Osmium

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by Osmium 9y ago
Just to really emphasize the point -- the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis has been essentially disproved. It comes up a lot because it's a very attractive idea, but it doesn't hold up to scrutiny. > that doesn't use front, behind
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by Osmium 9y ago
You raise very good points, but it's not like there aren't ways to break into a house without signs of forced entry. To my mind, privacy is often the most important difference. There are a lot more private things on my phone tha
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by Osmium 9y ago
And the choice of objective function. http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-04-03
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by Osmium 9y ago
Obviously a judgement call, but I thought there were some useful comments in reply to the OP (e.g. fmihaila's comment). While the OP's comment was unsubstantive, it highlighted an interesting quotation from the article to discuss,
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by Osmium 9y ago
> One cleric claimed — with no evidence — that driving harmed women’s ovaries. Cycling can cause sexual impotence in men, yet we don't see anyone claiming men should be banned from cycling. Arguments like this are toxic; even if tru
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by Osmium 9y ago
> Apple is not made of decent human beings This just isn’t true. Most people are decent human beings. Employees of Apple are no different. Don’t box them in as “the other.” They’re just people. > Just look at how their devices are man
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by Osmium 9y ago
> They had basically nothing at stake. Except the human cost and resulting PR nightmare if a terrorist attack happened that they could have in principle prevented (e.g. if the terrorist had collaborators, and information on the phone hel
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by Osmium 9y ago
Most important question here... how long has this vulnerability been around for? Was all ready to upgrade this morning...
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by Osmium 9y ago
This is scary if accurate. For people unfamiliar with Keychain, the problem as I understand it is not that unsigned apps can do this per se (though I don't think this is a good idea), it's that they can do this without user inte
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by Osmium 9y ago
It's a fair request, but there are so many areas of the OS that have small decisions like this, if there were a setting for all of them... Settings.app is already a little burdened under its own weight (though the search bar has helped
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by Osmium 9y ago
I think iOS needs to be a lot more aggressive with this, in both directions (switching because of poor LTE and because of poor WiFi). If it were better, I don't think I'd never actually need to touch the WiFi toggle.
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by Osmium 9y ago
> my phone is lying to me. If you force touch the UI, it does say "Not Connected" when you hit the button, not "Disabled." I can understand the confusion, because they have re-used an old UI element for a new purpose,
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by Osmium 9y ago
To anyone from Booking.com reading this: I'll go elsewhere next time I need to book a room. Dark patterns may help profits in the short-term, but they're terrible for your brand. Just ask TicketMaster. It isn't just tech-savv
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by Osmium 9y ago
Is there going to be a replacement for DuckDuckHack[0]? Had a cool instant answer integration I wanted to contribute, that I hope would be useful to a lot of people (primarily students/scientists). Seems a real shame for there to be no
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by Osmium 9y ago
> FYI, I think there's a free version of PyCharm (Community Edition). I recently started using PyCharm CE over the last year and it really is a lovely IDE. I'm not surprised it works well in interviews, it makes it easy to get
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by Osmium 9y ago
I don't disagree with you, but the average consumer just doesn't know enough to care. We don't have the power to not 'give them an inch' until the consumer is educated, and pretending we do isn't getting us a
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by Osmium 9y ago
I am so mixed about this. In principle, this is a terrible idea, and I share many of the concerns in this thread -- I am not a fan of DRM. But as a consumer/end-user, I'd much prefer a standard DRM over Flash/Silverlight any
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by Osmium 9y ago
I appreciate your language if not your conclusions. Just to be clear, I have nothing against hunting, only against cruelty. And in any case, this conversation is not about hunting, but about farming, which is something that is a decidedly h
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by Osmium 9y ago
Not down-voting you, because it's an interesting comment, but: > far smarter than software engineers, by comparison. This is just a dumb, specious statement. Would expect better from a philosopher ;) Also, would be interested why yo
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by Osmium 9y ago
> The vast majority of philosophers don't advance the field in any meaningful way. The vast majority of people in any field don't advance the field in any meaningful way. (Agree with both yourself and the OP: with great respect
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by Osmium 9y ago
Part of farming responsibly is anticipating these problems before they happen and knowing how to deal with them. If you need to kill animals to safeguard your livestock, and you don't have a method of killing them humanely, then you ha
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by Osmium 9y ago
> This is a cultural signpost pointing to our society's total disconnection from the responsibilities and consequences of agriculture. I agree with this. But note that people disagreeing with the author's actions are not necess
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by Osmium 9y ago
> and the most humane option is illegal. There are lots of 'humane' ways of killing animals that do not involve firearms (this is the illegal option given in the article). Note that the author still tried an illegal method rega
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by Osmium 9y ago
> photorealistic masks But it's not yet clear how much photorealism matters vs. 3D shape, which may be a lot lower fidelity.
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by Osmium 9y ago
> Faces are less private than fingerprints Possibly, but it's also easy to pick up someone's fingerprint from anything they've touched after the fact. With faces, you have to actively record/3D scan someone. It's
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by Osmium 9y ago
Great link. This is just incredible: > However, the substance was at least a step up from earlier Russian tracking devices like radioactive nails hammered into the tires of U.S. diplomatic vehicles, allowing Russian surveillance vehicles
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by Osmium 9y ago
> And no single, sonic gadget seems to explain such an odd, inconsistent array of physical responses. Is it possible the sounds heard were illusory, as a result of whatever caused the brain damage? So not a sonic weapon, but some other m
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by Osmium 9y ago
> rather than GitHub? Just to note that Swift is on GitHub[0] and has a very inclusive community. The impression I get is that Apple isn't really interested in soliciting outside contributions for their OS/kernel code, which is
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by Osmium 9y ago
At the moment, in a country with much worse/more expensive internet than what I'm used to, though still very good by global standards. In seriousness though, I'm optimistic for fast worldwide internet. There are new solutions
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by Osmium 9y ago
I agree with you, but I think syncing is itself a 'first-world problem', in that you need to be able to own multiple devices in the first place to even worry about syncing. If you have metered/expensive internet, modern smart

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