daveFNbuck

I enjoy doing these too and would prefer if there were no scoring at all. When I start right at release time, it stresses me out. So I try to find reasons to introduce small delays that guarantee I'm not in the top hundred, and the stress goes away.

If you're not using your computer every day, just think of yourself as having been removed from the competition. Then you can just solve fun puzzles that don't have a competitive aspect for you.

You could also make a browser extension to hide the leaderboard if that helps.

What law would be violated if you download software from Adobe and use the activation key they've provided to activate it? That's normally how you get software legally.

Those are all equally hard for me as an American (except for the helicopter one, I'd be pretty sure that was put there to trick AIs).

The "educate more" solution is known as the deficit model and there's a large body of research showing that it's not true for science communication.

You can read a bit about it at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_deficit_model

You're assuming no one has compromised the old keys. If that has happened, a blackmailer can forge old emails with proof of things you didn't do.

If you don't print much, 12000 pages is the lifetime of the printer. I've had a cheap laser printer for about 6 years now, and I only think about it once or twice a year when I need to print something.

I don't do any maintenance, and I don't worry about the ink drying out.

I wouldn't take a one-time payment of $70 in exchange for having to do regular printer ink maintenance for 6 years, so it makes sense to pay an extra $70 to avoid that. Paying the extra $70 makes even more sense if you factor in the fact that I'd actually have saved $72 in monthly payments over that time period.

So your objection is that it's poorly written, not that it has too many exceptions?

I thought your goal was to have AB5 without the exemptions. How does killing AB5 by increasing the exemptions get you closer to that goal?

If your problem with AB5 is that it has too many exemptions, why did you think that voting for more exemptions would express your concern?

I think most people see this as Californians rejecting this type of legislation, not asking for it to be more broadly applied.

It wasn't about designing and LGBT-themed cake. They didn't discuss the design of the cake at all [1]. It was about making a cake that would be used by gays at their wedding.

[1] https://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/16-111...

Making it an odd number wouldn't prevent this possibility, as electors aren't limited to vote for only 2 people. In 2016, there were 7 different people who received electoral college votes for president.

I've never used Uber and don't have the app installed. I've gotten these texts.

I was asking about Chrome profiles, not Firefox containers. I use dozens of Firefox containers already, and it's my understanding that Chrome profiles aren't a good substitute because you can only use one at a time.

Can you have dozens of different profiles open at the same time in different tabs of the same window?

Everyone who uses their phone while driving thinks they're one of the few who can do it safely, whether they're fully engrossed in a text conversation speeding down the freeway, or tapping an icon while stopped at a traffic light. Deep down, I think that too. That's why I can't give myself excuses to do it.

I want to tell Google where I live so I can say "ok Google, navigate home" and get directions home without having to touch my phone. If there's a phrase that gets hands-free directions for starred items without having to say the whole address, Google doesn't make that easy to figure out.

Sometimes projects grow until they have little to do with the original spec.

That's essentially what fuzzy testing libraries do. You tell the library what types of arguments you want, write your test, and it puts in some known corner cases and a few random values that change each time you run the test (but are saved as new corner cases when the test fails in the better libraries).

You can set up a path that does a cached proxy to the CDN and just edit the HTML yourself. It's a bit annoying to get the cache settings to work properly, but editing the HTML is easy.

The post was about exhausting the space to test code. The example they used of code that should have been tested this way was CPU code. If you're testing CPU code, exhausting the space quickly on a GPU isn't helpful.

The script wouldn't have to be from a CDN to track people using the browser cache. I could infer whether you've visited a site that doesn't use CDNs or trackers by asking you to load something from that site and inferring whether you have that resource cached by the time it took you to load it.

The article was about testing a specific implementation of floor, ceil, and round using CPU instructions. You can run floor, ceil, and round on the GPU, but that won't tell you whether your new implementation using CPU instructions is correct.

A 24-36 month upgrade cycle means people aren't buying the latest smartphone every year. I don't think that the latest smartphone is a good value, and that's why I try to hold on to mine for a few years before buying a new one.

It's not clear to most people how the information they give to a smart speaker could be used against them. What will the government do to me if it knows that I asked for directions or ordered a pizza?

I remember a few years back when Google let you view a map of your daily movements over the past few years or something. I saw this map and turned off location tracking. Most people I talked to thought this was neat and forgot about it shortly after, because no one is using this information to hurt people in visible ways.

The speakers are convenient and most people aren't worried about these kinds of invasions of privacy.

Are there a lot of systems that define arctangent but not pi?

It's unlikely that this is what happened to @danny, unless their account was inactive.

That's not necessarily evidence of rogue employees being able to steal accounts for their friends. That may just mean that they had a friend at Instagram that helped them trigger the official process to delete an inactive account and give the name to someone who plans to use it.

R0 is a statistical average, but even if we assume that every person infects exactly 5.7 other people, these two tourists would have infected 11.4 people. Those 11.4 people would infect a further 64.98 people. you're already pretty close to 100 after just two levels of spread.

The only reason it's limited to as low as 100 is that people are taking precautions to prevent the infection from spreading.

Projects often have many parts. One of them gets blocked and you work on something else for a while. Maybe you shoot off some emails and wait for replies that never come. If you get distracted, you can be in this state for a while.

Often these issues just linger until you finally talk to your manager or team about them. Having a regular opportunity to do that can speed up the process.