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by wtracy 6y ago
More to the point: Getting people killed could make the Russian government stop turning a blind eye to cybercrime.
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by wtracy 6y ago
The researcher apparently joined Snap after the paper was published. A paper like this would look pretty good on your resume if you're applying to a social media company.
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The Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity (2017)(journals.uchicago.edu)
874 points by wtracy 6y ago|369 comments
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by wtracy 6y ago
> Don't people rely on Nvidia for deep learning workflows? I thought that stuff ran on Linux? It all comes down to there always being two ways to do things when interacting with a GPU under Linux: The FOSS/vendor-neutral way, a
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by wtracy 6y ago
I really wish this page did a better job explaining why "landlord tech" is problematic. It doesn't really go deeper than mentioning erosion of privacy (without concretely explaining how that happens) and making vague statem
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by wtracy 6y ago
This. The FAANG crowd is used to pulling down $100k-$150k. Developer jobs that are advertised as remote from day one tend to be closer to $50k-$70k. (These numbers are based on a combination of rumors and job board postings, so no, I don&#x
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by wtracy 6y ago
They have a whole department called "risk management" that is responsible for combatting fraud. (I worked for PayPal under that department in a past life.) I'm sure there's a "security team" somewhere that resp
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by wtracy 6y ago
> pretending nothing is wrong. And there's out problem. The covid situation in the US is a trainwreck because we can't get everyone to follow basic hygiene guidelines and practice social distancing. We could have basically whoo
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by wtracy 6y ago
https://youtu.be/6Jx_bJgIFhI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricit... Actual mechanical pumping.
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by wtracy 6y ago
> It could only walk on flat ground. It was supposed to be able to cross a ditch, but that was manual. Well, now I'm wondering what they needed eleven onboard minicomputers for. How much route planning intelligence do you really nee
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by wtracy 6y ago
"Oh, your new office building looks nice. Did your construction firm get all the necessary permits? Are you sure? All of them? Oh, and I see you have a lot of new employees. A lot of them. I bet it would tie up your HR department for q
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by wtracy 6y ago
> screening the company during the interview Can you offer any advice or resources on what to ask or watch out for in this area?
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by wtracy 6y ago
This is what genetic recombination has made possible in tropical fish in just the last ten years: https://www.glofish.com/ I don't doubt we will see CRISPR and friends applied to ornamental plants the way they are alre
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by wtracy 6y ago
IDK, high-speed rail doesn't seem to be taking off outside of Europe and a handful of Asian countries. That leaves most of Asia outside India/China/Korea/Japan, and pretty much all of Australia/Oceania, Africa, the
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by wtracy 6y ago
In my mind, "the cloud" came into existence when it became practical to rent servers (virtual or physical) by the hour, rather than by the month. It's one of those things where a difference in degree in implementation terms (
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by wtracy 6y ago
I think GP was complaining about "most apps that are built with Electron", not Electron itself. The complaint supplies equally well to most mobile apps today.
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by wtracy 6y ago
I have a tablet I'm scared to mess with because it has a copy of the Android port of Frozen Synapse, and the game has since disappeared from the Play store. I paid real money for that game, to boot.
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by wtracy 6y ago
I really feel like #3 really means "Do they take my field of expertise seriously?" The author's field of expertise is software, therefore only people who take software seriously are worth listening to.
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by wtracy 6y ago
I can see this one backfiring if someone's livelihood depends on their past predictions being correct. Now they have a strong incentive to double down on those predictions, and dismiss contradictory evidence. Anyone whose livelihood
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by wtracy 6y ago
Snowpiercer is the inverse: People have to stay in sunlight to survive, so they build a nuclear-powered train that runs around the world's equator.
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by wtracy 6y ago
Spitballing here: Option 1: Deny any attempts to "clock in" whenever the number of drivers waiting in a region exceeds a certain density. Option 2: Your shift starts when you pick up a passenger, and ends when you drop them off. (
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by wtracy 6y ago
I've never seen a rideshare "pool" multiple riders. I'm sure it does happen, but it seems pretty rare from where I am.
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by wtracy 6y ago
Thank you. The fund manager's comments suggesting that the index funds are unnecessarily risky make sense now. The original article kind of made it sound like the fund invested in stocks and still managed to underperform the stock mark
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by wtracy 6y ago
From Apple's documentation: > There isn’t a specific identity requirement for this signature: a simple ad-hoc signature issued locally is sufficient, which includes signatures which are now generated automatically by the linker. Thi
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by wtracy 6y ago
> They might be the only shop in town offering a Haskell job I learned this the hard way: Do not let the technology stack be the deciding factor in which job you take. Skipping the Cobol job is reasonable. Picking the only Haskell job be
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by wtracy 6y ago
In these situations, I think it's meaningful to differentiate between "investors" and "speculators".
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by wtracy 6y ago
If you're going to pitch an AWS service as "offline", then pitch Glacier.
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by wtracy 6y ago
By "raw" I think GP meant the files originally provided by the users, not actual RAW files.
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by wtracy 6y ago
Both projects are moving fairly fast, and regularly adding new features that are not shared. The last time I made heavy use of ImageMagick/GraphicsMagick, I was suprised how often I would find a feature present in one and not the other
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by wtracy 6y ago
Netpbm seems to have terrible support for modern image formats. Unless I'm missing something, I can't imagine using it to handle user-supplied images.

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