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by willbw 7y ago
What would disabling them look like?
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by willbw 7y ago
Is there a name for the phenomenon of people who name drop the Dunning-Kruger effect in an effort to appear more intelligent themselves?
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by willbw 7y ago
While I understand your sentiment, there is a 2015 Dan Luu article which goes into far more depth saying basically the same thing: https://danluu.com/startup-tradeoffs/ I can see you just started writing on this blog s
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by willbw 7y ago
Interested to hear how you think self-hosted video is superior to Youtube, I have found the opposite to be true in every circumstance (unless you are without adblocker for some reason).
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by willbw 7y ago
Really? I mean they already are suspended for driving, that is the punishment. This feels petty to me.
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by willbw 7y ago
Some people find the details interesting. Life isn't always about processing information as quickly as possible
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by willbw 7y ago
You can ride a moped, people ride them in the bicycle lanes in Amsterdam. Though I think that's a little unsafe for everyone else. I would add Amsterdam is one of the easiest cities to get around in, I don't know why you would exc
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by willbw 7y ago
This piece reads like the author didn't even bother to read over it once before posting it. All over the place. Are there no standards here for things to be upvoted? This is pretty bad writing.
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by willbw 7y ago
The full judgment if anyone is interested in the particulars. http://classic.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/sinodisp/au/cases/cth/...
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by willbw 7y ago
I'm nitpicking but Chicago is significantly larger (if you are talking metropolitan areas) Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI MSA 9,498,716 Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI MSA 3,629,190 https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by willbw 7y ago
Yes, but the author mentions a lot of other stuff - I think the OP of this comment was just trying to trim out some superfluous topics.
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by willbw 7y ago
Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try.
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by willbw 7y ago
I would guess something like transport (train network) or maybe utilities (power grid)?
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by willbw 7y ago
That is indirection though. json.load basically calls fp.read() and then passes that value to be deserialised. Everything is indirection.
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by willbw 7y ago
Exactly. Especially on a desktop operating system. On iOS at least you can have applications give notification over things like screenshotting i.e. Wickr, but if you are on desktop it's stupidly easy to retransmit or download the conte
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by willbw 7y ago
I wouldn't agree with everything you say, but I would add that we probably don't understand everything about nutrition and deviating from millennia of traditional dietary intake including is possibly a dangerous thing to do. That
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by willbw 7y ago
It seems as though these breaches have limited effect on user behaviour. Perhaps I'm just being cynical but if you are aren't getting access and you are just getting hashed passwords, do people even care? Does it even matter? Of c
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by willbw 7y ago
The incumbents don't always have to be "eaten". Was banking swallowed up by new tech companies? No, banks gradually increased their use of software and adapted. A lot of advances are gradual, and if you are a large company yo
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by willbw 7y ago
This article is written by the New York Times, I fail to see how it is disinformation by posting articles by one of (if not ) the biggest newspapers in the world. It's not like these are written by some obscure journalistic outfit. Of
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by willbw 7y ago
I see your point, but I think you can't ignore the power of tools. Most software created itself is a tool, a tool which typically leverages the speed of computing to perform a task hundreds, thousands, or millions of times faster than
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by willbw 7y ago
I've not done any Android development but how is IntelliJ for it? While it can be slow on big codebases and obviously never as responsive as vim in a terminal, I think the tooling is excellent. But again, you have to spend a month or s
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by willbw 7y ago
Except in development time and cost.
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by willbw 7y ago
This article has cherry picked these photos, if you look at Emma Chamberlain's instagram for instance you will see many 'typical' instagram photos that you would see on a girl with millions of followers - it's just that
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by willbw 7y ago
hmm you can randomise the time at which you next put something into the stream right? I am thinking you can sleep() until the next time, just by doing rand() * someMultiplier * aSecond
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by willbw 8y ago
Try it in vim, it works! It's an escape char for the space ;)
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by willbw 8y ago
They are talking about his https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_applet Which were absolutely everywhere at the turn of century.
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by willbw 8y ago
Good read. It is tragic that he was killed in the name of anti-immigrant sentiment, when he seems to be a perfect example of an immigrant success story.
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by willbw 8y ago
Sure, but I believe over 85% of adults will drink alcohol at some point in their lives so that is easier said than done.
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by willbw 8y ago
I started to learn programming (and C) by doing Harvard's CS50 course. It was only after couple of years had passed that a lot of the things I learned then - allocating memory, pointers, writing functions that in other languages would
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by willbw 8y ago
US median income is roughly $30k, why would you want to do "real work" if you can make a decades worth of money in a year? * * not saying the particular characteristics of this story are not a little creepy

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