check.
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by shaftway 1y ago
I would, but I also don't subscribe to the idea that you should "bring your whole self to work". I don't discuss my political views at the office. I don't discuss my religion. I don't discuss how I'm raisi
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by shaftway 1y ago
Why would Algeria's land size have anything to do with that? Algeria is more than 80% desert and has a population of ~46 million. Non-desert area accounts for ~480k km^2 out of their ~2400k km^2 land . Europe has far more livable space
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by shaftway 1y ago
I've heard the answer is "he could cut a cord of conifer but it costs a quarter per quart he cuts".
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by shaftway 1y ago
> Remove the animations or make them faster (you can do that sometimes), and the lag may become apparent. This is my number one trick on Android phones. Enable developer options and change the animation speeds from 1x to 0.5x. It makes y

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