germinator

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by germinator 2y ago
"Direct" is not a helpful word. In the US, the government has control over the content too, it just so happens that it mostly concerns itself with combatting certain moral vices (from prostitution to bootleg fireworks) - although
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by germinator 2y ago
I'm guessing you're talking about taxing businesses or products / services instead. That strikes me as a weird argument. Ultimately, all taxes are taxes on the labor of individual humans. "Corporate money" mostly is
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by germinator 2y ago
I think it's mostly messing up viewport and movement calculations, which is why you have textures popping into view when already in the viewport, and shifting too much in the periphery. In essence, you're just mildly glitching the
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by germinator 2y ago
> The irony is that this is a good reminder of the harsh realities that Oppenheimer himself clearly grappled with - if you refuse to build it, someone with less scruples will. The dilemma was quite different: if you don't do it, you
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by germinator 2y ago
In the general case, I mostly agree, but it cracks me up that this is the prevailing attitude when it comes to our industry; but when we see police departments or government agencies trying to follow the same playbook, we immediately point
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by germinator 2y ago
They're very cool until it's your apartment or commercial building, and you have to clean it up - because let's face it, for every clever graffiti, there are fifty that are just tags, swear words, or worse. And your framing i
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by germinator 2y ago
It's actually one of the perks of centralized platforms like Reddit: if they want to , they have the technology and the resources to investigate bad actors like that. I don't just mean just finding and blocking their IPs, but unt
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by germinator 2y ago
I really want to be impressed, but I've been reading papers about breakthroughs in deblurring and upscaling for two decades now, and the state of the art in commercial and open-source tools is still pretty underwhelming. Chances are, i
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by germinator 2y ago
Yeah, it's a weird metaphor, especially since plywood is a premium, structural material. I wish my Ikea furniture used plywood. Instead, you get fiberboard. It's also a good example of how the metaphor this blog post is predicat
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by germinator 2y ago
It's easy to lash out against the VC culture, but the problem is us. We're the ones who dream of building a billion-dollar unicorn in two years - and that means entirely unsustainable efforts to build products and grow by burning
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by germinator 2y ago
I don't think that's a good explanation. The vast majority of people behind such initiatives don't come from underprivileged or victimized backgrounds. It's more about this idea of being an advocate for the downtrodden -
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by germinator 2y ago
> email is usually a better identifier, assuming you already need one for other reasons (like you say recovery is typically needed). If you remember which one you signed up with, and it wasn't your work email from two jobs ago.
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by germinator 2y ago
Eh. It might be a part of it, but the hobby just lost its luster. It used to be this magical way to connect with friends and strangers. Now, cell phones and the internet make it a lot less magical. Other aspects of the hobby aged poorly too
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by germinator 2y ago
I don't think it's about believing one way or the other. Hunter ed warns you about this and recommends precautions. But also consider that millions of deer are hunted and consumed in the US every year, and that hunters don't
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by germinator 2y ago
It's easy to portray it as arrogance, but in manufacturing, you run into small problems and ambiguities all the time. By analogy to software engineering, do your bosses or clients give you water-tight, formal specs for the software you
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by germinator 2y ago
You're basically walking into the middle of a niche debate about semantics. There is a faction that dislikes the use of the word "anthropocene" to refer to the current geological era - and specifically, the past 100 years or
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by germinator 2y ago
In the US, CFAA prohibits causing "damage", which includes "impairment to the integrity or availability" of data or systems. But as with many other things in law, it boils down to the court trying to assess your intent,
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by germinator 2y ago
This exposed client keys, not server keys. The client keys are at risk only in a handful of specific scenarios - e.g., if used to connect to rogue or compromised servers, or used for signing outside SSH. This is not exploitable by simply
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by germinator 2y ago
You'd be surprised how little of the niche pre-internet stuff is digitized. There are some exceptions (national-circulation newspapers, some English-language books), but it's a minority of what's been published.
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by germinator 2y ago
The setting. There are countless safety regulations that apply only to workplaces. This isn't OSHA regulation. This is coming from the consumer protection agency.
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by germinator 2y ago
I think there's a better argument for it, because there's some power asymmetry at play between the employees and the employer. It's harder to say "no" if you need this job to pay your bills. I still wish we had clea
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by germinator 2y ago
Circular saws are not just "a bit" safer. They cause far fewer injuries despite getting more use in construction. Table saws really are a menace. I'm not in favor of this regulation because I don't like the idea of the g
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by germinator 2y ago
The "users ceasing to post stories after one year" metric seems a bit wonky to me. I mean, I don't doubt it, but it's probably skewed by accounts created for self-promotion or spam. If you look at front-page stories, I t