OldTimeCoffee

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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
>But making previous features or UI elements less discoverable because you want them to appear only when needed (and who decides when I need something out of the way? Maybe I like to see it all the time) — that’s not progress. It seems i
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
I'm not 100% how to respond to this except that virtually all Americans are enrolled in SS. If you have an SSN, you're enrolled. You need 40 credits at up to 4 credits per year (~ $5500 is required to get all 4 credits). After wor
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
Very few people are on fixed incomes, though. Social security has a yearly inflation adjustment. You would have to be on a private pension only to be on a fixed income.
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
Parent here, have you asked them if not having a phone has been a problem? Or are you just assuming it isn't because it hasn't been a problem with them for you.
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
It's incredibly rare and PA is absolutely an outlier. That's why the case that is mentioned was newsworthy. Typically when it's used it's to recover money in cases of fraud. For example, where the parent or child conspir
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
It's not cut and dry and it requires the company or state to sue. So 'can be' is very unlikely because the laws are not typically enforced. Federal law can also prohibit companies from collecting. More info is here: https:&#
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
The GPU in the M1 is about as powerful as a nVidia 1650ti in laptop form. Unless they heavily prioritize GPU development or work with AMD/nVidia they'll never be a player in the game market due to serious lack of GPU power. Absolu
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
FERPA is the regulatory framework that governs how student records are handled. To the best of my knowledge it's similar to HIPAA but not as strong as it only applies to public schools. There may be additional state laws about it as we
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
You make a good point that it might not be the steady state of the display market, but I think it is for the majority of TVs today. As alternatives, you can buy commercial displays that are effectively TVs (with HDMI in), however they lag i
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
That's great, until they stop making the ad free version. It's like TVs, there are no high end ad free TVs now.
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
> Total remote control of the device allows quite a bit... disabling thermal protection, disabling fans, changing voltages on regulators to be out of allowed range, etc. Having total remote control of an IoT device doesn't mean any
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
Yes and HVAC prevents people from dying due to heat waves. It's been an increasing problem in the Mediterranean region because of climate change. HVAC is needed more in those areas than ever before. I can't imagine you're ser
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
What the article describes won't work in most houses as it's designed around a thermal chimney. It doesn't work with high temperatures, even at only 85 degrees it's 78 inside. They note that building is effectively unusa
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
Well, this is Windows 8 all over again. A start menu that doesn't make any sense. Why did the separate out search from the start menu? Why get rid of the folders? It's gotta be organized somehow. File explorer now has way more whi
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
I just wonder who is clicking on the border instead of the text or icon on the tab. I don't see where a visual demarcation of a tab is helping someone navigate when there are other much stronger visual indicators. Is there some secret
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
bsdiff is pretty similar to RTPatch, which is what the game industry used in the past. I'm unaware of what you're describing ever being used in practice, especially among large game houses. That said, patches aren't really do
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
They do this, but not as a binary diff. The new files are just shipped as an override of the old files that are loaded after the old files. It's substainally faster than applying a binary diff and file sizes really aren't a concer
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
There are other solutions to this problem that the game industry uses. Binary diff patching is slow, incremental, involves large diffs and has the possibility of corruption. It was used back in the mid 90's (RTPatch was the big name),
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
Having substantially more L1 and L2 cache per core but no L3 has to be a massive part of why the M1 performance is so good. I wonder if Intel/AMD have plans to increase the L1/L2 size on their next generations.
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
Most users don't have 'tens-thousands' of GB of data as part of their use case. You're describing a business case, not an end user consumer case.
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
You may have missed the point being made. You find a good security professional the same way you find a good lawyer or doctor. Ask around for a reference for a good one. Then check their credentials (e.g., what certifications they have). I
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
Both of those were true pre-COVID and houses prices were not going up nearly as fast as they are now. People staying in their houses makes them actually pay attention to where they're living. Some end up wanting to renovate and some pe
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
That's not how it ends up working, though. People just share screenshots or tell friends of the broken website and people stop using the website not uBO. And there are sites that will throw up a banner that says 'Adblockers might
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
They're up because housing has virtually no supply and massive demand, though. Houses are terrible assets as investment vehicles as they have very low returns and high disposal costs. They're really a last resort unless you want t
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
You should really read up on the history of copyright, because it's the genuinely the exact opposite of what you're saying. Copyright initially enforced restrictions on printing press operators and was used as part of the censorsh
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
Klinger was seeking declaratory judgement that he could use the non-protected elements. Doyle estate was saying he couldn't. It was agreed by both parties that he couldn't use elements contained in the 10 stories. From the case li
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
Yep, ideas vs execution. You see it in books and music pretty frequently as well. Twilight is a great example because it spawned a ton of clones. Music was pretty insulated until fairly recently with some lawsuits over similarities being a
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
Sherlock Holmes is not in the public domain in full. Most of the things we think of as 'Sherlock Holmes' are from stories still in copyright. It's why you see Elementary as a property and Sherlock as modern day. Counterintuit
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
Fair enough, but commercial viability is the point of copyright. It's an exclusive distribution right of a creative work. We've carved out tons of exceptions for copyright for things like parody, educational purposes, etc., but at
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by OldTimeCoffee 5y ago
The point I was more making is how do you handle successful things that are long term viable. Such as Mickey Mouse, Sherlock Holmes, etc. Though, yes, it's overstated the impact. The 1976 act was more impactful than the Sonny Bono Act.

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