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by shaki-dora 7y ago
AirPods are a bit too pricey for my taste, and I actually don't care about headphone cables that much. But from a purely technical point-of-view, I cannot deny that these are a somewhat impressive feat of technology, especially miniatu
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
I recently decided on a whim to try an IPv6-only VPS which was something like 70% off at my provider. It being for internal stuff only, I thought it shouldn't be too much of a problem. As it turns out, not even the Ubuntu repositories
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
Websites manage to target different versions, and browsers, and even device classes just fine.
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
Yeah, Gitlab has indeed been known for some shitty PR. Like repeatedly accusing Github of copying features, even though Gitlab as a whole started out as an almost identical clone of Github.
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
It's a somewhat insulting stereotype to think of designers as merely being interested in "sexy color schemes". There are many people in the design/UI/UX space specialising on (often numeric) information design. The
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Leverage Point: Places to Intervene in a System [pdf](donellameadows.org)
1 points by shaki-dora 7y ago|0 comments
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
Both reinstalling every X months (as well as NixOS) seem like an awfully unproductive use of time. It's ok if that's your hobby. But it just isn't necessary. I've been running the same install of MacOS (with updates) for
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
It's really impossible to pass judgement on this decision without hearing the reasons. Reading between the lines (and using common sense) suggests that the NYT does have a security team, only that its focus is larger than just the news
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
Eastern Europe may have advantages in terms of bureaucracy. It's far easier to experiment with the rules when you don't have a huge number of existing businesses/processes that need to be changed, very similar to how it'
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Why Section 230 exists and how people are still getting it wrong(theverge.com)
1 points by shaki-dora 7y ago|0 comments
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
No SSL? That reeks of competence. They also have a "submit ticket" page, apparently. So the "no support" doesn't even mean "no support".
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
No! No, No, no! This is the myth that won't die. Just actually read Sec 230! It says, explicitly and understandably, that moderating an online community does not create a liability for user-created content. You do not have to take a
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
Excellent post! If there's one overarching complaint about the tech community (and HN specifically), it would be this tendency to claim being completely rational, while faulting others for supposedly being corrupted by emotions. It&#x
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
That's just what it is: some guy channeling some injury to his ego into an attack on institutions and people he is envious of, masquerading as some sort of heroic political fight. Plus, of course, a sympathetic slice of very online per
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
Agreed! PHP was the first language I learnt, and to this day I still feel like I must be missing something obvious when getting lost in other projects' documentation. Case in point: python! I tend to find the C interface, or decades-ol
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
If 'the mention of "black" makes many [..] uncomfortable' then that would seem to be their problem.
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Why Don’t Police Catch Serial Rapists?(theatlantic.com)
1 points by shaki-dora 7y ago|0 comments
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
I think that's mostly just cynicism. If you actually chart document lengths, you are far more likely to see logarithmic growth or something asymptotically approaching a (finite) value. More importantly: this is both to be expected and
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
I wish people would remember this phenomenon when they are engaging in wild theories of intricate (and often malevolent) corporate strategy. Such as: buying GitHub is unlikely to be Microsoft's attempt to trap OSS; Apple's early a
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
You must be mixing up the airports. Tegel is unique in that it has security and passport controls for each individual gate. This allows you to arrive at almost the exact moment the gate closes because there will be no passengers for other f
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
Berlin is different from other European capitals in that it is the political and cultural center of the country, but not economically. It is also surrounded by low-density countryside, and located nowhere close to the geographic middle of t
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
Scott wasn't trying to make an incredibly racist point that being white is intrinsically linked to happiness, but merely that being white in the US is considered privileged, a.k.a. "playing life on easy".
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
No, I'm using statistics exactly as intended. Last year was much safer than any year in the 20th century, and so will this year be. You have some ideas about how everything used to be better in the past, and you're trying to hold
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
Science: Batteries.
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
Some German has-been who is spending his retirement drifting off into right-wing populism isn't going to convince anybody.
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
> The push for wind and solar is political more than practical. It's fascinating how you're accusing others to be emotional instead of rational, while answering a post providing data for one specific question regarding wind pow
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
Despite the 737 Max fiasco, airplanes today are far safer than ever before. Since 1970, annual deaths have been cut by >80%, while air traffic has increased by a factor of 10. Cars have seen similar improvements. So have food hygiene, wo
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
It's true that there's a correlation / causation problem here, but consider the problem from Google's POV: they rank a certain set of results by hand, then feed those into various learning algorithms to find good predi
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
Human vision has two logarithmic-response mechanisms in a row: the expanding/contracting iris, and the rods/cones (and many other nerve cells') logarithmic response. Meaning: you get full visual acuity with just a little ligh
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by shaki-dora 7y ago
HN hates the news media and expects hobbyist bloggers and youtubers to become reliable and comprehensive sources of news any day now... I guess people still see the WSJ and NYT on opposite ends of a spectrum. But while the ideological diffe

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