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by xorcist 1y ago
Is there a reason Denmark was chosen for comparison, rather than neighboring Norway (15 persons/km^2) or Sweden (25 persons/km^2)?
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by xorcist 1y ago
Wouldn't the natural thing to do be to bury it? That's what we do with other important wires. Hanging it off old telephone poles seems like a recipe for recurring disaster. Does it need to be a metal wire? Or is, say, a plastic pi
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by xorcist 1y ago
> Activating an electric switch causes a spark, which is kind of like a fire. So is walking on a carpet and removing your sweater and almost anything involving fabrics and motion. Is it really a useful definition of "fire" and
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by xorcist 1y ago
Relentlessly trying to lock up as much of the world's information as possible behind your login wall, I'd be struggling with procrastination as well. Maybe the answer isn't so much finding new tricks to play on your mind, but
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by xorcist 1y ago
Something being evolutionary is not an argument for anything. Just like something being natural isn't necessarily good for you. Sometimes I really really want to punch a certain coworker in the face, but I still don't, and that&
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by xorcist 1y ago
There absolutely is. You just think the word immunity means something else. After vaccination or a passed infection the immune response is there. When a sufficient immune resopnse from a large enough portion if the population is enough to l
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by xorcist 1y ago
Right, but covid disinformation != vaccine skepticism. As a sibling commenter pointed out, a big part of the covid disinformation that was removed at the time was by established researchers in respected institutions or countries such as Swe
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by xorcist 1y ago
$ sudo apt-get install unbound (Seriously though, this service is the middle ground no one asked for. The technically literate runs their own resolver, like the example above, or has chosen one they trust. The technically illiterate
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by xorcist 1y ago
You already know log4j. Now it's time for the sequel: log6j! On select cinemas in 2026. (It's a horror movie, don't bring the kids.)
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by xorcist 1y ago
From the outside, it seems like what you really wanted to write was a diff tool, not a new patch format. You already are user facing. Why interpret a user facing format behind the scenes? It makes no sense. The document speaks about specify
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by xorcist 1y ago
I don't think that was intended as an argument that Starlink or Tesla doesn't exist but that there has been many not entirely truthful promises made when building the brands. Tesla exists, but some investors really believed it was
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by xorcist 1y ago
In my experience, it's never "a junior". There are people who build their entire careers on doing things like this. The rest of the story is completely believable, despite put in an unnecessarily sarcastic tone.
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by xorcist 1y ago
What I don't understand is how film crews can work together when they are larger than two pizza teams? And when they want to change something, it's almost like they just do it? Surely they have to file a ticket with the Product Ow
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by xorcist 1y ago
I see a pattern with AI companies. They always try to solve a really hard and not very useful problem. It's the same as with self driving car companies ten years ago: If you believe self driving tech is ripe for commercialization, th
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by xorcist 1y ago
Stocks are valued against the risk free interest, or so the saying goes. Doubling interest rate from .1% to .2% does a lot for your DCF models, and in this case we went from zero (or in some cases negative) to several percentage units. Of c
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by xorcist 1y ago
They are self driving the same way a tram or subway can be self driving. They traffic a tightly bounded designated area. They're not competing with human drivers. Still a marvel of human engineering, just quite expensive compared with
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by xorcist 1y ago
People sometimes conveniently forgets that inflation historically has taken some 12-24 months to trickle through the economic system. That was the case this time, too. And the first inflationary impulses, famous for being "transitory&q
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by xorcist 1y ago
> because he simply thought he could run a lot leaner Because he suddenly had to pay interest on that gigantic loan he (and his business associates) took to buy Twitter. It may not be the only reason for everything that happened, but it
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by xorcist 1y ago
While the general idea is right, maybe it's not the best example. Elastic did contribute quite a bit of code to Lucene to the point where it almost looked like a project of Elastic NV. It seems however the Apache Lucene project manag
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by xorcist 1y ago
Good question and one that bears repeating. Because if you desire the aspect of free software or open source that is a level playing field, where no vendor has any special status or secret sauce, which in turn is what enables vendors to sub
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by xorcist 1y ago
That has been tried before. What happens is that people choose the school where there is easiest to get good grades. Fast forward a generation or two and there is a race to the bottom, schools take their mission to prepare for standardized
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by xorcist 1y ago
acme.sh is 8000 lines, still a magnitude better than certbot for something security-critical, but not great. tiny-acme.py is 200 lines, easy to audit and incorporate parts into your own infrastructure. It works well for the tiny work it doe
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by xorcist 1y ago
These types of statements are hard to take seriously. Those tools are remarkably good for what they are, and the fact that they can help me understand texts in foreign languages is amazing. But indistinguishable from a professional native t
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by xorcist 1y ago
If your product is a strong brand then that would make total sense. I believe the main criticism against Signal is that they should focus on getting widespread traction of secure messaging, and that perhaps the brand can be a relatively dis
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by xorcist 1y ago
Much more importantly: Never ever auto-translate content to the user's language. Present what languages you actually have the data in. The user is smart enough to click the "translate" button in the web browser should the
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by xorcist 1y ago
Printing out the QR code and giving out to all your friends? I think most QR systems include some sort of rolling timestamp to combat that.
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by xorcist 1y ago
That sounds like a sure way to ensure they don't get the info, buried as a bullet point among thousands (in a pdf ).
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by xorcist 1y ago
FTP can absolutely be secure. But it doesn't need to be if the transferred data is. These links tend to be important, and it's not uncommon to see both rented wavelengths and VPNs being used. And out of band key exchanges. No know
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by xorcist 1y ago
It wasn't always that clear who the members were. Demos and cracks across several machine types were handled by separate people who didn't always know each other. Especially Fairlight was a pretty loose group which many people wer
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by xorcist 1y ago
> "We spent x weeks working so users with low memory space can update" But it's the other way around! That's the whole point. Every app starts out small. Apps don't grow unless you add complexity to them. It&#x27

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