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by II2II 2y ago
Well, the article does go on about vaccines and a search of the site does turn up references about vaccines affecting autism and gender identity (among other things). Quite frankly, if someone has problems with how the FDA operates they wou
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by II2II 2y ago
> 30 years ago you could go days without seeing ads If anything, it is easier to avoid advertising today than it was 30 years ago. You can block notifications, spam filters are significantly better, content filters at the web browser and
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by II2II 2y ago
... and of those who have used multi-user Unix systems, very few would have had the privilege to use sudo in that context. (Unless you count managing a family computer, and even that is likely rare these days given that everyone seems to ha
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by II2II 2y ago
If my bank uses "GlobalSign" and my browser says "Brazilian CA", I know something is wrong. Granted, such a discrepancy would have been more noticeable back then since the lock icon had the issuer displayed next to it. N
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by II2II 2y ago
Tangentially related: The system is deeply flawed, which is something I realized fifteen years ago when I was put into a situation where I had to use online banking. (Had to being the nearest branch of any bank was an hour long flight away,
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by II2II 2y ago
A ranfom thought, that probably won't cover all cases: a second LED or a colour LED. One LED/colour indicates the camera is active, the second can be on for a longer period of time (and perhaps dim as time goes on). I prefer the s
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by II2II 2y ago
Sure, that is going.to be true for anything with moving pats. Yet I would also imagine that design and materials are a factor here. Let's face it, these covers aren't exactly common on laptops. There is probably a lack of good des
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by II2II 2y ago
> and no firmware is involved in enforcing the LED stay on for 3 seconds after a single frame is captured. I may be the oddball here, but that 3 second duration does not comfort me. The only time I would notice it is if I am sitting in f
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by II2II 2y ago
The cover on my laptop's camera is behind the glass. I suppose there is a chance that the slider itself could get damaged, but at least they minimized the exposed surface that could be damaged. That said, I really can't comment on
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by II2II 2y ago
Perhaps decades. Perhaps thousands of years. It probably depends upon why those machines were destroyed. Look at World War II. European nations and Japan rebuilt relatively rapidly then rapidly built upon progress made during the war. On th
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by II2II 2y ago
I've been out of university for a couple of decades now, but I will admit that the "business model" was bothersome even in my time. That is especially true since it is more important to the success of a person than that diamo
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by II2II 2y ago
> Holier than thou institution where everyone must pay the price for their product or be doomed as a person. One cannot place all of the blame at the foot of the university. Employers also play a role, when they demand accreditation. Stu
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by II2II 2y ago
It feels like the author is making the opposite point when they distinguish between logging and print debugging. Logging being the permanent bits of code, that either ship with the program or are disabled when the code is built for release.
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by II2II 2y ago
Yes, and it is also something that we are coming to terms with now that we have a more global community. The hit in question, the one that outsold any individual Beatles single was from 1976. That was a time when most people received news f
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by II2II 2y ago
> And the market wants a walled garden. The most you can say is that a segment of the market is willing to accept a walled garden. Some may want it. Some may not care about it. Some may not want it, but feel there are compelling reasons
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by II2II 2y ago
I was thinking about how we can predict the location of planets with a high degree of accuracy. They are pretty close to an ideal physical system and is governed by a single physical law. The dynamics are so well understood that we have bee
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by II2II 2y ago
I was thinking about companies approaching 200 years old since I knew my point would be more difficult to make if I said 100 years (and because they had a launch window that comes up roughly once every 200 years, though I checked that out a
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by II2II 2y ago
While I agree that "corporate America" is problematic, the lessons from Voyager are not really applicable. For starters, it was designed to take advantage of something that predictably happens every couple of hundred years. Very f
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by II2II 2y ago
> Recently, we renamed the "master" branch to "main," which was seen by some as a step toward inclusivity. But does this truly contribute to meaningful progress? In that case, probably not since the world master has m
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by II2II 2y ago
Someone buys it, then resells it without the putting up the warning sign. Who is liable: the manufacturer or the person reselling it? (I've seen plenty of small convenience stores reselling food simply because their suppliers don'
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by II2II 2y ago
It depends upon one's perspective. I would think that having it listed on the ingredients is sufficient. That said, some people who are allergic to something will not examine the list of ingredients when the regulations state they alle
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by II2II 2y ago
I have no doubt the title (and first image) were selected to drive engagement, I simply have serious doubts that it was intended to drive engagement from that angle. To add some context, the eruption of Mount St. Helens was viewed as a fair
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by II2II 2y ago
One's relationship with the topic probably has a lot to do with how the title is interpreted. I grew up not-too-far from Mount St. Helens and was of school age not-too-long after the eruption, so it had an indirect impact upon my life.
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by II2II 2y ago
It could also be argued that Windows 95 marked the start of this complexity, at least in PC land. Prior to that, there was very little communication between the OS and the hardware regarding configuration. When it did happen (e.g. monitor r
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by II2II 2y ago
Battle Chess 2024: more exciting than the original. The human player has to dodge the assault of their electronic opponent! Sometimes an interesting idea is best left unimplemented.
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by II2II 2y ago
I don't know if this is the genesis, but the first time this came to my attention was with Linux. Basically: a third-party trademarked Linux several years after the project's origin, then started going after companies that were di
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by II2II 2y ago
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that this has more to do with grifters and griefers than it does about power. Those are people who have the potential to create a lot of expensive headaches or public relations headaches for th
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by II2II 2y ago
I used to place a license at the root directory of each of my computers which stated something to the effect of, "By permitting your software to be installed on this computer ...". No illusions of effectiveness, but I also had que
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by II2II 2y ago
Yes. The basic problem with those old home computer operating systems was the lack of memory protection. Any program could overwrite the memory of any other program, or even vital components of the operating system. While memory protection
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by II2II 2y ago
Feature phones were entirely different beasts. Screens were typically smaller, and much better protected (either with a platic window covering the screen or by the keyboard folding over the screen, which also protected the buttons). Likewis

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