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by II2II 3y ago
It likely depends upon the type of crime you are trying to prevent. If you are trying to prevent crimes where the perpetrator assumes there will be no witnesses, then I can see how surveilance could[1] be effective. If you are talking about
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by II2II 3y ago
> Environmentalism suffers from the same "purity test" mindset as other things these days. Keep in mind that environmentalists speak with many voices because they are concerned about different aspects of the environment. Keep i
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by II2II 3y ago
> Are spreadsheets and games in similar markets, because they both use graphics on video screens? Slightly more realistic examples would be "spreadsheets and databases" or "spreadsheets and word processors". Plenty of
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by II2II 3y ago
While I am not a fan of recursion, the call stack that enables it sounds infinitely better than statically allocating space for parameters and return values. Besides, it makes some algorithms clearer. That is certainly useful in learning en
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by II2II 3y ago
I doubt it has anything to do with the direct cost of maintenance. Google has a tendency to introduce multiple products that serve similar markets, as the article cited with Podcasts and YouTube Music. They have to cut the cruft eventually.
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by II2II 3y ago
The original Pi was an extremely poor desktop replacement. Both the speed of the processor and the available memory were barriers to running desktop applications. In contrast, the Pi 5 can perform acceptably for many applications while usin
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by II2II 3y ago
I would describe that article as more of a call-to-action than drumming up fear. The article is quite clear that the problem in this particular case was due to design. On top of that, there was no suggestion that it was a faulty design. Rat
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by II2II 3y ago
Perhaps it is because I put a heavier emphasis on the word media , but I don't really classify HN as a social media site. It's more of a forum where people discuss submitted articles. The dynamics are entirely different. For one
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by II2II 3y ago
Android is not the same thing as the Play Store. As far as I can tell, every Android user has the option to enable the installation of 3rd party software (though I could be wrong here, since my experience is with phones/tablets and not
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by II2II 3y ago
While I agree that mental health is an awfully broad stroke, I have seen few discussions that represent it as a baseline for a mentally healthy state. It is typically used when either self-harm or harm to others is involved.
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by II2II 3y ago
Perhaps that is part of the problem with these laws: we are playing a game of whack-a-mole instead of tackling the issue of mental health. While I personally avoid social media due to privacy concerns, I have encountered other adults my age
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by II2II 3y ago
I ended up getting an Epson EcoTank printer (ET-4850). Specifications claim to have 7500 page (black) and 6000 page (cym) yields, which is around what I would expect for a similarly priced monochrome laser printer. The ink itself costs abou
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by II2II 3y ago
Those old hammer printers were loud. Commercial printers were often housed in cases with sound-deadening materials, even though they usually occupied a room dedicated to computers (with the offices having terminals). Workers in smaller offi
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by II2II 3y ago
After avoiding inkjet printers for some 30 years, I purchased a colour inkjet printer after comparing the cost per page to a colour laser. Granted, I went for a tank based (rather than cartridge based) printer. Will I be happy with the deci
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by II2II 3y ago
The term NIMBY is thrown around too much. Yes, there are far too many cases where NIMBYism is taken too far. On the other hand, there are legitimate cases. I lived in a small, fly-in community for a while. I was very close to the airport, a
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by II2II 3y ago
The fun part is trying to identify certain items before actually using them. (The guesses won't always be perfect, but you can greatly improve your odds.)
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by II2II 3y ago
While you could convince me that too much money would attract the wrong type of people, you would be hard pressed to find more competent people by offering less money. (I'm not dismissing that there are other motivations involved, just
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by II2II 3y ago
Would that not depend upon how the website works? I'm fairly certain that any two people going to the same page at the same time on HN will see the same thing. What they see will mostly be determined by the age of a post/article a
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by II2II 3y ago
Definitely heartening. Games like Stardew Valley demonstrate that an individual (or small team) can make worthy games and be recognized for it. As for multi-billion dollar studios, why would they be humiliated by such games? They have compl
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by II2II 3y ago
> No, the risks of nuclear power are very well known, as there have been only two major disasters over quite a few decades, and the root causes of both of them are well known and easily avoidable. I think the statement that you were resp
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by II2II 3y ago
Yeah, different people need different things out of their phones. Yet the point remains that stingy data plans still exist in developed countries. Even though people may have better devices than those mentioned in the article (it is easie
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by II2II 3y ago
I'm in Canada and have a triple-digit plan, in MBs. It's for emergency use only. It would be nice if something as simple as checking on power outages didn't chew up a good portion of the data plan.
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by II2II 3y ago
> Is "make today's cities larger and denser forever" really the solution? Or can we figure out ways to disperse and decentralize things instead of just feeding more money back into the hands of those who own and control th
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by II2II 3y ago
The problem with your example, and the problem in real life, is that people are making decisions at too low of a level and property rights (never mind the needs of society) are being overridden. They end up voting on how something directly
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by II2II 3y ago
> "Dying" is an appropriate analogy because if the decline gets far enough, it may as well not exist to those people who are affected. For how many people does the web actually cease to exist? Many people have seen social media
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by II2II 3y ago
Even though I currently use this setup with Wayland, I originally came across it with X. I am fairly certain this is how switching between accounts works, via more user-friendly means, but I find that directly switching between virtual cons
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by II2II 3y ago
Sorry if I was a bit ambiguous. I was not referring to the gigabytes of memory or even the abundant number of libraries when I mentioned that it is easier to program Raspberry Pis. Those are certainly factors, though I doubt that many embed
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by II2II 3y ago
Perhaps there were other ways to see whether there was activity on the bus, but I was thinking of having a scope that was useful for the 8 MHz bus speed. Yes, they existed. On the other hand, they were not affordable for most people. And ye
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by II2II 3y ago
In this case it was because of a defective 74LS174 chip. To be more accurate, he was experimenting with a doner board since it's 74LS174 was used to repair another machine. I think the actual application in this case was education, lik
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by II2II 3y ago
It is worth mentioning that hacking those machines is much more accessible today than it was 30 years ago. While Adrian's modification was mostly period correct (down to the schematics that he was using), he stumbled across an error in

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