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by tlb 3y ago
People are massively dishonest about this, though. Like there are occasional Ask HN posts where someone is outraged that their bank/payment account was closed for “no reason”, but eventually it comes out that they’re in North Korea sel
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by tlb 3y ago
> It's a neat trick, but storing binary files like that in Git isn't as space efficient as using a plain text format. Why is that? I would have expected git's delta compression to work well on sqlite files, since small tab
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by tlb 3y ago
Added, thanks.
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by tlb 3y ago
It is frustrating. From a consumer's POV, the system just denies you stuff for no apparent reason. From a bank's POV, they're losing billions of dollars to card fraud operations, and there are very clever fraudsters who do th
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by tlb 3y ago
I am glad to have the whole scheme laid out, which wouldn't have happened if he'd just pled guilty.
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by tlb 3y ago
The dude masterminded the embezzling and frittering away of billions of dollars, and there is plenty of documentation and testimony from his lieutenants that he knew what he was doing. It's not like some slightly more coherent testimon
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by tlb 3y ago
I imagine a giant knife switch on the wall outside the room, to power up all the label printers at once while you're safely outside wearing a lead apron.
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by tlb 3y ago
Probably not. The computation is only a few trig instructions per array element, so most of the time is moving data on either CPU or GPU.
429.
by tlb 3y ago
Judges aren't so easily fooled.
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by tlb 3y ago
It's self-reinforcing. Because there is a subset of the population that reads health news and acts on it, they both: A: exercise, sleep 8 hours, avoid ultra-processed foods B: take whatever the latest anti-cancer fad supplement is Beha
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by tlb 3y ago
I did the same, and found a different subset of techniques useful, and the rest new-age nonsense. There are studies showing mindfulness works, but they've only tested the whole smorgasbord of techniques vs. placebo. I guess it would co
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by tlb 3y ago
Yes, though it does have the host key which you could use to do a MITM attack.
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by tlb 3y ago
Since they can supposedly redact the key from crash dumps, the key must have some identifiable footprint in memory. The redact_key_from_crash_dump function would be a good place to look for juicy bugs. Any case it misses tells you what to l
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by tlb 3y ago
Fully ad-hoc polymorphic languages like Smalltalk have this property, but many prefer having the compiler catch more errors.
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by tlb 3y ago
Yes, and common synonyms like `length` can hose you when you convert from a string to a list of strings. They shouldn’t really have the same name, especially in a Unicode world where there are several different lengths for a string.
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by tlb 3y ago
Much of the pain of H1B is due to slow processing. You can change employers, but then you’re in a weird limbo until the paperwork makes it to the top of someone’s inbox. If everything was next-day processing, it’d be more humane. Perhaps
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by tlb 3y ago
How often does it happen that a programmer is faced with "implement this feature or be fired?" Most software evil happens because the programmers are busy and it would take hours to make a coherent case for why the negative social
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by tlb 3y ago
I think most fungi can feed on a sugar solution. Sugar molecules can arise on a planet with no life, just by regular chemical reactions. So there could be a planet out there growing earth mushrooms.
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by tlb 3y ago
There's a finite demand for babies to adopt. In a world where it was easy to transfer a few-week-old fetus to an artificial womb as a back-up method of birth control, the supply of babies would exceed demand. That would be a bad situat
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by tlb 3y ago
I'm curious what the context is where you can't just set a breakpoint on the logging function.
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by tlb 3y ago
This seems like a great feature for a forum for doing ideological battle, like Twitter on hot-button social or political issues. In such forums, it's important not to agree on any minor issues with someone with whom you disagree on a m
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by tlb 3y ago
During a hot war, it’s reasonable to be more concerned about enemy surveillance than domestic surveillance. In either case, you lose some privacy. But enemy surveillance can cause you to lose the war, or at least for more people to die befo
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by tlb 3y ago
It's annoying, though, that certain sentence structures work or don't work, depending on whether the gender of the objects happens to be the same or not.
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by tlb 3y ago
It's true, though, that consumer price inflation is mostly regulated by customers at the lower end of the income range. For instance: the supply of eggs is somewhat variable, so in times of shortage the price has to go up to make deman
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by tlb 3y ago
Knowing little about it, I assume most accusations of witchcraft are a way of eliminating rivals, like in business or love triangles. But elderly women aren’t the demographic you’d expect to see accused. Can someone explain the reasons (cyn
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by tlb 3y ago
I don't know what you mean by "refuse their science". Some editors refusing to publish a paper in their journals doesn't change anything about what's true or not true in nature. It doesn't prevent the authors f
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by tlb 3y ago
I don't know anything about this situation, so this is hypothetical. Suppose that the editors who refused publication are personally convinced beyond a reasonable doubt of his guilt, perhaps because they know one or more of the victims
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by tlb 3y ago
If I were taking an ethics class, I‘d be delighted to see an SBF guest lecture. In ethics, you can learn as much from negative examples as positive ones.
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by tlb 3y ago
Installing tiles requires more skill than asphalt. In California, because of clumsy rules around workers compensation insurance, low-skilled high-risk labor is much cheaper than high-skilled labor. As a homebuilder explained it to me: if yo
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by tlb 3y ago
Sortition happened in adulthood, though. The interesting (and untried) experiment is to designate people early in life, so they can grow up being educated and prepared for their future responsibility.

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