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LinaLauneBaeron sshole

does this really matter? It could be used to do something devastating. The number of systems that match those requirements is only one factor. If just a handful of those are highly critical for humanity it could lead to disaster. Eg. hacks into fridges, centrifuges etc.

LinaLauneBaeron DoorDash to acquire Instacart

I live in the US - no car. No grocery store close by. Only real option is to use an Uber which is more expensive than using DoorDash.

LinaLauneBaeron Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

I knew something was off when I was the only child who was not able to read their own name… just thought it was some kind of test to see how far each child was - not that is was more or less a requirement.

LinaLauneBaeron Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

My parents never did. Now I wish they did.

LinaLauneBaeron Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

No. I am not implying a chicken and egg problem. If you generally start to learn how to read with 6 what would do get from a book between the age 0-5 when you cannot read? In another thread someone explained that usually parents "read" the book to the child - child answered my question. My parents never read books to me so I did not know this was common.

LinaLauneBaeron Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

Oh wow. My parents never did this. I thought its something they only do in the movies…

LinaLauneBaeron Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

Honest question and maybe it's because I grew up without books… What values do books have if you cannot read? I started to learn how to read at 6. Are those picture only books?

LinaLauneBaeron Presence of nicotine and antidepressants detected in Antarctic waters

Diclo. is an unimaginable useful drug. It has some properties that make it almost irreplaceable for certain types of pain that are broadly experienced in the population.

Rheumatic pain is usually hard to treat and many patients end up with a whole mix of pain drugs and many many times diclo makes the whole mix work.

LinaLauneBaeron Apple engineer in need of OSS maintainers

You have every right to profit according to German law. You have to be compensated appropriately for your employer to be allowed to use what you hold the copyright for. Usually this is ensured by your monthly salary. However, if what you did and hold the copyright for becomes a surprise success you have to be compensated appropriately in addition to your salary. In practical terms, if your code makes a billion bucks and you only get a regular average salary you could sue the employer and would probably win.

LinaLauneBaeron January 2018 US diplomatic cables warned of coronavirus leaking from Wuhan lab

As far I know a BSL-4 lab is simply a BSL-3 lab that includes a BSL-2 lab that includes a BSL-1 lab plus some extras.

LinaLauneBaeron Speedy Web Compiler – A Rust port of Babel and Closure Compiler

I never had any problems with Babel's performance to be honest...

Also a quick check with google trends does seem to support that feeling.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?cat=31&date=all&q=S...

Swift is probably used a lot less than Babel but it yields a lot more spikes...

LinaLauneBaeron Vitamin D, the Sunshine Supplement, Has Shadowy Money Behind It

1.5-2 months ≠ 2 weeks...

LinaLauneBaeron Vitamin D, the Sunshine Supplement, Has Shadowy Money Behind It

I always thought it takes months until Vitamin D supplements show their effect...

https://www.quora.com/How-long-does-it-take-for-a-vitamin-D-...

LinaLauneBaeron V8n – Fluent validation library for JavaScript

Sometimes you want to do a lot of other stuff in the same scope and simply bail out on any error without having to check every return value.

LinaLauneBaeron Exactly Once Writes for Non Idempotent Requests

Couldn’t this be solved easier by using a simple version field? If the remote version != client version then request is rejected with an http 409 response...

LinaLauneBaeron Hyper 2, Electron based terminal

Purely due to aesthetic reasons. I am not using the terminal for any complex stuff and this allows me to use the terminal which looks the best to my eyes. If my requirements change I may go back to iTerm but for now: something simple and nice looking is okay.

LinaLauneBaeron Hyper 2, Electron based terminal

I am using Hyper 2 since the beta and I really like it. It has replaced iTerm for me. Performance may still be an issue for some people. For example, printing to stdout seems slower on Hyper than on, let's say iTerm. To me it is noticeable but still feels nearly instant.

LinaLauneBaeron iPhone 6 slows down by 28% after just 4 months use

I always wonder if slowing down the phone is a good solution. By slowing down the CPU the CPU needs less energy. But at the same time the user has to wait much longer in order to finish what he was trying to do. Thus the screen is on for a longer period of time. Isn't the screen one of the main energy consumers in an iPhone?

Launching apps on my iPhone 6 (which needs a new battery) takes for ages (even when compared to my older but less used iPhone 5S). I can't imagine that the extended "screen lit"-time does not have a big impact as well.

Also: I am one of the few users who would be totally fine with the iPhone shutting down at 20% or so (if I have the full performance as I used to) because my iPhone is rarely going near 20%. At work I can charge. At home I can charge. When I am on the go I usually am not using the phone that much... However playing hearthstone when I am in bed, loading the phone, everything takes much longer as well which makes playing games less fun...

LinaLauneBaeron Face ID flop: Chinese colleagues can both authenticate iPhone X

Couldn't Apple fix this by only using data from 100% successful unlock attempts, meaning: If you unlock your phone without having to enter your passcode the data is used to train the model. If you had to enter the passcode - for any reason - the data is not used to train the model.

This would certainly make some edge cases (for example if you didn't use your phone for a while => changed facial features) less "magic" because you would always have to enter the passcode - but a simple "retrain" should then solve the problem... am I correct?

LinaLauneBaeron Swift 5: start your engines

It makes it easier for Apple and others to adopt swift on a large scale. It will probably mean new swift only frameworks will be developed by Apple after swift 5.

LinaLauneBaeron America Needs Small Apartment Buildings

In mid April I will move to a 200sq ft apartment. Very small. I am a bit anxious if my plans work out. Up until now I had about 3.5x that space for me alone. The apartment ist directly at the central station of the city which allows me to get to work super fast and the central station is not too far away from the inner city... walking distance. Let's see how this goes.

LinaLauneBaeron Show HN: JSON Editor (Beta) for MacOS 10.12

There is no technical reason for Sierra only.

LinaLauneBaeron Show HN: JSON Editor (Beta) for MacOS 10.12

I have been working on this little free JSON editor app for a few weekends.

Personally: I like it.

I will continue to work on it each weekend until it is perfect for me and maybe others. What do you think so far?

LinaLauneBaeron Java Was Strongly Influenced by Objective-C

Collisions are very very rare. In over 10 years of Objective-C development I have maybe seen it once. Also: clang got much better at detecting collisions at compile time (where possible).

That said: Swift extensions are safer because private categories cannot collide.

LinaLauneBaeron Swift 1.2 and Xcode 6.3 beta

often times you want to do more stuff in either case so ? does not always work. The if-else approach is more general.

LinaLauneBaeron A cross-browser offline-enabled web compass

If you have the heading and a few locations then you can also infer where north/south/east/west is. Or am I wrong?

LinaLauneBaeron A cross-browser offline-enabled web compass

You could infer the heading by "simply" telling the user:

"Move in the way you look for about 50 meters."

If you walk a straight line and the Laptop knows where it is at any given time it can infer the heading.

LinaLauneBaeron Servo: Building a Parallel Browser [video]

    object = create_object() // RC 1
    object.release() // RC 0 => will be released
    // ...
    object.doSomething() // Used after object was released

?

LinaLauneBaeron Servo: Building a Parallel Browser [video]

Reference counting does not avoid using something after freeing it...

LinaLauneBaeron People Can Be Convinced They Committed a Crime That Never Happened

One more reason to not talk to the police... Relevant explanation by an expert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc