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by zeta0134 9y ago
This is such a lovely idea on paper, but how do you put that into practice? Is the problem the monolithic design of a web browser, which now is basically an operating system all its own? Is the solution to break that into its component part
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by zeta0134 9y ago
Is there a policy on [NSFW] tags or the equivalent? Nothing about this headline suggested to me that opening it while at work was going to plaster my screen with a giant cartoon ass, and while I'm fortunate to work in a tolerant space,
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by zeta0134 9y ago
Because unlike an SSN, you never hand out your private key. Ever. Instead, you encrypt things with your private key, and whomever you are validating your key to looks up the public key, decrypts your message, and has their proof. The publ
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by zeta0134 9y ago
I've solved this problem by simply being aware of it. When I catch myself opening a website that I just had open, I minimize my browser and do something else. It can wait, and I'll enjoy the run later anyway when the world'
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by zeta0134 9y ago
This is a valid defense! The real issue though, primarily, is that video game cameras don't emulate this well enough. My eyes don't respond nearly as fast to light changes as a video game camera does, and they're not as sen
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by zeta0134 9y ago
As a gamer, I can also confirm that I tend to have a tough time with dark areas in a lot of mainstream games. If I can get the game to realize that I'm trying to look at them (usually by getting the bright sky out of my viewport so it
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by zeta0134 9y ago
Looks like this site is being hugged to death, Google's cache works though: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:pwT4ik...
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by zeta0134 9y ago
I think the trick with your 14 year old is the same lesson I eventually learned for myself when I was older. I didn't see the negative value of ignoring the chores until I branched out on my own. Immediately, I found myself in an apart
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by zeta0134 9y ago
I think this would be more beneficial if we thought of it as distributed computing, rather than just cryptocurrency mining. Look at projects like BOINC, and imagine for a moment that those tasks could run in a web browser without slowing th
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by zeta0134 9y ago
I'm not the op, but I have the same grapheme–colour synaesthesia, and I perceive Google's logo in its original colors. But if I look at the word Google in plain text (or imagine it in my mind's eye) the coloration is differen
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by zeta0134 9y ago
Not in the original Super Mario Bros. You run across the bridge, dodge Bowser's attacks, and "win" by reaching the Axe on the far side. The strong implication (within the NES's limited visuals) is that by collecting the
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by zeta0134 9y ago
Part of the reason Google's initial launch was so ballsy and great (which they've lost over the years) was a strong focus on getting the user off the search results page as fast as possible. It was a decision informed by their t
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by zeta0134 9y ago
I think humanity as a species is only just beginning to advance technologically. I grew up right when the world wide web was taking off, and at some point in my adult life realized that my generation is the first of its kind. The first for
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by zeta0134 9y ago
Speak for yourself. A lot of members in this community, myself included, find being locked to a Windows workstation for any task to be a misfeature and a defect. Option are good! I'm not sure if the Pixel is a particularly attractive o
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by zeta0134 9y ago
I don't know why we keep gravitating to Raspberry Pi's for this. IPFS works just fine on Windows clients. (By which I mean, it's no less stable than on Linux, neither of which runs particularly well at this early stage.) What
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by zeta0134 9y ago
I think the only thing the quote gets wrong is the relative balance of power, as the assumption was that remote mainframes would always, due to size constraints, be more powerful than the terminals used to access them. Of course, the true p
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by zeta0134 9y ago
I think the true error in process is that a SSN is considered to be a secret, unique ID, and many (many!) institutions allow you to use it as a proof of identity. It's short, guessable, would fail all of their own password requirements
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by zeta0134 9y ago
Warning: Site has autoplaying video. What's HN's criteria on the [video] tag, is it appropriate for links which include a large auto-playing video, but also contain article text? Or is it reserved for content which is exclusively
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by zeta0134 9y ago
It's interesting that you bring up learning pace as such a strong signal. Most of the material I've read focusing on learning types and effectiveness seems to gloss over the speed that one learns (which I imagine must vary with ma
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by zeta0134 9y ago
This CNN article has an autoplaying video. All of my attempts to find a way to block the offending content have failed; it starts blocked, but as soon as I scroll down the page, some javascript animation moves the non-existent video to the
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by zeta0134 9y ago
This actually isn't true for modern variants of Tetris. A correct implementation of the random number generator requires that the 7 pieces be shuffled into a bag and then drawn randomly, ensuring an even distribution, and disallowing l
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by zeta0134 9y ago
We call this development time at my workplace. Every two weeks, I spend the first half of my shift doing whatever I please, with encouragement for it to be work related, but no real guidance. Last week I wrote a utility in Python to parse a
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by zeta0134 9y ago
So many birds and insects seem to be sensitive to the magnetic forces deep within the planet. I've never met a human being who was consciously aware of these forces, but I've met plenty of spiritualists who called them something e
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by zeta0134 9y ago
I've always wondered why these cookie warnings are required to be displayed at the website level, with large, sweeping changes, and not the browser level. That seems much smaller, just as visible, and easier to enforce.
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by zeta0134 9y ago
On the one hand, I agree with your sentiment in general. However, it's a double edged sword here. LOTS of people are so sick of advertising networks, tracking, privacy invasion and malware from compromised ad networks that the underlyi
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by zeta0134 9y ago
I could not agree more. Programming isn't an employable d skill by itself. What you're actually doing for the business is problem solving, and in order to be good at that, you need to have people skills to a certain degree. You li
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by zeta0134 9y ago
I'm going to be anecdotal again, but I use caps lock fairly regularly when I'm writing code. It's very useful for COMPILE_TIME_CONSTANTS and MY_MACRO_THAT_SCARES_SMALL_CHILDREN in C++ code especially.
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by zeta0134 9y ago
I would like to see some cases quoted here. It's been my long time understanding that bittorrent services come under fire precisely because of their distribution model. Catching users in the act of uploading copyrighted content is th
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by zeta0134 9y ago
Part of me wants to believe that a solar powered raspberry pi cluster has a legitimate use case. The things use like ~1W of power, so the board itself is surprisingly efficient compared to a "real" server. But really, I think the
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by zeta0134 9y ago
I imagine the licensing goes something like this: https://www.docker.com/components-licenses It's my understanding that the bulk of the components that make Docker work are fully open source, and some extra support and

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