RGamma

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1441.
by RGamma 11y ago
It is exactly this why the world needs Elon Musks: To break out of the cycle of endless iteration of the same old technology. While conventionally fuelled motors have come a long way and today the cleanliness of fully electric vehicles migh
1442.
by RGamma 11y ago
On Google? If I enter "Chrome download" there, I get Google's own page as top result. However if you were to do the same with Bing (such as you probably would if you used Microsoft's browser downloader (Internet Explorer
1443.
by RGamma 11y ago
BTW: KiK (different capitalization, full name: KiK Textilien und Non-Food GmbH) is also a German fashion seller: http://www.kik.de/
1444.
by RGamma 11y ago
Seems so; become a grunt programmer/admin and hope you don't get automated away too quickly (with my current academic performance I count myself to that group of people). As for the second point: Depends on how you define success
1445.
by RGamma 11y ago
You mention entirely different things: 1. AI (as the many-sided phenomenon that it is) is coming, want it or not. It'll become a political problem to select the good parts from the bad, so we can have our cake and eat it too, without p
1446.
by RGamma 11y ago
While classical manufacturing jobs may be on the decline in the western world, there's actually a programme in Germany to counteract this ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry_4.0 ) whose premise is production o
1447.
by RGamma 11y ago
No, in an ideal world companies would stop making cheap, untested consumer shit that degrades after a few weeks uptime (looking at you, TP-Link). Luckily products unlike these exist, but not many might know about them, so this is a complete
1448.
by RGamma 11y ago
It gets worse if you browse the web with zoom. At 125% zoom scrolling gets stuck on the third stage for me and imagery is consistently cut off. If you then use the scroll bar all bets are off, and the site very slowly stutters from one rand
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by RGamma 11y ago
8. Lack of proper, well integrated, easy to use, expressive permissions system, ideally with a notion of complete isolation by default. Right now most users rely on the benevolence of software writers to not mess with their personal files,
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by RGamma 11y ago
Monads are essentially functors...
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2 points by RGamma 11y ago|2 comments
1452.
by RGamma 11y ago
I find a good way to unfuck those sites is to use something like uMatrix or Web Developer to disable CSS (in uMatrix's case it can't disable inline CSS and needs a page reload, but of course it does a ton of other things and this
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by RGamma 11y ago
I found that deleting cookies resets that setting (just like turned off autoplay, "worldwide" region settings and the like are reset). They don't seem to be tied to your account (so they'd be reinstated when you log in).
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by RGamma 11y ago
Way to go to ignore most basic web standards, too (JS disabled): http://i.imgur.com/HE3uH4Y.png Please don't participate in the "modern web", thanks.
1455.
by RGamma 11y ago
I see this (fake permissions) as a pretty crucial feature. Let lusers be lusers and provide functionality to those who will appreciate it.
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by RGamma 11y ago
Interestingly on virtually all home computers the situation with access control to certain APIs and data is _way_ worse (because basically nobody (I know you're out there SELinux/AppArmor/grsecurity/etc users) uses it to
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by RGamma 11y ago
Yes, and on the other hand of the spectrum, be careful that you don't belong to the kind posted at https://www.reddit.com/r/iamverysmart
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by RGamma 11y ago
Try it with uMatrix and a policy like mine: https://i.imgur.com/TMzeWu2.png (and yes, these links actually do something) The web becomes a lot calmer without scripts (and you start to notice how little regard many sites hav
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by RGamma 11y ago
I'm no expert on this topic, but browsing http://paulbourke.net/geometry/transformationprojection/ this seems a lot like an "equirectangular projection" (purely visually), which according to http:&
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by RGamma 11y ago
If you want more than just an idea, download the video with e.g. youtube-dl and see what it looks like in its unprojected form. Example screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/z2fwIzJ.png