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931.
by slver 6y ago
I propose we rename GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, PATCH to: SAFE, NOTSAFE, NOTSAFE, NOTSAFE, NOTSAFE.
932.
by slver 6y ago
Isn't it weird when all of us individually knew forced password change is more harm than benefit, but it took literally decades for this to become institutionally admitted? Just imagine, maybe a subset of neurons inside your brains hav
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by slver 6y ago
"PC sees" vs. "PC detects" is just B.S. honestly. Both are equally anthropocentric, if at all. Computer communication protocols closely resemble other systems (including human and animal communication). Objects are liter
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by slver 6y ago
> But, like it or not, "a characteristic is genetic" does not mean "races are real". I suggest you catch up on the subject of human population genetics. I mean, that's literally the definition of a race: "a
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by slver 6y ago
You know, I actually prefer plastic sand.
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by slver 6y ago
"Darker" and "lighter" are relative terms said relative to no one, maybe some unknown average. Also people with darker skin due to lots of UV exposure are at LOWER risk of vitamin D deficiency than your average pale skin
937.
by slver 6y ago
"People are at higher risk of vitamin D deficiency compared to people." Race is not something to necessarily hide.
938.
by slver 6y ago
It's not hard to point out exceptions, but let's not go there, I guess.
939.
by slver 6y ago
I'd be very curious to hear what are the objective reasons why "yellow" and "red" are considered offensive when they refer to race, and "white" and "black" are considered appropriate. If you dig
940.
by slver 6y ago
It's a good list, mostly. It's just nearly impossible to memorize. I also think sometimes about terms like whitelist and blacklist. The problem isn't that they refer to race. The problem is that "white" and "bl
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by slver 6y ago
The idea is that this is the bare minimum the industry needs in order to stop needing 3rd party cookies (and other tracking strategies). It's not pretty but on the other end... ads do serve a function. And not all ads are bad. The focu
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by slver 6y ago
So basically like a rich parent supporting their children often leads to them being unsuccessful in life, become drug addicts and so on. I know, bit of a jump in argument there. But that's where my train of thought autopilot brought me
943.
by slver 6y ago
Congratulations, you win a free iPhone.
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by slver 6y ago
If you have figured out a way to eliminate tracking, be my guest. Mozilla would like to know, Apple would like to know. Until then FLoC attracts attention because it's new, yes, this explains our reaction. It's still an irrational
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by slver 6y ago
If we have to be fair, Google didn't build a browser, an email service, a free DNS service, and free hosting/optimization service (AMP) just because, y'know, whatever. I tend to roll my eyes at the blind hatred of corporation
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by slver 6y ago
> Why is this bad? As the Electronic Frontier Foundation explains in their post “Google’s FLoC is a terrible idea“, placing people in groups based on their browsing habits is likely to facilitate employment, housing and other types of di
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by slver 6y ago
When you deliberately rig your car so the driver seat can be empty, yeah those extra 5% suddenly become a very tall mountain. Sane people can work with the software so they complement each other. People make mistakes, the software makes mis
948.
by slver 6y ago
See, this shouldn't cause a deep sorrowful void within me, but it does.
949.
by slver 6y ago
I meant public service as in it's a service, and it's providing itself to the public. Not as in government service.
950.
by slver 6y ago
The more shared a name is, the greater the pain in selecting it. Given domain names are worldwide, no wonder then.
951.
by slver 6y ago
That's precisely the problem. It's very useful, when it's useful. Which leaves us spinning in circles when it's not.
952.
by slver 6y ago
One of the most cruel things evolution did to us is that we constantly seek meaning, order, correctness, where there are none to speak of.
953.
by slver 6y ago
> EDIT: Are you arguing about performance impact of scanning 500 rows vs 100 rows (though I don't understand your approach either, you're skipping - scanning - 400 rows as well)? The problem of paging is scanning whole dataset.
954.
by slver 6y ago
I wrote a longer reply, but it buried the lead. So let's focus on the main issue I spotted: > In your approach you're going to have 500 keys in memory as well. That's not true at all. At no point I have 500 of anything in
955.
by slver 6y ago
> I don't understand your point. I don't do any offset. I just pick 500 keys by cursor So you pick 500 keys and put them into a temp table. Then what? You still have to show a page that's 100 of those 500 keys. > The al
956.
by slver 6y ago
The semantic treadmill is tiring. We constantly need to invent new words for the same concepts. And the most damaging moment in this transition is when original connotations get coupled with later meanings. I.e. "psychopaths do not use
957.
by slver 6y ago
Most treadmills don't have this problem, they have a basic plastic guard below so it can't suck up toddlers and pets and kill them. It's not expensive, it's not hard. Your argument is buy this flawed treadmill, which is
958.
by slver 6y ago
Maybe it's unethical in academic context, but in public service context, you have an existing service, and you're in charge of improving it. When you have an improved algorithm, would you change your algorithm all at once for ever
959.
by slver 6y ago
Only if you believe psychopathy is being "messed up" which, as I said, in strictly medical sense, is not that clear. Remember homosexuality was also classified as a mental illness until relatively recently. What if it turns out mo
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by slver 6y ago
It may be fast on its own, but I doubt it's faster than cursor+offset. Your idea is to materialize a slice starting from the cursor and offsetting within it. This means we still do offset, but without the cursor. The thing is, the curs

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