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by wheelie_boy 5y ago
Good to hear, I'm very happy to be corrected on this. Thanks!
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by wheelie_boy 5y ago
This is not a feature available to mere mortals. Your assumption seems likely.
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by wheelie_boy 5y ago
Link to the post: https://web.archive.org/web/20190703224616/https://news.ycom... It's also weird that the post is still up, but the username was changed from austenallred to another user: https:&#
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by wheelie_boy 6y ago
2021 is the year of linux on the desktop, I just know it
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by wheelie_boy 6y ago
This is an extremely aggressive approach - the scenario is that the government considers it a threat to national security, which presumes that modifying national laws isn't a problem. You'd be able to detain developers from other
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by wheelie_boy 6y ago
This whole thing reminds me a bit of xkcd.com/538/ The simplest way for the US to get rid of bitcoin is to secretly declare it a national security threat, then identify, apprehend, and possibly extradite a majority of the Bitcoin
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by wheelie_boy 6y ago
I've seen a lot of industries compared to programming, like construction and manufacturing. For example, people trying to apply lessons from the Toyota Production System to programming. This doesn't make sense, because we have sys
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by wheelie_boy 6y ago
Reminds me of https://tylervigen.com/old-version.html Especially some of those graphs about stuff like childhood obesity. It would be nice if all problems in a society had a single, simple cause (bad people doing stuff!) an
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by wheelie_boy 6y ago
There are lots of ways that this can break. - On a rooted/jailbroken device, the system libraries could be hacked to provide any image from the camera. - The app itself could be hacked or the protocol reverse-engineered - The company&#
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by wheelie_boy 6y ago
Yes, if the amount of traffic stayed the same, having all self-driving cars would be a big improvement. But what I'm saying is that a lower cost of commuting (in terms of attention, effort, and danger) would induce demand. People would
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by wheelie_boy 6y ago
If anything, self-driving cars would make congestion a lot worse. If I had a self-driving mini-RV, I would live further from the city, and do my morning routine during my commute. Maybe take a small nap or get some work done.
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by wheelie_boy 6y ago
Always reading the dialog boxes is usually a very good idea, but I've also seen that strategy backfire. Specifically, I was once trying to help a CS professor register a new domain name. This was at some low-cost registrar and there we
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by wheelie_boy 6y ago
A lot of people need to have control of their lives. One manifestation of this is when they look at people that have bad things happening to them, they come up with a list of how they can avoid that thing happening to them. Sometimes those
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by wheelie_boy 6y ago
I doubt other companies would want to create their own device drivers
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by wheelie_boy 6y ago
Sandboxing is important, but is only one part of the protections. There's also: - App store guidelines on what is and is not permissible in different cases - Restrictions against using private APIs - Restrictions against jailbreaking t
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by wheelie_boy 6y ago
It's a little weird to say that the app store has a monopoly on distributing apps on iPhones. Does Apple also have a monopoly on writing the OS that runs on iPhones? Do they also have a monopoly on creating the iPhone hardware? And ch
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by wheelie_boy 6y ago
A big part of the value of iPhones and iPads is that you don't have to worry about installing an app that screws up your system and requires a wipe & reinstall. You don't have to worry about viruses. You don't have to w
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by wheelie_boy 6y ago
I'd be interested to see if the tooling around moderation could also be improved. For example, could the images start heavily blurred, with a circle of clarity that opens when you click. Or something like that, which would harm throu
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by wheelie_boy 6y ago
I'd say another difference is the percentage of your attention is being devoted to this kind of thing. Presumably reddit or phpbb mods aren't spending 40 hr/wk looking at gore.
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by wheelie_boy 6y ago
Don't you also have to have the 'Don't ask again on this computer' option selected the first time you login to Google with 2FA? It looks like that's the default, but that's another good way you can avoid this i
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by wheelie_boy 6y ago
> We want Facebook to censor speech on Facebook! Well, Verizon doesn't want their ads running next to certain types of speech, correct. Not sure if that's censoring. > But oh not all speech just some speech that we don’t li
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by wheelie_boy 6y ago
This could explain why it might not have shown up in testing. It's not just that the image had a non-sRGB colorspace, it's also that the pixel values in this specific image were out of the expected range.
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by wheelie_boy 7y ago
Pandemic profiteer National emergency price-gouger
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by wheelie_boy 7y ago
Depends on the amount of traffic you're expecting. If it's very light, rolling any kind of captcha of your own will work. For example, on a moderately popular (~100 comments a day) phpbb forum I used to run, I had a custom captch
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by wheelie_boy 7y ago
That's just rationing, the same thing as 'commodity is affordable'. Or maybe you're expecting it to not be a real shortage?
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by wheelie_boy 7y ago
It's mostly about risk/reward and effort. Giving detailed feedback takes more time, and is inherently more risky than a timely, somewhat bland rejection letter. Candidates are much more likely to feel slighted when they are given
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by wheelie_boy 7y ago
"Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after release of 'National Treasure 2', starring Nicholas Cage"
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by wheelie_boy 7y ago
The fixed hardware that is long-lived and affordable is possible because the hardware manufacturer subsidizes it, especially at the beginning. If they were not able to rely on money from game sales, the hardware would be much more expensiv
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by wheelie_boy 7y ago
> Where else can you, with just your hands and a laptop on the Internet, create something a billion people use? At the large tech companies, with a lot less risk and higher salaries.
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by wheelie_boy 7y ago
Yesterday was all about getting enough light during the day, today is about getting good sleep at night. Hopefully we'll also hear about eating healthy, getting some exercise, and the importance of healthy friendships.

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