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by pbourke 2y ago
This text sits at the wellspring of Western culture, such as it is. You don't need to accept any metaphysical claims that it makes in order to appreciate its wisdom.
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by pbourke 2y ago
Real humans who are unable to resolve your issue are quite accessible indeed.
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by pbourke 2y ago
In the loop for the NFC part. One's bank is, rather obviously, involved in the transaction.
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by pbourke 2y ago
I don’t know what you’re referring to. Trust is a fundamental part of security. Without trust you need to be ever vigilant in an ever expanding set of domains and technologies, or you have to shrink your vulnerability surface area down to s
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by pbourke 2y ago
> But no one would force you or anyone else to leave that Apple ecosystem you hold in high regard. There would simply be more opportunity for alternatives “Opportunity for alternatives” is not free. There will be a trade off to enabling
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by pbourke 2y ago
I don't have an example, but I believe your question supports my point. From everything I've observed, Apple is generally better at providing a secure ecosystem than the variety of major parties that comprise the Android ecosystem
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by pbourke 2y ago
Security. I'm quite happy as an iPhone user to have Apple be the only ones in the loop for NFC payments. I'm generally happy with all other restrictions mentioned in the suit (no 3rd party app stores, no super apps, etc). It seems
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by pbourke 3y ago
> The personal computer & the internet clicked for me because I saw them as personal enables, as endlessly flexible systems that we could gain mastery over & shape as we might. I feel the same way. Developments in computing have
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by pbourke 3y ago
> A privately owned company is just as likely to consider input from employees as an employee-owned company is. > Both employee owned companies I worked for the board made those sorts of decisions without any say from employees. If th
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by pbourke 3y ago
> also, what actual publicly available product has he ever produced? JUnit
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by pbourke 3y ago
I think the pipfile should specify only the ‘readability-lxml’ package and not ‘readibility’, which does unrelated things.
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by pbourke 3y ago
Nortel had a similar trajectory. Just prior to the crash it represented 1/3 of the Toronto Stock Exchange by market cap. It essentially went to null and took 10’s of thousands of jobs, the wealth of hundreds of thousands of small inves
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by pbourke 3y ago
> Which is maybe better than a tightly integrated system when it comes to farming implements. He mentions swapping out components from last season a couple of times, so lack of integration is probably a feature.
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by pbourke 3y ago
Dry graphite powder is messy. I would recommend a teflon-based product like “DuPont Easy Entry Lock Lubricant”
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by pbourke 3y ago
> It annoys me to get and send pdfs in text messages, but that seems to be how the world works now. Do you mean PDFs for correspondence such as bills or invoices? That is not common for me.
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by pbourke 3y ago
> For-profit, private sector health insurance is not a healthy market. Anyone over 65 would be on Medicare. It’s not exactly free, but it’s also not private.
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by pbourke 3y ago
My team at Microsoft works on DiskANN, which was designed for this kind of use case. https://github.com/microsoft/DiskANN
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by pbourke 3y ago
I think it depends on the industry. In a specialized niche (B2B), sure. In something like new auto sales, all of the information is available online and is usually more comprehensive and accurate than that offered by a car salesman. YouTube
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by pbourke 3y ago
> You can pay people to churn out bad self-help all day, but none of those are going to be worth a damn without allowing the human element to flourish. But you still need a factory which can print the things, and as clinical as a mass bo
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by pbourke 3y ago
Sounds like we need an AI complement to the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.
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by pbourke 3y ago
I recall that it’s depicted as a kind of bloodless coup / occupation.
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by pbourke 3y ago
The Mars rover landings, Pluto flyby and SpaceX successful returns have been pretty exciting. Feels like we’re building to more exciting times with the beginning of return to human space flight past LEO now.
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by pbourke 3y ago
You might do well to add contact info to your profile
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by pbourke 3y ago
My Leatherman Wingman multi tool has a “package opener” which is perfect for opening plastic clamshell packaging.
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by pbourke 3y ago
> The problem is there are engineers who will take your paycheck and build crappier software more quickly You’ll usually pay them better than the engineer who delivers a better quality product in more time.
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by pbourke 3y ago
I quite like context managers and try-with-resources style constructs. They make lifetimes explicit in the code in a fairly intuitive way. You can get yourself turned around if you deeply nest them, etc but there are usually ways to avoid t
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by pbourke 3y ago
> to dress like a teenager even as one nears retirement For some of us this is a KPI of our life/job satisfaction. I can tell you that if I was in some job that did not allow me to schlep around in hoodies and cargo pants I would be
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by pbourke 3y ago
If you have a system with a fast sort/order by operation but a slow (or missing) shuffle, one trick that I sometimes use is to generate a new random number for each record, then sort by that random number. Uniform sampling is also quit
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by pbourke 3y ago
You will likely have issues if you ever try to sell property with an unpermitted well. FHA loans have restrictions on the well as do many local jurisdictions that may refuse to convey the property if the well isn’t up to code. My local juri
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by pbourke 3y ago
1. Not all cellphones are smartphones, and not all smartphones are capable of running a given app 2. Presumably a debit card on the same network would work just as well. What’s the credit + debit card penetration rate?

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