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by yunruse 6y ago
I'm not sure how tracking is nebulous. If you want to identify an anonymous counter, or keep depersonalised logs, or IP logs for security, that's fine; it can't identify the user. (Maybe IP logs could) Essentially you can boi
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by yunruse 6y ago
As interesting as these data are, I’m not sure if there’s necessarily anything wrong with the value of reddit’s MAU. As the post lays out, it has a liminal feel to it, but that sorta loses its punch if you put all thrusters into redesigning
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by yunruse 6y ago
It’s not a proof, but it makes logical sense: f-strings can be noted and compiled at runtime, whereas regular strings must be compiled every time string.format notices them. Maybe middling on one run, but reasonably useful in a long loop
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by yunruse 6y ago
As weird and inefficient as it may seem at first glance, JSON in a database can have a variety of uses, so I certainly see the benefit. But… is there any use for a null byte explicitly in a JSON string? The de facto standard (easy to use an
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by yunruse 6y ago
If it helps any, Feedly accepts YouTube channels as valid URLs for feeds. Getting YouTube in an RSS reader is great; now I can keep videos for later simply by keeping them unread, rather than whatever Google's latest UI is.
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by yunruse 6y ago
It seems more developer-friendly to me to, at Regex construction, try to parse as linear, and fallback to a backtracking regex if not. The engine is an implementation detail that programmers probably care very little about; a linear engine
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by yunruse 6y ago
Is it such a difficult conversation? I’m sure an automated “sorry, you didn’t get the cut” would be a vast improvement over nothing. It’s easy to “just move on” when you’re in the job market, but it’s a bit annoying when you don’t know when
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by yunruse 6y ago
I'm of the firm opinion that, while a protocol-based social network would be the ideal, Twitter could still move to a more equitable method of content policing and still make profit: allow people to volunteer to moderate flagged tweets
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by yunruse 6y ago
The reason we can make medical diagnoses so efficient is because we have had the collective experience, and that the human body does not vary radically from one person to another such that it would be hard to keep track. While a doctor can’
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by yunruse 6y ago
While the typesetting might not be very portable or compact, this is beautifully useful for teaching. The two extra identities found appear difficult to prove, but in this notation are blindingly obvious. I wonder if this can be used to app
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by yunruse 6y ago
Happy to say I contributed an icon for IDLE, the preinstalled Python editor I can't help but use when toying about with projects and research. It was a fairly easy venture, even though I’ve never touched icon development before.
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by yunruse 6y ago
One great way to fix this which preserves FPTP (if there's a culture for which replacing it is seen as too much change, or too complex) is FPTP with a run-off vote for the final two candidates, allowing for variety while also keeping t
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by yunruse 6y ago
Even if you remove all the heart from it, kindness is great for PR. Even a small thing, if it provides help to a small set of users in their time of need, will encourage loyal customers. Alas Google knows it already has people’s loyalty, so
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by yunruse 6y ago
Mm, just like we have wave-particle duality, one can also speak of some sort of “force-coordinate duality”, as it were. Just as we let the sine function be linear for small angles, quasiparticles with forces in Cartesian space are wonderful
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by yunruse 6y ago
I feel that computers make it easier for this danger to be more indirect, however. The examples you give are physical, and even the youngest of child would likely recognise they are not regular items. A production database, meanwhile, is vi
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by yunruse 6y ago
I thought it was a material measure of some form of cards being literally smoked in some form of industrial factory, and figured this was strange news to appear on HN. IMO the title could be less dense: "Data breach of 3 million cards
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by yunruse 6y ago
This is why it's important to consider realpolitik when thinking of company ethics or morals. Companies have people who will want profit before all else, and they will have people who truly want to value certain user values. The intera
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by yunruse 6y ago
It’s like ten thousand descriptivists, when all you need is a prescriptivist… I think words like “ironic” and “literal” have a lot of staying power, even if they have seceded a little ground on informal use. There will always need to be a c
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by yunruse 6y ago
Just off the top of my head, Apple allows for apps supporting IRC, RSS and Mastodon protocols. The latter came about in 2016, when these topics were just as relevant as they are now. Adding another protocol doesn’t seem difficult.
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by yunruse 6y ago
This is a moot point anyway; laws can be overwritten with new laws. Perhaps requiring a supermajority (2/3) to remove would be useful, but even still, _having_ the laws put into question would be a remarkable use of time, keeping law o
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by yunruse 6y ago
This format seems to support one-space indents, so you could use an editor which highlights spaces easily and set indent level to 1 for visibility. The alternative is unfriendly config or another method of doing the same thing, and both are
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by yunruse 6y ago
This is a property of the small angle law; the great circle is only appreciably different to a “straight” Mercator path on the scale of a flight spanning a European country or two.
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by yunruse 6y ago
It makes logical sense that MS would start with Edge, but I can see (for standards compliance) them expanding to work with other browsers too; it would be too great a selling point not to use.
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by yunruse 6y ago
In keyboard settings (at least in Big Sur) this can also be rebound to tapping fn, which is quite useful for typing math.
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by yunruse 6y ago
This I would generally agree with. However, care should be taken with powerful tools – deepfake software, explosive material, and so on. The laissez-faire “guns don’t kill people” attitude isn’t wrong, per se, but it can be inconsiderate if
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by yunruse 6y ago
Acknowledging a cult’s dangers doesn’t legitimise its existence or tenets.
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by yunruse 6y ago
This feels like sensationalism. You could make the exact same argument for music, books, films or TV - it is an artistic medium. A game can be a complete waste of time, and equally it can be an enriching and educational experience. Blindly
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by yunruse 6y ago
It would create a small financial (and convenience) pressure to use one identity. Careful design would be needed to ensure that multiple identities are encouraged and accepted.
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by yunruse 6y ago
The note on timestamps – that they can be subtracted but not added to any reasonable definition – is more generally an affine version of a unit. In this case, time is affine because it has a reference point to which it is relative. Temperat

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