mhaymo

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by mhaymo 4y ago
Desistance, i.e. "being convinced out of transness" is perfectly common, as mentioned in the article. I'm not aware of any studies on how therapy can affect this, but even if the therapy was merely helping the patient cope wi
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by mhaymo 4y ago
> Versioning APIs I hear this recommended quite frequently, but I don't see it practiced much, nor do I really understand what is being recommended. No matter how you wrote your first API you can always introduce a /v2/ la
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by mhaymo 4y ago
Except he did play him, and only after that loss did he withdraw from the tournament and refuse to play with him again. The implication is clear to all that Carlsen suspects foul play in that game, I don't see the point in being coy ab
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by mhaymo 4y ago
According to the article, users can opt-in to end-to-end encryption, so it's not true that this is "out of our control".
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by mhaymo 4y ago
That regurgitated code exists on Github exists under an MIT license: https://github.com/jethrodaniel/fast_inv_sqrt "jethrodaniel" does not appear to have the copyright to offer that license, but it's har
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by mhaymo 4y ago
I agree with your general point, but I have to add that that example "compromise" sounds highly unsatisfactory for the wife. Not only does she have to accept the dirty dishes, but the simple task of putting them in the dishwasher
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by mhaymo 5y ago
In my experience cold starts don't affect the p99 if you have substantial traffic, because you have enough lambdas consistently running that cold start rate is ~0.1%. P99.9 also matters though!
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by mhaymo 5y ago
Do you have any solution for RSS to Kindle? I would happily pay to have my RSS feeds delivered straight to my Kindle. In fact I just today paid for https://app.newslettertokindle.com/ for very similar reasons.
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by mhaymo 6y ago
Good point. I guess the reason the author finds removing from lists to be relevant is because there is no Set structure in the Go standard library. They should use a `map[t]bool`, but that is non-obvious to many programmers.
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by mhaymo 6y ago
Presumably once the kinks are worked out of this process, it could be merged into the main release of Signal. No second app required.
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by mhaymo 6y ago
It depends how paranoid you are. If you believe your audio is so valuable that Amazon would create a separate hardware model for you and those like you, and would succeed in keeping that a secret, then yeah you still shouldn't buy an E
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by mhaymo 6y ago
Only if you place no value on paying off your ISA. Once the ISA is paid off, the "cliff" disappears. Obviously this is quite different to taxes.
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by mhaymo 6y ago
Different in important ways. There is no risk of ruin from an ISA: if you aren't earning you don't have to pay. The idea is also that this aligns the school's incentives with the student's: if the student doesn't pr
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by mhaymo 6y ago
No you're incorrect, and drawing a false distinction between spending company money on growth instead of profits, and other business expenses. There is no distinction for tax purposes, nor should there be.
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by mhaymo 6y ago
There are legitimate reasons for a valuable company to make little to no profits. Namely re-investment in growth. Your proposal would make it impossible for businesses to spend todays profits on growth for tomorrow, and would thereby dramat
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by mhaymo 7y ago
And EasyJet made £430m in profit last year. http://corporate.easyjet.com/investors/results-centre
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by mhaymo 7y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but it seems to me that it's the consumer, not Amazon, that's being asked to pay extra fees. The consumer bought an Audiobook, Amazon wants to provide read-along transcription for that audiobook, b
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by mhaymo 7y ago
Why is it important? In either case, the correct course of action is to treat the password as insecure.
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by mhaymo 7y ago
Uber has no moat, so cannot possibly exploit a monopoly. The hardest part of their service to replicate is the drivers, and since they're all contractors they are free to work for Uber's competitors! Even if Uber gained 100% share
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by mhaymo 7y ago
This is a common sentiment, but seems wrong to me. It doesn't take a genius to recognise a spam or phishing email either, and yet no company has created a perfect email filter. It's not neglect, it's a very hard problem, as i
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by mhaymo 8y ago
Times Square billboards still sell for thousands of dollars a day. Do you have any evidence for your beliefs?
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by mhaymo 8y ago
NYC minimum wage is <=$15, depending on the employer and area. https://www.ny.gov/new-york-states-minimum-wage/new-york-sta...
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by mhaymo 8y ago
I think you'll find that many famous tyrants were funded by taxes.
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by mhaymo 8y ago
I think you're massively overstating the effects of gerrymandering. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026137941... > while Republican and Democratic gerrymandering affects the partisa
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by mhaymo 8y ago
Yes, but it then explains that escape analysis allows the runtime to avoid creating the Object entirely with scalar replacement. It's written in a confusing way, which is why I felt the need to clarify.
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by mhaymo 8y ago
Interesting article, but the distinction you're making is quite subtle. Using escape analysis, Java can avoid heap allocations by removing the creation of the Object altogether, treating its fields as if they were local variables which
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by mhaymo 8y ago
He laid out what happened, and several concrete actions they're taking to prevent it from recurring. That's not boilerplate.
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by mhaymo 9y ago
> I think it would be better if the server didn't have metadata visibility into group membership, but that's a largely unsolved problem, and it's unrelated to confidentiality of group messages. Nitpick: Signal solves this
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by mhaymo 9y ago
The Google Maps app on Android has offline maps.
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by mhaymo 9y ago
UberEats has largely won my business in Edinburgh. The app is nicer, the drivers more likely to find me without going to the wrong place first, and it lets me decide whether to tip after the food arrives.

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