Lionsion

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by Lionsion 8y ago
> Yea, this article is really not surprising to anyone who isn't a boomer. I look around and see smart, hardworking people with some of the "best" jobs in the nation (doctors, lawyers, programmers, etc.) who can't aff
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> what are some examples of a stack based CPU architecture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_large_systems
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> Why do we feel the need to hard-code educational paths? Because we have some idea of what the reliable paths to a stable career are. It's not a perfect understanding, but I'm confident that college is a better default choice
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> What would happen if society told a bunch of them to pursue new innovations and ventures instead? Probably something similar to if we told them to pursue gambling instead: a few will hit the jackpot, some more will do OK, and the vast
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by Lionsion 8y ago
> No way to easily import that into contacts etc. This is making quitting Facebook time-consuming, but I'm getting there. Also, IIRC, all the photos are resized smaller and recompressed, while the full-res versions are still accessi
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by Lionsion 9y ago
> What happens to customer owned Tesla cars IF Tesla fails? Considering the stranglehold Tesla has engineered on parts and maintenance information, not good things.
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by Lionsion 9y ago
Are they planning on opening other assembly plants? Their facility is going to hit a hard limit at some point, even if they do get their act together.
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by Lionsion 9y ago
Did you setup mail forwarding to your new address? I don't know about the UK, but in the US that puts your new address in a database that can be queried by anyone who has your old one.
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by Lionsion 9y ago
My understanding is the current crop of machine learning algorithms depend heavily on good training data ("gold data"). If they're training a model to recognize my face, they need accurate training data for my face.
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by Lionsion 9y ago
I'm not so sure. If that was really a case they cared about, it would be easy for them to generate their test cases themselves.
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by Lionsion 9y ago
That's not what I got from it. Xz has other problems such as: > According to [Koopman] (p. 50), one of the "Seven Deadly Sins" (i.e., bad ideas) of CRC and checksum use is failing to protect a message length field. This
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by Lionsion 9y ago
I still have a Facebook account (which I'm slowly backing away from), here's how I (hopefully) poisoned their facial recognition data. My profile photos have always been untagged group photos or me in a Halloween costume, etc. Upl
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by Lionsion 9y ago
Thanks, I'll take a look. Though I think I have the media question answered, and I settled on M-DISC for personal stuff ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC ). It only has special requirements for writing, readi
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by Lionsion 9y ago
> It may not be a good choice for long-term data storage, but I disagree that it should not be used for data sharing or software distribution. Different use cases have different needs. I'm not so sure, using tools suitable long-term
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by Lionsion 9y ago
What are better file formats for long term archiving? Were any of them designed specifically with that use case in mind?
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by Lionsion 9y ago
> modded GSM phones What do you mean by this? I'm genuinely curious. "modded GSM phones" yields zero hits on Google for me.
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by Lionsion 9y ago
> Another reason why Google/Amazon is too centralized to be a single point of failure. > We need more decentralized Internet. Not more clever hacks. IIRC, didn't domain fronting only work because Google/Amazon were thou
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by Lionsion 9y ago
> Frankly, I'd rather have a messaging system controlled by carriers but distributed among all of them (like SMS and RCS) than a messaging system fully controlled by a single company like Whatsapp, Telegram, Allo, iMessages and so o
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by Lionsion 9y ago
They definitely exist, but I'm skeptical that there are enough of them to significantly reverse current car-centric development patterns.
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by Lionsion 9y ago
I didn't say that assembling the furniture was impossible, just that there's probably some basis to the complaints that may not be experienced equally by everyone.
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by Lionsion 9y ago
> They are a very successful company, how so if their products really have usability problems of this kind? Because their products are cheap and relatively stylish, so people bear with it? IIRC, their success comes from the efficient lo
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by Lionsion 9y ago
> Assembling IKEA furniture isn’t hard. People just perceive it to be hard before they even try because it’s a meme. People have different kinds of capabilities, and IKEA furniture assembly may be easier for developer/engineer-types
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by Lionsion 9y ago
> There are some subreddits where they are hidden for a period of time (not sure how long, but it's quite a while) I think there's a subreddit-level setting for that, but the max is only something like a couple of days.
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by Lionsion 9y ago
I think you're focusing optimizing lifestyle to suit a desired transit style (public transit and walking), while the historical development mindset was to optimize transit style for a desired lifestyle (suburban living).
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by Lionsion 9y ago
So could I, as an American resident, invoke legal rights given by the GDPR while I'm on vacation in the EU?
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by Lionsion 9y ago
> All I was saying is that people say "cities are spread out so transit won't work" when often the very _reason_ cities are spread out is that they lacked transit, so huge amounts of land were given over to auto infrastruc
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by Lionsion 9y ago
No, American cities are more spread out mainly because many Americans don't want to live in small apartments, and cars enabled that. Public transit is much less convenient and desirable when the 1) distance between adjacent stops is to
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by Lionsion 9y ago
US cities also tend to be more spread out, which also reduces the appeal of public transit. Contrast this to a Chinese city of the same size, which due to the fact that literally everyone lives in small apartments, is much more compact and
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by Lionsion 9y ago
I don't work at Amazon, but narrative memos probably encourage better thinking and communication. PowerPoint often amounts to hand-waving assertions delivered so fast you don't have time to evaluate them.
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by Lionsion 9y ago
> Dockless bikes and scooters are not actually the problem. > For decades now, cars have gotten the royal treatment. Users were able to pick up their cars and drop them off anywhere in the city. It was simply expected that anywhere on

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