strbean

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by strbean 6y ago
> The lesson here is that if you're a foreign company that buys US software and equipment, apparently the US government can tell you who you are and aren't allowed to do business with. Sometimes referred to as sanctions. I don&
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by strbean 6y ago
Yep! Of course, your chances of getting caught are almost nil.
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by strbean 6y ago
> It's either there or it's not--there are no other "rocks" to look under Nit pick on this quote: every time I've used the ribbon, I need features that have been collapsed into a "more" list (hamburger
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by strbean 6y ago
They should kill datetime.fromisoformat() with fire.
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by strbean 6y ago
"Required weekly point total" sounds like a nightmare. I'm guessing you are a software dev? Are you a non-remote worker in SF/Silicon Valley? If not, I'd suggest looking for a change in employment. The job market is
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by strbean 6y ago
Just like we do in the USA for the crime of 'suspicion of selling loose cigarettes'!
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by strbean 6y ago
Unless you are drunk in California. Then it is illegal to drive even on your own property.
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by strbean 6y ago
I just interpreted that as "we use RSA and ECC".
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by strbean 6y ago
Woops! I left off the word "don't" in regards to those features being necessary to be considered PWAs!
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by strbean 6y ago
Odd that Russia would feel threatened, considering they have been annexing territory rather than losing it for decades. Do they feel threatened that the US will try to stop them from aggressively seizing territory?
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by strbean 6y ago
> In fact, the web is unique in allowing you to actually inspect the source that is running on your machine To be fair, this is changing with WASM. On the other hand, there are tons of obfuscation opportunities with native executables th
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by strbean 6y ago
Are you talking specifically about add-to-home-screen / offline capabilities? Because PWA is a very broad term, and most descriptions I've seen consider those features necessary to be a PWA. Ignoring those two, you get damn near e
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by strbean 6y ago
I don't see why the API should even allow enumerating devices. Put that behind a browser dialog. Webpages don't get to enumerate directories/files on your system - they pop up a file picker dialog. The same should happen with
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by strbean 6y ago
You mean like incognito mode on Chrome? Unfortunately I like most of the bubble I've built for myself of Youtube. It sucks when my recommendation stream of mostly educational videos from smart, quality-driven DIYers and educators gets
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by strbean 6y ago
And somehow in this small sleepy town, the same 2 blocks have consistently been the "you can always get heroine/meth/crack here" blocks for about 30 years, and they can't predict the need for a squad car parked ther
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by strbean 6y ago
It's worse than precrime. With precrime, you might never be predicted to commit a crime. The situation you describe is basically a) starve to death or b) go to jail. I wonder if you could make a case for entrapment here?
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by strbean 6y ago
At least with Youtube, you can go through your watch history and delete videos, which makes it as if you never watched it as far as recommendations are concerned.
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by strbean 6y ago
You merely adopted Tristam. I was born into it, molded by it.
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by strbean 6y ago
You're missing def f(*args, **kwargs): doing the opposite of f(*a) f(**a)
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by strbean 6y ago
> You just need to be okay without Cain. Just play Youtube clips of Bane from The Dark Night Rises. I swear he is voiced by Deckard Cain.
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by strbean 6y ago
OpenSpanishDevil2
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by strbean 6y ago
I really doubt there would be a major backlash if a company like Apple said "Due to <nonsense manufacturing related excuse>, we are able to offer the new iPhone for $XXX dollars less than we expected!" Consumers rarely compl
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by strbean 6y ago
IF you're the only one, maybe the talking points are correct... Care to explain why you dislike it?
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by strbean 6y ago
Next thing you know, people will be using E2EE to stream gasp copyrighted material!
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by strbean 6y ago
From that survey, is you look at positive (would like to learn + would use again) vs. negative responses (not interested + would not use again), it looks like React is crushing everything outright. 85% positive / 15% negative. Amongst
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by strbean 6y ago
Mean age for morning types was ~56, for evening types it was ~54. Seems unlikely that changing grey matter volume with age is explanatory here.
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by strbean 6y ago
> A corporation doesn’t have the power of the state to threaten to take away property or liberty. Questionable, and to the extent that this is true, it is because of power given to governments to ensure those rights.
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by strbean 6y ago
True. Many online swapping communities also standardize around PayPal. It seems like eBay is dominated nowadays by people drop-shipping products from Amazon etc. with a markup, though.
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by strbean 6y ago
> None of your examples involved going from a popular architecture with broad software support to a less-popular architecture. Not sure how unique this architecture will be, but by device count, ARM architectures dwarf all others signifi
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by strbean 6y ago
It seems like the de jour solution to the Osborne Effect is to create the consumer expectation of significant price increases. People still buy last gen hardware nowadays well after the new hotness is out, because the new generation often c

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