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palebluedoton Colors in movies and TV: What happened to them?

I think a good example of a subversion of the classic "hero's journey" is Blade Runner 2049. (I won't go into exactly why to avoid spoilers)

palebluedoton Scientists believed Covid leaked from Wuhan lab, but feared debate could hurt

Something to note, is that while it is possible we might all eventually contract COVID (or its variants), there is real benefit in contracting it as late as possible, and not being among the first group that gets it. The vaccines greatly blunt the severity of illness, but even outside of vaccines our treatment regimes are better for the hospitalized.

So if wearing masks pushes your infection date out to when vaccines are available (and you get vaccinated), it is not unreasonable to assume the inverse (that not wearing masks led to earlier infections and thus worse outcomes, and death)

palebluedoton Radeon RX 6500 XT is bad at cryptocurrency mining on purpose, AMD says

I sometimes wonder if we'll discover a Kardashev Type II civilization, harnessing the power of their sun via a Dyson sphere. And then, upon first-contact, realize they are using all that power to mine Bitcoin.

palebluedoton Masscan: TCP port scanner, scanning entire Internet in under 5 minutes

try https://search.censys.io

palebluedoton Going Unconscious

I assume there is a rendering error for you (maybe javascript?). It is a rather long article; when printed to a PDF it is ~20 pages, depending on font size.

palebluedoton Google can ban your Android app if they think you’ve clicked on your own ads

Yeah, but can you access Google One support if your account is banned?

palebluedoton Metakovan, the mystery Beeple art buyer, and his NFT/DeFi scheme

Here is one thing I have a hard time wrapping my head around, and how I think it is fundamentally different from something like a painting:

The thing that is "non-fungible" is the token, not the actual art. The underlying digital asset is actually fungible with copies of it. With a painting, there are prints and reproductions of the Mona Lisa, but they are all fundamentally different in some way - the exact brush stroke texture, etc.

NFTs have this feeling of valuing the receipt, not the art. As if I walked into a gift shop at The Louvre and bought a Mona Lisa slick poster print, but then valued the gift store receipt more than the more-or-less completely replaceable poster.

palebluedoton SEC suspends trading in 15 securities due to questionable social media activity

Most commonly, price you see on ticker quotes is the price the stock last traded at; i.e., the last price at which a buyer and seller exchange money for equity.

palebluedoton Fedora and Fallback DNS Servers

>> Systemd-resolved continues the systemd tradition of replacing venerable, low-level system components

> Serious question: what is vulnerable in my (non systemd-resolved) desktop DNS configuration I've been using for years? This statement is presented as if it were a "everyone knows this" fact about workstation DNS, but I don't. Just your average Linux desktop, nothing fancy.

venerable, not vulnerable

palebluedoton A terminal stock watcher and stock position tracker

Not sure if I agree, although I'm sure it varies per person. I've been investing for > 20 years, and I enjoy watching the daily movement as it helps me keep a mental model of trends and performance. I seldom sell, but do buy regularly, and I think having this information frequently refreshed in my brain has helped my performance (of course, no way for me to do an A/B comparison there, so I can't assert it as fact).

palebluedoton A terminal stock watcher and stock position tracker

"Require" might be a strong word.

But here is why I find this project attractive: I like to check out my watchlists and stock investments occasionally when taking a quick break. But, I want to avoid being sucked into the browser where the temptation is strong to check out reddit/hn/twitter, and then lose 15-20min.

With this, I can just keep a terminal tab that I can flip to with a hotkey. This way, I won't leave the terminal, and the risk of additional distraction is lower.

palebluedoton The Secure Messaging App Conundrum: Signal vs. Telegram [pdf]

If the Signal clients are using E2E encryption, then trusting the server code is significantly less important; the whole point is you don't need to trust the server. With Telegram, E2E encryption is not enabled in all modes, and is not the default.

palebluedoton Quitting a New Job

From their numbers, it doesn't matter much. Even if we take the highest number from their range ($175k) and double it, that is $3.5M/year for the 10-person team. That is still an order of magnitude less than $30M/year.

palebluedoton Lobe.ai – A simple tool for training machine learning models

I'm bummed it requires OS X / Windows, and does not have a Linux option. Hopefully there is a future that has a Linux version.

palebluedoton A 3000% jump in jobless claims has devastated the US job market

That would seem to be the case, but keep in mind that doesn't mean they are right (but I hope they are). We are in uncharted waters here, so the models and playbooks of investors may be even less accurate than normal.

palebluedoton Show HN: Remotehour – Allows people to talk to you anytime you’re available

That is odd, one of the reasons I really like zoom is how well it works under Linux. It seems to "just work", and the Linux client doesn't feel like an after-thought. FWIW, running Fedora 31 with KDE/Plasma. I really like not having a browser-based video conferencing app, but a Linux native one.

palebluedoton Reddit has become a guide to personal finance

I don't really see how that fails to fit the pattern of "I have found that subreddits almost become an anti-expertise forum over time - when actual experts show up to give advice, they are often downvoted if their advice goes against whatever that subreddit is cargo culting (which, as you mentioned, is often not great advice in the first place). Then the expert is discouraged from participating ever again."

While /r/legaladvice is heavily moderated, it is not particularly high quality.

palebluedoton Reddit has become a guide to personal finance

My favorite example of this is that Popehat (Ken White) was banned from /r/legaladvice.

palebluedoton The Zen of Go

I wasn't asking a question, I was clarifying.

palebluedoton The Zen of Go

> They aren't safe to read or write concurrently.

Slightly ambiguous wording, so just to clarify:

Go maps are safe to read concurrently

Go maps are not safe to read AND write concurrently

Go maps are not safe to write concurrently

palebluedoton Noticing You're Confused

I think that "competent/not-competent" is a false dichotomy. The candidate could be exceptionally qualified technically and competent, but have significant ethical / integrity issues that are difficult to notice in an interview, for instance. So a technical interview may not catch that, but past references may.

palebluedoton Show HN: GoCode.io – A Golang Game in the Browser

I thought I had the same issue, until I realized that only certain lines are editable. On the initial page, only lines 13-16 allow editing, for instance.

palebluedoton Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000

Settings->Input Devices->Mouse

There is a slider for adjusting pointer speed.

palebluedoton Uber Go Style Guide

That's a good point, at steady-state, I'd imagine unbuffered channels would have the same throughput as a deeply buffered channels. The main advantage is being able to spool up faster and smooth out throughput, but it could be for most workloads that is not valuable enough. Perhaps I placed too much value on that.

Your comment (and others) have convinced me to do some more empirical testing and see how necessary buffered channels are for my goal.

palebluedoton Uber Go Style Guide

The preference of channel size being unbuffered or just 1 is interesting. That seems like something specific to a problem domain; for instance, in projects I am working on now, having a large buffered channel (1000s deep) is useful for worker queues of thousands of goroutines, that all read from a task feeder channel. This type of queuing seems go-idiomatic, and negates the need for additional synchronization. In this case, the backpressure blocking on writers is a feature.

palebluedoton Shopify Overtakes eBay as Second Biggest Shopping Site After Amazon

No, the article goes on to explicitly state:

Data also shows the platform recently overtook competitor eBay, once a powerhouse in this space, in terms of quarterly sales.

palebluedoton A list of the top recipients on Patreon shows an obsession with the ordinary

Yes, and as far as I can tell, relatively new. I learned it from my middle school child last year.

palebluedoton Vulnerability in the Mac Zoom client allows malicious websites to enable camera

I hadn't heard of this, so I looked it up, and you are right: https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43354

At least that was patched. These sorts of issues are frustrating, because as a Linux user I really want to like Zoom -- I appreciate that the treat all platforms pretty equal (Mac, Windows, Linux, Android, iOS) with native apps. That is a rarity.

palebluedoton Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users

My fear is something like pihole may end up being a temporary stopgap; it can only help with DNS queries that go through it, and so it too may end up in the same position as chrome + ublock origin. For instance, if chrome decides to use a trr or dns-over-https and removes options to change it.

palebluedoton The Most Expensive Lesson of My Life: Details of SIM Port Hack

When setting up a new TOTP for Google Authenticator for my personal accounts, my standard procedure is to take a screenshot of the initialization QR code, and encrypt that screenshot with my gpg key. That is then stored on my external backup disk (which incidentally uses FDE via luks).