akira2501

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by akira2501 2y ago
There are games designed to be addicting. Some even have gambling built in. Technology is just a tool.
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by akira2501 2y ago
Which is ironic considering the FBI and CISA just today announced that you _should_ use WhatsApp and not use SMS for two factor authentication. Although they point out the biggest problem is mobile users click on links in SMS. We live in
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by akira2501 2y ago
Insurance premiums are different for different people and are decided by underwriters based on expected risk. What subsidy are they receiving on those premiums? They were previously paying a special property tax to cover the additional fi
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by akira2501 2y ago
Those have been known to start smaller fires before. Management strategies for them and recognition of the conditions that give rise to them were implemented. This fire burned worse than before because of poor maintenance on and around th
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by akira2501 2y ago
> simply nobody knew how bad It was a 100 year old C hook that caused the fire. Which failed in high winds. Which drove the fire. It was PG&E's responsibility to know "how bad" this was. They literally lost track o
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by akira2501 2y ago
You've apparently never had power run out to a new property that's not had it before. You pay for that. The poles, the lines, the installation. The power company doesn't just run power to you because you ask. They subsi
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by akira2501 2y ago
> where consumers are incentivized to vary their consumption to help grid stability. If the grid is not stable then it needs upgrades. Automated austerity to cover a backlog of undone work is madness.
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by akira2501 2y ago
There are no median families. There are a lot of very high wage earners in CA. You should really be looking for the mode here.
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by akira2501 2y ago
They're on track to build 12 _new_ coal plants this year. Why do people believe they're operating in good faith?
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by akira2501 2y ago
Give it a dark theme and I'd say the modern Westworld TV series.
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by akira2501 2y ago
> The government protects intellectual property rights and they protect physical property rights. Intellectual property laws are in the constitution and are structured to allow the government to preemptively act on potential violations.
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by akira2501 2y ago
> and if you have a bunch of third parties running bad software, consumers would lose faith in the platform altogether. Famously the reason no one ever used Microsoft Windows.
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by akira2501 2y ago
> How are they ok with cat litter full of feces just lying around for hours inside their home It's a furry animal that uses it's own mouth to clean itself afterwards. It's not just in the litter box, I promise you. Mean
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by akira2501 2y ago
The music industry relies on government supported copyrights. Music is often unsaleable unless you have an existing exclusive contract with the label. Royalty rates are set by the government. We're pretty far away from any actual &qu
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by akira2501 2y ago
> The default return type for posthog.getFeatureFlag is string | boolean | undefined. You could just as well say "how bad APIs make simple problems complicated and how you might strain at a type system to pretend this bad design is
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by akira2501 2y ago
Perhaps those three different groups should just coordinate together, rather than individually using this data, and arriving at three different and possibly interfering conclusions. Aside from that grid operators buy power from producers.
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by akira2501 2y ago
> More complicated and expensive More durable for individuals in the face of large scale failures. You're paying for something real there.
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by akira2501 2y ago
> This brings back memories of the time I almost shortened "thousand kilometres" to "kkm". SI is such a senseless system. Unit prefixes were not a good idea. Did you move the decimal point or just switch to "Mm
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by akira2501 2y ago
> is doing a societal good by parking money in inventory they brought near you? Yes. That generates sales taxes. That generates property taxes. That pays for insurance. That pays for upkeep which is hopefully provided by a local cont
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by akira2501 2y ago
I kinda feel like macros!() should count.
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by akira2501 2y ago
True but I don't remember it being nearly as convenient to distribute those modules as it still required the whole build environment on the target and you still had to deal with perls exceptionally efficient but ancient and cumbersome
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by akira2501 2y ago
> who only know how to glue together APIs I think there's a deeper truth here. Perl was notoriously difficult to make C language extensions for. Languages like Ruby and Python really took off because they had a much more approacha
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by akira2501 2y ago
The explosion of single character sigils and the taint of C++'s template syntax.
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by akira2501 2y ago
> which can matter in a hot loop: 163ns - 31.9ns == 131.1ns This will need to happen 7.6 million times to save me 1 CPU second. On AWS lambda with 1GB of memory this will cost you a whopping: $0.0000166667. The point is, you're no
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by akira2501 2y ago
> "[CPU, Memory, Disk] is cheap, engineering time isn't." Fuck that. It is. It's absurdly cheap. I ensure I check the amount of time it would take for me to make a performance improvement against the runtime costs o
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by akira2501 2y ago
Bluetooth Low Energy with some Logitech sauce added into it. Apparently encrypted and marketed for use in contexts where FIPS level security would be required.
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by akira2501 2y ago
Your card limit gets checked on every transaction. There doesn't seem to be a technical reason why information flow back to me should be limited in any way. If the extra layer fails to work the transaction fails to pass.
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by akira2501 2y ago
Your brain does. It's not _one_ computer. It's dozens some interconnected and synchronized to others some with entirely independent control. It's why we have seizures, why optical illusions exist, and why you flinch when
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by akira2501 2y ago
What I love about this article is it's actual engineering work on an existing code base. It doesn't seek to just replace things or swap libraries in an effort to be marginally faster. It digs into the actual code and seeks to ge
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by akira2501 2y ago
It's the same question. What decides when a long process and comment period is required and when it isn't? Why does this agency have such variable performance when it comes to similar rulings?

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