peacelilly

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by peacelilly 4y ago
The secret to wrapping errors is the erros.As and errors.Is special interfaces called out only in the documentation: https://pkg.go.dev/errors#Is You must build a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) to ensure these special interfa
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by peacelilly 4y ago
This is creepy.
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by peacelilly 4y ago
You conflate seeing the future, and wanting to improve it. Microsoft very likely tried to subvert the future. See the Halloween Documents: http://www.catb.org/esr/halloween/halloween1.html
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by peacelilly 5y ago
Nowadays cable TV targets ads too. If your diabetic grandma connects to your cable provided wifi router, you will get ads for glucose monitors and insulin pumps. Targeted advertising should be illegal.
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by peacelilly 6y ago
We really need these things to be Closed Circuit by law. Want the data? Get a warrant and seize the device physically. Centralized databases of surveillance information needs to be outlawed criminally.
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by peacelilly 6y ago
> we all know and love No, we don't all love the spyware app called TikTok
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by peacelilly 6y ago
You can have a monopoly and not abuse your power, or you can have your monopoly broken up. The Sherman Antitrust act still exists. Law still exists. There are already multiple anti-trust investigations underway by the states, and the DOJ.
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by peacelilly 6y ago
It's long past time to regulate social media like a phone company, natural monopoly, or common carrier. The DOJ needs to break them up for violating the public trust, then limit their ability to refuse service to law abiding citizens
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by peacelilly 6y ago
Yes the timing is good, the Artemis program is heating up and needs to disperse grants for the 2024 moon missions. You will have a much better supply of labor to choose from than our previous unemployment rate. Capital is cheap right now
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by peacelilly 7y ago
> gaping hole where United States leadership should be I've seen this exact wording a lot recently. Is this the new propaganda line everyone parrots? I must have missed the previous administration's strong stance on ANYTHING
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by peacelilly 7y ago
Thank you Apple. This was needed! I have a bricked 2017 MBP that I don't want to fix. It's too expensive to fix and not worth it breaking again.
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by peacelilly 7y ago
They are jails for breaking the law.
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by peacelilly 7y ago
Human carelessness like allowing this crap in the first place?
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by peacelilly 7y ago
The problem with deep fakes is a hostile nation taking over your phone/facetime calls and sounding exactly like your own parents. How can you tell if they can do it in real time? A bad actor could get you to do some really bad things
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by peacelilly 8y ago
Yes, which makes the Gov dumb for letting them get away with it. That's why he became president, to fix dumb things (in his opinion) in government.
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by peacelilly 9y ago
I use the national base reflectivity radar. https://radar.weather.gov/ridge/Conus/RadarImg/latest.gif
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by peacelilly 9y ago
Checking the radar. In the midwest, weather comes at you from a long ways away, so I wrote a script to set my desktop background to be the current national radar mosaic every 15 minutes. Explicitly setting the background programmatically wa
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by peacelilly 9y ago
During Hurricane Matthew, Fedex delivered a package to my door while the island I live on was under a mandatory evacuation order. The package got destroyed. My advice is to contact the sender and have them put a hold on it.
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by peacelilly 9y ago
`vimtutor` is where most people should start. It's bundled with every vim installation. Vimtutor teaches the absolute basics in an interactive manner so you'll remember the lessons.
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by peacelilly 9y ago
The web design is indeed ugly, but at least it is functional. Here are some easy to implement design suggestions: You should change the title of the first heading so it's not the same as the banner. I think "What is Tarsnap?"
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by peacelilly 9y ago
Yes, it was killed for this reason. Singular hotkeys that drastically alter state are a horrible UI design decision. When commanding, controlling, or altering a program, the trigger should be an explicit action. One accidental key stroke s
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by peacelilly 10y ago
Life Pro Tip: In youtube, you can use the hotkeys 'j', 'k', and 'l' to jump back 10 seconds, pause, and jump forward 10 seconds. It's very convenient. If you want to rewind a minute, hit 'j' 6 t
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by peacelilly 10y ago
Just an FYI to anyone who didn't know this, the facebook app records audio in the background. It then targets ads to your conversations. Use the browser version if you want some semblance of privacy.