crashedsnow

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by crashedsnow 6y ago
I don't see it as a relic, or a bad one. Some people can't just up and move to a cheaper location for a job they don't know they'll have in a year's time. How do you decide what to pay? Paying based on "experie
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by crashedsnow 6y ago
+1. Outside hourly contractors, if you have a clear sense of what impact/outcome you're seeking, time of day or number of hours shouldn't matter. Often I suspect it's a proxy for NOT having a clear idea of the desired ou
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by crashedsnow 7y ago
Feels like a solution looking for a problem to me. Not only are phones trending away from being "phones" (rather portable internet terminals) but I'd wager the largest portion of smartphone use is content consumption, rather
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by crashedsnow 7y ago
I don't think the main point being made is that deadlines are a PITA, I think it's that the trade-off is unmeasured. Successfully meeting a sales deadline looks the same as signing the same contract after the deadline (other than
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by crashedsnow 7y ago
Curious as to why having an external IP/URL is a problem. If you're using almost any cloud service that has an API for adminstration (e.g. an API to tear down a VM), then is that really different to a public endpoint secured with
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by crashedsnow 7y ago
It doesn't "exactly" work that way. The instance doesn't disappear after the request is served. It hangs around in case there's another request (for a while), but you only pay while the request is active. In practic
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by crashedsnow 7y ago
It's extremely difficult to correlate this to long-term happiness or well-being. If parents can accelerate their time to retirement they get to spend more time with children as teenagers or young adults. Is that better or worse? More o
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by crashedsnow 7y ago
The migration of humans out of Africa? Usually land ownership emerges as a concept alongside the development of agrarian cultures. If you're going to spend time cultivating land, you tend to want to defend it.
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by crashedsnow 7y ago
Yeah! I should have rent control! I should be able to live where I want and pay below the market value. Screw the free market, I want to live in someone else's house and pay them less than it's worth. I don't care if their co
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by crashedsnow 7y ago
In which universe is inflation 10%? https://www.bls.gov/regions/west/news-release/consumerpricei...
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by crashedsnow 7y ago
The whole of the internet is a patchwork of ad blockers and ad block mitigations which come in the form of both aggressive JavaScript and the much-more-insidious passive aggressive "sponsored content". Possible that this fingerpri
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by crashedsnow 7y ago
Only if they're incorporated in the citizen's country. Many (many) are not
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by crashedsnow 7y ago
I assume it means snow melts, turns into water, then freezes again turning into ice thereby increasing the mass of the ice sheet.
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by crashedsnow 7y ago
Memory is a difficult one, especially in garbage-collected languages which have a habit of filling up the heap even when it's not used, so it's not always obvious how much memory is actually being used without having language&#x2F
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by crashedsnow 8y ago
Is that really equivalent? Anti-vax arguments risk convincing someone to put their children, and those around them in grave danger on the basis of fundamentally flawed arguments that can be made to sound compelling. I don't think the a
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by crashedsnow 8y ago
I think it's 1k not 4k https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/72851
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by crashedsnow 8y ago
I've been down the flat earth rabbit hole a few times, and find it equal parts hilarious and disturbing. I'm not sure it doesn't affect anyone though.. Critical thought and actively avoiding confirmation bias are real issues
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by crashedsnow 8y ago
There are numerous new and different opportunities that emerge which create different dynamics. Insurance companies might want to invest in tech that reduces accidents because they can lower their premiums and be more competitive, for examp
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by crashedsnow 8y ago
I'm often surprised by the number of totally valid reasons apps need to connect to the interwebs where you'd think they have no business. Clocks need to sync with time servers, dialers want to get updated lists of spam callers.. n
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by crashedsnow 8y ago
If the hacker has your password, don't they also have the ability to publish a public key used to verify the signed package? It presumably would protect against distribution of a fake package outside of NPM, but if your NPM account is
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by crashedsnow 8y ago
It's not trying to hide the street necessarily, it's recognizing that it can't display the street AND the business name because the text would either overlap or be too cluttered to read. Not being able to prioritize street na
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by crashedsnow 9y ago
It's confusing that it seems like more than 1% of the population in a given area are buying houses that demand you're in the 1% of income to be able to afford; until you realize there are no restrictions (or easily circumvented on
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by crashedsnow 9y ago
We have a security gate and I installed a network-enabled lock for which I can remotely add temporary security codes that we then specify in the order from Amazon. This results in the UPS guy completely ignoring it and leaving the package
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by crashedsnow 9y ago
You nailed it. It's in Google's interest to provide the best user experience and a large part of that is optimizing for the "best" result. Whether or not a user returns to search results, or executes a subsequent search
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by crashedsnow 10y ago
Wait a sec guys.. are you sure you had the turbo button on your machine active?
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by crashedsnow 10y ago
Thanks!
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by crashedsnow 10y ago
Paywalled
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by crashedsnow 10y ago
32 Billion for 125K people.. feels like a lot. ~250K for each and every person? I wonder what that calculation looks like.
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by crashedsnow 10y ago
Yeah.. docs are also weirdly truncated on chrome/android.
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by crashedsnow 10y ago
I agree that AI != ML/DL, that's not what I'm saying. Tests like the Turing test don't prescribe anything about implementation. I mean, if you could roll together some Excel macros that passed the test then great. My

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