LocalH

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by LocalH 2y ago
The services that enable the things you desire also create harm (Amazon's problems are well documented, digital government services are often a divide that sometimes exclude freedom-minded indivuduals who don't use a "mainstr
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by LocalH 2y ago
Requiring that police don't taint their investigations boils down to a mere "technicality" to you? It is better that 1,000 guilty people go free than one innocent person be held. These "technicalities" are supposed
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by LocalH 2y ago
Bytes are not strictly ASCII. Even within the realm of ASCII, if you have a binary with strings terminated in 0x00, those aren't generally called "NUL-terminated strings".
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by LocalH 2y ago
The ADL is not the arbiter of what is and isn't antisemitic
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by LocalH 2y ago
And then you have the rhythm gamers who can adjust their inputs by 5 or 10ms. Hell, I'm not even that good of a player, but in Fortnite Festival, which has a perfect indicator whenever you're within 50ms of the target note timesta
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by LocalH 2y ago
You could run them just fine as long as you didn't try to edit the listed lines if they were longer than two screen lines. The same is true for a C128 in C128 mode, except the limit is extended to 160 characters (four 40-column lines).
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by LocalH 2y ago
When you're a small enough minority politically speaking, your ballot votes will also effectively be ignored. I voted for a third-party candidate in a heavy red state, so my vote was purely symbolic, it had zero chance of having any ef
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by LocalH 2y ago
Not really, when you consider the context of each situation. Being banned from an online game is a sort of localized "prison" within the context of the game. It's called a "thought experiment"
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by LocalH 2y ago
Imagine if police could charge you with a crime, but refuse to show their evidence or explain how they believe you committed the crime, with the reasoning that "we must not provide details about our process, or evidence to show you c
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by LocalH 2y ago
This is by design. Anti-cheat solutions are intended to be opaque. This also applies to bans from many online platforms. This needs to change, because their systems are not 100% accurate. They need to be able to prove that you cheated or br
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by LocalH 2y ago
The cynic in me says that "do not" does not equal "will not", and even if it said "will not", that's toothless, as Google was for years famous for having "do no evil" baked into their manifesto,
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by LocalH 2y ago
How do you propose we limit access to general-purpose computing without doing so across the board for everyone? How would you block bad actors from general-purpose computing? Require licensing to use development tools, and track what they&#
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by LocalH 2y ago
I worry about the long term health of general-purpose computing. It's not going anywhere today, but I fear for future generations that will likely eventually never know the joy of bending a computer entirely to their will, because they
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by LocalH 2y ago
Coyote time is an essential part of human existence, as we are not robots and cannot perfectly perform an action the same exact way every single time we do it. Sometimes we make mistakes no matter how well we are focused, no matter how well
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by LocalH 2y ago
Amiga BASIC was pretty bad. It was slow, generally shared similar types of restrictions to Macintosh MS BASIC, and it didn't work on future 68k CPUs. I wouldn't be surprised if, similarly to Z80 and 6502 MS BASIC, their 68k BASIC
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by LocalH 2y ago
> We're being told that AIs are basically as smart as humans, that AGI is arriving this year and all our jobs are on the line. Two of those are lies writ large, and I hope that most here understand which two.
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by LocalH 2y ago
I wouldn't assume anything about a modern system
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by LocalH 2y ago
You misattribute the cause of the declining birth rate. Younger people are making the smarter (and some would say more humane) decision not to bring a child into this increasingly human-destroying society.
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by LocalH 2y ago
I would posit that the "average user" has no care about how the companies they interact with make their money. The modern world is filled with black boxes to them.
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by LocalH 2y ago
Why do we need purpose beyond existence? We're here to experience a unique life that nobody else will experience, no matter how many commonalities are shared. Yet people are never content with that, and feel they must have a "grea
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by LocalH 2y ago
Even worse, businesses which quietly do the right thing have their lunch eaten by those who don't.
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by LocalH 2y ago
I don't see why it would be called "comically bad" compared to its contemporaries. The 1.x series was a bit spartan, sure. But the UI itself afforded several unique features that weren't found anywhere else. The ability
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by LocalH 2y ago
This is 100% false in terms of copyright. This only applies to trademarks.
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by LocalH 2y ago
"AI" is like anything else. Big capital will weaponize it to further entrench themselves and further disadvantage smaller businesses and individuals, in the pursuit of increasing profits and growth.
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by LocalH 2y ago
I don't believe that's true. I think they must make the material available after a proper counter-notification, or they lose their liability shield as per the exception here. IANAL, just reading the text of the law at face value
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by LocalH 2y ago
Companion apps are part of the product as far as I'm concerned. There would be no reason to run the app, other than owning one of the coupled air fryers.
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by LocalH 2y ago
They have to do so by law, under an actual DMCA complaint. Not so much under Content ID.
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by LocalH 2y ago
I would imagine 2
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by LocalH 2y ago
Wow. Junk science indeed. "Unforeseen effects on the brain" so you essentially test in a way that is incomparable to those who are experienced typists? If you're only using one finger to type, of course you're using le
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by LocalH 2y ago
Never has a copyright infringer been brought up on theft charges. It is not theft, no matter how much you claim that it is. If I duplicate and distrbute a work you hold copyright in, I have not "stolen" anything from you. I have

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