muxl

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by muxl 10mo ago
The show makes reference to "Midnight in Chernobyl" in its epilogue, I think it's safe to say it was one of the main sources of information for the show (though of course they took liberties because it was a historical drama)
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by muxl 10mo ago
I agree there are some claims in this article that should be further scrutinized but it's true that the levels of radiation were not as high as one might assume. The direction of the wind during and immediately following the disaster s
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by muxl 11mo ago
It seems that in practice no it's not possible based on what I've read from people much closer to programming language design and compiler work. "In practice, the challenge of programming language design is not one of expandi
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by muxl 11mo ago
It is truly risk free. You always buy the call using the customer's money but you only give them the call if every part of the parlay is correct. Assuming they charge a commission in addition to the asset price to cover transaction pro
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by muxl 1y ago
It was chosen to be implemented as a generic type in this design because the way that uncertainty "pollutes" underlying values maps well onto monads which were expressed through generics in this case.
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by muxl 1y ago
The desktop background reminds me of some screens that MEPIS OS used [0] back when I was first getting into Linux in high school and the idea of live distributions blew my mind. I assume it's a coincidence people just like pyramids I g
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by muxl 2y ago
I don't agree with the conclusion put forward in the article. I'm reminded of my time trying to get into Urbit many years ago or DAPs. That certainly require me to think differently about things but that didn't make me, or ma
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by muxl 3y ago
I've done a number of text-based slide presentations with `marp` and I've been pleased with the results. Mostly it's just plain markdown slides but if you want to get into the weeds with HTML and have a 2-column slide or some
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by muxl 3y ago
If I'm understanding the parent comment correctly: a fact may have political implications but it doesn't depend on politics. In other words reality is independent of our interpretation of it (i.e. philosophical realism). The rub o
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by muxl 6y ago
I'm glad to see more sites giving visibility to long-lasting products. This reminds me of https://buymeonce.com/ but I like the community driven aspect of this. I'll definitely be keeping an eye on it.
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by muxl 6y ago
2FA isn't double checking to make sure you meant to log in. It's verifying that you are the person logging in. Alert fatigue is a real issue as you point out and we need to make sure to not overwhelm users which is one major benef
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by muxl 6y ago
One of the issues ignored here is the nature of cascading failures that happen during a breach due to password reuse. If a user is compromised through an active credential forwarding attack like the one described the user's account cou
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by muxl 6y ago
The core message of this article is that it's possible for even large groups of people to be wrong about things and that those people won't think they're wrong (they're wrong about being wrong). The author summarizes thi
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by muxl 6y ago
Reading about this I was reminded of this blog post by Backblaze when they announced they were raising their prices. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-computer-backup-pri... Backblaze does do more than "jus