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by ufmace 4y ago
There's nothing stopping somebody from setting up some kind of forum/social service like that tomorrow. I'm skeptical it would be viable though. Trouble is the whole cancel culture thing. If everything is posted under your re
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by ufmace 4y ago
I've driven a manual for many years, and I never got this complaint. I always found it perfectly straightforward to get moving on a steep uphill with just a little clutch control. Maybe you roll backwards a few inches if you're a
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by ufmace 4y ago
> having lived in Arizona where they don’t deal with such silliness Oh god, I'm simultaneously delighted at the idea of not having to deal with DST and terrified of writing software that might have to keep track of whether or not th
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by ufmace 4y ago
I know you meant a general idea, but for oil refineries in particular, and probably a bunch of others, this sounds disastrously bad from a safety perspective. A lot of accidents that are tremendously costly in terms of human lives and healt
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by ufmace 4y ago
Every service that I've seen that uses TOTP 2FA will also give you a list of fixed backup codes and strongly encourage you to keep them somewhere safe. There are also TOTP apps that will let you make a backup of your codes, to also be
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by ufmace 4y ago
Good news for the Ruby ecosystem, but I'd also like to get a handle on exactly how many of the most popular gems have "over 180 million total downloads".
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by ufmace 4y ago
I see that point, which is why I'm not entirely against unions, but they have their downsides too. Unionization has brought about some very beneficial improvements in working conditions and worker benefits and rights. But unions that g
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by ufmace 4y ago
That doesn't sound practical at all. It doesn't matter if you have direct contact or not, everything down there is that hot, so you're gonna be that hot. Existing oilwells already flow fluid through at a fairly high flowrate
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by ufmace 4y ago
Curiously, the other people who responded all think it'll be downhole. Anyways, this does make the device heat practical to handle, but now you have to figure out how you're going to get the vaporized rock out and shoot your micro
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by ufmace 4y ago
Still sounds rather dubious. I dunno about this whole thing about the beam creating a protective glass wall, but I'll give them a pass on that. Also on how they'd actually evacuate all the fluid and how they'd extract ash and
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by ufmace 4y ago
I've worked in oil and gas for years. It's possible the article is missing a bunch of details, but I'm extremely dubious of their idea. First, how do they plan to address well control? As you drill down through the Earth, you
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by ufmace 4y ago
Good question. Alpine is already small enough that it seems a little odd to go to elaborate measures to reduce image size further. Seems better to me to start with a minimalist image and only add what you need to make your app work than to
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by ufmace 4y ago
I always surf with "showdead" on. IME, around 98% of the "dead" posts are dead for good reason - either really obvious spam, or low-effort hostile snark in places where it's nowhere near being an appropriate respons
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by ufmace 4y ago
Sounds like No True Scotsman to me. Can we name a single time they've taken power and not created an even more oppressive, centralized, and corrupt authoritarian regime than the one they wanted to replace? But sure, this time it'l
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by ufmace 4y ago
You know, it'd be really funny if the CIA had figured out a way to hack crypto etc to make extra money to finance black ops and had successfully managed to blame it all on North Korea.
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by ufmace 4y ago
Writing a good resume is very much a skill. You always want to keep the length limited and focus on the most relevant parts of the most relevant experience. Anyone with a decently solid career probably has far too much experience to put it
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by ufmace 4y ago
I don't think it's about being tainted. It's that there's a bunch of C++ code out there already in Production in a ton of places that doesn't pass those checks, and may or may not actually be safe. It would be a ton
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by ufmace 4y ago
This is a good perspective to keep in mind. IMO, regarding AI, we spend too much time talking about speculative but improbable superintelligence scenarios and dystopian worst-case outcomes and not enough about the good that a well-made AI c
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Science Fiction Dystopianism Shapes the Debate over AI and Robotics(discoursemagazine.com)
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by ufmace 4y ago
I don't really get it either. The article says they want to focus on being a more direct replacement for C++ with easier conversions. I don't see that though - take maybe the most important issue, memory safety. As far as I can te
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by ufmace 4y ago
I don't think you meant it this way, but I don't really like the phrasing that it's a "framing" problem and that we "need" to "trust in science" and "believe in political impartiality".
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by ufmace 4y ago
I find that conversation highly disturbing, but it seems they've changed their mind actually https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/main/RELEASES.md#hard...
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by ufmace 4y ago
Their own page here lists out the things it's not good for at the end: https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html
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by ufmace 4y ago
Seems to me, it can work great if your use-cases match its strengths well. But if they ever don't, then it'll be a big mess with probably no solution but to fully switch over to a conventional RDBMS.
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by ufmace 4y ago
That's not what I'm talking about though. Forum bans and subreddit bans are small change. What really makes people move platforms is when the Reddit admins nuke entire subreddits for dubious reasons, including breaking poorly defi
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by ufmace 4y ago
Seems to me they're alive and well. The increasingly powerful censorship forces on places like Reddit has moved at least dozens of communities to create independent platforms for themselves with a variety of codebases. Yes, some of the
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by ufmace 4y ago
It's a possible smell in Ruby all right. Ideally, every file has its code in classes or modules that match the file name, so require 'foo' brings in the class Foo and nothing else. But it's possible to do some really ugl
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by ufmace 4y ago
Yup. The main advantage of the LHC is that they're happening right in the middle of a giant sophisticated detector and at known energy and timing.
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by ufmace 4y ago
The trick of this person's story IMO isn't so much that cooking snobs are bad or that any way of cooking is good or bad. It's that the author wants to be a cooking snob themselves. They're upset that the made-up qualific
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by ufmace 4y ago
If you read the original papers about this, it's clear that "well regulated" refers to "To adjust (a mechanism) for accurate and proper functioning." as defined in https://www.thefreedictionary.com/r

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