smokey_circles

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by smokey_circles 5y ago
It is the nature of science that we change our mind as we learn new things. But sugar was never OK. That was pseudo-science. A lot of dietary "information" is pseudo-science. It's not an area we've dedicated a lot of eff
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
_just_ verifiy identity. you're are not presenting a feasible solution. you can easily verify who this account belongs to, you cannot verify easily that this is the only account I have. which is the problem. further complicated by irra
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
MCAS only exists as a bandaid to a terrible idea. They should've built a new aircraft, not strap bigger engines into a 40ish year old frame. If MCAS _actually_ worked, you and I wouldn't even know about it. But as tribute to how p
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
Bitcoin is the polar opposite of an untraceable currency. This is a strangely repeated claim. The whole point of bitcoin is trustless action. I don't have to trust you because I can verify the transaction. If anyone can verify a transa
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
> Tampering with the public record Oh come off it already. What a remarkably brain dead opinion. Twitter _is not a public utility_. It owes you _nothing_. Their property, their decision. That simple. I do have an issue with the idea of t
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
what in the actual horrifying toolset is this. pyenv I can understand. dunno the others. but goenv?? you deserve whatever hell this is. it's a single binary configurable with an envvar for gopher sake. just RTFM.
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
I imagine you missed the same thing I did: the last update time. April 1st, 2022
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
I dunno if I'm getting older or if this is as silly as it seems. You don't like pre-live because it doesn't have parity with production, so you use a developers laptop? What??? I stopped reading at that point because that&#x2
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
just an utterly daft opinion. you cannot fight entropy, you can only feed it
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
America deserves to go downhill if this seems like a good idea. Standardized testing is a joke. There are other, better forms of tests. See: Europe
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
I see 2 clear problems with this ideology: 1) There is too much knowledge to fit inside one person's head. Cooperation is the keystone of success. 2) Your team will grow. You will need to share this knowledge somehow before the trust c
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
One thing I wish I knew was coming was what my first code review as the tech lead was gonna be like. I was as unprepared as the grads code was. Things I've learned about my own professional code preferences since 1) I will not sacrific
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
Useful reminder for the armchair lawyering: the only person's who's opinion of the law carries any weight is a judge. Lawyers make arguments to sway that opinion. The opinion as fact stating here is incredible. The law is the law
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
Alternate title: How it took OP years to realise their teammates and colleagues deserve agency. No such thing as "indispensable". Very few companies and projects die to a singular departure, you're just not that special kiddo
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
I live in South Africa, formally registered as the Republic of South Africa (RSA). These headlines always grab my attention before I click they mean Really Secure Algorithm. Why are you like this, brain?
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
I can't read this article as anything other than "I want to be special, look at me". The only thing worse than the idea is how poorly it's argued. Boeing's issues are not software related. Those planes crashed becau
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
You are mostly describing the mineral mining sector though :D "Shiny metal, ug ug, me dig up". Which is not to say gold has no practical use but let's not pretend that's the only reason why we're mining it
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
Sure, but one side can be substantiated. The Satoshi protocol is not about money. It is a distributed, trust-less consensus algorithm. Finance was just a good candidate to start with. But we can expand that much further. Some strange exampl
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
Does the LHR impact the same calculations performed under gaming load? I feel like nVidia aren't _that_ stupid. But I admit I know nothing about any of this
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
I'd like to engage with this opinion because I genuinely have no idea how this is the conclusion people reach (that crypto is bad for the environment). The configuration of transistors through which electrons are punched is obviously n
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
> Ponzi scheme Doesn't meet the requirement: New investor money to pay old investors. Which is not to say it's problem free, but that problem is at the exchange level. Art suffers the same flaws. And Yachts. And on and on and o
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
> I feel like the media has done a very poor job explaining what SWIFT is and how exactly it works. Strongly disagree. The media are for laypeople. You wouldn't appreciate complex breakdowns about how proteins in SARS-CoV-2 work, to
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
> I fail to see how anyone can seriously listen to Joe Rogan I can't speak for others, but I'm there for the guests. Not all of them, but I find Joe to be an entertaining host, mostly because it's just different. The ones
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
My house, my rules. Not censorship, not a violation of free speech. Americans are such a fragile, precious people. Second they feel slighted it becomes this stupid parade. Meanwhile, your civil liberties and rights are being stripped by the
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
No, that's on you. There's no standard store operational model. Some are whole chains, others are just endpoints. The onus is on you to check your assumptions if they contain something important (like what you're expecting)
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
Web3 and the 4th industrial revolution are just marketing phrases. Web3 is just web2 with a different focus. it's not decentralised, it runs on web2 stacks, it does none of the thing it purports. Just like the lack of any real revoluti
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
That is a ridiculous claim. Attention is a task dependent context. I can drive for hours with no incident but be bored by a meeting in 5 minutes. Very little to link the two, because they're not the same by any metric outside of time.
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
Facebook is an umbrella term for some kids. TikTok just hit #1 on the app store so this rant feels dated. The teens on Instagram have already grown up
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
If this is specifically referencing that technically you could have served those google fonts without making the user go to Google (a proxy of your own and not a hyperlink) then yeah I'm all for it. Big if though, but to roll with it 1
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by smokey_circles 5y ago
> edge-cases Those are forgivable. I watched a team get burned by doing software HMAC and it turns out the underlying native function in the kernel is not thread safe. Would have caught me too. JSON being a subset of YAML is a core featu

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