ted_dunning

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by ted_dunning 2mo ago
The visualization for the aisle seat is much less interesting than for the window seat. Maybe that's why they built what they built.
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by ted_dunning 2mo ago
Having to serve 1000x more traffic from bots is completely unacceptable for most site owners as well. The fact that this trade-off isn't obvious indicates you haven't tried to run a site at scale and make a living off of it.
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by ted_dunning 2mo ago
The entire blog was about how the site owner doesn't want to put it in the open. Your pontificating can't change the fact that he can do whatever he wants with his site.
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by ted_dunning 2mo ago
It's not that simple. The stolen file has no clear text passwords and ideally, these passwords can only be decrypted on the right hardware with user confirmation. Of course, eternal and repeated confirmation requests are an anti patter
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by ted_dunning 2mo ago
But when you do, there are glaring holes these people uncovered.
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by ted_dunning 2mo ago
It is hard to find the content for all of the glitzy ads on this site.
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by ted_dunning 2mo ago
The problem with this logic is that if 80% of the salmon in the water are sterile, then the probably of a fruitful mating is only 20% of the previous rate. For most wild populations, this is cataclysmically bad. It works on screw worm flies
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by ted_dunning 2mo ago
It would have been pretty easy to use a horizontal line scanner to get image speed. In any case, it seems that using a full frame video would be much easier to post process since frame to frame correlation tells you everything you need to k
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by ted_dunning 3mo ago
Define "most" and "us". If us means humans living in democracies, I would say that parliamentary democracy has more supporters and constitutional republics. And even if us == the US, I would argue that most US citizens
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by ted_dunning 3mo ago
Alex Pretti would like a word.
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by ted_dunning 3mo ago
Albania and Georgia have much healthier culture of resistance than the US. The US has almost entirely lost this culture except for short moments in isolated places. Minneapolis is nearly a proof by exception in this. Very, very few people n
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by ted_dunning 3mo ago
Buying a bond at a discount is no different than buying at face value and paying back with interest. Any claims that there is any important difference is sophistry.
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by ted_dunning 3mo ago
But this partition would be visible. The OP had a version that is invisible.
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by ted_dunning 3mo ago
Unless they disassemble this drive, a forensic dump will only show the open partition.
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by ted_dunning 3mo ago
A similar distinction with opposite polarity, however. A public school in Britain does not receive public funding. A public school in the US is entirely publicly funded.
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by ted_dunning 3mo ago
And make a video about how to make a dashboard (that you call Jarvis).
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by ted_dunning 4mo ago
Wow... that took me several, uh, seconds to find. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2516491 There's your hard data.
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by ted_dunning 4mo ago
What do you mean by "immunizing vaccines"? In the first sentence, you say that flu vaccines are not and in the second you admit they are. Maybe you meant that their coverage is not comprehensive. If so, that's what you should
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by ted_dunning 4mo ago
Pushing those vaccines saved hundreds of thousands of lives.
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by ted_dunning 4mo ago
This is usually modulated by whether the fib is about something "material". In fact, he probably would have had the same decision with or without the claim which is the essence of "not material". My own personal take is
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by ted_dunning 4mo ago
That's a fair point. My own experience with converting unpaid customers is that it is really hard.
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by ted_dunning 4mo ago
A bad abstraction would have caused many updates in many places because the API would never quite stabilize due to having been a force-fit from the start. A uses the abstraction, but finds the API doesn't work. Fixes that. That causes
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by ted_dunning 4mo ago
I, on the other hand, have had to burn through countless cycles of security alerts because I used a library for JSON parsing that had all kinds of other features that I didn't need or want. The security bugs were all in features I neve
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by ted_dunning 4mo ago
That may be true, but it is likely that the contract limits you to arbitration, forbids class action and limits the penalty dramatically.
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by ted_dunning 4mo ago
Add in the fact that they claim 900 million weekly uniques. Pretending the growth and cost rates compound as described in the article, they will need to generate about 100x current revenue to growth out of their current hole. That sort of i
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by ted_dunning 4mo ago
Cutting out the middlemen. Getting rid of the pesky chlorophyl syndicate.
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by ted_dunning 4mo ago
and I cry again when I see mountains of fly ash from coal burning.
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by ted_dunning 4mo ago
This is an important point. In the 1980's, PV panels extracted 5-10% of the incident solar energy which could be converted to heat at roughly 100% efficiency. Solar thermal collectors collected at 80+% efficiency and could store and re
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by ted_dunning 4mo ago
It scales up just the way that siloes on farms scale up ... you build more of them. And the Finns put a priority on staying warm. For normal electrical generation, they largely use wind with a growing solar fraction.
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by ted_dunning 4mo ago
And even better is to augment it with large scale batteries. Nuclear is fine, but very expensive and very slow to deploy.

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