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by Faark 7y ago
I'm not a fan of the "you have to experience it to understand it" mantra. I understand experiencing something yourself can be a very easy/efficient way for humans to learn. But the ability to transfer knowledge and under
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by Faark 7y ago
> question is no longer in pending status But practically forcing users to select an answer as "good" should probably not be the only way to do this.
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by Faark 7y ago
Just now I came across an info table [0] for some game that should allow sorting by columns, but doesn't work on my Firefox, only Chrome. Yeah, its just some fan site for a game and thankfully doesn't happen that often to me, yet.
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by Faark 7y ago
Duplicati does the client side encryption with the Key never leaving my device? Backblaze didn't offer that when I was choosing a cloud backup and the reason I went with the competition. But Crashplan (RIP consumer version, now only 2x
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by Faark 7y ago
> My friend can use my RFID card too. Yes, just like you and your friend can do a lot of other cheating in school. And the mechanism used to prevent that is severe punishments once caught by a teacher. I don't see much difficulty in
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by Faark 7y ago
This isn't script-kiddie level hacking. There were considerable resources spend to develop those exploits, probably by a nation state. Those actors not being able to get an untraceable CCs/identities is highly unlikely. For a 3 le
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by Faark 7y ago
That's hardly a stable solution. It would start out nicely, but some of them would start eating up the market due to network effects. Then turn evil... If you make network effects harder (e.g. it extremely easy to submit apps to all of
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by Faark 7y ago
> if this is the case there's no actual calculation performed There is no conscious calculation performed. The result might be fetched from memory, but there might also be subconscious processes involved. And that seems to be what t
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by Faark 7y ago
Depends on implementation. The one I'm familiar with asks for time (e.g. x * daily income). That seems totally fair, since we all have roughly the same amount of days to spend in a life. Jail & co is balanced based on the same prin
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by Faark 7y ago
> But you misunderstand my argument - I have never claimed that Apple only pay corporation tax in the US. My arguement is that Apple should (and do) pay taxes based on where the work/value was done. But the mechanism we use to deter
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by Faark 7y ago
GPUs are made to execute a limited set of the same operations operation on on a huge amount of data in parallel. This is a totally different workload than your usual computer programs, that commonly have a long and complicated series of com
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A good start would be to open up more access to plans & documentation to make it easier for interested people to do so. Better access to replacement parts is another demand you often hear around the "right to repair" movement.
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The funny part is the article at the same time arguing how much benefits people receive and thus them not being poor while at the same time pointing out the US is great despite social programs, heavily implying that it would be even better
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by Faark 7y ago
The facebook referral works on a sadly continuously shrinking list of higher tier sites, but still including FT. So for those preferring to pay with their data try https://www.facebook.com/flx/warn/?u=https%3A%2F%2
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by Faark 7y ago
Yeah, I don't like it. I opened both old edge and this side by side with only this HN thread open. Scrolling on old feels way quicker... no white, un-rendered areas as in the chrome version when quickly jumping through the document. Me
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by Faark 7y ago
You should be fine with copying the ksp directory out of steams reach and run it from there, since the game doesn't appear to use Steam as copy protection. It certainly didn't when I was into modding years ago (still have quite a
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by Faark 7y ago
As for the spyware accusation... from what I read, Take Two slapped their usual privacy policy on the game after they bought it. The community didn't take that nicely. I don't remember ever seeing any evidence for spying beyond po
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by Faark 7y ago
I agree. Quite a few times was I surprised to find out a game uses Unity. But the better ones usually don't show a big Unity splash screen. Return of the Obra Dinn was on I totally expected to be its own engine. But yeah, AAA games usu
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by Faark 7y ago
Totally agree with career mode being a great guide to the tech tree, but it also stopped me from doing grand tours and the like. Just never got that far and tended to start fresh after putting the game down for a while. Self-imposed challen
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by Faark 7y ago
I admit not having good, hard data. My most vivid related memory is comparing the back then new flat screen to the my CRTs and being disappointed with both delay and sharpness (CRTs exponential decay is way nicer imo). Obviously wouldn&#x27
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by Faark 7y ago
On the other hand, the times were the CPU was polling keyboard resistances and then directly controlling your CRT's electron beam accordingly are long over. Today's systems are complicated, and we try to hide that complexity behin
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It's a form of mandate, so yeah, probably. But no idea why they didn't try that in the first place. Probably didn't had enough to make it worthwhile. You can negotiate a payment plan and I'm sure there are gov support pr
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That sounds a bit different from the gov / non-private system we have in Germany. Sure, no doctor will make an appointment with you for anything not life-threatening unless you have a valid insurance chip card. But you do have emergenc
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by Faark 7y ago
I'm currently on 4gb (ram sticks slowly died one after another, hope to replace the pc soon) and yes, Firefox taking up an entire gb is pushing it. Windows takes about 2gb for itself, leaving annoyingly little for other tasks. ~15% of
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Not slow for me as well. It's my second browser beside FF and has the far better text to speech. Hard to compare performance, since my usage pattern differs widely between the two. But my biggest complaint would be tabs sometimes crash
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They wouldn't be using FTP is they care about security. I don't get why there is so much resistance. It's an old, outdated technology that has to be replaced eventually. Yes, change is always painful. But this isn't like
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The author is kinda talking about civilization. And no, expecting humans to give up much on that front won't save the planet. We have to improve on a lot of fronts and the attention argument is one of the better ones... finding better
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Cooperative strategies open up a lot of new attack vectors. I don't trust those companies to design systems robust enough, especially if they'd have to build a standard together with competitors. And in the end, your car has to be
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They get the upgrade for free, I'd hope? Kind of like they seem to feel the need to do regarding their new chip [0]. Less optimistic, people will probably be less eager to upgrade once those cars are several generations old by the poin
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by Faark 7y ago
Valve added a "Funny" button to steam reviews, since many top reviews were great jokes but had little substantial in them. I feel like it helped at least somewhat. I also have a hard time believing the GP that there is no experime

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