shockeychap

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by shockeychap 5y ago
The original post that started this thread was: > Isn't this more akin to saying, the window broke before the hammer hit it, so the hammer couldn't have been the cause? Agree or disagree, it's an interesting thought exerci
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by shockeychap 5y ago
I get that, but I think you might also be missing something in the urgency to derive one particular meaning from the metaphor. Imagine coming upon a window that was broken, and inferring that it must have been broken by "a thing".
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Facebook scraps ad targeting based on politics, race and other sensitive topics(npr.org)
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by shockeychap 5y ago
Maybe it's just me, but it always seemed like prohibiting spaces and other special characters was a reasonable way to avoid unnecessary complexity (and the bugs that accompany it) when parsing and navigating directory trees and files.
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by shockeychap 5y ago
"One had better be scrupulously honest before asking people to surrender their own judgment and simply believe what they are told." Couldn't have said it better myself.
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by shockeychap 5y ago
Wow. That's all kinds of gross and shady.
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by shockeychap 5y ago
I feel for the sysadmins who are fighting ulcers and migraines at the moment, but I can't shake feeling that the world is just a little bit better for this small window of time.
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by shockeychap 5y ago
I'm not aware of which incidents you're referencing. Could you please cite examples of "government takedown of Jihadist and anti-american websites"? I'll readily agree that we often argue about principles when it&#x
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by shockeychap 5y ago
> I see no reason why a free exchange of ideas can't sometimes lead to a fascist or communist state if certain ideas get enough social contagion. That's a fair observation, and making freedom a right comes with a host of risk a
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by shockeychap 5y ago
> So? Seriously?!? If the lab leak discussion had been suppressed just a little bit more, would we even be talking about it today? Wrong ideas have always existed and always been part of life. From a pile of wrong ideas, a few right ones
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by shockeychap 5y ago
> Anti-1A sentiment is growing on the political left That statement, if you stop to think about what it means for all other freedoms, should genuinely scare you. Freedom only matters if it includes the right to offend others. Anything le
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by shockeychap 5y ago
For decades, we gave young children aspirin, before eventually connecting it to Reye syndrome. Indeed, children are not just small adults.
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by shockeychap 5y ago
Much of what Joel says here - especially the conclusion at the end - is also mirrored in what Steve Jobs said when confronted over shutting down OpenDoc: "You have to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the techno
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by shockeychap 5y ago
I'm not sure what you think "co-infection" means, but you just described precisely that. The reactivation of shingles meant that he was simultaneously infected with two different agents. "Co-infection" (for me at le
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by shockeychap 5y ago
Why spend time on it? To borrow from George Mallory: Because it’s there.
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by shockeychap 5y ago
I'm sorry, but I find articles like this entirely disingenuous. It opens with a rural Tennessee classroom in which the teacher and a lone student bravely try to help a bunch of Trumpers understand their perspective. It continues with a
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by shockeychap 5y ago
Your "Software Isn't Bloated" post reminds me of an old post from Joel Spolsky about how complexity (ie. bloat) creeps in from countless unforeseen edge cases. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/
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by shockeychap 5y ago
True. But I’m not talking about end-to-end between sender and receiver. I’m just talking about using public key encryption to encrypt received contents with one key and decrypt with another. There are a lot of technical challenges - particu
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by shockeychap 5y ago
So why hasn't end-to-end encryption been utilized for years with the storage of email and other files, like they do with iMessage content?
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by shockeychap 5y ago
Apple has always bragged about iMessage content being end-to-end encrypted, and thus inaccessible even to Apple. Why aren't they doing the same with email and other files, like other providers? (ProtonMail, to name one example)
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by shockeychap 5y ago
Only if the file contents are accessible. Why isn't end-to-end encryption utilized for storage of email on Apple's servers, the same way they do for iMessaging?
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by shockeychap 5y ago
If the email is genuine, then we are officially lost. Apple has gone from the company that refused to break into the San Bernadino shooter's phone (Anyone remember the feature by Last Week Tonight and Tim Cook talking about writing &qu
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by shockeychap 5y ago
The picture of the Metroliner reminds me of the Aloha Airlines incident. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloha_Airlines_Flight_243 It's amazing that the hull can survive in the air for any time with that much torn a
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by shockeychap 5y ago
To do anything in most situations risks some degree of offense. I wholly sympathize with parents who are dealing with loss in any of its forms. I wish there was a way they could be shielded from the world for a time. But SE Railways’ email
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by shockeychap 5y ago
Nice. :-)
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by shockeychap 5y ago
> Here are a few tips if you want to avoid getting microtargetted like this They sent a mistargeted email. Wow. A fair number of people who meet the known characteristics of your wife have children, thus it seems reasonable to send them
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by shockeychap 5y ago
“The Basecamp story’s been a difficult one for me to follow ... it’s a story about racism and white supremacy in that workplace” No, it isn’t. It’s a story about one group of people effectively arguing that a list of names that sound funny
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by shockeychap 5y ago
I've also been really excited about a solution only to realize that my excitement was with the underlying technology rather than the customer experience. I remember this feeling with early web apps. I was excited about being able to up
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by shockeychap 5y ago
I can understand this. I've been enamored with good engineering many a time, and it has its place. Something that's well engineered often WANTS to be a good solution. But I also agree with the concept of starting with "where
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by shockeychap 5y ago
Steve Jobs' take at the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeqPrUmVz-o "You've gotta start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology." Couldn't agree more. And I'm gu

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