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by sjy 6y ago
DNS blocking doesn’t work on ads in YouTube’s mobile apps.
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by sjy 6y ago
That Stack Exchange answer from 2015 is quoting a primary source describing “current levels of sensitivity” in 2001. The Breakthrough Listen initiative, launched in 2016, claims that it is sensitive to “Earth-leakage” levels of radio trans
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by sjy 6y ago
The Breakthrough Listen initiative claims that it is sensitive to “Earth-leakage” levels of radio transmission from all 43 stars within 5 parsecs: https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/news/3
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by sjy 6y ago
I share your frustration at the modern reluctance to use the filesystem properly, but it’s not a perfectly good abstraction for this problem. Users often want to browse and sort movies or books according to multiple metadata fields (eg. tit
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by sjy 6y ago
In Australia, the debate was so popular that it continued after a carbon tax was successfully implemented, which resulted in the tax being repealed in 2014 and not much action on climate change since then. Maybe “debate” is not the right w
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by sjy 6y ago
> MediaWiki is pretty much a blogging engine, article content and structure is restricted by the guidelines only, not by the engine. This is good, and at the early stages it was the only possible solution, since there is so much that can
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by sjy 6y ago
Much of the discussion in your first link seems very old. There is a link buried in there to this discussion in 2015, when it was suggested that the trend may be reversing (based on the questionable decision to focus on “active” editors mak
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by sjy 6y ago
The relatively large number of tech billionaires – people with tens of thousands of times the median wealth – is a strange thing to use as an indicator of “meritocracy.”
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by sjy 6y ago
“One design goal of WireGuard is to avoid storing any state prior to authentication and to not send any responses to unauthenticated packets. With no state stored for unauthenticated packets, and with no response generated, WireGuard is inv
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by sjy 6y ago
People were always misinformed, but now misinformers operate at web scale. Thus, more misinformation.
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by sjy 6y ago
I’ve found ffmpeg’s dynaudnorm filter pretty good for this. https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#dynaudnorm
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by sjy 6y ago
I’ve been running a NUC as a home server, with a cheap dual bay USB 3.1 to SATA enclosure, for about two years now. I haven’t had any reliability issues with it.
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by sjy 6y ago
Since you mentioned a 120 Hz display, I assume you’re talking about using the second generation Apple Pencil on an iPad Pro? A sibling comment pointed out the much cheaper price of the regular iPad (which only supports the first generation
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by sjy 6y ago
This is why we have legalese, which people who aren’t lawyers tend to look at in the same way that people who aren’t programmers look at code.
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by sjy 6y ago
After using the free desktop and web apps for a couple of weeks I shelled out for the official (expensive) iOS app.
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by sjy 6y ago
It had never occurred to me that other cultures might be less familiar with the concept of social generations. People find them interesting for the same reason as history and sociology generally – they are useful tools for understanding how
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by sjy 6y ago
I have an entrenched Anki habit – I picked it up while studying for an exam, and now it says I’ve been using it for an average of 17 minutes a day for 2 years. It’s a great tool and I recommend it. But I don’t think it helps to fix the phon
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by sjy 6y ago
You can load and play audio files on a feature phone. Many people did this before iPhones and streaming services existed.
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On Quitting Academia(lrb.co.uk)
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by sjy 6y ago
Measuring the effect of any tax is difficult, especially if it is hypothetical or only existed for 2 years, but Australia’s experience suggests that carbon taxes work (ie. they reduce carbon emissions). The biggest taxpayers were aluminium
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by sjy 6y ago
Because it’s a public service funded by the government.
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by sjy 6y ago
Not in my experience. I’ve spent a lot of time reading documentation since switching to a Linux desktop about two years ago. Of course, lots of software is poorly documented, but I’ve learned far more from the systemd man pages than I ever
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by sjy 6y ago
How many windows do you tend to have open? I find it quite difficult to use a tiling window manager when you have more windows open than you can display on screen. I recently switched to PaperWM and I find the animated transitions between w
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by sjy 6y ago
The app thumbnails in macOS’s Mission Control [1] and GNOME’s Activities overview [2] provide a nice way of managing graphical windows and workspaces which requires a compositor. Animated window management in general is a UI affordance that
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by sjy 6y ago
Is the documentation outdated? https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberry... says “USB booting is still under development“ and https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardw
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by sjy 6y ago
Thanks for the numbers. I’ve never lived somewhere cold enough to make it noticeably more expensive to stay at home all day, but now you’ve got me wondering if the cost of WFH would be more noticeable if I had air conditioning. I’m sure the
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by sjy 6y ago
I have found that not everyone in the public sector would agree with (2). By giving away the software you lose the ability to sell it and recover some of the money you spent on it. Similarly, funding the development of proprietary software
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by sjy 6y ago
Interesting, I haven’t heard of this. Is it like a fixed allowance or based on the employee’s actual costs? How does it work for cyclists and others with cheap commutes? Here in Australia we have various special allowances for some jobs, an
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by sjy 6y ago
I imagine the situation is country-specific and I’m not aware of any good studies that try to measure it. But anecdotally, as a university student around 2010, I noticed that the standards expected of undergraduates in old textbooks, exam p
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by sjy 6y ago
Aren’t the fields already bifurcated? Software engineering degrees exist. The fact that many software engineers have a more theoretical degree in computer science isn’t that unusual; you see the same pattern with business and economics.

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