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by sly010 8y ago
Not sure why are you being downvoted, I would like to at least hear the counter argument.
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by sly010 8y ago
A good example of the crack/flood analogy is the current H1B visa system. You do have to be qualified to apply, but if enough people qualify a year, they distribute the spots randomly. Eventually the general public started referring to
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by sly010 8y ago
Think cellular automatons combined with PD/MaxMSP. Each letter in the alphabet is a node. The node's inputs/outputs are adjacent grid locations, data typically flows south (outputs are sent down) State advances on every frame
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by sly010 8y ago
I wonder at which point will we just stream pages as interactive video content with a text optimized codec. Most pages on the internet are bloated to the point where it might just make sense. (I am not advocating, I am predicting)
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by sly010 8y ago
> Those ramps are going to die and get replaced by new ones. No. They will be perhaps covered with a shiny rug, but not replaced. Technology is not "changing" there is just more of it. And it's just as important to be awar
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by sly010 8y ago
This is something that the most hardcore vim users couldn't ever figure out. That's why they are still vim users.
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by sly010 8y ago
I personally would have gone the other way and spend the second half of the day figuring out how hard it is to implement ecdsa from scratch in any of the supported languages. I guess the results would have been the same.
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by sly010 8y ago
> Most systems change all the time. The way I think of it is "wizardry" has good initial velocity (as it relates to change), but velocity decreases with time, whereas for "engineering" velocity is terrible at first (i
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by sly010 8y ago
> want to load config from environmental variables or centralized config management tools. I am not sure I understand this, I have a feeling you are mixing "configuration" with "loading the configuration" here which i
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by sly010 8y ago
If I care to guess, because if you go an abstraction lower you can do your job better. Dropbox actually uses kernel drivers on some platforms (not sure on Linux). I guess power users are not the target market.
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by sly010 8y ago
And what is the argument?
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by sly010 8y ago
This topic interests me. I am very interested to hear what the specific issues are with "non programmable" config files in your case. Generally I find that people often choose config languages because of syntax preference, where i
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by sly010 8y ago
Then the drones fly visually. ANY drone activity will shut down the airport. I think the crucial point to make here is the attacker is inherently in a better position then the defender. There is a buffer zone around the airport anyway. I wo
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by sly010 8y ago
This is outrageous because the regulation wouldn't even have to be complicated. In the EU there is a directive that you have the rights to know the retail prices of things before you make a purchase and in some countries, retailers hav
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by sly010 8y ago
Writing the good quality commit message is not that hard and is sometimes actually enjoyable (after all i get to brag about this feature / bugfix / solution). What does cause a lot of mental overhead (and consider myself a decent
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by sly010 8y ago
Oh, the real world is strongly typed. It's just the that the type is "json.Value" :( I of course recognize that a database is not very useful if you can't get your data in there.
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by sly010 8y ago
SQL types are actually default nullable, which puts them to the "not typed enough" category for my taste.
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by sly010 8y ago
Arguably you wouldn't have to debug bad connections if the middleboxes just did what they were supposed to.
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by sly010 8y ago
> which has bounds checking in hardware. x86 has bounds checking in hardware. it's called a page fault. [edit: formatting]
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by sly010 8y ago
In a traditional wired charger, the transformer coils are in the charger. In case of wireless charging, one half of the coil is inside your phone. I am not an electrical engineer, but whatever current is induced there, you have to put it so
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by sly010 8y ago
What did you buy?
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by sly010 8y ago
It would also result in correct code sooner.
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by sly010 8y ago
I thought the same, but people often order Ubers for each other, or share a ride where the payer party gets out first. A more useful feature would be to make payments subject to a confirmation and don't allow the costumer to request a
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by sly010 8y ago
Where do you think that new kind of fish would come from if not from finding and adapting exicting genetic materials? We don't even have proper understanding of how our body works and we have been looking at it for a long time. We
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by sly010 8y ago
> Imagine that Apple forced telcos to block Spotify. But they do. Telcos are not allowed to pre-install Spotify on iPhones, are they? iTunes on the other hand is pre-installed along with Safari, Apple Maps and Apple Podcast. Of course on
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by sly010 8y ago
> I've been expecting YouTube to go after channels that are primarily supported by Patreon donations with full teeth and claws for awhile now... An alternative solution would be for youtube to compete with patreon, allow sponsorship
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by sly010 8y ago
Just set up a handler to `/wp-admin/index.php` guaranteed to be called multiple times a day for free.
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by sly010 8y ago
Plaintext accounting systems (albeit not the one posted) have a model of a ledger transaction that is basically a list of "postings". Each posting is something moving from or moving to an account. In any transaction you can have m
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by sly010 8y ago
> You can't replace what works and what has been done for reliability and confidence since 1400 at least by the masters of trade. I am not sure that is true. Isn't the world full of examples of quite the opposite? Especially be
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And you would be alive.

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