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by tornato7 6y ago
If a company is going to lie or skirt the law about their cookie use, why show the banner at all? It's almost worse to show a decline option that does nothing.
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Coronal Prediction for the December 14, 2020 Total Solar Eclipse(predsci.com)
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by tornato7 6y ago
Speaking of, are there alternative Reddit backends? It would be interesting to be able to take one of these sites or Reddit apps and point it at an alternative backend that provides identical functionality with different data.
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by tornato7 6y ago
Especially because a "professional" programmer should be able to get along just fine without goto. Goto is bad practice in many languages where it does exist, too, like Go.
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by tornato7 6y ago
Here's a thought experiment about a theoretical company that can obtain incredible valuation. You start out with some money from friends and family, and you use this money to sell $100 bills for $50. Lots of takers. Soon enough, you go
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by tornato7 6y ago
Awesome website! I'll add it to the sidebar on https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyItForLife/ I approved a post of this website, but I would recommend making a self post describing your journey if you want more visib
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by tornato7 6y ago
Buttons on the monitor, or some come with a remote
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by tornato7 6y ago
Yeah, I really wish they would sell a version without all the instructions because I think it would look really clean! I've been thinking about just cutting a piece of aluminum to go over the front plate.
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by tornato7 6y ago
Your best bet is to find a large PC monitor. There are a few 43" monitors out there with decent speakers. The predator CG7 is one I'm looking at.
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by tornato7 6y ago
This makes me remember the guy who was pulling SIM cards out of these IoT car boots and putting them in his phone for free 4G service.
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by tornato7 6y ago
You should try running it through a pihole. Even better, maybe you can manage to MITM it and replace the ads with something funny.
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by tornato7 6y ago
I have a microwave with one dial. Best microwave around. Nobody can get confused about how to use it. There's not even a turntable so it holds more food and it's easy to clean. That's the Sharp R21LCF for ya.
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by tornato7 6y ago
Reminds me of Let's Encrypt issuing 90 day certs instead of 1+ year so that you're forced to find a better automated solution and not have a panic when your cert expires in 5 years
554.
by tornato7 6y ago
That looks really nice. I might start using it for configuration.
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by tornato7 6y ago
There is a certain point where you have to compromise and say the cost of a security breach will be less than the cost of devoting more resources to security. I could spend hundreds of thousands on building my house with redundant locks, se
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by tornato7 6y ago
Have you tried running an unsigned app from the internet? There is no "allow" button. You have to go through security menus and whitelist the app. Who knows if that will still be possible in the future.
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by tornato7 6y ago
They say that, but this removal has exactly nil to do with security. Apple was getting $300m / year in revenue from this one app. Does it really cost that much to check this app for viruses? I don't think they'll be winning i
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by tornato7 6y ago
In this case, was the Fortnight app removed from phones or was it just removed for new downloads from the app store? It sounds like the latter but the article is unclear.
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by tornato7 6y ago
I really appreciate having the MacOS app store as a sort of "trusted" alternative to downloading off the web. That said I can't ever see Apple removing the ability to download applications from untrusted sources, like they di
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by tornato7 6y ago
I had a personal website from 2007 that ran for maybe 10 years. Unfortunately I had an open comments section and it was not paginated. Once bots made a half-million comments the site wouldn't load anymore. Decided to just shut it down
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by tornato7 6y ago
Getting my house remodeled I realized that the contractors do probably 50x as much math as I do on a daily basis, and I'm the one with a math degree. Go figure.
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by tornato7 6y ago
I agree, but when you factor in offices, equipment, utilities, benefits, healthcare, employment taxes, and corporate beaurocracy I think it gets pretty close.
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by tornato7 6y ago
The article implies tens of millions being per month. $10m/500 people = $20k/person/month. That's a reasonable price estimate for a staff that big (considering tens could mean multiples more)
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by tornato7 6y ago
You have to take some responsibility for your health, and the things you do or don't do have a big effect on your long term outcome. If you want to call that insulting, fine. To be clear every treatment I had was recommended or approve
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by tornato7 6y ago
I've been impressed by the "therapudic ecosystem" developed for coronavirus in the absence of a 'monotherapy'. The MATH+ treatment is an effective combination of available drugs and vitamins. I hope any future COVID
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by tornato7 6y ago
If I learned one thing from fighting a (not cancer) disease, it's that you have to be the one responsible for your own recovery. Don't just sit there and say "please save me doc!" You better start reading about the lates
567.
by tornato7 6y ago
Yes, a teenager, especially one stuck at home and not going to school, might just spend weeks and weeks poking around to see what he can hack, and is much less afraid of the consequences
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by tornato7 6y ago
So we can shoot aliens in VR with our friends a thousand miles away
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by tornato7 6y ago
But the billionaire probably buys a lot more stuff... And if he doesn't, that's a good thing.
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by tornato7 6y ago
Yeah, this is currently a big problem with property tax in some places and a land value tax would only make it worse. I think it would accelerate the move to big multi-story apartment buildings that can get more revenue per sq.ft of land. W

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