brianpgordon

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by brianpgordon 6y ago
I find it very much unsettling that you're portraying as capricious or arbitrary things that I would consider basic human decency. We're not talking about Facebook's font choice here, we're talking about intolerable cont
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by brianpgordon 6y ago
All these high-minded ideals you're appealing to sound wonderful. Who would be opposed to individual rights? The idea of suppressing opposing viewpoints seems insane. And nobody likes people who act like they're morally superior.
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by brianpgordon 6y ago
I'm a Photo (and Designer) user too, just for casual use. The only features I really miss from GIMP are animated gif editing, a "crop to selection" function, and to a lesser extent a click-and-drag perspective transform. The
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by brianpgordon 6y ago
It may be a technically superior API but even so I'm not thrilled that if I want to stay current with MacOS updates past the phase-out period then I have to pay for a Little Snitch 5 license. v4 works fine for me and without this API
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
> The point of a compiler is not to try to show off that who ever implemented it knows more loop holes in the C standard, then the user, but to help the programmer write a program that does that the programmer wants. The author makes it
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
One note... what you're describing is the IOER rate, not the fed funds rate. But other than that you're spot on.
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
The Fed's move to cut to zero has been expected by everybody over the last few sessions. This is not new information. As for why they're doing this, well, monetary stimulus is really all the Fed can do, ineffective as it is, and
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
I see the point you're making from an epidemiological perspective but, because it's so important to people from an individual perspective to avoid contracting the virus, I have to take issue with your claim that it is likely possi
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
The relevant part of the CDC quote was "because of poor survivability of these coronaviruses on surfaces, there is likely very low risk of spread from food products or packaging that are shipped over a period of days or weeks" and
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
I'm just going to quote the CDC again, because public health authorities are really the best sources of information we have and I don't want to participate in the "telephone" effect that paraphrasing begets: > The vir
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
That study isn't saying anything contrary to what the CDC is saying. Or am I the parent that you're agreeing with, and you meant "regardless of whatever the CDC is saying?"
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
No. From the CDC: > It may be possible that a person can get COVID-19 by touching a surface or object that has the virus on it and then touching their own mouth, nose, or possibly their eyes, but this is not thought to be the main way th
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
Usually the point is the account balance and gains at the top above the chart. It's been a few months since I used RH but I believe you have to touch and drag to see the point you're touching be labeled. The real problem with the
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
I didn't mean to imply that such precautions aren't prudent.
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
I'm excited to be starting in Mountain View soon but I'm pretty apprehensive about having an effective orientation and getting up to speed if everyone's working from home. I've read that orientation is supposed to be a b
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
Also Avro and Thrift, please!
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
Certainly not. DNS is a good way to decouple logical service names from actual machines. This is particularly useful with containers so that you can put your services wherever the orchestrator wants them. It can also be used for load balan
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
> Anyone who still keeps a balance there is insane. Robinhood accounts are protected by the SIPC. Although with other discount brokers introducing free trading, I would tend to agree with you that continuing to use RH with its simplistic
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The Let's Encrypt certificate revocation scare(lwn.net)
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
A couple more really odious offenders in MacOS- 1. Needing to hold the option key when right-clicking in order to even see an option for moving a copied item. I don't mind the use of copy->move instead of Windows's cut->past
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
That doesn't seem like a non-serious criticism to me. They're trying to build something huge that's of immense strategic importance looking forward potentially decades. It seems appropriate to adopt the utmost caution about
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
I suppose if someone successfully created an ML-powered optimizer, powerful enough to level the playing field with C++ as the author suggests, in a higher-level language then they could run it on itself and there would be no need for C++ in
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
> It should, I hope, go without saying that nobody is required to run a bounty in the first place, and most companies probably shouldn't. Really? Most companies? That seems like an extraordinary claim. I'm not a security resear
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
I feel like this is over my head, but if the problem is that sorting a vector produces non-differentiable kinks in the output then why not just run a simple polynomial regression over it and differentiate that ?
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
I'm a data hoarder and I organize meticulously, so I get where you're coming from. But I often need to do searches along different dimensions than the "primary keys" I chose for organizing the directory structure. Search
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
If the index isn't updated instantly then they should account for that by first searching the index (for speed) and then manually trawling through the Start Menu folders for results which are missing from the index.
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
Same. And "torrent" returns no results at all. :/
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
It's Apple-focused but it's definitely from the perspective of a developer. It's not generic macrumors-type reporting for the layman.
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
Looks like nobody has mentioned https://daringfireball.net/ yet.
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by brianpgordon 7y ago
> Anyone that can talk to the apiserver that injects certificates can probably convince the system to give you a certificate for your rogue container. This is pretty infrastructure-heavy but I think my ideal solution would be to have a

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