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by willtemperley 5y ago
Love it. There's a real use in generating cartographic representations of aerial imagery there I think.
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by willtemperley 5y ago
This would absolutely be true if this were an authorised penetration test, however it was unauthorised and therefore unethical.
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by willtemperley 6y ago
It also has an extremely good therapeutic index of 641 [0], compared to aspirin at 19 and alcohol at 10, where higher is better [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybin#Toxicity [1] https://en.wikip
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by willtemperley 6y ago
Actually the plugin is enabled and running by default, but can be disabled. Enabling access is a different thing.
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by willtemperley 6y ago
Thanks, I understand what it's for, and I personally didn't want a potential security hole added to my work environment. It's just an FYI for others who are concerned about security. Here are the security details: https:&#x2
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by willtemperley 6y ago
Anyone else who finds the idea of having someone poke around in your IDE creepy or a potential security issue, it's possible to disable the Code With Me plugin which is enabled by default.
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by willtemperley 6y ago
It's good software (I've used it more than a decade), however I found GEOS to be a sticking point. When using it on very large polygons, e.g. 10k to 1 million vertices, memory leaks are not uncommon and performance drops off consi
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by willtemperley 6y ago
I use Scala for e.g. running Hadoop map-reduce jobs or building REST endpoints. I’d never write a reusable library in Scala though for the reasons pointed out in the article, binary compatibility is not something Scala cares about. I’m nev
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by willtemperley 6y ago
Yes. The spatial database startups I've had experience with, e.g. CartoDB (now Carto) and GeoSpock, transitioned from selling database tech to selling turnkey GIS (Geographical Information Systems) solutions, often with industry specif
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by willtemperley 6y ago
Looks like BitTorrent tried it, with Bleep [0], but it disappeared in 2015 leaving barely a trace. I agree with all your points though. [0] https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-bittorr...
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by willtemperley 6y ago
Matrix is interesting, I'll have a look, thanks. Signal is the only video call capable chat app I know of I would genuinely trust. Unfortunately the killer P2P protocol, BitTorrent, has been a victim of its own success, I imagine it&#x
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by willtemperley 6y ago
Investing any time in a Google project is a risk, given their track record. I think I'm most sad about Project Ara. That seemed genuinely innovative and environmentally responsible. Axing Hangouts means I'll probably have to use S
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by willtemperley 6y ago
The almost perfect Vim support is why I pay for JetBrains’ AppCode over xCode. Second I simply don’t think I’d be able to code both Java and Swift without having a similar workflow between IDEs. To me the development experience makes the di
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by willtemperley 6y ago
It's happening in morocco. Soluna is putting in a wind farm, which will mine bitcoin while they're waiting for transmission lines to go in. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/09/cons
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by willtemperley 6y ago
I'm arguing from a purely practical perspective. What can be done? Can we forget PoW and Bitcoin ever existed? Can we ban someone using their GPU from performing hashes and connecting to the internet? Even the great firewall of China h
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by willtemperley 6y ago
> Because that would be absolutely pointless. You are actually arguing that it's pointless to incentivise usage of clean over dirty energy. Do you own a coal mine? > The value of crypto is proportional to the future cost of minti
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by willtemperley 6y ago
Of course there are ways to regulate it, but you cannot stop PoW as a concept from existing, nor can you stop the code from existing somewhere. So, even if one of your plans worked out, someone would git clone Doge and start again. OTOH, i
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by willtemperley 6y ago
All I'm arguing is that governments can stop carbon being burned on their soil but they cannot stop PoW existing. So let's focus on the former.
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by willtemperley 6y ago
Ah sorry lots of Americans here, in global English we use "state" to mean a sovereign state, not an arbitrary subdivision like Delaware
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by willtemperley 6y ago
Whichever state or jurisdiction the power station burning coal is based in.
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by willtemperley 6y ago
These arguments are always pointless, as there is nothing that can be done about it, short of a global ban on computers and the internet. Why not ask the question: "how can we incentivise usage of clean over dirty energy?". How i
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by willtemperley 6y ago
> There's no such thing as Goats-as-a-service. Except for the local butcher. There is now: https://www.cronkshawfoldfarm.co.uk/videocalls