Miraste

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   by Miraste 5y ago

   > Email is a highly manual medium and degrades rapidly unless people use it well. I'd argue that is a bad technology, at least for a general-use tool. I admit that I don't use mailing lists but I don't see how they have an
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   by Miraste 5y ago

   "Open all browser file types in a single browser I select" is good enough for both the average user and the "technocratic elite" in basically all cases, and there are certainly zero cases where choosing every file associ
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   by Miraste 5y ago

   I could have written at greater length but I don't believe I'm breaking the other guidelines. Schopenhauer isn't a fellow commenter, he's a historical figure and one of his most notable qualities was being incredibly abr
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   by Miraste 5y ago

   And that was ethically consistent for Arthur because he didn't view women as people.
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   by Miraste 5y ago

   Schopenhauer is one of history's biggest assholes, it's like his whole thing. No one liked him even when he was alive.
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   by Miraste 5y ago

   The CDC's public guidance during this pandemic is going to end up in communications classes alongside New Coke and the Osborne 1. They're so lucky they were bailed out (mostly) by vaccines. They opened by saying masks didn't
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   by Miraste 5y ago

   VR is a lot cheaper and more scalable than those walls. I think we'll eventually land on AR glasses that do this but without blocking out your own environment. Horizon's style is terrible and likely workshopped to be as bland and
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   by Miraste 5y ago

   What makes the Framework laptop so great is that it provides a user-controlled system without being ancient and crippled. It stacks up pretty comparably to a standard XPS or MacBook. As much as I respect Purism's efforts the Librem 5 i
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   by Miraste 5y ago

   OpenAI cloaks themselves in false "open" terminology to hide how proprietary and incredibly restrictive they've made their tech. That's a very cool demo; have you considered trying to make it run on GPT-J instead? It&#x2
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    by Miraste 5y ago

    Open source software like rclone can do something similar.
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    by Miraste 5y ago

    Sci-hub is not adding new papers as part of an attempt to win a court case in India. https://old.reddit.com/r/scihub/comments/lofj0r/announcement...
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    by Miraste 5y ago

    Everyone and their mother blocks back buttons. Major news sites do it. There is no way that's what's ranking them this high.
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    by Miraste 5y ago

    Fascinatingly, we do have a vaccine for Lyme disease but no one manufactures it because of a poorly-informed media frenzy. Further reading: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2870557/
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    by Miraste 5y ago

    The F-117 was shot down in Yugoslavia. China acquired quite a few parts from it, ran into difficulties getting them out of the country, and stored them temporarily at the embassy in Belgrade as their base of operations. Chinese papers have
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    by Miraste 5y ago

    > specific type of gunship-based commander sniping I see someone's played Supreme Commander. I love the game but it's the archetypal example of what you're talking about: winning depends on detailed knowledge of dozens of
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    by Miraste 5y ago

    This is what would happen in China. Myanmar is not capable of it. > Within minutes, every iPhone is disabled from accessing the state owned cellular systems. Ludicrous. Myanmar has multiple private telcos. During the coup the military co
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    by Miraste 5y ago

    Maybe by setting the gyroscope to directional pad and lowering the sensitivity? There are a few ways you could do it, those things likely the most customizable controller ever made.
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    by Miraste 5y ago

    This is a common mistake people make when thinking about marketing data analysis. It's similar to bits of entropy in browser tracking - the resolution of your screen and the fonts you have installed don't identify you by themselve
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    by Miraste 5y ago

    How could it not? What you click on, what you look at, what you read and for how long, what you write, where you go, what you buy, how you feel, what you like and dislike, who you know, who you talk to, what sites you visit... Facebook know
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    by Miraste 5y ago

    The biggest component that VR doesn't have is a way of simulating focal distances. Current VR headsets focus at a fixed distance of about 2 meters, which makes reading and examining close objects difficult and causes distant ones to ap
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    by Miraste 5y ago

    It is blurry and low-res, it's 8K across 45 different views that it renders simultaneously. There is an 8K screen in there, but when you look at it you will only see ~850p at a time.
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    by Miraste 5y ago

    They use a single standard display with advanced optics to send light from columns of pixels in different horizontal directions. You can see here https://docs.lookingglassfactory.com/keyconcepts/quilts the format it us
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    by Miraste 5y ago

    All of those are transitory cultural issues, backed by the increasingly sensationalist media, except covid and global warming. Covid has already spent its wrath for the most part. Climate change (global warming, as a term, doesn't cove
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    by Miraste 5y ago

    They are much more profitable in a locked down internet where Google is one of or the only approved provider for those services.
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    by Miraste 5y ago

    Because no one is bright yellow irl unless they're a few days from dying of cirrhosis.
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    by Miraste 5y ago

    I'm referring to people with incomes low enough to qualify for the CTC. About half of US adults are functionally illiterate and innumerate, even measured by the Department of Education's (low) standards, and this correlates highly
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    by Miraste 5y ago

    Recipients' other options are hire a CPA (obviously untenable), find the correct forms, calculate the credit themselves, do the rest of their returns by hand, and submit those (difficult for the target groups) or... pay to use TurboTax
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    by Miraste 5y ago

    Unless you go back to FDR, the US has only "nationalized" (bailed out) companies when they were on the verge of collapse with catastrophic economic consequences, and because of 9/11. Nationalizing a functioning company, no ma
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    by Miraste 5y ago

    This very article explains how they're deliberately blocking millions of desperately impoverished people from receiving billions of dollars. How is that not a big deal?
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    by Miraste 5y ago

    Looks like he started using "fuck" outside of quotes in 2016. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=4&prefix=true&que... Understandable.