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U.S. needs to work with Europe to slow China’s innovation rate, Raimondo says

cnbc.com
9 points·by badjeans·5 years ago·5 comments

Lo2: Simple YouTube-dl web front end

github.com
2 points·by badjeans·5 years ago·0 comments

Cataclysm DDA – turn-based survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world

github.com
1 points·by badjeans·5 years ago·0 comments

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badjeans
·5 years ago·discuss
Hardly shorter than just writing the for loop, i.e. the example in python

    groupByAge = collections.defaultdict(list)

    for person in people:
        groupByAge[person["age"]].append(person)
badjeans
·5 years ago·discuss
Would be more interesting to see i3 vs sway.
badjeans
·5 years ago·discuss
I found Nim's gorge command really useful. It runs a command at compile time and stores the output in a variable, so you can simply do things like:

    const compile_version = gorge "git describe --tags --always --dirty"
    const compile_time = gorge "date --rfc-3339=seconds"
badjeans
·5 years ago·discuss
> Surprisingly, there isn't a headphone jack, which seems like something Fairphone's demographic would really have wanted. Wired headphones last indefinitely, while Bluetooth buds turn into garbage after a few years when the batteries die.

Every wired headphones I've had started to break down after a year or so, including ones with a detachable cable.

BT headphones are much more reliable. If you buy something like the Sony's you can probably get replacement batteries.
badjeans
·5 years ago·discuss
Unfortunately, a CS PhD doesn't even guarantee mediocrity.
badjeans
·5 years ago·discuss
I have a Huawei matebook x pro and I would highly recommend it. Great build quality and 3:2 screen.
badjeans
·5 years ago·discuss
> I see all these calls for "cancel rent", as if housing grows on trees and landlords are all some kind of Ebenezer stereotype, instead of being a lot of small-time folk just trying to get by.

So letting property should just be risk-free profit? Being a landlord is a business and businesses fail all the time.
badjeans
·5 years ago·discuss
I guess a drone can just land on a roof (or even street-level)?

Basically a battery powered camera that can be deployed very quickly to an area of interest.
badjeans
·5 years ago·discuss
I get "We were unfortunately unable to place the cookie that is necessary for the use of our site. Is your computer connected to the internet through a company network? We recommend that you ask your IT department for an exception for DER SPIEGEL content. Have you configured a browser extension or the browser itself such that cookies are blocked? Please add DER SPIEGEL to your list of exceptions. Should you continue to have problems, you can find more information here."

I only have ublock origin and a minimum of config changes.
badjeans
·5 years ago·discuss
https://www.google.com/search?q=gnome+3+memory+leak

https://www.google.com/search?q=gnome+3+cpu+use

sure...
badjeans
·5 years ago·discuss
Down and Out by Ken Wharton?

https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2017/02/science-fi...
badjeans
·5 years ago·discuss
What's so dsytopian about that?
badjeans
·5 years ago·discuss
> I don’t have FB or or WhatsApp but my Insta account (using a separate email address and no personal details) keeps recommending my therapist to me.

So what? What's the harm?

People sure like to write emotionally charged posts arguing for privacy, but they're always suspiciously low on details on what bad things (actually) happened.

Even in this case with phone numbers and other data leaked, so what? What harm do data leaks cause?

Seems like making a fuss about nothing.

> How are we still ok with this shit?

We're ok with a lot of shit. I think if we were to make a list of shit this would rank pretty low.
badjeans
·5 years ago·discuss
They don't have to torture you, just hold you in contempt of court until you give it up. e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Beatty_Chadwick

Works the same as with bank accounts or scamcoins.
badjeans
·5 years ago·discuss
> People need and want something like that to exist where they have complete control over their assets without any worries about government or institutions.

The government can always just make a law and take whatever it wants from you (or imprison you). Doesn't matter if it's from a bank account or bitcoin cold storage on planet Musk.
badjeans
·5 years ago·discuss
A lot of those can be blocked with e.g. ublock (the "annoyances" filters, not on by default)
badjeans
·5 years ago·discuss
Why Canonical? Isn't this a Microsoft feature?
badjeans
·5 years ago·discuss
What a weird comment. There's tons of fraud within the bitcoin ecosystem, and it's also used in a lot of fraud too.
badjeans
·5 years ago·discuss
> Dogs, regardless of size are safe to coexist with humans provided they are treated appropriately from a sustenance and behavior/training perspective.

Debatable...

"In 1994, the most recent year for which published data are available, an estimated 4.7 million dog bites occurred in the United States, and approximately 799,700 persons required medical care (1). Of an estimated 333,700 patients treated for dog bites in emergency departments (EDs) in 1994 (2), approximately 6,000 (1.8%) were hospitalized (3)."
badjeans
·5 years ago·discuss
Well, and Huawei users.