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by sockaddr 4y ago
You’re so right it’s hilarious to me. I’m currently going through this phase now. Relearning the same lessons that have been relearnt and forgotten ten thousand times before me. Sitting outside watching bees go about their day is a good use
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by sockaddr 4y ago
Totally agree. After spending tons of time trying to find a reputable supplier the answer ended up being either: 1) I need to befriend a local beekeeper 2) I need to pick up beekeeping You may think, that's too much work but really the
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by sockaddr 4y ago
Well, there are many things in your life that you buy from China that don't have a semiconductor in it. For instance, I was shocked to find out that a lot of "Brazilian" honey was actually rebranded corn syrup imported from C
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by sockaddr 4y ago
Yup. I’m (trying) to do the same. Every little mindless purchase I used to make to fix some minor inconvenience slowly adds up to real harm for someone else at the hands of the CCP. Please stop buying from China. In fact, in recent times L
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by sockaddr 4y ago
This is my approach to solve this same problem for myself. I wanted a more deterministic and reasoned approach to things. Also as another person stated elsewhere, practicing minimalistic engineering where you roll your own instead of mindle
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by sockaddr 4y ago
Scary? It’s reassuring to me
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by sockaddr 4y ago
This is a very shortsighted opinion. We’re lucky you don’t make any important decisions. Seeing what they’re interested in is useful for us. Also, seeing it incoming for some time probably gave sensitive tech/teams time to close up sho
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by sockaddr 4y ago
Since this prof was accusing you of plagiarism I think you could have appealed this and taken the case to your department’s head of the dean, why didn’t you do that? I have a feeling that if you articulated your case well enough the prof wo
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by sockaddr 4y ago
> Google accounts which have history tracking turned off You mean “Google accounts which have history tracking (display to the user) turned off”?
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by sockaddr 4y ago
Buran’s Razor I’m not exactly sure why Disney wants to track the fuck out of me right now, but if they value my information for some reason maybe I should too. Maybe someday I’ll find out why they wanted my information, better be prepared
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by sockaddr 4y ago
I didn’t think about it until you mentioned it but really, why would the hacker type be interesting in all the happenings of $MEGACORP? Literally any small blurb about someone’s hobby would be more interesting. It would be nice to be able t
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by sockaddr 4y ago
As an old C/C++ dev I'm beyond excited to re-tool as a Rust dev. It's such a pleasure to use compared to C++. Fish porting itself to Rust makes me more likely to contribute to it in the future. /anecdata
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by sockaddr 4y ago
I think that blast of cold water might have done good things for his endorphin levels. Just curious about this anecdote, was he generally a happy person?
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by sockaddr 4y ago
I was going to say that too.
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by sockaddr 4y ago
Wow, I actually did zoom in on the icons and tried to remember that software not to use. That is a horrible design/layout choice. Glad I read this comment. But I still wouldn’t install Clean My Mac, it shows up in the slimy parts of th
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by sockaddr 4y ago
What about a sheep self-referentially observing itself and thus justifying the existence of an entire cosmos doesn’t make perfect intuitive sense to you?
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by sockaddr 4y ago
How is “keep tax codes complex” not equivalent to “prevent the IRS from making it simpler”? Besides that, you’re definitely wrong. They do lobby to keep it complicated and actively try to confuse customers into thinking they need to pay mor
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by sockaddr 4y ago
> see dinosaurs Only if you had the ability to outrun a photon that has been traveling for 65,000,000 years, park, set up camp, and build a mirror. But then, if you can do that why are you building a mirror?
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by sockaddr 4y ago
As an owner who experiences the “joy” of dealing with a tesla on a daily basis it’s simple: Tesla is over-valued. There’s so many little gotchas and shortcuts taken that I find it impossible to believe this company is worth what people clai
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by sockaddr 4y ago
> write a hacker news post about information hoarding in the style of john chrysostom
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by sockaddr 4y ago
To further your point, most UIs now don’t even go to the trouble of showing progress. It’s either an infinitely spinning glyph or a “progress” bar that just keeps scanning from left to right effectively providing zero information. Fun times
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by sockaddr 4y ago
This statement being made days after one of the core bitcoin devs lost all their bitcoins is hilarious to me. There needs to be some regulated abstraction layer above raw bitcoin before it can be taken seriously as a currency among common p
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by sockaddr 4y ago
Yeah, yikes.
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by sockaddr 4y ago
Probably that now it is known that people with a lastpass account of email address X also have an account at login.furriesindiapers.com or something really insane like dailywire.com
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by sockaddr 4y ago
Can you give some examples of this? I know there exist some humans who may behave in terrible ways like this if given the chance but to think that this is a generalizable behavior among the rich just seems like a stretch.
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by sockaddr 4y ago
The Bobiverse
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by sockaddr 4y ago
Agreed. Quality stuff for sure. And crucially he will tell you right as he’s about to fill in gaps with his own assumptions for the sake of the story telling. Makes it easier to trust him.
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by sockaddr 4y ago
Been a fan since your techtv days on the screensavers. Used to watch your shows religiously as a young kid. Just wanted to say thanks for all of the entertainment and knowledge throughout the years.
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by sockaddr 4y ago
Bought one of their doorbells that claimed to work offline. Nope. It refused to function without an internet connection to contact a server in China. And if you disconnected it via firewall rules it would audibly (very loud) complain that i
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by sockaddr 4y ago
Why wouldn’t exponential API rate limiting not solve this brute force issue?

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