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Horseless carriages were once like driverless cars. What can history teach us?(npr.org)
1 points by hackermatic 3y ago|1 comments
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by hackermatic 3y ago
I like that you call out that this is mediocre even by compact car standards. We've lost so much fleet fuel efficiency because of SUVs and trucks, but there's no reason why a compact shouldn't be at least 50mpg. I was reall
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by hackermatic 3y ago
Have you built out the backend functionality to support those features? Doing those right is the hard part; after that, it's just a regular front-end development problem.
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Security Engineering as Caring-For(noncombatant.org)
2 points by hackermatic 3y ago|0 comments
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by hackermatic 3y ago
My perception of the history of long-distance American railroads (not ones that were built for a specific task like connecting a mine to a market) is that many of them -- maybe even most of them -- were failures in their first iteration. Af
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by hackermatic 3y ago
It's hard enough for me to verbalize complicated or emotional thoughts -- not worrying about how I appear to the other person on video or in person lets me focus a lot better. Sometimes they need to be able to see your face for the mes
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by hackermatic 3y ago
That's what I've noticed, too -- even casual trail walkers are much more likely to greet you and smile.
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by hackermatic 3y ago
> "I like climate but I don't want to bear that cost and reduce my standard of living." Living with "fire season" and months of haze each summer has already reduced my standard of living.
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by hackermatic 3y ago
You can tour a few decommissioned or training missile silos in the US: https://www.afmissileers.org/Tour-a-Missile-Silo I've been inside the trainer silo at Ellsworth Air Force Base as part of a visit to the South Dako
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by hackermatic 3y ago
The cultural differences about this are vast even in the United States. In the part of the Midwest where I grew up, strangers would come up and offer compliments about your outfit or car, make friendly small talk in the grocery store checko
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by hackermatic 3y ago
Is there anywhere we can learn more about the community, who is behind it, and its aims, without having to join the Slack first?
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by hackermatic 3y ago
I wonder how long Google and Cloudflare retain this kind of data, and whether the retention differs between things like clicking a search result versus pinging a Google ad tracker when you visit the site itself. With the request for associa
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Patreon will now leak which creators you follow by default(support.patreon.com)
12 points by hackermatic 3y ago|3 comments
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by hackermatic 3y ago
I received an "Updates to Patreon’s Privacy Policy" email this morning about new community features and member profiles. Currently, your Patreon "public profile" does not show which creators you follow, unless you opt in
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by hackermatic 3y ago
One thing that frustrates me about RTO being framed as necessary for productivity and collaboration is that, at least at my own company, leadership hasn't tried to advance beyond basic remote collaboration techniques since 2020. By tha
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by hackermatic 3y ago
I support EVs over gas cars, and small gas cars over SUVs, but any of those will always be worse for the environment (in terms of resource and land use, emissions, and traffic noise) than more mass transit and a built environment that is co
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by hackermatic 3y ago
Paint's journey has been so weird. It was going to be replaced by Paint 3D, made an optional component, and now it's getting updates I would have killed to have 20 years ago. But it's been such a useful and enduring tool beca
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by hackermatic 3y ago
A related article: "Phineas Fisher, Hacktivism, and Magic Tricks", on the hacking techniques described in each of PF's publications and whether they would work as well today: https://blog.isosceles.com/phineas
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by hackermatic 3y ago
The half-hour documentary "Farewell Etaoin Shrdlu", about the last days of hot metal typesetting at the New York Times, is fascinating if you're into the history of print media or elaborate analog machines: https:/&#x2F
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by hackermatic 3y ago
I wasn't expecting much based on the headline, but this is a great roundup of the pros and cons of applying AI to different technical facets of security. What it's missing is that the human factor is what makes the real difference
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by hackermatic 3y ago
EVs have been politicized as a liberal/conservative issue, so I assumed that conservative-led states would be less likely to pursue this funding.
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by hackermatic 3y ago
If you buy stock in a company during an IPO, enabling it to buy equipment, make things, and sell them at a profit, you get some of that profit back forever. If the company invests some of its profits to keep growing, you get even more profi
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by hackermatic 3y ago
It's like that with security findings, too.
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by hackermatic 3y ago
From the actual Notice of Funding Opportunity[0], state and local governments have to apply for this money, which can cover both public and private chargers. So one problem with this is that your government actually has to care about sustai
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by hackermatic 3y ago
Yup. When I updated my company's secure development requirements, and compared them to others, I was confronted with a lot of choices that would increase security somewhat, but at the expense of user control of their own devices, like
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by hackermatic 3y ago
Do one for GitHub badges next. ;)
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by hackermatic 3y ago
Unfortunately, halfway down the article, it states that we can't come to that conclusion or not: >Overall the vegan cats scored better on all health indicators, although these differences were not statistically signifiant. Nonethele
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We Are Not Just Polarized. We Are Traumatized(newrepublic.com)
2 points by hackermatic 3y ago|1 comments
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by hackermatic 3y ago
According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, US auto worker pay is down by about 20% since 1990, adjusting for inflation: https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2020/inflation-adjusted-earning...
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by hackermatic 3y ago
The Department of Labor has 17,000 employees. It's a big place, and some teams will do a good job while some won't. I have no insight into the accuracy of either report's processes, but statistics of pay over time are relevan

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