spongechameleon

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by spongechameleon 4y ago
As far as day-to-day satisfaction on the job, sure, salary could be way down the list compared to company culture and work/life balance. But I think we should acknowledge that salary is the only reason any of us work at all. If the sal
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by spongechameleon 4y ago
I'm more concerned that this data is available for sale in the first place. There should be a limit on the length of location history a telecom can collect for individual phone numbers and that data should never leave the telecom. We n
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by spongechameleon 4y ago
I think something like Ricochet (if it were still actively maintained) could be a good solution. https://github.com/ricochet-im/ricochet Every user is their own Tor onion service, so you get E2E encryption and no centr
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by spongechameleon 4y ago
I think the lesson for Taiwan is clear here. There will be no sudden military invasion. The CCP will first take a similar approach of embedding party loyalists into Taiwanese civil society, assuming positions of power. Only once enough puzz
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by spongechameleon 4y ago
Journey > endpoints "Live each day like its your last" is just as bad as "sacrifice everything so that when you turn 65 you can retire and finally be happy"
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by spongechameleon 4y ago
I haven't seen anybody mention tooling. I've played around with Rust for purely academic reasons and love how cargo just makes everything work. Feature flags, a built-in test harness, cross-platform compilation, the only fight I&#
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by spongechameleon 4y ago
Does anybody know: (a) how many nits the screen is, and (b) how many Whr the battery is?
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by spongechameleon 5y ago
Agree. The climate-friendly path must become the path of least resistance if we want to have any hope of staying within the 1.5C threshold. Three step process to get there: 1. Identify the optimal "climate path" for every need- tr
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by spongechameleon 5y ago
I find it so comforting to believe in Heuristics That Almost Always Work even when I know I ought to employ more scrutiny. It's too easy to jump on board.
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by spongechameleon 5y ago
In the case of a CGO call you could prefix the enclosing function definition with the "go" keyword to manually initiate a new goroutine? Am I understanding this correctly?
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by spongechameleon 5y ago
The onus is on Sony to engage in legal battle with the website hosting the infringing content. Nobody else should be coerced to help them. This is ridiculous.
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by spongechameleon 5y ago
I mean the alternative was installing the propietary app so I would say this is still a big win. But also yes, any wifi capable device in your home with no authorization is clearly a disaster waiting to happen.
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by spongechameleon 6y ago
While this made me feel creeped out at first, that “metadata” all seems like the public information that we intend to share when we signup for a service like Twitter.
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by spongechameleon 6y ago
I love the focus on Arch Linux in the README
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by spongechameleon 6y ago
Interesting point about the 2nd amendment. With that in mind I’d have to agree then that civilians should be able to employ facial recognition tech against the government. The real question though is if that is a tenable strategy in the lon
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by spongechameleon 6y ago
Coinbase is an exchange for people to access cryptocurrency. The gradual adoption of cryptocurrencies weakens central governments’ currencies. Their entire business is by nature, political.
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by spongechameleon 6y ago
VSCode looks great and has a nice debugger but going through plugin management again is too much for me. I’ve already invested the time and effort to setup neovim with coc as my general go-to editor and have very few complaints. If I ever n