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jay_kyburz
5,550karma·2,805submissions·February 1, 2009
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Some tech people don't care what common people want, they just want a cool phone for themselves.
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we use these fresh and crisp bags. They sound like a gimmick but they really do work. We reuse a bag for months until its full of holes and not doing its job well anymore. https://www.woolw…
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I don't think this will stop these people. I'm fairly sure I could write some web app, or in an extreme case, provide my team of car thieves with dedicated hardware that just illegally encry…
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> The same corporate structures that hid data about smoking, PFAS and oxycodone are the ones you want running a nuclear plant? Thanks for expressing my concerns over nuclear so clearly. It's n…
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Perhaps the are talking about Unions and the regulations around minimum pay and working conditions. I don't know about big construction projects, but the costs to get an extension approved on my …
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"“Seed, chemicals or fertilizer, it’s all in the hands of a few companies that are the only game in town."... "“They all tell me they’re aware of a monopoly problem, and they don’t deny…
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According to food bank Australia, we make 3 times the amount of food we need, and 70% of the food that is wasted is perfectly edible. Update: I also recognize that nobody wants to pay three times the …
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Inefficient from an economic perspective may not be what we need as a society. Perhaps we need more farmers living the the county, spending money in small county towns, with more work for people with …
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I think at some point you would be better off vendoring them in.
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I'm no expert in the field, but if asked, I would prefer thousands of small farms protecting our food security rather than a handful of companies too big to fail. When you have more diversity, I …
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How are people verifying their dependencies if they are minified?
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Actually, they could probably use AI to see if each update to a package looks malicious or obfuscated.
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Google App Engine had this when it first started.
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Is lib still around anymore. I can't find any functioning urls
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You _don't_ need to jump all the way back to paper and pencil. It's the internet that's the problem. Kids just need to do their work in class on a machine that is only connected to sch…
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Or just give them laptops that are on an internal network only, with just the tools they need. You could write your essay and save it in your classroom shared folder. I don't think this is rocket…
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This is probably a dumb question, but at what point do we put a simple CAPTCHA in front of every new user that arrives at a site, then give them a cookie and start tracking requests per second from th…
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Google is not posting "snippets" or acting as a portal to web content, its generating new content now, so I would assume they they would no longer have section 230 protections and be open to…
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It was the point where people stopped listening to people who know what they are talking about, and instead to other idiots on social media, and "news" that was given a strong slant to appea…
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Two people want to make a statement about war. One person spent years painting landscapes and flowers. The other spent years programming servers. Is one persons statement less important than the other…
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I think the little prince is being a contrary little shit. I'm sure sometimes he would prefer to play in the park, jump-rope with friends, or draw a picture than just walk an hour whether he want…
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Disappointed it wasn't Australian Kids show Hi-5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkwcfZeo_Cs …
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Hold on.. did you just say there is a drug I can take that will making talking to people less boring and doing housework fun?
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I really like your site. Do you know of any similar sites that that compares how well the various models can adhere to a style guide? Perhaps you could add this? I.e. pride the model with a collection…
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I found those spiderverse movies really hard to watch because of the low frame rate. I don't think it was artistic, it was cheap.
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>If we develop a strong client with broad support, it makes developing the replication piece easier, since the client already supports the features in mind Unless you are running the client against…