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by Delk 5y ago
When has the scientific community really been crying wolf on environmental matters, on a large scale? It can certainly feel like it has, with warnings about climate change and other ecological issues getting near-constant and having more an
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by Delk 5y ago
I don't think 'man' is that commonly used in scripts or as part of other automated processes that could go wrong. Most other unix utilities are fairly commonly used that way and a small behavioural change could be expected
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by Delk 5y ago
I can't find any references to that kind of a string by running 'strings' on /usr/bin/sudo or the sudo libraries. Of course a more reasonable approach would be to grep the source code.
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by Delk 5y ago
I agree that's a problem. But at least 4 > 2, and being secure until 2025 is at least better than being secure until 2023. (It also allows those who mind the security of their devices to use them for longer compared to a lot of the
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by Delk 5y ago
Is that really so different from people buying a phone that will be supported for a year or two and using it for years afterwards? From what I've been able to gather, many Android phone vendors either don't give any promises regar
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by Delk 5y ago
Some characters may also be nicer to type since they're present (and perhaps even in the same location) on many keyboard layouts. People could in principle cause themselves problems with logging in by having their usernames or password
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by Delk 5y ago
If some of the components such as RAM were made replaceable, that wouldn't be the OEM's problem. They could still ship only a few configurations. When you decided the original RAM or storage isn't enough, you'd just ask
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by Delk 5y ago
With weed having been (and in most places still being) illegal and not necessarily mainstream socially acceptable, some of its users might also have more of a need to "prove" its acceptability. With cannabis being more broadly con
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by Delk 5y ago
You're not wrong, but there are a couple of things here that rub the me wrong way. > Of course, but most consumers outside of tech enthusiasts have no idea which stuff in their laptop is upgradable, even when it is, so they just buy
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by Delk 5y ago
Maybe it's because I'm often looking at business-oriented laptops as a consumer, but I usually find the RAM and storage to be on the low side compared to the CPU specs. I don't need a top-of-the-line i7 CPU (the improvement w
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by Delk 5y ago
External hard drives with larger capacities and potentially larger files might be a use case for NTFS. While it isn't fast, ntfs-3g has worked fine for basic use for me. Someone said in another comment that ntfs-3g is unmaintained, tho
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by Delk 5y ago
I don't think it sounds like that at all, from what the article says. Rather it sounds like he didn't want the skills he had spent years practising and learning to be potentially subject to cheap replication by technology. That wo
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I'm not really driving at anything. I'd just feel more comfortable with less cutting when discussing a matter where details could be important. I didn't really find any problems with comprehension either. I'm just not su
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by Delk 5y ago
That's an interesting interview. Too bad the editing of the video leaves a bit to be desired: it seems to cut out parts and skip in such a way that it's hard to tell what exactly the lawyer originally said, and how much the editin
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by Delk 5y ago
How are you going to fool yourself, qualitatively and subjectively, that you have a mind if you don't have something capable of qualia in the first place? I'm not trying to argue for some kind of an immaterial soul, or claiming th
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by Delk 5y ago
It's been years since I read it (and I didn't actually finish, but that's another story), so I might not remember things very well. I think some of the examples of bias or other cognitive misgivings that he gives throughout t
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by Delk 5y ago
Another reason why martial arts have evolved into sports or towards other non-combative priorities is that practising martial arts in an actual combative way is harsh and rough. Most people don't really want that, at least not on a lev
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by Delk 5y ago
In the first half of the 2010's, I still used an old 32-bit desktop PC well past its best before date. It had more RAM and storage than the specs of the challenge, though. Nearly everything kind of worked, except for being kind of slow
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by Delk 5y ago
IIRC it had something to do with researchers being able to statistically identify Netflix users by using IMDB for comparison. A Wired article from 2010 [1] suggests it lead to some legal liability risks for Netflix. [1] https://w
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by Delk 5y ago
I mostly agree, and you're spot on about the outrage cycle. Well put. However, I don't think the outrage cycle is really contained within Twitter, or within social media in general. It also spills over to traditional media, at lea
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by Delk 5y ago
I haven't had hardware with a spinning disk in active use in years, so my experience might be coloured by the improved performance from SSDs and may thus be irrelevant to whether things are too slow with a HDD, but that's how I al
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by Delk 5y ago
I think that's one of those things where "wrong" becomes rather subjective. If you've been strongly sensitized to feelings of actual or potential distress due to unwanted sexual attraction, or the sexualization of the (i
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by Delk 5y ago
> it seems one feature of science, as opposed to, say philosophy, is that the conclusions regarding a hypothesis are not knowable a priori. That should be a defining characteristic of any academic inquiry, regardless of whether it's
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by Delk 5y ago
I get that it's an opinion piece, but IMO the title is a bit of clickbait. Does Python have its issues? Yes. Is it suitable for everything (the article mentions mobile development)? No. Does that mean it's going to be superseded?
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Looks like an interesting project. Would you have some kind of a summary of the methodology you're using for the annotation suggestions? What kind of learning, and which kinds of features?
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What makes that even more absurd in my books (apart from fostering an unhealthy academic culture) is that the purpose of a doctoral dissertation is essentially to show that you can do proper original research. Getting a null result doesn&#x
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It might be worth noting that people aren't necessarily either/or. I found myself not being quick on my feet in conversations at all when I was in my teens or so, but I believe I learned some of that as well when I learned more so
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> being ruled by a fascist supporter and/or supported by fascist sympathizers has an enormous impact on the quality of life Of course. It's the "about to be ruled by" part that's the cheap-ish rhetoric, as it imp
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by Delk 5y ago
> It wasn't fascism,but nazism. That's not really the point, and I'm not sure the semantics matter. I'm also not doubting that Trump would take up any "ideal" that supports his ego and power. Or that, among
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by Delk 5y ago
As a European who probably agrees with you regarding many policies: You may be able to argue that quality of life is better in Europe or with European-style policies [1]. Everyone having health insurance and less of a need to worry about yo

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