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by gaff33 2y ago
Everyone knows 'goto' is bad, so a language like this needs 'comefrom'
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by gaff33 3y ago
Only 6 days? That's impressive!
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by gaff33 3y ago
The problem is that low density urban areas are subsidsed by high densisty urban areas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IsMeKl-Sv0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVUeqxXwCA0 etc They are also terrible for
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by gaff33 4y ago
Does anyone actually like using JIRA? Or Confluence? Or any of the Atlassian products?
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by gaff33 5y ago
I see where you're coming from. From where you sit Jupyter is a language agnostic tool and so in. But the fact that there's dozens of solutions in this space is surely a problem? I'd have thought there would be some things yo
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by gaff33 5y ago
I work with a bunch of 'data scientists' / 'strategists' and the like who love their notebooks but it's a pain to convert their code into an application! In particular: * Notebooks store code and data together,
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by gaff33 5y ago
Won't help unless we have open chat protocols. All the open phones in the world won't help if you use closed-source WhatsApp / Facebook. And you kinda have to if you want to talk to your less tech savvy friends and family.
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by gaff33 5y ago
Except that's not what's happening. They thought they were working for a "good, solid, respectable journal". Turns out their employer wasn't as respectable as they thought, so they quit - not over a disagreement wit
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by gaff33 5y ago
If just you look at flight vs train then sure the flight will win. But the train goes from the city centre, and includes a night of accomodation. If you look at taxi + flight + taxi + night at hotel - the train will be attractive. If we cor
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by gaff33 5y ago
There's a healthy power market - so the providers can and should work out a way for their clients to exit their contract and for them to sell the electricity elsewhere. Sure the client might be liable for some loss-of-earnings fees but
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by gaff33 6y ago
Tether fails bond pricing 101. If you have an IOU from the US government for $100 it's worth about $99 on the open market. If you have an IOU from a highly rated US company (e.g. Ford) for $100 you'd expect it to be worth about $9
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by gaff33 6y ago
I've been wondering if such an extension exists! Thanks for telling me about it.
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by gaff33 6y ago
What about car insurance? Is it ok to charge more to insure teenage drivers?
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by gaff33 6y ago
How do you think the process would have gone if you agreed to pay bribes?
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by gaff33 6y ago
Historically gitlab had a stages system: "Do all your builds, then all your tests, then all your deployments"
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by gaff33 8y ago
Part of the problem is derivative works. I don't think even Disney cares too much if people stream Steamboat Willy - but if MGM Studios wants to create a new Mickey Mouse film that could be a problem for them. Still I have little sympa
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by gaff33 8y ago
Seeing this list and its mix of Email / Phone / Fax / Web systems - and this is only for 50 companies - makes you realise why GDPR-like regulations are needed!
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by gaff33 8y ago
Perhaps this is going the away of Amazon Prime - which started off as subscription for faster shipping but grew to be a one-stop subscription for various things?
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by gaff33 8y ago
The only thing that's annoying is that with GDPR I have to do 3 clicks on every website. What I want is an addon where I can mute / suppress the cookie overlay. Though I guess with this setup I can do "accept cookies" kn
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by gaff33 8y ago
This may all be true - but it fails to explain why it crashed now (as opposed to 2 months ago, or 2 months hence).
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by gaff33 8y ago
Neither am I suggesting that "don't respond" is the right thing to do here. However SWAT teams must know that uncorroborated calls are almost certainly fake, and they should act accordingly. Arguably regular police could chec
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by gaff33 8y ago
The problem is that we can't help the extreme case. We need to be realistic. If we really wanted to prevent every hostage situation we could have a police car parked on every intersection in the country 24/7 so that they are never
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by gaff33 8y ago
I always wonder what proportion of uncorroborated calls that trigger SWAT raids are actually genuine. I'd have thought that live hostage taking is extremely rare - even in the US. To the point where SWAT calls ought to require corrobo
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by gaff33 8y ago
I'm not going to claim that finance isn't a clusterfuck - but paying people to store things securely isn't exactly strange. If anything the amazing thing was that people would pay us to look after our money in the first place
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by gaff33 8y ago
Sweeden had a much more interesting solution to this problem. Usually small packages like this avoid VAT because it's not worth the administrative hassle to deal with them. Sweeden decided that such packages should be liable for tax, p
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by gaff33 8y ago
Given the amount of noise that politicians and law enforcement are making about WhatsApp - there's very good circumstantial evidence that their EndToEnd encryption works. I am a nerd - I went through a phase of trying to get people to
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by gaff33 8y ago
XMPP has a terrible user experience, which is why it's never caught on.
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by gaff33 8y ago
> Use WhatsApp to talk to normal people. Use Signal for nerds. This has been my go-to advice for a while now too! The key driving point is that amazing crypto is 100% useless if the person you're talking to doesn't use it, or u
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by gaff33 8y ago
The thing that bothers me about notebooks is that they don't seem to be getting better. Splitting the data from the code so that they play nice with revision control should already be implemented by default! Allowing notebooks to also
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by gaff33 8y ago
That doesn't really solve the problem since I already have USB chargers lying around but not <insert format here>. A better solution might be to apply a charge per nonstandard charger given out to customers. At this stage it woul

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