blocko

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by blocko 3mo ago
There's a great deal of labor involved in building+preparing casks, storing them, monitoring, maintaining the temp/humidity of a space. Additionally, a good chunk of the price of aged whisky is just due to the fact that the produc
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by blocko 1y ago
Sure. I'd say reproducing and distributing it to someone who happens to ask the right questions would qualify
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by blocko 1y ago
Depends on how closely that person can reproduce the original work without license or attribution
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by blocko 2y ago
What is the rationale behind the following? > When comparing password hashes, use constant time comparison instead of ==. If you were comparing plaintext you'd get some info, but it seems overly cautious when comparing salted hashes
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by blocko 3y ago
I'll get this occasionally when I've scrolled to the end of an article without realizing, attempt to scroll further a few seconds later, and then have my eyes/vision caught off guard by the absence of movement. Missing a stai
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by blocko 3y ago
There's some jank involved depending on which combo of x/wayland, window manager, and compositor you're using, but if you can manage to get virtual monitors working on an ultrawide it's great. A lot of recent models also
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by blocko 3y ago
I mostly agree, but there is one slight benefit: whenever I read one of these articles, each topic acts as a little quiz where I get to test whether I think it's a do or a don't before seeing the explanation
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How the Visionary Hospice Movement Became a For-Profit Hustle(propublica.org)
1 points by blocko 4y ago|0 comments
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by blocko 4y ago
I think it actually adds some of the human part back in. "Hey, got a sec?" in person comes with quite a bit more context--body language, tone of voice--and a pretty quick transition into the content. To me, the rhythm of an inform
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by blocko 4y ago
I've seen people claim that they show a variable amount of ads depending on the user, which I imagine would be based on your clickthrough rate or other metrics. The ratio between ads and content also seems to vary over time for me so I
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by blocko 4y ago
Looks maybe like the opposite, there's way too much smoothing. I don't mind pixel perfect fonts or even aliased text but these just look like an aggressive blur was applied to everything
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by blocko 4y ago
It's shorthand for "I believe this is a problem that can be solved by the technology rather than requiring a manual workaround", not "I am entitled to a solution"
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by blocko 4y ago
+1 for Freya Holmér, I had skimmed through some explanations on shaders in the past and never really sustained much interest until finding her series. It's been a while since watching but I think the contextualization/demos really
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by blocko 5y ago
They mention this under the "What if there is no true perspective?" section: Second, they point out that viewers almost always view pictures from the “wrong” location. A cornerstone of linear perspective is the idea that the view
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by blocko 5y ago
My understanding of detachment is incomplete but I think the simplest answer comes down to whether it's in your nature to accomplish those goals without an ego-based drive. Regardless of someone's stage of enlightenment, they stil
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by blocko 6y ago
"Practice" with depression resonated with me. Having another episode feels much more familiar, and there's an advantage to having already recognized and improved a lot of issues with my thinking/coping patterns which exa
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by blocko 6y ago
Why wouldn't men and women be interested in each other if they had similar interests? How do gay couples exist in this framework?
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by blocko 6y ago
Not the worst idea to specifically point out scenarios with a high ratio of actual-vs-perceived danger
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by blocko 6y ago
Odd to think about future "civilizations" of uploaded consciousness(es?) surviving the extinction of the organic species that produced it
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by blocko 6y ago
The access/opportunity/etc are what is being referred to as privilege, not the quality granting it. In a world where being beautiful doesn't come with advantages, there is no "privilege of beauty", just beauty
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by blocko 6y ago
I was also intriqued and put ~10min looking into it. This study[1] seems to suggest that although reproduction rates might increase modestly when the population is reduced, high immigration rates are the bigger factor. If anyone finds anyth
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by blocko 6y ago
If the goal is an equal playing field, yes. There are significantly more barriers to entry in America for a poor black person than an equally poor white person. Housing, education (especially that which is immediately tied to where you live
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by blocko 7y ago
I think the solution would be sending as little data as possible to answer the query, and choosing which/how many queries to respond to. Any large scale requests for data would have to be designed in a way that minimizes intrusiveness
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by blocko 7y ago
Well that's just about all the data I need to come to a firm conclusion on the matter
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by blocko 7y ago
This is probably just a funny statement but be careful about submersion w/o conditioning yourself for it prior: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_shock_response
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by blocko 7y ago
Mindfulness and stoicism aren't opposing approaches, they complement one another. Stoicism ≠ being stoic
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by blocko 7y ago
You can train and improve the control you have over your reactions - the knee-jerk doesn't need to materialize into anything more than the initial feeling if you practice mindfulness for long enough. Definitely still not worth beating
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by blocko 8y ago
Why's that?