Nursie

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by Nursie 3mo ago
I’ve taken six+ months off between contracts before, it’s been amazing. Time to spend with friends doing outdoor pursuits like cycling, time to do all the things work stops me doing. I don’t believe being in a state of unemployment, which i
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by Nursie 3mo ago
Yeah I'm sure you're right, it's just used as a "Meanwhile, somewhere with a different take on how this could all play out...." TBH I was just looking for an excuse to share that link because the stupidity on displa
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by Nursie 3mo ago
I don't think I've read Manna in about 20 years now, it was a gem to stumble across in the early 00s. Now that I live in Australia, unfortunately I don't think that utopia will happen here when we have idiot politicians makin
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by Nursie 3mo ago
Outside of work I am a hobby brewer, I have a lot of home maintenance that needs doing, and landscaping that uses up a lot of my time. Give me stability and no job, I'm still going to be a busy person. These things have value and satis
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by Nursie 3mo ago
A figleaf of "We gave ourselves permission on page 247, paragraph 3 of your user agreement"
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by Nursie 3mo ago
I disagree, fundamentally. Humans are walking grey areas. For any set of rules to be truly fair it must be flexible and be applied with compassion and understanding.
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by Nursie 3mo ago
Indeed, and there are unrelated bananas like the Fe’i which are also seedless, pointing to repeated cultivation to a seedless state by people.
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by Nursie 3mo ago
I don't get this attitude. It'll never be enough until it is. Making porting lower-effort and higher performance can only help.
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by Nursie 3mo ago
Yeah, but at 176 FPS, at first glance it seems competitive with the abilities of some fairly recent dGPUs from nvidia/AMD, though obviously we don't have benchmark-level details here. I think this is an article allowing quiet opti
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by Nursie 3mo ago
I mean, some obvious things are there in the article, IMHO - - App isolation and hidden profiles (up to 32 separate profiles) - Verified Boot (tamper detection on every startup) So you can do stuff on there that's not going to tip off
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by Nursie 3mo ago
This is also what pushed a lot of people to get the PS3 earlier in its lifetime! Sure, it wasn't cheap at launch and it marked a leap in console prices compared to previous generations, but it was around the same price as a standalone
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by Nursie 3mo ago
> I'm not a fan of rules that aren't concrete Then you are going to have a hard time in a society filled with other humans, or living with a legal system that takes human complexity and grey areas into account in so many differ
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by Nursie 3mo ago
I agree there is a problem if even 1 person is treated like this. I disagree that the American commentary on it is well informed, motivated by anything approaching principle, or really anything other than a desire to paint the UK in the wor
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by Nursie 3mo ago
Honestly it's been so long I'd be a liar if I told you I remembered anything specific at this point!
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by Nursie 3mo ago
I think it can be a general rule without being a concrete one, and is heavily context dependent. I agree that dash cams are for the most part OK, because for the most part they're recording for safety reasons and evidence in case of ac
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by Nursie 3mo ago
They arrest thousands of people under the communications act, which covers everything from the mail to Whatsapp. If I was your neighbour and I called you up on the phone and threatened to break your legs if your dog didn't stop barking
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by Nursie 3mo ago
> It doesn't need to be thousands for it to be worrying. I very much agree, which is another reason I think facts are important. There are real issues and discussing them using real data is great, productive etc. But instead of rati
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by Nursie 3mo ago
That's exactly what I mean by comically exaggerated. I don't need to defend it, or go out of my way at all. Do you understand what that figure covers? It's everything from sending death threats in an email or SMS to your ex w
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by Nursie 3mo ago
> think you're talking to them Yeah that's still weird. Last time it happened to me was in the City of London near Liverpool St (ironic as we're talking about banking phonecalls). Out of nowhere a guy walking towards me st
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by Nursie 3mo ago
> Meta monitoring your social media posts to their platforms. Monitoring everything around you, all the time. And what you've heard about the UK police is likely to have been comically exaggerated by people with an agenda. There are
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by Nursie 3mo ago
Yeah you could definitely have a go. Where is the exact line - i.e. can you use Lidar? Infrared depth-sensing? Or do these provide too much data such that the scene could be recreated? (I'm exploring this as a thought experiment, in ge
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by Nursie 3mo ago
The problem I see is you're going to want a camera built-in for vision reasons for your amazing reality-overlay, and at that point, well, you've got a camera built-in.
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by Nursie 3mo ago
Easy - covert recording of other people in public is not OK. This ridiculous idea that "it's in public so you have no expectation of privacy" is a semantic retcon, the pervasiveness of cameras is new and fundamentally changes
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by Nursie 3mo ago
> UK arrests thousands every year for what essentially amounts to mean tweets. Somebody is peddling lies in your direction. These claims don’t hold up to any sort of cursory examination.
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by Nursie 3mo ago
I'm with the "This whole article is a non-sequitur" crowd. The old pervert using his camera shouldn't be doing that. His behaviour was not OK. Nobody is talking about keeping kids off social media because their behaviour
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by Nursie 3mo ago
And this is why we need to continue to shame "glassholes" whenever we encounter them.
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by Nursie 3mo ago
There are various limits on this, likely country dependent. And being free from legal sanction doesn't mean being free from public condemnation and shaming. So, legal limits - if your behaviour constitutes harassment especially if you&
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by Nursie 3mo ago
> What would be the drawback or problem with showing a header or pop-up on mobile browsers, offering to install them as (web)app? In this world, every single site now pops up asking to be installed. No thanks.
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by Nursie 3mo ago
At least part of the story is a cautionary tale about electing the LNP. The NBN was originally going to be as you describe, but then Tony Abbot came along, under instruction from his pal Rupert Murdoch, and threw a major spanner in the work
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by Nursie 3mo ago
Even less reason to read it then, well known as an unreliable source.

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