Linosaurus

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by Linosaurus 5y ago
That sounds plausible. So if they want to upsell this feature in the future, the actual cost of installing the physical button (five minutes in a workshop) would dwarf the cost to install the hardware (0, already there). And so they decide
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by Linosaurus 5y ago
TurboTax was first released in 1984, according to Wikipedia. That's ~20 years before Sweden got everything prefilled for some of the population. As an example.
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by Linosaurus 5y ago
> consistency in communication But you'll lose consistency of everyday human communication. Phrases like 'I slept until 11am', or 'I obviously don't want to schedule a meeting before 8am' will become meaning
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by Linosaurus 5y ago
I think cheating would matter if there was individual words tied to an account. But not when the design says every browser session on the planet gets the same word.
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by Linosaurus 5y ago
> impounded Not a bad analogy. Getting an impounded car back is often described as being abusively expensive beyond real costs. That would be a improvement for the OP. Though I don't think any of the giants have an incentive to of
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by Linosaurus 5y ago
Neither, but the game refuses to run until it can call home. (Edit: after which you can enjoy it for another 30 days without Internet access if you want to) For some official confirmation of the policy: https://us.battle.net&#x2F
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by Linosaurus 5y ago
> smallpox Could have be been classified as an endemic disease in many areas and not a pandemic.
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by Linosaurus 5y ago
> So now I do both. I have some points of view that I can’t defend with data and science and peer review studies. I do like it when people point out which part of their advice is supported by established science, and which is not. Both c
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by Linosaurus 5y ago
Sounds like he's saying that a low level language without invisible abstractions no longer exists for modern CPUs. Thus the calls to rethink both the hardware and language.
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by Linosaurus 5y ago
> This article is clickbait. > (..) but the fundamental thing is control of playback and distribution (aka copying). Yeah. It's even arguing against itself. If I interpret it correctly, * The purpose of DRM is not to prevent
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by Linosaurus 5y ago
You could have a system where a license is tied to a blockchain and not an account or person. It would presumably also mean that if someone gains control of your computer or account for a moment, they could steal your stuff and the company
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by Linosaurus 5y ago
The article did bring up some ways modern concrete is superior in the shorter term: "Among the biggest obstacles to wider adoption of the Roman recipe are its long curing time – it can take up to six months to reach full strength, comp
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by Linosaurus 5y ago
> or just can't seem to "remember" my choices. That's actually a good question... how would you do that. I guess the website would need explicit consent to save a cookie with the information that you consent to nothin
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by Linosaurus 5y ago
> whatever the instruction manual said on Page 1. And it surely didn't say: "WARNING: MAY KILL YOU DURING NORMAL OPERATION". Tbh it probably wouldn't take much to get that added to the boilerplate warnings of every ba
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by Linosaurus 5y ago
> perfectly plausible deniability The paranoid dystopian counterpart is that you cannot prove you don't have a second partition either. Might get awkward if someone decided to compel the second password on less solid evidence. If
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by Linosaurus 5y ago
Since I figure there would be some scalability problems, I like this bit from the wiki: "Anthropologists have argued, in contrast, "that when something resembling barter does occur in stateless societies it is almost always betwe
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by Linosaurus 5y ago
Popularity could also mean number of purchases/downloads/clicks. With no regard for review scores. Or at least it is unclear to me.
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by Linosaurus 5y ago
I imagine it means that the compiler could turn an if(x<6)-else into two free standing if statement like if(x<6), if(x>=6). Which will logically work under these assumptions.
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by Linosaurus 5y ago
> self hosted The article has two points. 1. They are providing a web server. 2. They are providing instructions on sending things to that server using netcat or an optional client/script. I think your bash example covers point 2 on
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by Linosaurus 5y ago
There's this example from an explanation linked elsewhere in the discussion. The relevant parts of the if statement are now much further separated. if (percentage := ((student["marks"]/700)*100)) > 70:
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by Linosaurus 5y ago
> On the other hand, an IPFS version will continue to exist at the same address for as long as anyone is seeding it. I wonder how that would work, a naive direct translation seems impractical. An address identifies an exact piece of cont
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by Linosaurus 5y ago
You'd need some added restraints to make it possibly plausible. 'Best among affordable 2-food diets', maybe. Which is quite different.
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by Linosaurus 5y ago
It probably cuts down on the number of citizens who wish to enter from covid land.
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by Linosaurus 5y ago
I found doing a few vim tutorials valuable as a reminder to look up some basic text manipulation in other editors. Like selecting a text rectangle with the keyboard, or cut and paste a single line. Or that a text search is a perfectly reaso
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by Linosaurus 5y ago
I like to decompose it. Hold center of small circle still, rotate big circle once counter clock wise, small one rotates 3x clockwise. Glue them together, rotate big circle once clockwise, small circle also rotates once clockwise. Sum them t
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by Linosaurus 5y ago
Either that, or the belt is actually a bunch of locally controlled tiny sections. In which case it makes perfect sense that it stops.
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by Linosaurus 5y ago
The article speculates in '3x oversubscription', so they have heard of the concept. Some casual googling suggests that values closer to 100x is realistic though. So they're at least an order of magnitude off.
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by Linosaurus 5y ago
They would like to be able to just open a csv file in excel without going through a file import wizard. Changing the column type after the fact is too late.