Seenso

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by Seenso 7y ago
> A bit alarming to see the government embracing an end-to-end chat system with perfect forward secrecy, considering both the head of the FBI and the CIA have confirmed that the lack of a back door would impede the fight against ISIS. Wh
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by Seenso 7y ago
> I'm surprised Microsoft doesn't just revoke people's licenses to use EOLed Windows, such that they're breaking the law by staying on that version. That'd get crufty corps and orgs moving, no? I've heard it
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Banksy and the Triumph of Banality(thecritic.co.uk)
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by Seenso 7y ago
>> It turns out, that number is very low, so low that most people aren't rationally taking those jobs. Factoring in depreciation, I often hear that they loose money to work (not always, but damn close). > This is simply hard t
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by Seenso 7y ago
Also (correct me if I'm wrong), but doesn't Intel keep its manufacturing dedicated to its own use? So it might not be available for custom military-use chips.
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by Seenso 7y ago
> What Washington should be doing is investing in creating a US-based top-notch semiconductor foundry business. And that's something that takes 20+ years. That would require leadership and vision. Unfortunately, too many American p
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by Seenso 7y ago
> Don't count on it. Physically locating it and disconnecting it might be very difficult. I already know where it is: it's in a box underneath the entertainment system ("head unit"), and there are a lot of instruction
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by Seenso 7y ago
> Don't forget that Tesla is now in this space, and turning off Tesla's access to it will turn off your car, period. Which is super scary. A couple years ago one of their firmware engineers had his NDA expire, and he posted so
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by Seenso 7y ago
One of my major requirements when I was shopping for my last car was that it not have a cell modem to enable connected car features. It's too difficult for them to monetize your data if they can't get it off your car in near-real
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by Seenso 7y ago
> A lot of the details they spent so much effort on didn't make any sense to me as to why that particular design detail would be important. IMHO, fonts have been studied too deeply for too long for some graphic designer at J. Random
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by Seenso 7y ago
> My most recent update of IntelliJ turned this font on by default and I had to spend an hour trying to figure out what the font used to be. For anyone who wants that info: it's Menlo on on my rather old Mac OS IntelliJ installation
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by Seenso 7y ago
They've got to balance both roles. IIRC, in earlier times the government didn't use as much COTS stuff, and civilian computer systems weren't so critical, so the roles were easier to separate. The NSA developed whole series
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by Seenso 7y ago
> You say that your gaming time has declined. Has your time watching tv declined comparably? Which of the two - gaming or tv - would you say is more important in your life? My gaming has declined to zero, and my time watching TV has incr
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by Seenso 7y ago
> The odds of a water cooler conversation about "So... tilted towers, or the dusty divot?" are about 50% more likely to be successful than something Bachelor inspired like "So... Peter or Colton?" You're assuming
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by Seenso 7y ago
For those who aren't aware: CGTN is the Chinese version of Russia Today. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/business/cctv-china-usa-p...
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by Seenso 7y ago
Why are they calling it HTTP/3 and not just keeping the QUIC name?
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by Seenso 7y ago
> Vocational training isn't going to fix the fact that the government benefits the article cited allows the men to stay at home playing video games all day. > Enabled by the preponderance of easily accessible government money, dr
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by Seenso 7y ago
> Maybe these supposed anti-patterns don't really matter as much as we think they do for successful software? Given that plenty of successful software has them. There's more than one variable involved. You can write successful
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by Seenso 7y ago
> 4 isn't right (anymore) because they made all political ads available to anyone who wants to see them. I think #4 is still valid: 1. Facebook may not be to correctly identify political ads vs other ads. 2. Their Ad Library seems t
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by Seenso 7y ago
> Luckily you don't need logic when you can just throw money at lobbying. Sadly, this is incredibly effective in the US today. Even if that's true, it might not work for Facebook. The politicians that Facebook would need to lo
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by Seenso 7y ago
> 3. Without Facebook, this wasn’t already happening. > Personally, I believe #1 is more or less indisputable, and I’m willing to believe #2. But I’m not so sure about #3. I think you overstate #3 a little bit. It could have been hap
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by Seenso 7y ago
> ...I work with a lot of people in mainland China and no one has any problems with the government, they stick to their own business and are doing pretty damn well. The topic of this subthread is not the attitudes of mainland Chinese, it
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by Seenso 7y ago
> The house I'm in now has foundation issues (it's a lease), so in spots it won't get under the cabinets, but a couple of feet down it gets wedged in as the height varies by a few millimeters. You might want to take a look
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by Seenso 7y ago
> Google hired a significant number of Chinese citizens and migrants who didn't leave China for political reasons. Not surprisingly, they tend not to see China's government policy as evil. It takes years in the right environm
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by Seenso 7y ago
> The benchmarks I've seen do not make ZFS look all that great. The thing about ZFS that actually appeals to me is how much error-checking it does. Checksums/hashes are kept of both data and metadata, and those checksums are r
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by Seenso 7y ago
I have one of the random Roombas. The virtual walls are nice for keeping the robot out of areas where it will get stuck, but I rely on making small modifications to the environment to protect things from damage. In the case of a computer,
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by Seenso 7y ago
> To add to this, I really want to know why they felt they need to do this? My guess is someone was abusing the existing system and they needed to set tighter controls? My guess is some manager got it in his head to gather some bullshit
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by Seenso 7y ago
> Get one of the mowers that follows a wire and then embed the wire under the grass in the pattern you want. Isn't it bad for the lawn to mow in a fixed pattern?
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by Seenso 7y ago
> The iRobot Terra will use a series of wireless beacons that you place around your yard instead of a perimeter wire. These will provide a wireless, localized positioning signal to allow the iRobot Terra to find it’s way around your lawn
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by Seenso 7y ago
> and their navy consists of speed boats. > and they have good ballistic missile capabilities That's not a bad resource mix to potentially defeat the US Navy using asymmetric tactics: https://www.popularmechanics.com&#

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