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by II2II 2y ago
A lot of it depends where you are. I lived near the downtown core of a large city, and people would (usually gently) pick the fruit off the tree next to the sidewalk. Few would venture onto the property itself, even though there was no fenc
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by II2II 2y ago
Stipulations include performing the science mission and releasing the data. While there the cool factor would be orders of magnitude greater, there are also considerable commitments and risk involved. So the question is: what other benefits
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by II2II 2y ago
Keep in mind that Busicom was pretty much asking for a custom made controller in the beginning (more accurately, a set of chios), but Intel suggested a simpler solution. In the end, calculators ended up being sold in such large volumes that
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by II2II 2y ago
For some of us, finding our mother's maiden name is as simple as looking at our name, either because it is a hyphenated name or because there was a time when the government refused to acknowledge the existence of the father in certain
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by II2II 2y ago
To be fair, that was an argument that was put forth by carriers years ago (at least in Canada). That said, I don't think it has popped up as much (or at all) in recent years.
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by II2II 2y ago
> I'm totally unbothered by the Royal Ontario Museum I loved the design when I originally saw the architectural drawing and models. The blend of modern with traditional. The way the crystal reflects part of the museum's mission
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by II2II 2y ago
It's difficult to teach ingenuity for a variety of reasons. To give you an idea of what I mean: I used to maintain the content filter for a school. Students being students, they found all sorts of ways to get around it. I never took mu
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by II2II 2y ago
I suspect the intent was the best for the customer. Like it or not, YouTube is the customer here. The viewers are YouTube's customers.
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by II2II 2y ago
> This seems historic. One of the core differentiators between iOS and Android that worked in Android's favor is now destroyed. How so? You are still able to sideload apps. The difference is that an app can detect if it has been sid
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by II2II 2y ago
> Publishing the truth or publishing opinions about political leaders is illegal in some jurisdictions. Would you be unwilling to provide help to these "bad actors"? Realistically, I am unlikely to help since I am unlikely to u
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by II2II 2y ago
> depending on which side of the Israel/Palestine conflict you are on Here's the thing: I am not on either side of that conflict, or likely any other conflict you could use as an example. There are atrocities committed by both
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by II2II 2y ago
I suspect it depends upon the person. Plenty of people have difficulty remembering commands, and only the clever ones in that population will create a cheat sheet to help them along until they do remember them. On the other hand, they may h
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by II2II 2y ago
The article notes that phones usually weren't permitted in schools, but it was difficult to enforce. Granted, the article doesn't give much reason to believe that it will be any easier to enforce. It suggests that they don't
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by II2II 2y ago
If the comment was the reference to a banned member, was the action actually inappropriate? If the banning of the member alluded to was inappropriate, there is a time, place, and tact to address that. If the process does not allow for that,
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by II2II 2y ago
I work for the government and we are not allowed to accept tips. Even if there is a technical difference between a bribe and a gratuity, it is too easy to misconstrue a tip as a bribe (by either or both parties) and it is too easy to frame
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by II2II 2y ago
Because it is a job that needs to be done and someone is willing to pay for it. For some people it may be the best job they can get. I understand why no one likes human resources. They are there to protect the interests of the business and
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by II2II 2y ago
If you don't put gas into your car, it does not run. The chances of the car incurring thousands of dollars of damage is negligible. The insurance company will pay for the routine shot or exam since they both help to avoid medical compl
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by II2II 2y ago
The issue is that A/B testing only looks at outcomes, not reasons. There is a possibility that having the sign-up button above the fold wasn't the contributing factor here, or that it was only a contributing factor. Having to sc
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by II2II 2y ago
Would it stop ransomware attacks, or is it another one of those situations where the cost of launching an attack is so low that you only need an insignificant number of desperate victims to pay in order to profit? I am also left to wonder i
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by II2II 2y ago
I suppose it depends upon what you mean by sustain life. If somebody is hooked up to life support in a hospital for the rest of their life, does that mean their body is able to sustain life or does it mean the hospital is able to sustain li
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by II2II 2y ago
A lot of it comes down to what a person is used to. I have a similar gripe about the lack of flexibility with Gnome's address bar, simply because I sometimes want to type in a path rather than navigate to it by clicking on icons.
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by II2II 2y ago
Try using Linux exclusively for a few years, then switch back to Windows. You will discover that Windows has just as many quirks as Linux. Take sleep. While I have not run into situations where Windows will leave the backlight on, I have ru
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by II2II 2y ago
Even with tapes, the user did a fair amount of the work: pushing buttons to read, record, or rewind. Many personal computers used standard cassette recorders, effectively a fire hose of data, so the file size was limited by the computer&#x2
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by II2II 2y ago
> 4K of RAM seemed like an impossible amount of space to fill It seems impossible to imagine the impossible these days. The first home computer I remember my family owning is a VIC-20 (5 kB RAM), where the screen could contain about 1&#x
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by II2II 2y ago
Depending upon how you look at it, there is more than one competitor to Apple. It kinda sucks that most of the competition to iOS runs one operating system, yet that one operating system is supported by multiple hardware vendors and multipl
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by II2II 2y ago
While Apple's ability to create "simple and brilliant" designs in the past can be attributed to the motivation and talent of their staff, I don't think you can say their current failure to do so implies the opposite. We
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by II2II 2y ago
I don't know what the ideal number of mouse buttons, but agree that it is more than one. The odd thing is it's appearance in the Macintosh: a computer where the user was supposed to orient most of their actions around the mouse. T
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by II2II 2y ago
The wording of the article suggests that he came up with the term "cut and paste", rather than the concept: > In 1969 Tesler volunteered to help create a catalog for the Bay Area’s Mid-Peninsula Free University. He and Jim Warr
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by II2II 2y ago
It depends upon what you mean by opinionated. There is software that expects users to behave in certain ways and there is software where the developer is quite firm about what they will and will not implement. I would say that calibre and k
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by II2II 2y ago
> To my mind, tabs and bookmarks should meld into one. Different people have different needs, so it is useful to distinguish between the two. For example: I have groups of bookmarks that I like to open as tabs in a separate window. If I

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