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by K0SM0S 10y ago
> to push people to register Which is an admission of weakness in the first place. If the product is good enough, they wouldn't need to resort to anything special to enroll users beyond a sign up button up top.
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
I hear you and completely agree. > how the profits are distributed There is on top of that the matter of conflicts of interest; i.e. shareholders with a political agenda etc.
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
I often ponder the principle that some things should not be for-profit, at least not in the same all-in 'whatever legal means to generate profit' setting in which most regular companies operate. This includes parts of the press,
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
Settings > Accessibility > Reduce Motion (off/ on ) Right above in "Increase Contrast" you can also trigger a "Reduce Transparency" setting which may speed up animations (but admittedly alters the UI style). I
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
It is funny, because on a personal level, I have a rather distinct, if not opposite feeling about "code". But I never thought of it this way before thinking this answer. Thanks for that, and here goes. First I tend to split the wo
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
This is precisely what we don't know. If you're talking averages, then sure it takes decades to observe a meaningful change. However climate change of the sort we're anticipating now isn't about averages. It's about
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
I used to regularly remote into a windows box (GUI mode, classic desktop) from my phone. 2560x1440 pixels of 21st century glory. Believe me when I say you do not want to use a desktop UI on a phone either. No, pinch-zooming hasn't pr
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
How would you caracterize Microsoft's open-sourcing of the .NET stack, support to run it on Windows and RHEL (actually support to run RHEL on Azure), VS code universal electron app, the whole Office 365 paradigm, and multiple apps like
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
> someone with a little effort could hack my phone and cause it to malfunction in various ways Even with the best of intents, the actual makers of said phone (and apps) sometimes end up causing it to malfunction in various ways... Let th
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
That's pretty much the reason why Google went with Java as the first-class language for Android dev back then: being late to market they wanted the biggest programmer skill subset available, and that was (perhaps still is?) Java. Never
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
You've just come up with a variation on the theme of "First they came..." [1] by Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892-1984). > First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— > Because I was not a Socialist. >
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
No it wasn't a nerve, sorry if it came that way. I refrain from using smileys on forums but my post should have started with one :) . I very much agree with you and see what you mean, went through some of these things myself (the post
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
I personally found (34 here) that this cliche is either a pile of poop, or badly worded for what it actually means. It's not that we don't do these things after 30 or even 40, it's how we do them (hint: more means, wiser&#x
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
That's interesting, if nanotech (the part that's about assembling 'things' at a molecular level, hyper-grained 3D printing so to speak) really enters the economic breakthrough we've been expecting since the early 80
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
That makes perfect sense, thank you.
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
> Plumbers, electricians - just don't see it happening. Like many other "optimistics" about AI I think reality will be much more of a hybrid one, i.e. plumbers or electricians will be aided, not replaced, by AI and robots.
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
Very true, never thought of it this way. Add to that the fact that robots don't have the same needs (can operate with little air/heat/light, don't even need to get out of the room, much less safety concerns in general an
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
I think the biggest change, functionally, between past automation and today's going forward is the actual ability of the system to "know" what it is doing and correct/adjust accordingly. We're moving past "dumb
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
I've observed the same about performance, slight key input latency. On my home workstation (beast) it's unnoticeable, but it's an issue on less-snappy systems like many laptops out there. For the life of me I can't under
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
I may be old (is 34 already old?) but to me a "startup" by definition is the latter in your post, VC-style funding aimed at hyper-scaling. Hence the "up", from the "start". Otherwise it's just a regular sm
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
> erasing blocks takes way longer than writing them Honest question, could you elaborate on that? Intuitively I would've thought writing and erasing are _the same_ from a physical standpoint, insofar as "erasing" means wri
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
Appeal court overturned the conviction. Excerpts from Wiki: > In March 2008, Bernard Farret, a deputy prosecutor in Pontoise, outside Paris, asked judges to bring manslaughter charges against Continental Airlines and two of its employees
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
Indeed, about every couple century in history we come up with some new form of government. It's only ever so incremental (hence why 'revolutions' are few and major in scope), and often has to do with adapting to new condition
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
Some advocates of code "expressiveness" would like (or perhaps dread) a word with your lead... ;) Joke aside, for anyone curious: we use such i, j variables for abstract logic like a counter (e.g. i=0 at the beginning of a loop, a
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
Honestly, given the near-unanimous stance, towards surveillance, of most governments in most developed countries (NA, EU, etc.) it's becoming increasingly difficult to dismiss their motivations as simply "stupid" or "mis
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
I think it's the destiny of pretty much any device category. If you look at laptops for instance, obviously what we have in 2016 is miles ahead of the first laptops in terms of performance, but fundamentally isn't different from a
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
I've personally experienced working on the inside of a "culture of secrecy" in political organizations, in business and as everyone in personal groups / family. My personal opinion is that this model does not work by def
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
I was thinking more generally of irrational escalation ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalation_of_commitment ) sometimes called "sunk cost fallacy". The idea that you'll keep at something bad because yo
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
Sounds like the "evil" MS of the late 90s/early 2000s. When I see a company resorting to such artificial and globally-detrimental methods in a sorry attempt to retain/lock customers, I feel like it's an implicit adm
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by K0SM0S 10y ago
As I said above, don't forget that slavery was that age's "industrial" drive, you could not end slavery and have the means to defend the city. It was a life or death situation, and no society at the time found a way to

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