taotau

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by taotau 2mo ago
Yeah, how is that mars colony plan going realistically. have they figured out the bits about how humans are going to survive in a toxic irradiated environment for months on end? I want it to happen, but I honestly havent heard much from s
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by taotau 2mo ago
Taken literally you are technically correct, but... 1. Space is big, but LEO is not that big and if a single company clutters it enough, other organisations might start bumping into issues like 'if i don't get sign off from starli
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by taotau 5mo ago
Devils advocate here. There is currently an article on the front page about a US bill to compel operating systems to collect age verification / id data. If something like that was actually in place and every packet on the internet wa
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by taotau 6mo ago
correction. in the real world all smartphones are either apple, android or none/other. in terms of legals, you really do have to cater to all three, which is why we don't have one world government.
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by taotau 11mo ago
Because high level languages are where the libraries that do all of the heavy lifting exist. Libraries provide a suite of tools for absstracting away all of the complexities of creating a 'simple' web app. I think a lot of newer
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by taotau 2y ago
SpaceX is the stoic incumbant by now. They have the launchpads and enough money to fight any challenging patents. If I was an up and coming rocket engineer, they would be my goto stable career choice. If I had ideas, i would shop around.
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by taotau 2y ago
The process you describe took me right back to my childhood days when I was fortunate to have a simple 8 bit computer running BASIC and a dialup modem. I discovered the concept of war dialing and pretty quickly found all the other modems i
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by taotau 2y ago
The same motive that all nascent life has - survive and propagate.
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by taotau 3y ago
Coincidentally, i bought myself a Synology NAS this weekend with the honest intention of using it mainly as a backup device, but while browsing the built in apps, i noticed a lot of the media download and streaming apps mentioned BT and NZB
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by taotau 3y ago
Google also quite often fires customers.
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by taotau 4y ago
In the context of interface/product design, gender identity is just another data point for marketing purposes. I cant think of many products that are genuinely gender specific. When data collection and manufacturing supply chains were
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by taotau 4y ago
True...ish, but i bet a percentage of them get rich by focussing on what they are good at and neglecting their families, just making piles of money available. There's probably enough kids getting 10K a month pocket money to make GPs s
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by taotau 4y ago
Dyson swarms are fascinating concepts, but as we are learning about our own ever increasing energy requirements harvested from our ecosystem, moving around too much energy in a complex system can have undesirable consequences. I would imagi
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by taotau 4y ago
How is it calculated for non residents. How much would Elon pay if he were caught speeding in Finland?
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by taotau 4y ago
If you aren't using a public framework and you use any JavaScript in your app then you are creating your own framework. Nothing wrong with that. The real value of public frameworks comes into play when you have more than one generation
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by taotau 5y ago
As well as the $4 fee mentioned, Zip and co also charge the merchant - in my country, 30 cents per transaction and 4-6% commission. Late payment interest is probably just gravy. With schemes like these, all customers ultimately end up payi
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by taotau 5y ago
For me the answer to that question, as with most things in life, is a do a bit of both. Don't just buy the same food from the same place all the time. Most people choose, conciously or not, to trust in organisations like the FDA to wo
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by taotau 5y ago
Curious, in these three hours did you teach your student about git log, checkout $HASH, bisect, revert or any of the other ways that git is actually useful beyond being a glorified FTP ? Git is a wonderfull tool for exploring a development
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by taotau 5y ago
I've always thought of numbers, and the broader system of mathematics as equivalent to the Newtonian understanding of physics - an adequate tool to explain observed reality - but the edge cases that break the system are starting to pil
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by taotau 5y ago
Totally agree with your viewpoint. These sort of laws should focus on the realistic ability to repair an item, not the practical costs of doing it. Many of us here would have been called in to upgrade a family members SATA hard drive, whic
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by taotau 5y ago
I've always found the focus on 'languages' in hiring to be a bit odd, and perhaps a hangover from olden times. Any programmer with enough experience can become competent in any programming dialect fairly quickly. But it&#x27
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by taotau 5y ago
What sort of systems are you building ? I’m guessing some variation of CMS, shopping cart or simple crud backoffice reporting systems. I’ve spent 14 years working for a small agency building these sorts of systems. I kept up with all the co
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by taotau 5y ago
I've been a developer since the 90s and I still occasionally experience that dread. But then I remember the reason I love this profession - it allows us to gain deep insights into other fields that we wouldnt normally come into contact
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by taotau 5y ago
Im not qualified to comment on the sociopolitical implications of this. I would prefer if things had not got to this stage but I understand the good and bad uses of such information. My personal solution is to obfuscate my online data. I ha
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by taotau 6y ago
This question is particularly pertinent in a country like Australia. Both the US and China have strong interest in controlling our loyalty and GDP, and I for one dont want to be a subject of either regime.
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by taotau 6y ago
Aside from the logistics and energy requirements of controlling the trajectory of something that weighs 10^24 kg, I wouldnt trust anyone alive on earth to be able to work out a stable orbit that wouldnt impact the delicate existing balance
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by taotau 6y ago
I came up with the analogy of 2 pairs of independent dancers on a large checkerboard floor. Lets say the tiles are 10cm^2 and the two couples start out 10 tiles apart. Every second, the tiles on the floor push away from all their neighbori