tinalumfoil

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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
Having used ipfs casually the big draw for me has been the gateways. Running a full ipfs node on client devices is mostly not practical, but I can choose a trusted (or not so trusted since I can check the hash) gateway and that can handle t
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
Everything here sounds like a recipe for injury. When you're lifting heavy things you should be focused on (correctly) lifting the heavy thing. If you turn the oven door into a deadlift you're going to forget one day and throw out
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
Python is kind of a special case. It's slow, widely used and often used as "glue" calling out to other programs and libraries that do the real work. There's also a lot of overlap for python and systems programmers, so th
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
I don't think Google's doing this out of a deep concern for CSAM and hatred for due process, but I think it's in fact the law itself that essentially requires corporations to have these trigger bans otherwise they'd face
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
> the haystack is actually a needlestack (everyone has DNA) But not everyone has matching DNA. Matching DNA makes you a needle. > a needle identification expert told you the chance that this is the wrong needle is 200 million to one a
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
Monty Hall is really a trick question (you need to know Monty knows the answer and is using that info to know if he should open the door) and the intuitive answer to Two Envelopes is correct. To be honest, I'd expect most people's
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
You’re looking at it in reverse. People, not organizations, commit crimes. If you just look at the organization you absolve the people of the crimes.
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
A stronger currency isn't necessarily a good thing.
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
There’s no official definition. It’s like saying you’re sick, you can be sick even if doctors can’t point to what’s wrong with you, and you aren’t necessarily sick even if you have a condition. The two quarters thing is just a really widely
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
I updated it a bit. Maybe it was a bad example, but what I'm saying is having the option of arresting someone or giving them a fine isn't unquestionable authority -- if you're just mouthing off there's a limit to what th
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
I don't think you need to be a boss or have unquestionable authority to use this style of language. It's like if a cop tells you to stop doing something at a traffic stop, because she tells you so. It's not that you think the
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
> It clearly and concisely sets a boundary, and also makes it easy to disengage with any possible rebuttals. This type of "because I told you so" style only works as a show of power, otherwise people would just continue do it s
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
Reminds me of https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Oil_drop_experiment , famously described by Feynman, > Millikan measured the charge on an electron by an experiment with falling oil drops, and got an answer which we now k
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
Usually if someone posts a link to a 14 minute video from a source I never heard of, claiming it proved their point, I wouldn’t watch it. But I actually watched your entire video there and not only does the info there contradict you, but th
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
I really like GnuCash but I've struggled with the data entry portion. Most of my transactions are on credit cards, so at the end of every month I'll import maybe 100 transactions in CSV. That import form does not let me bulk chang
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
Tangential, but the "Most Replayed" feature on you tube makes me really not want to watch movies on there. Every-time I mouse over the scrubber a graph shows up that shows me exactly what the most rewatched section is, so for inst
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
You could say almost the same thing walking through an ancient Bazaar as sellers yell advertisements at you for their wares.
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
> Pick a prominent MVC based web framework, a RDBMS, some front-end libraries and go build the thing. It's really not that easy. At very least the framework you use needs to be well thought-out so you don't run into roadblocks
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
I second inoreader. Even though RSS is dying they have native Twitter support, email feeds and they also have the ability to turn an html page into a feed which all work great, so I'm able to turn most public streams of data into a new
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
This thread convinced me to look this up and apparently this site called "Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index" [0] that's continually tracking mining per IP address [1] to figure out where mining is happening. Not
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
> macOS $49.99 > iOS & iPadOS $49.99 > Android $29.99 > Windows $29.99 This seems pretty steep for a Markdown editor. What advantages does this have over Obsidian?
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
Your own link described WIN as, "one of the biggest government public relations blunders ever".
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
Yes, I'm not trying to say it's one-sided in that regard but the author is very careful in the picture they paint in the opening. The issue is sometimes (maybe often) the children's testimony is in fact tainted and should be
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
This article looks really uncritically at people who had their children taken away for abusing them, but in most of these cases it looks like these same people are trying to take their partner's children away from them. The article kee
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
Let's say Galileo drops two spheres of independent mass off the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and publishes a study saying they both fall with the same acceleration and concluding this is true of all objects dropped on Earth, assuming they&#x
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
> Two days after the invasion began, the Ukrainian government posted addresses to its bitcoin, ethereum and tether wallets on social media. The Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine now accepts donations in 14 cryptocurrencies. “
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
https://www.bmj.com/content/377/bmj-2021-069308
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
The amount of creativity here is astounding. Just imagine all the decisions the AI made in incorporating Kermit into the movies: the clothing it's chosen, how the character wears the clothing, the facial expressions, how to make Kermit
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
> In pushing the expansion, Sen. Paul Bailey noted that no one has been convicted under that law and said he doesn’t expect this one to be enforced much, either. Something worth noting about the US Justice system, is it's become a d
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
Every time this is posted there’s people arguing that this is all caused be social issues. But if you look at the charts it’s pretty highly correlated with the timing of the Nixon shocks, plus the discontinuations (or discontinuation in the

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