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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
Hosting is naturally deflationary, since the cost of the underlying hardware becomes cheaper per unit over time. Take storage, which has gone from roughly 10 to 2 cents per GB over a decade [0]. I believe there's a quote somewhere abou
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
I don't think award shows mean much anymore. To win these awards you're generally producing "Oscar-bait" and lobbying people in Hollywood as opposed to making something regular people want to watch. Content that wins awa
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
I don't think Tony necessarily has to be working at full efficiency for this. Say Tony is taking a break when he gets a text from support, "Big Client X is really unhappy, looking for your help on this". He texts Gloria, &quo
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
As a consumer it's not obvious to me I'm still liable for services after those services have been cut off, which is pretty much always what happens when the renewal fails. I'd imagine services like privacy.com and virtual cre
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
Paypal is amazing for this. I jump between trials for news outlets and I can just sign up for the trial, immediately cancel my billing agreement through Paypal's interface and when the service tries to renew they'll simply be deni
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
These are all things people do constantly in their own homes, and are willing to accept the risk. It seems inefficient that people go to work and accept all these risk-averse mandates (no consumer coffee machines -- they might burst into fl
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by tinalumfoil 4y ago
This question and a lot of the replies I think are really caused by a failing of news media to set explain what’s happening, and set expectations. Unless twitter had some crazy annual report under its sleeve there was no way anyone was valu
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by tinalumfoil 5y ago
Isn't this study just comparing Apples to Oranges? Doing nothing isn't doing nothing. If you're doing a manually intensive task and and sit down and do nothing you might be (1) resting or (2) thinking about how to proceed. &g
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by tinalumfoil 5y ago
I didn't realize these articles were already available for me. You're right then that this doesn't exactly add value to an ACM membership. But maybe this is to make room to expand the ACM Digital Library in other ways.
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by tinalumfoil 5y ago
Wonder if this is related to, > As of July 1, 2022, you will no longer have to access the O’Reilly Learning platform as a benefit of your ACM membership. Despite our best efforts, O’Reilly Media is unwilling to continue to license their
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by tinalumfoil 5y ago
This is what the California constitutional says (excerpt), > A citizen or class of citizens may not be granted privileges or immunities not granted on the same terms to all citizens. Privileges or immunities granted by the Legislature ma
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by tinalumfoil 5y ago
Not if the cost of storage keeps decreasing over time.
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by tinalumfoil 5y ago
You won't necessarily know about every leak. If a security camera records you typing in your password (or you accidentally hit view password in your manager) today someone might find that recording and access your account two years fro
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by tinalumfoil 5y ago
> Imposing Swift and Severe Economic Costs It's funny seeing "swift" in so many of these headlines, I think it's a subconscious reference to what people are really thinking about. Some context, one of the stiffest pen
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by tinalumfoil 5y ago
Other compilers support GCC extensions. > The Linux kernel has always traditionally been compiled with GNU toolchains such as GCC and binutils. Ongoing work has allowed for Clang and LLVM utilities to be used as viable substitutes. Distr
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by tinalumfoil 5y ago
A bank is not legally required to refuse your money until you can prove you haven’t stolen it. A bank maintains very specific set of government mandated processes where if think something is suspicions they report it to the authorities. Not
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by tinalumfoil 5y ago
But saying /dev/urandom is best effort doesn't change those expectations, in fact it keeps those expectations the same. Saying most apps, "don't work on early-boot stuff" so aren't affected doesn't me
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by tinalumfoil 5y ago
The decision doesn't really make sense to me, and maybe I'm misunderstanding. So please correct me if I'm wrong. If the kernel aims to have 2 ways to get randomness: blocked until initialized (default) and best effort (ie
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by tinalumfoil 5y ago
Being told you're wrong is helpful. It helps you build up a correct view of the world and figure out the right direction to go. If you're driving in the wrong direction it's better to be told that sooner rather than later, ev
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by tinalumfoil 5y ago
I think you're blaming your own personality problems on HN. I'm sorry that you wrote your Dad off without helping him, but it's completely appropriate that a commenter here will tell you you're wrong without sitting down
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by tinalumfoil 5y ago
Looking up prior convictions seems necessary to establishing the credibility of someone filing a police report. You shouldn't be able to use the police to resolve crimes against you, yet expect yourself immune to the same legal system
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by tinalumfoil 5y ago
LWN had a good article on this: https://lwn.net/Articles/875441/ Short answer is these downsides were discussed but the proposal went ahead anyway. Imo I'm with you. This type of syntax has a lot of implicit
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by tinalumfoil 5y ago
> I have never seen even a single example of "undefined behavior" that I thought was justified That’s the whole point. The compiler doesn’t have to justify itself on undefined behavior. And no example that was justified? What a
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by tinalumfoil 5y ago
Not quite. Prompting works in a user applications but let's say I launch my app from a systemd service so there's nobody to respond to those prompts. It's not that I don't want to run it with the correct flags. I do wa
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by tinalumfoil 5y ago
I've found these differences make it tough to use Deno on large or important projects. Deno does a lot of novel things. On the surface they're all things I agree with, but in practice they're too novel to understand the impli
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by tinalumfoil 5y ago
I hate this AirTag because besides being pointless (nothing you couldn't do before), it fosters a fear of your neighbor while placing tech companies as your trusted friends. There's no evidence these, "people have freaked out
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by tinalumfoil 5y ago
I think you and parent are in agreement. The wealthier can also afford to put more money in riskier but inflation resistant assets like stocks, so it goes beyond gas prices.
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by tinalumfoil 5y ago
Maybe, but my experience working mostly at smaller companies is that nobody really cares. If you say you’re a level X they’ll say, “okay prove it. Demonstrate through your accomplishments and knowledge you’re a level X” not “Prove it. Show
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by tinalumfoil 5y ago
If Apple considers level 1 and 5 to both be associates and doesn’t share more than that that’s… fine? WaPo says this can be a 6 figure difference in compensation but frankly why should a future employer get to know how much I make? Maybe I’
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by tinalumfoil 5y ago
> Understanding Linux Network Internals > Cowboy Domino Players Ah, yes, playing in their natural habitat. Fun find: you can type "human" into search and see all the covers with people

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