rickycook

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by rickycook 6y ago
i _adore_ matrix! keep up the good work!
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by rickycook 6y ago
best not talk about the price of medicine in USD; people might lose their lives
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by rickycook 7y ago
i’d say that multiprocessing probably covers 90% of “do it in the background” tasks, and asyncio covers 90% of async networking tasks futures, uvloop, tornado, twisted, coros, gevent, etc are kinda just all related to, or do similar to asyn
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by rickycook 7y ago
a core dump of the brain is pretty damn big... so that’s not really saying much; just that maybe we don’t have a man data to restore from
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by rickycook 7y ago
and i hate that they removed it in the latest generation! i know you can do the hold down on space instead, and i know that you can then tap with a second finger, but there’s so much more you could do much quicker with the force touch keybo
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by rickycook 7y ago
i’d argue that it’s not “designed to fit our workflow” so much as designed around a subpar, but flexible tool that everyone was using. that don’t make it good; that just makes it ingrained
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by rickycook 7y ago
who ever said free? they could make a paid service like LE with automated renewals etc that integrates better with enterprise software, or that does better audit logging, or any number of things. let’s encrypt is a great service, but there’
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by rickycook 7y ago
advertising yes, but also why they are kind of lax on piracy: the real money is in corporate, so you have to keep people using your ecosystem at home so that’s what they want to use at work
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by rickycook 7y ago
i don’t think people were labelling him a nazi; i think they had issue with their own projects, or their name being accidentally associated with nazis
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by rickycook 7y ago
the very point of esperanto is that nothing is of “similar difficulty”, so even comparing to spanish is disingenuous
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by rickycook 7y ago
they did call out scooters and drones, so id guess you’re right
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by rickycook 7y ago
i agree with you completely, but a law is far more clear cut than complex social dynamics. the outcome is similar in either way, and both are equally bad, but one is far easier to define specific actions, and specific parties that are not a
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by rickycook 7y ago
it’s not either or
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by rickycook 7y ago
have you ever tried to start a competitor to facebook? plenty of platforms have, and you haven’t ever heard of them because whilst better, facebook has a monopoly by way of critical mass... it’s almost impossible to pull significant populat
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by rickycook 7y ago
i think the problem is that the current chinese government is going further and further away from what average chinese citizens would probably want, and them using misinformation to keep order hong kong has demonstrated, with some of the la
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by rickycook 7y ago
true, and that’s definitely a problem, but government is a bigger issue because they have the ability to force a population: corporations can only influence (we can have a different discussion about how corporations give you “choice” but no
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by rickycook 7y ago
i tend to agree with the sentiment, however i’d say the important distinction is that a government has the ability to force things on people, a corporation only had the ability to influence “choice”... we can discuss whether that choice is
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by rickycook 7y ago
because the data on the phone is containing or designed to contain data for use by a phone because a phone isn’t a computer...?
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by rickycook 7y ago
upsetting, yet expected
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by rickycook 7y ago
maybe in america, but in australia we have a huge amount more UV because of the hole in the ozone layer. i was in the US for the first time a few weeks ago, and the first thing i noticed was “huh... i didn’t know that going out in summer, t
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by rickycook 7y ago
for some people it isn’t, but i think he’s referring to the fact that food is pretty damn far toward the base of maslows hierarchy. many people (myself included) believe that a measure of a society is how far up the triangle you can get bef
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by rickycook 7y ago
then get a new doctor. there is no medical rationale behind this, and they are letting irrational personal feelings get in the way of your good health
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by rickycook 7y ago
there is no other behaviour that you’d want for that situation though... garbage collection is necessary, and if your cryptographically pinned content is deleted, you want something to fail rather than change to different content
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by rickycook 7y ago
all concepts you mention aren’t conceptual problems. the world is better with the concepts of technology-assisted taxi hailing, and not having to carry cash (i think you’re basically alone on this one; this is the biggest and best technolog
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by rickycook 7y ago
from what i understand (and i could be wrong), you could make biofuels using atmospheric co2, alguae, heat from the grid during low demand... when you burn it, it releases that co2, but when you’re not it acts as a big carbon sink could be
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by rickycook 7y ago
they have a copy of a static image that they likely already have access to. very different to a high res alternate image, from a different angle, with a different expression, in different lighting
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by rickycook 7y ago
well you’ll be pleased to know that the data plane API is a sidecar. you don’t have to run it if you don’t want to :)
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by rickycook 7y ago
possibly, but what do you consider “write ability”? someone mentioned in another comment that if you control enough high power devices that report status to the grid (eg car chargers) so that the grid can take action (so read only but some
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by rickycook 7y ago
does modern nuclear eschew digital controls? i mean... i’m sure they have manual cutoffs and sensors that humans monitor; can’t have some rogue hacker able to turn a nuclear plant into a huge catastrophe from the other side of the world and
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by rickycook 7y ago
people experiencing hardship having phones is an incredible thing. it allows people to help themselves, and is the reason services like https://askizzy.org.au/ exist

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