MartinCron

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by MartinCron 4y ago
Someone who is upset enough about being being called out for using gendered language that they post a complaint about the interaction, on hacker news, I would bet real money that the OP is a straight male. I would also bet that the straight
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by MartinCron 4y ago
Holmes made one single promise on which she couldn't (possibly) deliver while Musk makes dozens of promises and delivers well enough on enough of them that he'll never be fully discredited. The whole "stepping on a single na
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by MartinCron 4y ago
I always thought that the benefit of the physical device was that it was decoupled from the main device. If someone steals my laptop, for example, they won't be able to access my MFA secured accounts unless they ALSO steal my phone (an
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by MartinCron 4y ago
Thanks for sharing. Seems painful. I've seen similar things where people seem to just lose their moral compass along with reasonable inhibitions and I've also attributed that to substance abuse, though not cocaine specifically.
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by MartinCron 4y ago
This is a side effect that I'm not aware of. Can you share more, please?
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by MartinCron 4y ago
So, it's nowhere near every street corner or playground, but I encounter a surprising amount of second hand smoke here in (legal) Seattle. Although it's not really much more than it was pre-legalization.
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by MartinCron 4y ago
I'm probably doing standups wrong... And then you describe some of the healthiest standup culture I've seen...
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by MartinCron 4y ago
It was when Ryan Davis died that I realized just how intimate the podcasting medium could be. While I also loved the rest of the crew, I couldn't listen to Giant Bomb without him. It was just too sad.
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by MartinCron 4y ago
The "uhhhh, this is a private venue, they don't owe you a soapbox" rhetoric rings increasingly hollow when we just went through a multiyear period when society collectively forced millions of people to work or go to school o
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by MartinCron 4y ago
It's something run repeatedly, so small chances will occur. Amoung it's failure states are being very, very wrong in ways that are hard for a skilled human to detect without more work that writing from scratch. Also makes for a
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by MartinCron 4y ago
Lynch mobs are strong and engaged communities, after all.
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by MartinCron 4y ago
I like to make the distinction between companies that treat software as a necessary evil vs. a competitive advantage.
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by MartinCron 4y ago
I'm using the TP-Link Omada access points and router along with the software controller and it's pretty great.
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by MartinCron 4y ago
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. I wouldn't believe a masterfully crafted video of vaccines actually being implanted with microchips unless the video were authenticated by at least one reputable news source. Prov
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by MartinCron 4y ago
The cynic in me is wondering if that will make any difference. It's not like people need deep fakes or even the possibility of deep fakes to believe that the world is flat or that Obama was born in Kenya or that lizard people are runni
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by MartinCron 4y ago
There's something subversive about that... a display of things that other people are pretending they have ownership over.
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by MartinCron 4y ago
Nope, nope, nope, and nope. He bought the bragging rights to say "that URL of that image of that tweet, if you look at this particular public ledger, you'll see that the ledger says that I own it!"
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by MartinCron 4y ago
> How does one view list(s) of NFTs? A better question is "why" anyone would want to look at lists of URLs pointing to things that someone is pretending that they own by having an entry of their ownership in some arbitrary publ
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by MartinCron 4y ago
I like hearing about different heterodox approaches.
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by MartinCron 4y ago
I guess that's good if you only care about you?
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by MartinCron 4y ago
I'll take moral guidance from... checks notes... anyone other than Orson Scott Card, thank you.
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by MartinCron 4y ago
Not a dumb question at all. JDK choice is intimidating when you're not in Java-land all day, every day. IntelliJ lets you download + install + switch between JDKS really easily, which I've found indispensable. As another person co
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by MartinCron 4y ago
Or even, "we've just upgraded to a new version of our health system and it has effectively shut us down"
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by MartinCron 4y ago
I actually remember it from the time. It was part of the discussion why the page's stylesheet would "win" over a user specified stylesheet when there were conflicts... sometimes things needed to be that way for legal reasons.
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by MartinCron 4y ago
I always read it as "NOT important" until I remember that CSS is its own kind of crazy-town.
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by MartinCron 5y ago
And in this case, the takeaway of “See? Exactly as I would have argued before I read this story, government intervention just doesn’t work!” feels so myopic. Plenty of interventions do work, you just don’t see them on 3rd Avenue.
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by MartinCron 5y ago
By "the kind of person who would have been homeless were it not for a government program" you mean someone who chose their parents badly and was homeless at 14, a literal child?
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by MartinCron 5y ago
People don't formulate policies from anecdotes, silly. They adopt policies that align with their existing world view and then anecdotes to back up these policies. I strongly doubt it was the article from the Stranger's blog that c
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by MartinCron 5y ago
That specific location for an Amazon office never made sense to me. It's like someone at Amazon was making late night impulse buys of real estate.
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by MartinCron 5y ago
My older car has a 6 CD magazine, very fancy for the time. When my kid noticed the "eject" button on the dashboard, she thought that the car had ejector seats!

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