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by thwarted 5y ago
The quote takes a very dystopian view of the augmenting of humans with technology… And really expands possibilities of the Chinese Room Argument.
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by thwarted 5y ago
And yet few people want to hear "your family is not fine". Many people don't want honesty, they want comfort, and they (wrongly, IMO) look to experts for comfort. This puts doctors in a damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-dont sit
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by thwarted 5y ago
ssh's support for RSA has nothing to do with RSA tokens, which is the common name for RSA's SecurID hardware 2FA generators.
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by thwarted 5y ago
The exact opposite is more likely true, depending on the nature of the change. A new utility has no current usage so there are no in-the-wild backwards compatibility concerns. The system python on redhat based distros was stuck at 2 for a
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by thwarted 5y ago
The automation with a word processor is not the input (the typing), it's the page layout and reflow, and being able to edit and get WYSIWYG before committing to the printed page.
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by thwarted 5y ago
I had this experience with Salesforce. People without any actual software creation/maintenance or system administration experience having administrator rights in Salesforce ends up being a mess and a nightmare. Data hygiene ends up ter
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by thwarted 5y ago
I was able to do this with my C64, reducing the amount of time (cracked) games took to download, and reduced the upset my mom had about me being on the phone all the time.
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by thwarted 5y ago
Yahoo started as a curated list, and DMOZ vetted and categorized everything. Those indexes are now defunct.
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by thwarted 5y ago
This should have ended with the guy on stage getting attacked by a drone deployed by an unknown party, to really drive home the lack of defense against this kind of technology.
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by thwarted 5y ago
> you would reach out, ask permission The specific case was "maintainer fails to respond", which implies that one was reaching out. It doesn't really matter why they don't respond, perhaps the maintainer died, or t
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by thwarted 5y ago
> Yes, open source licensing allows forking, but that's not something you'd do, for instance, because a maintainer fails to respond to your issues on GitHub. Huh? Not getting satisfaction, however you want to define that, fr
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by thwarted 5y ago
The commercials for the old Time Life series, "Mysteries of the Unknown" keeps popping into my head recently.
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by thwarted 5y ago
Expecting a company to pay you as a result of where you choose to live used to happen: if you moved to San Francisco from the midwest in order to work at a company in San Francisco, you would expect a cost-of-living-in-SF to be factored int
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by thwarted 5y ago
I think the angle that's not fully communicated here is that the default expectation is 40 hours of work a week at 8 hours per day. At a company that expects you to be in the office for those 8 hours, many people actually spend more t
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by thwarted 5y ago
Sorry, I should have said "if one has a mandate…", I meant the "royal you". The mandate I'm referring to is GDPR and CCPA, where a quick read might lead one to think that no cookies can be used and that every possib
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by thwarted 5y ago
Is this an explicit dark pattern, or just simplistic interpretation or misinterpretation of the allowed use of cookies? If you have a mandate to not allow any cookies or state to be kept client side, how will the site know to show or not t
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by thwarted 5y ago
There is potential use for storing the history of real estate ownership in a more robust way, as part of doing a title search as a prerequisite for a real estate transaction. But that won't get rid of the need for title insurance, whi
498.
by thwarted 5y ago
Sounds like Perl's wantarray function.
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by thwarted 5y ago
In Linux, I have the scroll-lock key mapped to lock the screen.
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by thwarted 5y ago
You seem to be equating having a NaN in a result as being undetectable corruption. The whole point of NaN is that you don't end up with silent data corruption, you end up with an unusable value: unusable in the sense that it infects
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by thwarted 5y ago
> "==" for two different types won't do exactly the same thing, but it should always be a well-behaved "equals" operation that satisfies the usual expectations that a reader would have. That usually includes tha
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by thwarted 5y ago
> You certainly don't have to make the standard == behave that way. Is equality an attribute of the operator or an attribute of the type and value? The fact that one defines operators on types—and that things such as how values com
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by thwarted 5y ago
> if you want a sum type, define an actual sum type > the language should support you in not doing that rather than silently breaking when you do. You do realize that we're not talking about a programming language and its typ
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by thwarted 5y ago
> Because one of the basic axioms of equivalence relations (which equality should certainly be) is reflexivity; anything should be equal to itself, and other code will break if it isn't (e.g. in many languages you can corrupt a bin
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by thwarted 5y ago
Yes, and it literally says "SQL on the web" and "SQLite on the web". Are we really confusing "the web" with "the browser" now, especially since we use "the browser" to implement apps that d
506.
by thwarted 5y ago
Sounds more like SQLite in the browser.
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by thwarted 5y ago
Sounds like oxygen bars at home. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_bar
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by thwarted 5y ago
But are you an expert in the IDE? Are they having a problem with git or are they having a problem with the IDE?
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by thwarted 5y ago
Are you daft? I'm not offering what I think of other people's opinions as an argument about vaccination. I'm responding to your assertion that there is actually valuable debate to be had with rubes whose only argument is &q
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by thwarted 5y ago
Those requirements are welcome to be negotiated. But negotiation often isn't occurring in good faith. There's way too much flat-earth- holocaust-denial- style arguments from those who "just don't want to be told what to

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