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by socksy 2y ago
The Kims are likely the only reliable bet for people who would actually survive a nuclear war and the following nuclear winters, if the book Nuclear War by Anne Jacobsen is to be believed. They're the only ones that have built their bu
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by socksy 2y ago
Beyond that, there’s research[0] showing that testing humans actually increases their retention on that subject — we don’t just gives tests to kids to evaluate whether they successfully learned something. [0] https://gwern.net&#x
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by socksy 2y ago
I wonder if they generated the PDFs with a web browser's Print to PDF feature. Chrome's PDFs are massive.
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by socksy 2y ago
"People prefer native apps to web apps" is talking about literally using an app on your desktop, in the dock, with keyboard shortcuts, rather than having a website in your browser. This is sort of shown by the amount of Electron a
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by socksy 2y ago
Very cynical, but wrong in this case. The point of the sovereign tech fund[0] is to throw some (relatively small in the scheme of things) money at open source infrastructure that everyone relies on, no matter if that infrastructure itself i
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by socksy 2y ago
Elon is not exactly beloved in Europe either, for all sorts of non Pelosi related reasons
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by socksy 2y ago
ultimate-guitar.com is a big offender. The mobile site jams lots of things in your face to and get you to download the app (including an entire fake tab page that you can't interact with but can scroll past on iOS devices). Then on the
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by socksy 2y ago
This article is about a biotech company that is aiming to reduce pain from arthritis using an injectable chemical (as an alternative to taking ibuprofen every day), whereas I think from your comment it sounds like a personal journey hoping
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by socksy 2y ago
I used to be like that until I installed a plugin that autocloses all non-pinned tabs. Now I couldn't even imagine having so many. Why don't you just close the window? Is there something in there that you can somehow more easily o
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by socksy 2y ago
In a system where healthcare is socialized, you also get strong incentives to introduce policies that can reduce that cost. Examples would include the UK's ban on cigarette branding, introducing a tax on sugar in soft drinks, and banni
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by socksy 2y ago
I'm not sure that was ever a requirement in these industries
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by socksy 2y ago
Well at the risk of spoiling an almost 70 year old book, the Shire didn't manage to escape being affected by larger middle earthly events either
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by socksy 2y ago
Your suggestion is that Meta is just too ethical?
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by socksy 2y ago
No, see https://nix.dev/manual/nix/2.18/installation/installing-bina...
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by socksy 2y ago
Are there suddenly no pedestrians and cyclists on the roads with the cars? A cyclist hitting a pedestrian at 30km/h (fucking fast for a normal cyclist btw) is a rounding error both in terms of how much it happens and how deadly it is c
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by socksy 2y ago
Cars are big, and during rush hour have an average of roughly one person in them. Cities are confined spaces with lots of people living in them. As such, you are condemned to have traffic jams when cars are the main form of transport. To ma
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by socksy 2y ago
And some pedestrians are maniacs, but most of the time only are a danger to themselves. OTOH I have crashed into a lamppost from a pedestrian suddenly stepping into a bike lane from behind a utilities box. I think we should assume that stup
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by socksy 2y ago
Yes, because it's both annoying, and adds no extra security if you're using a password manager. While the database is unlocked, the password is in memory, and reprompting the user to enter in the unlock code for an unlocked databa
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by socksy 2y ago
> If a passkey can have its private key exported, by anyone at all But it's not by anyone at all. It's only by users that have unlocked their database. I really don't see the attack vector here. It's not like the Ap
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by socksy 2y ago
Programming is a non-scalable career (in the Talebian sense[1]), like being a lawyer or doctor. The relationship in earnings vs success is much closer to linear, with the most successful programmers getting only about 10x (100x if we'r
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by socksy 2y ago
In a similar vein there's also Unleash with a similar open core model https://github.com/Unleash/unleash
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by socksy 2y ago
I used KeePassXC with syncthing over my laptop/server/phone and frequently get sync conflicts. Unlike with some files though these are very easy to resolve by hand as there's an option to merge in another file, after which yo
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by socksy 2y ago
This is not part of the requirements for localfirst, it's part of the eventual goals. Here linear meet the requirements because you can continue to edit offline, and if they have a server outage then you don't lose your data becau
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by socksy 2y ago
"This forum" constantly has someone posting this exact take on every single thread on this issue
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by socksy 2y ago
The ones in Athens are thin white cards and as such easy to see the aerial through it. Additionally there's no slot to put it through, and a big tap surface at each gate with the RFID logo with someone tapping a card on it.[1] I think
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by socksy 2y ago
When I was in Shanghai this year I used a metro QR code via AliPay, and it seemed everyone else did too. There didn't seem to be any issue with scanning them so I guess everyone got used to that. There was however a queue by the securi
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Certain design tools type sites like Canva or Pitch allow you to upload fonts and obviously control the content. They are frequently used by phishers to make official looking phishing pages on a trusted source, leading to a cat and mouse ga
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by socksy 2y ago
And thus a good candidate for funding from https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/ , should there be some trustworthy individual or group that could maintain it (I always felt like while this project is admirable, it should be re
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by socksy 2y ago
To be fair, a police force doing stuff you don't like doesn't necessarily mean that they're incompetent at doing those things
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by socksy 2y ago
> To be clear, this is a wild avian virus that jumped the species barrier to numerous mammals in the wild now, including marine mammals, with no relationship ever to farming practices. The rest aside, wasn't the "bird" par

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