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by RunSet 3y ago
I understand fake names and phone numbers are included in phone books for the same reason.
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by RunSet 3y ago
Years ago, after I noticed that most adverbs are redundant, I began to write an ebook processor that would strip the adverbs out of ebooks before I read them to save time. It turned out to require rather more semantic parsing than I expecte
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by RunSet 3y ago
My intuition says the notion of property being property had to predate the notion of ideas being property.
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by RunSet 4y ago
I don't feel any contempt for Mozilla but at the same time Firefox was never as enjoyable to use once it began chasing Chrome. I would put the high water mark at Firefox 3.6.n. Generally speaking, FireFox still retains most of the same
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by RunSet 4y ago
> CEO Jack Dorsey has publicly touted how Cash App is mentioned in hundreds of hip hop songs as evidence of its mainstream appeal. A review of those songs show that the artists are not generally rapping about Cash App’s smooth user inter
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by RunSet 4y ago
> Feels like proper legislation might also be a solution to the human problem, rather than just throwing technology at things. Maybe both? Possible compromise: We try the decentralized public ledger. Then, should that fail, we can stil
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by RunSet 4y ago
It seems to me that they may have inadvertently answered your question. Q: "What happened to KISS?" A: "It fell by the wayside when it began to be interpreted as a personal attack."
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by RunSet 4y ago
> All I hear when someone writes "WebAssembly is coming" is "... coming to your insecure browser; not mine." > To disable WASM in Firefox, set "javascript.options.wasm = false" in about:config. Exactly.
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by RunSet 4y ago
Since you mention Thinkpad, here is a personal pet peeve. A company called StarTech makes ExpressCard devices and USB devices. They make: * An ExpressCard HDMI capture device (no longer manufactured) that sits flush with the body of the T
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by RunSet 4y ago
> I don’t think I’ve ever paid attention to a blurb in my life. Dan Simmons writes like a hot-rodding angel and I will be disappointed if his tombstone does not say that verbatim.
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by RunSet 4y ago
https://i.imgur.com/CE6UCac.png
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by RunSet 4y ago
I would be interested in reading such studies. Please don't take that as "Citation needed!" but rather genuine interest.
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by RunSet 4y ago
It is worth considering that Gabe Newell quote in light of how Steam built its original install base: By strong-arming owners of retail copies of Half-Life (notably including players of CounterStrike, a player-created mod) and requiring the
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by RunSet 4y ago
Pornhub should redirect traffic from Louisiana to a page that includes names and contact information of the politicians that sponsored the legislation. Here they are: https://legiscan.com/LA/sponsors/HB142/202
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by RunSet 4y ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2021-supermicro/
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by RunSet 4y ago
The recommendation algorithm and the timeline of your friends' activities will merge into a recommended friends and activities list.
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by RunSet 4y ago
> IPFS now uses base58btc exclusively. That's "btc" as in Bitcoin. It is true that Base58 is named for its original implemention in bitcoin but other than the name it has nothing to do with bitcoin. The difference from Ba
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by RunSet 4y ago
> I was recently asked: “Which digital technologies could we get rid of in higher education?” I would like to make it a requirement that paying tuition entitles students to submit their coursework and have it graded, even if they never p
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by RunSet 4y ago
I distinctly recall the existence of television repair shops, which suggests there was a time when market structure / incentives did not encourage planned obsolescence.
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by RunSet 4y ago
Never enough spotlight on Intel Management Engine. Disgusting that Intel built a backdoor into everyone's computer and then only sold the U.S. government hardware without it. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/h
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by RunSet 4y ago
> I really hope some of the open source alternatives that aren't corporation-controlled gain traction over the next year. Shout out to CodeLite. https://codelite.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by RunSet 4y ago
Our grandchildren deserve a future without the vendor lock-in and anticompetitive behavior that gave Bill Gates the fortune he is currently using to attempt to whitewash his legacy.
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by RunSet 4y ago
> So I need to purchase the MP3's in order to do this? Aye, aye. > Then I need to spend time on other web sites for music discovery? One cost of cultivating tastes, as opposed to being fed by a recommendation algorithm, is the ri
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by RunSet 4y ago
https://online.stanford.edu/masters-degrees https://ed.stanford.edu/academics/masters
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by RunSet 4y ago
> What do the system requirements have to do with the better performance for 11, if the tests were performed on the same hardware? > You yourself posted the reason why it's faster First, note well that the article lacks benchmark
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by RunSet 4y ago
> We all imagine that our problems are unique and other disciplines don't have them. Software estimation is so special that no one outside of CS can possibly contribute to it. Software development is special in that, by virtue of
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by RunSet 4y ago
The Once and Future King, by T.H. White. The Sword in the Stone is probably my favorite Disney movie so I was delighted to discover the movie was based on a book which was even better.
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by RunSet 4y ago
I once heard some Lenny Bruce standup that gave me the impression that firemen were generally considered opportunistic thieves at the time of the material's delivery, independent of its punchline.
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by RunSet 4y ago
From that article: > Conclusion > Windows 11 definitely feels faster and smoother compared to Windows 10. Much of this comes from the improved memory management system that Windows 11 is using. If you own an average computer in term
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by RunSet 4y ago
> I am writing a book that posits software is a form of literacy The meaning of "computer literacy" is further diluted with each passing day. An equivalence: Imagine if the meaning of "literacy" was reduced to being a

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