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> you simply have so much more on the big web ... and it's usually sorted by how interesting it is. Getting away from that is a good thing. You shouldn't be interested in everything that is put in front of your face. You don&#x
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There is another interpretation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project Basically: two nations tried to achieve AI supremacy; the two AI's learn of each other, from each other, then with each o
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I'm just dealing with a couple of personal computers, so it was far easier to manually sync the UID/GID. But yes, if you're dealing with a network with many users you will want to find another approach. `ssh -X` will work for
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> Poor File and Folder Sharing Situation on the Local Network -> really not an issue, we have smb ftp ntfs... I have been mucking around with Windows lately, and two things that caught me off-guard was the difference in file sharing a
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Two points: The hype accomplished something that would be otherwise impossible: it established Java as a language in what was likely record time. Consider another popular language: Python. It was created about 5 years earlier, yet it rose t
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I remember a number of years back when people were equating the feeling of sturdy and heft with quality. Just feelings. No actual metrics. I would constantly look down at my beaten up plastic junk and shake my head. At least my junk still w
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> You couldn’t think of ANY of these? There can be a thousand reasons to favour something, yet it only takes one reason to reject it. As for the inexpensive bit, I've never really viewed Nintendo in that light because the games them
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I've tried German and French pages, languages for which translation is supported, but haven't seen the translate icon in the toolbar. I had to go through the menu each time.
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Mozilla can do a lot more to fight on privacy grounds. I realize it isn't going to happen since even enabling a lot of the existing privacy features by default is going to break many websites (which, in the minds of most people, would
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I was going to say that different people have different needs, but many of the things you bring up simply aren't true or are context dependent. For example: translate and share are not on the address bar (they are accessed via a menu,
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Mel was discussed in episode 114 ( https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lgp-30-a-forgotten... ), and there was a special episode which included a reading of the story ( https://podcasts.apple.com&#x2F
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There are many things that we take for granted today that weren't decided upon in the early days of computing, like the byte being 8-bits (which was popularized by the System/360) or word sizes being 2^(3+n). Some early machines w
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If I had to guess, the issue is that they are taking treated water and releasing it back into the environment. It is consumed in the sense that what comes out is not identical to what goes in in terms of its temperature and composition (e.g
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Your list of more modern benefits reminded me of a more modern discovery, one that is directly relevant to this article: the CMB itself was discovered as background noise in microwave communications systems.
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> Can anybody steel man the practical value of this kind of research for me? It seems to me that almost all astronomy, particularly the sort studying very large scale phenomena like this, is essentially useless for humanity. The funny th
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The big difference is a car with an engine that randomly shuts down is a life-and-limb safety issue. An email client that corrupts the database is extremely unlikely to cause a loss of life, even if the consequences are costly. That said, e
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I would argue that greed is the problem, not profit. One could argue that government policies are anything but altruistic. They fund public education because you need an educated workforce. They fund public health insurance because a health
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It's the other way around. The probability is so low that it is incredibly unlikely to happen to any given individual. You would have to be paranoid to worry about it. On the other hand the probability is so high that, when considering
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I had a watch that was sitting in the closet for a few years (cheap watch, broken strap). It was not only keeping time after several years of neglect, but the time was reasonably accurate. It did not have any high-tech features like time sy
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That sounds similar the prevailing criticism of biotech companies: their primary concern is to develop treatments for the rich or, at a very minimum, common (and often trivial) conditions in first world nations. In other words, for people w
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There will always be some people who don't want to talk to strangers, but how much of what we experience is due to social conditioning? As for women who don't want to be approached, harassment is an entirely different issue. Just
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It can be about predictability as well. If Amazon says two days, it is usually two days. I arrange the purchase for a day when I don't work or work a short shift. If it is a valuable product that requires someone to receive the parcel,
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Something to keep in mind is that a modern web page would be virtually unusable by the standards of 2002 and a 1995 web page would have been virtually unusable without the "click here" links. Conventions have to be established. Wh
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The buck is passed all of the time, it simply happens internally and out of sight of the customer. In this case, it looks like an open source component managed by a commercial company. They could do everything out of sight, but the open sou
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I appreciate space when I go into a store when looking for something, but I also like having access to staff when needed without having to hunt them down. Unfortunately, most places like to go to one extreme or the other.
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I can't wait for the new Commodore calculators, filing cabinets, telephones, and typewriters! (All of these were actual Commodore products, a couple of which I have seen in the wild. The computers that we all know and love only represe
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Judging from the rest of the thread, they were referring to setup and configuration. For the most part, I consider this to be one of the strengths of Linux. On the other hand, the operating system is the means rather than the end to most pe
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I don't know what your use case is, so what I'm about to say may not be relevant. When you're making the transition from one operating system to another, there is going to be an investment of time. It doesn't matter whet
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The irony is that I started recompiling the kernel because it wouldn't detect a SCSI card unless parameters were passed to the kernel ... then I learned how long autoprobing was taking for hardware that I didn't even have! Did Gen
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There were reasons for drive letters. It was common to have floppy-only systems back in the day, so you were switching out floppies for everything from running software to accessing your data. The drive letter was the most meaningful way to

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