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by Someone 7mo ago
> IMO the consumer PC industry is near an existential crisis. The big players are just awful at marketing; too many SKUs and models - I see your point, but as a counterexample, look at the TV industry, at PC monitors, at washing machines
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by Someone 7mo ago
> CO2 levels are increasing your risk of diabetes: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016041201 ...? Are you sure? FTA: “Higher CO2 emission was not associated with larger changes in diabet
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Intensifying global heat threatens livability for younger and older adults(iopscience.iop.org)
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by Someone 7mo ago
> Mac OS didn't even have a native terminal at the time; I assume there were terminal emulators for networking/serial use but I can't imagine that was top-of-mind for Apple either. I think it was in their mind. The manual
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by Someone 7mo ago
> Ctrl on the Mac started as Terminal-Emulator specific modifier It did, but when starting history with the first Mac, it started as being absent. The Mac initially had shift, command, and option modifiers. Apple introduced control keys
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by Someone 7mo ago
> There was something magical with the experience of reading a computer magazine that I don't experience on any media anymore. Beautiful ads was part of that experience. How the tables have turned now I think that’s a combination of
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by Someone 7mo ago
One could also try to use a different set of definitions better suited to such a visualization. The Oxford Advanced Learner’s dictionary has an appendix called “Defining Vocabulary”. It says: “In order to make the dictionary definitions ea
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by Someone 7mo ago
> A problem with that approach is that libc can after an upgrade decide to start doing syscalls you were not expecting. That would break capsicum, too, so I don’t see how that’s a problem when “comparing Capsicum to using seccomp in the
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by Someone 7mo ago
I think this is an example where obscurity is required to get (some) security. Making this and its test cases public makes training a model to circumvent it too easy.
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by Someone 7mo ago
> Steve Lemay insisted the drawer live on the right side of the window [1]. This was inexplicable to me. Makes some sense to me if, as I suspect, people tend to place their windows aligned to the left of the screen. If that’s the case, o
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by Someone 8mo ago
The claim being discussed is not that they didn’t account for it, but that they didn’t attempt to account for it. Reading that text, I think they did, but chose not to include it (I guess because they didn’t need to to make their point an
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by Someone 8mo ago
The LLM could be separate from the targeting software. “Here are a few camera feeds. Whenever you detect enemy combatants, keep tracking their location and generate a request to target them to automated system X” And yes, there could be p
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by Someone 8mo ago
> When there is similar code, the only defense possible to prove that you have not copied the original is to show that your process is a clean room re-implementation. Yes, but you do not have to prove that you haven’t copied the original
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by Someone 8mo ago
> Flash should have transitioned into an authoring tool for SVG + CSS + JS Didn’t it? IIRC, Adobe had such a tool at some moment, and part of it seems to (somewhat) live on [1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_F
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by Someone 8mo ago
> You had the files on paper, which is a very pleasant and ergonomic medium for reading. You can literally surround yourself with it, cover your desk, and easily move your eyes between dozens of functions. If you learn to keep order and
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by Someone 8mo ago
Putting as many unit length line segments on a line as you can.
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by Someone 8mo ago
> The best laptop is now significantly cheaper than the horrible ones. Possibly, but I would wait for reviews to make that call. The hardware is slower than other MacBooks; memory may be slower, too, and other hardware may be slightly wo
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by Someone 8mo ago
Yes, but inheritance used to be like salt. That’s why it, like “goto” and global variables, got so much attention.
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by Someone 8mo ago
Inheritance has its uses, but is easily overused. In a sense, it’s like global variables. About every complex program [1] has a few of them, so languages have to support them, but you shouldn’t have too many of them, and people tend to say
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by Someone 8mo ago
> MS Word is properly great if you only use the custom style rules (basically CSS classes) at the paragraph level, and never directly apply styling (basically inline styles) except for super basic stuff like making a word italic MS word
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by Someone 8mo ago
And “happen to work on x86-64 processors” also will depend on the compiler. If you write *a = 1; *b = 'p'; both the compiler and the CPU can freely pick the order in which those two happen (or even execute them in paralle
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by Someone 8mo ago
I think it’s even better than that. Your cellular modem (on all the time) scales at O(1) with phone size. Same for on-board tasks that do not involve the screen. Powering your RAM (also on all the time) is similar, but larger (more expensiv
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by Someone 8mo ago
> Maybe they could have started with rust and added on what they needed Unlikely, I think, because of timelines. Swift’s first public release was in June 2014. Rust is a few years older (first public release in January 2012), but that wa
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by Someone 8mo ago
> (minus calling, due to no SIM card) Could also be due to incompatible radios. 2G GSM isn’t available everywhere anymore ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2G#Phase-out ), nor is 3G ( https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by Someone 8mo ago
I don’t see that. “For works published or registered before 1978, the maximum copyright duration is 95 years from the date of publication, if copyright was renewed during the 28th year following publication” may not apply here, but if so,
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by Someone 8mo ago
> The "Digital Euro" (and similar proposals by other political entities) has only one purpose: Causing all of your transactions and financial data to pass through government hands. Care to explain how that would work? AFAIK, th
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by Someone 8mo ago
based on your comment (the site is unresponsive, so I cannot check what exactly it says) I think the article is incorrect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_the_United_St... : “For works published or regis
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by Someone 8mo ago
If you ignore Berlin (which, I think, kept its four occupation zones) it were first four, three from January 1, 1947, and two from from August 1, 1948 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bizone )
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by Someone 8mo ago
A player who realized they’ve lost would play a few really bad moves (e.g. giving check by moving their queen next to the enemy king, forcing their opponent to take the queen) and get checkmated in no time. Their opponent could prolong the
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by Someone 8mo ago
I don’t see anything in that bill ( https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm... ) that requires age verification . It says users, on account creation, must indicate their age or birth year (or both)

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