Arbalest

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by Arbalest 7y ago
Better technology can't patch human issues unless you're able to remove the human. Self driving cars are still not here.
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by Arbalest 7y ago
There's a number of youtube videos and probably written reviews which explain why: It just never lived up to the hype, in multiple ways. People have different experiences and lots end up with unusable amounts of lag. The first people o
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by Arbalest 7y ago
I suppose I was thinking more about coal burning at the time, and only remembered later (in my other child comment) that we also export a substantial amount of coal. Yet I did not realise that was the scale of our coal exports.
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by Arbalest 7y ago
Maybe it's time for piracy and people power to take over. Parents curate for other parents, perhaps parents that know each other. Use youtube-dl and other things. Have an open source app (You might have to get away from iOS for this) o
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by Arbalest 7y ago
Unless you are able to watch them every waking hour, this is simply not possible. At some point you have to cook, clean and generally do all the stuff that needs doing without worrying too much about your child hurting itself.
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by Arbalest 7y ago
Which reminds me, perhaps the most effective way to affect climate change would be to stop exports of coal and shut down mining entirely. Assuming that browner coal from other locations isn't too cheap, for overseas power plants.
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by Arbalest 7y ago
The coal industry globally, yes. The coal industry locally, not so much. I interpreted the way you said it to not be pointing at the fires, otherwise you might have said it straight up when, it's the elephant in the room. The other rea
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by Arbalest 7y ago
I did comment that this may be in reference to the latest bushfires, but thinking about it, our coal industry specifically did not contribute the primary driving force behind them. That may be more incumbent on the global aspect of climate
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by Arbalest 7y ago
Roku is frequently derided for being spyware here, and CCC is full of privacy aware hackers. I would have thought the crossover of people interested in CCC and Roku TV subscribers would be fairly low.
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by Arbalest 7y ago
Are we talking IRL interactions with EVE here, because the game certainly isn't.
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by Arbalest 7y ago
This sounds like something which should be continuously tested, as a litmus test as to how careful people are. I don't suppose you have a link or pointed search terms for this instance?
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by Arbalest 7y ago
In some sense, it was a bait and switch. It didn't used to be this way etc etc. Once the momentum is on, it's hard to back out.
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by Arbalest 7y ago
Maybe the idea is to crowd out all the click farms with stuff with actually decent quality?
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by Arbalest 7y ago
If someone attempted that large an attack, it would be pretty visible, and perhaps there's a mechanism to reset those tries after an amount of time. Targeted attacks on the other hand...
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by Arbalest 7y ago
Here in Adelaide, South Australia, we could have had a record high minimum temperature (Actually we kind of did, West Terrace vs Kent Town), however a short burst of slightly cooler air at about 10:30pm of around 33C has masked the fact tha
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by Arbalest 7y ago
I don't think it is fair to say high-carb as a blanket increases the risk. Our diets are supposed to be 50% carbs. Just not the type of carbs found in these products. I think the culprits are the relatively simple carbs (or sugars) whi
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by Arbalest 7y ago
Despite it being old and somewhat irrelevant now, I just can't watch an advert for that long.
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by Arbalest 7y ago
I'm going to wager the answer is, no. By and large, the main advantage of GPS is it is now extremely compact and relatively low power. My gut feel: To do the same with the sun and stars, you need very finely calibrated optical instrume
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by Arbalest 7y ago
It's been tried. What that usually means is you manage the ads yourself, or it's some really small ad network which doesn't have that many advertisers on it competing to give money to the website. Advertisers are as lazy as a
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by Arbalest 7y ago
I think the counter examples have already responded.
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by Arbalest 7y ago
This is surely going to be dead obvious when no one who is "live" responds immediately, even something as simple as a chuckle to something actually funny.
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by Arbalest 7y ago
Seems similar to tactics used by patent trolls. Basically showering you will bullshit you have to defend in court knowing it is bogus and relying on you not being able to fight it. The twist is that they're using Copyright rather than
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by Arbalest 7y ago
Atoms are mostly empty space too. Distance between electrons and the nucleus is substantially larger than the "size" of the nucleus.
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by Arbalest 7y ago
How so? Are you referring to some kind of history of Yahoo?
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by Arbalest 7y ago
Headline just reminded me to disable USB debugging. Though I wonder how many exploits are available for more modern Android phones. Between USB debugging authorising the host, and the "Use USB for charging" option, how much space
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by Arbalest 7y ago
That's a business case problem. Not enough people are asking for it. It's expensive because it lowers their margin by a notable (maybe not huge) amount. No one said it couldn't be done, just that it's effort for too litt
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by Arbalest 7y ago
The switch itself may not be, but the mechanical effects (hole in case, board space, waterproofing, design testing and as GP said, warranty) makes it expensive.
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by Arbalest 7y ago
Is tracking disabled when you pay money to eliminate ads?
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by Arbalest 7y ago
Time is money. A cruise ship not carrying passengers is not making money. Presumably it was more cost effective to use this than to travel to a dry dock wherever that is. The article this was switched over from did say it was fairly far fro
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by Arbalest 7y ago
Maybe it finally got into the heads of American executives that you do actually have to put in some effort and not cut every corner. Probably because sales numbers were not in their favour.

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