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badloginagain··on A Sad Day for Rust
You can fix them yourself, by duplicating the car and fixing it yourself. You can't force someone else to fix the locks on their car
badloginagain··on Adult site leaks data of cam models
That makes me think that in order to obey the law in California, you'd be breaking European law (ie. GDPR)
badloginagain··on CollegeHumor shuts down
I take "shut down" as an immediate stop to all services. Domain doesn't resolve, etc.
badloginagain··on The Linux codebase has over 3k TODO comments, many from over a decade ago
I've seen this situation as well. A mature codebase where many of the original authors are gone, with many new devs still getting up to speed.

You run into the problem where these todos never get touched because you don't know which are the loadbearing hacks, and tumbling down the rabbit holes won't help you get up to speed.

The only real way to combat this is to dedicate a small team to just start ripping things out/upgrading things/etc.

The only way to clear a minefield is to blow up all the mines....

badloginagain··on How Do Bullets Work in Video Games?
And the impact is high, users will notice very quickly things are off
badloginagain··on It's 2019, but It Sure Feels a Lot Like 1998 for Stocks
Because their strategy is massive investment into original content to maintain market positioning now that the market is splintering into IP-driven streaming services.

Investors signal they approve of this strategy by continuing to invest in Netflix, despite not getting juicy dividends.

Netflix could massive reduce spend on OC and payout dividends, but that would be ultimately damaging to the long-term success of the company.

badloginagain··on Half-Life: Alyx
> little more than an admiration delivery device

Actually if anything she was the primary driver of the plot. Freeman, being a passive mute, follows what Alyx and co are doing for the majority of the plot(s).

badloginagain··on Tools we used to create a hit HTML5 game on Steam
Nooooo. Flash is dead, thank god.[1]

1. https://www.rystedtcreative.com/tech-talks/flash-dead/

badloginagain··on Gitlab cancels plan on tracking user behavior on GitLab.com
The reactions came after the comment was widely publicized. With wide publication comes the trolls. The original comment was thoroughly thumbs-down, but the only ones interacting were people who actually use/follow the product.

How any C level position blindly walks into this kind of thing in a post Cambridge-Analytica world is a different conversation.

badloginagain··on US Law Enforcement Traces Bitcoin Transfers to Nab ‘Largest’ Child Porn Site
Does lack of anonymity affect BitCoin fungibility? If you are using coin known to be used for illegal means, does it taint the coin?
badloginagain··on Lab-made primordial soup yields RNA bases
> could have made A, U, C and G (adenine, uracil, cytosine and guanine, respectively)

Im kind of upset that they don't refer to it going forward as GUAC (as in guacamole)

badloginagain··on It's later than you think
I could read things like that when I had no kids.
badloginagain··on A deep dive into iOS Exploit chains found in the wild
com.netease.mailmaster -- Netease is a Chinese App Platform
badloginagain··on Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users
The original creators of Opera have been building out Vivaldi for a while, which has the specific design goal of being a browser for power users

https://vivaldi.com/

badloginagain··on Prevented mortality from historical and projected nuclear power (2013)
Shit if you want to talk about radioactive damage, coal mines emit huge amounts of radiation that aren't "counted" because the radiation is "naturally occuring".
badloginagain··on Should Disney World Have the Right to Build a Nuclear Power Plant?
A lot of the problem comes from the excessive, ridiculous, way-too-onerous over-regulation of nuclear power plants. Over-regulation brought on by an irrational fear of nuclear power- a fear fostered (and herein I put my conspiracy theory hat) by oil lobbying groups, who identified nuclear as one of the few energy solutions that would jeopardize their energy monopoly.

What I never understood is why Exxon/BP/etc never positioned themselves to corner nuclear/solar/etc. At their level, pivoting from being a "Gas Company" to an "Energy Company" seems like a no-brainer. Who cares which energy source wins, if you own all the energy sources?

badloginagain··on Tesla is raising up to $1.5B through convertible note and share sale
> Re-usable rockets that land? Electric cars? Cars that drive themselves? I'm willing to tolerate a little shenanigans in exchange for this kind of innovation.

The only problem with little shenanigans is that its market manipulation- even if it appears to be legitimately accidental.

badloginagain··on Gravitational Wormhole: WireGuard for Kubernetes
Doesn't Istio provide inter-pod encryption, or am I totally off the reservation here?
badloginagain··on Jenkins Is Getting Old
> With newer versions you can include other yaml files.

Where do you see this? Looking at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/18157 it seems this kind of support is still not started

badloginagain··on Jenkins Is Getting Old
GitLab CI is pretty good.

I hate, on a fundamental level this whole "bash in YAML" trend. Let's take a powerful, turing complete language and put it in a _config file_.

What? I don't even...

And the fact that you only get _one_ .gitlab-ci.yml file. That is legitimate madness. Want modularized CI/CD configuration? Not in these parts, buster. Have submodule build dependencies? We laugh at your use case.

Sure as shit better than Jenkins though.

badloginagain··on The Opioid Detection Challenge
I can't see something like this actually addressing the root causes for the opioid epidemic. In fact, I can only see this further criminalizing addicts- a world where police can 'unobtrusively' detect opioids on a suspect further marginalizes/stigmatizes these people.
badloginagain··on Give Me Back My Monolith
> We also have our microservices in a hierarchy, all depending on a common parent microservice.

Can you explain this a bit more? I thought the point was to have each service be as atomic as possible, so that a change to one service does not significantly impact other services in terms of rollbacks/etc.

If I'm wrong here let me know, our company is still early days of figuring out how to get out of the problems presented by monolith (or in our case, mega-monolith).

badloginagain··on Vim.dev is redirected to Emacs website
Its 2019, You have to map ESC to CAPS now. #MacBookProProblems
badloginagain··on Redis Turns 10 – How it started with a single post on Hacker News
And to that Erland rewrite!
badloginagain··on Tepco carries out examination in Fukushima by remote-controlled probe
As opposed to the crippling health effects of fossil fuels? Fossil fuels are causing harm on a global scale orders of magnitude more than nuclear. And not just physical harm to humans, but ecological and economic harm as well.

Nuclear is by far the lesser of the two evils, providing baseload level amounts of carbon neutral energy with nearly a century lifespan, highly regulated and being far, far safer than any competing energy source.

badloginagain··on Serverless computing: one step forward, two steps back
What does serverless give you that containers don't?
badloginagain··on How Space and Time Could Be a Quantum Error-Correcting Code
They talk about black holes being possible in AdS universe- in the Escher universe does that look like a group of the fish "missing"?

Also, near the end they get into black hole information preservation. What information are they referring to? My assumption has always been that black holes essentially zero out all information, like making all bits zero on a hard-drive.

badloginagain··on Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres
I'd posit its more a matter of maturing a new paradigm. There's a lot more edge cases you have to cover as NoSQL became more popular for production-at-scale.

SQL has decades of production maturation, and has wider domain knowledge.

badloginagain··on Why Can’t We Find Planet Nine?
The article states that's exactly what they're doing. They believe there's a planet nine based on its effect on other objects, and have a theoretical orbital range modeled from those gravitational effects.

The problem is space is big, and space is dark, so its hard to find things that don't generate their own light.

badloginagain··on Trying to ‘Save’ the Rural Economy
In theory all you need to make it work is good internet connection. Especially if its remote.

If there was a serious offer from some company where for the same amount of rent in SF, I could have a mortgage on literal acres of land, thats attractive.

Less attractive is the crumbling infrastructure, opioid wildfires, actual wildfires, and aggressively conservative culture.

Gotta try something though, right?

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