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by teeray 2y ago
Security is often a cloak for anti-consumer measures for companies. For another example, Netflix and friends have adopted the “we noticed suspicious activity on your account” phraseology to dress up their password sharing crackdown as somet
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by teeray 2y ago
This all sounds great until you’re physically unable to work your system for an extended period of time (vacation out of cell range, illness, hospitalization, etc.). Then the pristine castle of information routing is buried under a pile of
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by teeray 2y ago
Why is this not functionality that is built into the OS at this point? Is there anyone that loves 10,000 taskbar apps visible at all times?
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by teeray 2y ago
Encryption at rest is nice for when a device has to get retired. Without the key, the drive is indistinguishable from random noise. No longer do you need to run DBAN for hours, put the drive through a degausser, or drill holes in it. No wor
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by teeray 2y ago
Richard Feynman summed that up well with “if it disagrees with experiment, it’s wrong”: https://youtu.be/LIxvQMhttq4
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by teeray 2y ago
You have to wonder how much damage to this poor woman’s liver was caused by the ED’s constant diagnosis of “go home, you’re drunk.”
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by teeray 2y ago
I wonder if they don't even need to be like traditional body parts like thumbs. Perhaps like octopus tentacles with claws on the end...
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by teeray 2y ago
The USG just needs to choose an authentication scheme that is easily and securely implemented in smartphones, yet still accessible to the grandmas out there that will use this as their first piece of technology. Then, once adopted, they sho
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by teeray 2y ago
> You might be thinking, “Wait a minute, isn’t WarpStream just another corporation? Why should I spend my time contributing to their project if they can just take my contributions at any time and commercialize them?”. Bento is 100% MIT l
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by teeray 2y ago
Yeah, but it is so much work to litigate and it takes so much time, even for small claims. We can’t really expect a reasonable fraction of the owners of these devices to sue Spotify, then maintain the wherewithal to bring that suit to a jud
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by teeray 2y ago
Opt-out process: requests must be written longhand by the requester on parchment, witnessed by a clergyman of the church and the constable of the town. The request must bear the seal of the governor and must be sealed in beeswax on the nigh
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by teeray 2y ago
Imagine you owe $15k to a hospital, and someone knocks on your door saying “hi, I’m from the hospital, can you pay us $5k?” You, in your naivety, head up to your mattress, get $5k in cash, then pay them. Turns out, they are not from the hos
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by teeray 2y ago
> It’s better than the risk of trying to carry on long term short-staffed Companies don’t feel that way. They feel they can just ramp up the workload on existing employees “until we can hire more.” What are they going to do, leave? Where
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by teeray 2y ago
Charming how the bank just skates through this whole thing with a little halo over its head. They should be liable for their own failure to authenticate the customer. Immediately restore the $5k, then they chase after the thief.
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by teeray 2y ago
Does ECON 101 logic apply here? If supplies of a good are piling up, it means the equilibrium price for that good is below the asking price.
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by teeray 2y ago
> [surprise bills]… often stem from patients unwittingly receiving care from out-of-network providers… If you do not have the agency to select an in-network provider (because you are mortally wounded / incapacitated / etc.), th
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by teeray 2y ago
I wonder if there’s a phage that could be introduced to a colony that would hunt down AFB.
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by teeray 2y ago
> I imagine that you could, at least on paper, create a Rube Goldberg machine in their genes that, say, killed them if they produced lactic acid It’s like Jurassic Park’s “Lysine Contingency”, but in your mouth
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by teeray 2y ago
Soon: Netflix, AppleTV+, and Peacock will all move to the ad-supported tier in the Comcast bundle, thereby completing the cycle.
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by teeray 2y ago
Anybody have a good open-source receipt data extraction tool for PDFs?
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by teeray 2y ago
It would be nice to have some mechanism to force the various branches of government to pass laws that oppose their own collective self-interests but advance the interests of the populace.
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by teeray 2y ago
Enough of my (technical and non-technical) friends have struggled with this and caved to the dark pattern that it has become a topic of discussion at dinner a few times. This probably means there is a significant amount of ARR tied up in it
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by teeray 2y ago
They probably want to kill the reverse chronological grid because many tools to delete Google Photos in bulk rely on it. Photos is a great source of storage consumption (“let us auto back up every photo you’ve ever taken…”), and when it’s c
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by teeray 2y ago
Apple Watch actually has a setting[0] to buzz the time in Morse when you put two fingers on the watch face. This is really useful for discretely checking the time. [0] https://support.apple.com/guide/watch/tell-tim
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by teeray 2y ago
Birds are actually fairly straightforward to evade—you rapidly ascend vertically. If the bird tried to follow, its wings would stall (they can feel this happening and avoid it).
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by teeray 2y ago
I also went to a private college prep school, and the workload was practically abusive at times. I remember some days when I’d work on homework during class, get home, then continue working on homework clear until 3 or 4 AM. Then it was bac
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by teeray 2y ago
It would be interesting to federate trail condition information, since that's the true value-add of a service like AllTrails.
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by teeray 2y ago
It’s not even just the obvious plumbing providing hot and cold water, and the drain pipes carrying away waste water. You also need vent stacks for all the drains. You also need to put in a whole lot of hot water heaters and the associated e
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by teeray 2y ago
> - licensing ensures only a minimum level of quality… people with licenses still do interviews, often just as grueling Agreed, I never asserted against these two points. The point of licensure is to make the first round, which is fairl
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by teeray 2y ago
> I imagine it would be something easy that admits tons of mediocre devs Given that Medical boards and the Bar strike fear into the hearts of students and demand immense preparation, I think we could do pretty well. The test prep mentali

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