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by Maken 9d ago
The 'Fujitsu' that made the shitty software was a British consulting company that was acquired by Fujitsu [1] to farm public contracts. This is made by the Japanese parent company. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by Maken 16d ago
Windows 7 fixed Vista a bit, but the Aero windows were never pretty and the non-Aero decorations were painfully obvious a placeholder.
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by Maken 16d ago
The first Windows I used was 98, and I sure didn't miss the blocky grey menus nor the pixelated icons. Maybe it was Fisher Price-ish but the new rounded buttons and borders were way more appealing to me.
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by Maken 16d ago
XP is Microsoft's prettiest OS by far.
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by Maken 16d ago
I don't think the people working on new hardware is the same that the one working on Siri.
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by Maken 16d ago
It's just marketing.
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by Maken 18d ago
It's part of their TOS that they can train on users' private chats.
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by Maken 24d ago
Ads didn't give us Wikipedia. The vast majority of blogs and forums were not for profit. Specialised media outlets were always subscription-based. Large amounts of valuable information like research papers, technical documentation and
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by Maken 24d ago
Amazon is garbage too. It keeps showing the same product that I already bought .
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by Maken 24d ago
Why do you think the "mainstream press" and "A/I" are in the same side? Because I don't see two parties here, but rather governments using the financial system to suppress opposition.
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by Maken 24d ago
Just tell ChatGPT what changes you want in the next version.
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by Maken 24d ago
They don't disclose individual salaries but you can check their annual reports [1]. About 1M € among all the developers. [1] https://www.documentfoundation.org/financials-and-reports/
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by Maken 26d ago
Can anyone familiar with British law explain this? Can a judge really change a sentence after the trial? Isn't adding charges and aggravating circumstances the job of the prosecutor, not the judge?
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by Maken 26d ago
Just check the documentation: https://zh.openshot.org/files/user-guide/color.html
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by Maken 1mo ago
They can already, with DisplayPort.
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by Maken 1mo ago
Whoever came with calling it the "The Fairphone (Gen 6)" instead of "Fairphone 6" should have been fired on the spot.
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by Maken 1mo ago
> so you make a screenshot when you want to lock the phone half of the time I share that pain. I use a Fairphone 6 as my main phone, and my only real gripes with it are the extremely weak haptic engine and that power button placement.
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by Maken 2mo ago
If that's a pool for human use, the worst case is a bacterial/fungal infection due to incorrect filtering.
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by Maken 2mo ago
There are just too many to kill them in a single swoop. Destruction on this scale needs planning, logistics and well supplied stockpiles.
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by Maken 2mo ago
These examples mention explicitely ambient light, which is the point of the article. SSAO makes no sense for direct ligth.
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by Maken 2mo ago
AO is an approximation of how indirect light behaves. If you have an actual global illumination solution you don't need these tricks.
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by Maken 2mo ago
>It is not a good idea to build a bridge that last 500 years. Why not? A well-build bridge from 500 years ago is perfectly functional today [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puente_de_Segovia,_Madrid
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by Maken 2mo ago
Maybe they intend for Gemini to be the only chatbot with built-in access to internet search.
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by Maken 3mo ago
Because the NSA has such a great record of getting punished from their transgressions, right? For foreign countries, handling your data to either the Chinese surveillance apparatus or the USA one makes no difference. In fact, any company
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by Maken 3mo ago
You are mixing apples and oranges. The infamous Huawei deal was buying tons of HDD servers. Any deal with Palantir is handling all your data to the NSA.
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by Maken 3mo ago
You are probably thinking about ketamine.
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by Maken 3mo ago
Most homes and public spaces have AC installed, but it doesn't help as soon as you set your foot on the street.
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by Maken 3mo ago
The contract with Huawei was about buying storage servers [1], which would then be managed by the Interior Ministry. They were not outsourcing anything. [1] Concretely these: https://support.huawei.com/enterprise/en&#x2
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by Maken 3mo ago
If scrapping content is legal, model distillation should be legal too.
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by Maken 4mo ago
To be fair, the UI randomly changing in every update is a pain point for people of any age.

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