JTbane

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by JTbane 8y ago
Reading this made me thirsty, no lie.
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by JTbane 8y ago
The problem with that is people are really attached to their cars and beef.
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by JTbane 8y ago
The problem is your average user only sees glowing reviews of ES File Explorer on the Play Store. They do not care to search for information about the data egress to Chinese servers, and are lulled into a false sense of security by the Play
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by JTbane 8y ago
This makes me glad I use Firefox and have dropped chrome entirely.
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by JTbane 8y ago
Legislators don't seem to understand that backdoored crypto is bad crypto. If I write a chat app that uses strong encryption, with the keys stored on each user's device, there are no legal grounds for me to modify any part of my a
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by JTbane 8y ago
function $(id) { return document.getElementById(id); } Nice! Now I don't need jQuery.
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by JTbane 8y ago
Hopefully electric vehicles can alleviate at least some of the air pollution in major cities- I applaud efforts to restrict ICE cars and trucks.
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by JTbane 8y ago
>No benchmarking allowed If this isn't a smoking gun about performance loss due to vulns, I don't know what is. Intel is in hot water.
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by JTbane 8y ago
> At one of my software jobs we we're tasked with generating reports that I later learned we're never read and we're actually auto trashed by the management it was sent to. Yeeeeeah, if you could put the new cover sheet on
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by JTbane 8y ago
>I just kind of figured we'd stop having UI lag by now Software will always expand in resource usage as computing becomes faster. This ought to be an adage that more programmers should think about.
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by JTbane 8y ago
I'm not a fan of wind- big, ugly, noisy, and deadly to birds. Why is nuclear not considered an option to fight climate change?
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by JTbane 8y ago
Hopefully Google won't start disallowing the sideloading of apps- I could very much see them doing this given the recent European fines.
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by JTbane 8y ago
It might not be profitable to recycle plastics- I'll give you that. But it's better than sticking it in a landfill and waiting 1000 years. Or worse, tossing it into the ocean.
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by JTbane 8y ago
Random fact: Richard Stallman may have been spurred to start the GNU Project due to the fact that he could not easily modify the source code of a printer.
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by JTbane 8y ago
I look up fatality stats for flying versus driving to the airport. It's somewhat funny- we should be more terrified of cars than of planes!
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by JTbane 8y ago
You can prepend "facebook.com/l.php?u=" to the link
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by JTbane 8y ago
It's funny to imagine publishers making the case against them- "You're gonna just let people borrow books for free!? How will I turn a profit?" It's also kind of sad that this logic is so prevalent with regards to s
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by JTbane 8y ago
The city would never buy the medallions back, because the price was based on an assumption of monopoly- they are worth much less now with the ubiquity of Uber and Lyft. The cabbies have gotten the short end of the stick though.
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by JTbane 8y ago
Cancer research often gets the spotlight due to the emotional nature of death and disease, but that doesn't make space research less useful to humanity as a whole.
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by JTbane 8y ago
>Sometimes I think the deepest, most absurdist corners of the internet are its last bastion of humanity. You might have overdosed on memes, my dude.
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by JTbane 8y ago
Musk's loop is not on rails though- it's some kind of guideway transit. Personal rapid transit has been tried before and can face capacity problems when compared to light rail.
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by JTbane 8y ago
The rat race begins before you're even considered an adult! Sad but true.
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by JTbane 8y ago
The eternal debate continues between the "overbearing fascist helicopter parents" and the "free-parenting grossly negligent degenerates". (I have no horse in this race and find these pieces interesting nonetheless)
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by JTbane 8y ago
Seems like a really stupid idea when you consider the already mature tech for getting people through tubes- light rail.
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by JTbane 8y ago
Pretty saddening to read- instead of spending their billions to fight climate change, the rich have the "fuck you get mine" viewpoint. Hell, some of 'em probably made their fortunes on coal and oil. Then again this could just
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by JTbane 8y ago
I have to disagree- the data is out in the public by default (a feature of Venmo). Compiling such data is not abuse and is good for awareness.
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by JTbane 8y ago
Agreed- I dislike Apple for many reasons, but I cannot deny that they make computing extremely intuitive and easy for many people.
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Schools Can Now Get Facial Recognition Tech for Free. Should They?(wired.com)
3 points by JTbane 8y ago|1 comments
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by JTbane 8y ago
That's no different than running programs in userspace on a PC- if you trust the app, it makes no sense to decline. At least you can turn it off later.
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by JTbane 8y ago
I wish this would catch on, but the only way I feel like most companies could be convinced is to cut salaries by 20%

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