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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Also, there are APIs for acquiring real-world mailing addresses inside of "subdivided" warehouses. The only way to verify that a person isn't a bot is to make babies with them.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
When you take away everything that is perceived as toxic, are you left with anything other than confirmation bias?
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
I'm sure Azure has great stats on paper, it's not the simple, easy-to-measure data that concerns us. I'm also sure that Azure is currently treating their clients really well, in the spirit of "the first hit is free"
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
In Qatar, which has a national firewall, I was able to use Tor to browse torrent sites, and then use a regular bittorrent client to fetch the contents of the magnet links (encrypted connections only). That worked great for the few years tha
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
A CEO once told me, "If you owe someone $1 million, then they own you. If you owe someone $1 billion, then you own them." I think that the orgs who are owed by US are primarily concerned with maintaining the status quo, rather tha
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
It reflects poorly on us that this is being downvoted. The parent shared a simple cautionary tale without baiting or flaming or anything like that. It is a good thing, to be aware of the worst case scenario; IME, projects that fail badly do
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Yep, and personalization and A/B testing can be accommodated with query params. By whitelisting those AB params in the caching layers, you can mostly prevent a performance difference between A and B, something that may have messed up o
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Yes, just like Intel. We engineered our way into this, we'll engineer our way out, and then smooth it all over with more engineering. Entropy wins again.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
I've been ranting here occasionally about the infuriating unprofessionalism of a web app that can't operate without JS. There is very little that you can do with JS that can't also be done with the help of a server, unless
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
The parameter you are looking for is delta-V, the total change in velocity that the craft can accelerate to. It relates to inverse specific thrust, which is the parameter discussed earlier, comparing slow heavy exhaust to fast light exhaust
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Yeah, we should probably not do this in LEO, where orbits decay and half of the potential acceleration vectors lead back down to Earth. Fortunately, it takes a lot of energy and precision to de-orbit anything heavy that is in geosynchronous
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
In a small toroidally shaped universe, your radio is also your memory. All emissions eventually return to their origin, but you can reorder memory transmissions by moving while the data is in flight.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Wow, just thinking about C++ while slacking, was enough to inspire a solution to a race condition in my Clojurescript project. Earlier, I made some notes and walked away from the problem, because it was getting frustrating. Then, while I wa
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
The missing back story to Apollo 18!
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
I thought that it was going to log transactions to a blockchain, as a sabotage-resistant backup strategy.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Yeah, but a good weld is stronger than the metal around it. Win!
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Docker. I need/want 64gb in my next laptop, so that I can run deployment simulations.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
DNA is already digital.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Dude. That redirects to a picture of a scrotum in a cup, if you arrive with an HN referer header. I'm guessing you got pranked, lol.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
They could do it in ASCII, on IRC.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Hah, same. I still haven't signed up for an account, but I've been getting a fair bit of my news there since around 1998, before people bragged about UIDs. As a child, I learned a lot about how the grownup world worked, by lurking
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
It sure is frustrating that a site whose only purpose is to serve documents, and is created by people who advocate Tor, requires JavaScript for all navigation. Even the "about" anchor in the footer has an onClick instead of an h
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
If the user didn't opt in to a notification, then by definition, it is unsolicited.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Or, we could just go all meta, in a Postgres shell: CREATE TABLE queries IF NOT EXISTS ( name varchar(64), version varchar(64), query text, description text ); NOTIFY chat 'Alice: Bob, please insert that query
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
OTOH, I kind of like the idea that something like this could lead me to discover a programming language that is better suited to the subjects that I am interested in.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Enough with the watt-hours already! Let's all just measure batteries using Joules, we have a unit specifically for quantities of electrical energy.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
> It's a standards-track proposal at the W3C... Gotta start somewhere. Proposals that come with a working prototype probably fare much better than those that are purely theoretical.
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
What if we don't try to repair the body, but instead reconstruct it in a simulation? Even if the person's cells have all been mangled by ice crystals, a future medical team could conceivably map their neural network and estimate t
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Furthermore, there is no need for anyone to care what spacing scheme their team uses, after configuring their editor on day 1 with that team. I have Vim convert Python code to tab indentation when opening files, and have it convert to 4-spa
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by devrandomguy 9y ago
Screw duty free, the airline should offer cannabis cookies as a snack option. What airline wouldn't like a plane full of chilled out passengers, who are contented to watch reruns of old Disney movies? And I'll take an extra pizza

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