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by mmagin 7y ago
To be fair, they're operating in a situation (budget vs. volume of material to collect and share with the world) where it's necessary to minimize the human overhead of this mechanism AND to attempt to reduce their legal exposure -
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by mmagin 7y ago
I'm still waiting for Brendan Eich to apologize for donating $1k to the campaign to to pass Prop 8 which held up same sex marriage in California for five years.
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by mmagin 8y ago
Then there would be the risk that the rest of fb's employees might be exposed to the reality of this.
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by mmagin 8y ago
What's actually wrong with reCAPTCHA is that google has convinced so many sites all over the web to require it to use them, and all that free labor is going to just improve Google's machine learning programs.
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by mmagin 8y ago
There's a remarkable array of ways you can get a crude semiconductor junction. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusty_bolt_effect
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by mmagin 8y ago
Not the same thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phthalate#Identification_in_pl...
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by mmagin 8y ago
I also recommend cable ties (the long ones that won't be accidentally swallowed).
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by mmagin 8y ago
Having both, I'd say that the indoor sensor is not worth it. It doesn't have both sensors so it isn't equipped to test them against each other. I do like the outdoor sensor though.
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by mmagin 8y ago
I think the real way to see this is as "who is being taught how to think and who is being taught how to do mindless busywork in minimum-wage jobs?"
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by mmagin 8y ago
No, it is not like touch-typing. That is a skill that won't be obsoleted when a vendor decides to change the user interface on a whim with the next OS release.
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by mmagin 8y ago
Learn how to understand who the "customer" of your software is and how to deliver what they need. Learn what you're inherently good at and not so good at (and develop strategies to work around your weak points.) Learn that
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by mmagin 8y ago
It seems that what changed is that sometime in recent years it became much easier for shady gateway providers to remain in business. In earlier times, it would appear that originators of fraudlent caller ID data where shut down rapidly.
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by mmagin 8y ago
How has apple managed to make iOS as bad as Windows 95?
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by mmagin 8y ago
I was casually wondering the other day if Intel had hired some Oracle lawyers recently :)
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by mmagin 8y ago
Such things were possible with core memory, bubble memory, and FRAM. None are really fast enough by today's standards, though you can get some microcontrollers and battery-backed SRAM replacements made with FRAM.
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by mmagin 8y ago
Kind of like what they've done to shipping costs!
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by mmagin 8y ago
Ironic that Tyler Cowan's book The Great Stagnation was the first book I read on Kindle.
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by mmagin 8y ago
as a start, try "man -k systemd"
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by mmagin 8y ago
On the other hand, I find white noise exhausting. Not sure if this is a neurological difference between people.
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by mmagin 8y ago
I'm not sure if I'm more worried about the privacy implications, or that of a future where a Visa/MC duopoly collects a tax on all retail.
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by mmagin 8y ago
No it's not, it just seems that way to the vast majority of us who haven't developed the proper intuition.
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by mmagin 8y ago
Some casual googling earlier suggests to me that fiberglass ladders are fiberglass/polyester, not fiberglass/epoxy.
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by mmagin 8y ago
As far as I can tell after some brief googling when I saw this article earlier today: 1. Fiberglass ladders tend to use polyester resin. 2. polyesters tend to have a glass transition temperature (i.e. where the polymer starts to become so
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by mmagin 8y ago
At least be honest that you are implicitly stating an opinion that abortion at 9-15 weeks is equivalent to infanticide.
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by mmagin 8y ago
200-2000 employee companies have a lot less bureaucratic bullshit than 10000+ employee companies, and they also aren't as big of a life commitment as startups.
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by mmagin 8y ago
I think something which hugely benefited the appearance of Nixie tubes in hobbyist use was the incredible supply of surplus electronic components (frequently industrial / military grade parts) from the former Soviet Union that have bec
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by mmagin 8y ago
I don't know if it was true when the article was written, but at least today some of what the author writes in http://catern.com/posts/docker.html#sec-4 is untrue. https://docs.docker.com/engine&#x
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by mmagin 8y ago
It looks hard to clean and does not look like it uses a lot of common off-the-shelf industrial parts. I'd want a very impressive service contract to go along with it.
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by mmagin 8y ago
"At OneTaste events, attendees often played communication games prompting them to share vulnerable stories. Former staffers say they took notes that might help them sell later—maybe a student was recently divorced and lonely—and senior
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by mmagin 8y ago
What's disturbing is that this automated process did not verify the termination with his manager or an actual human in HR.

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