Telemakhos

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by Telemakhos 8mo ago
I'd suggest that radical left-wing elements indigenous to Italy, such as those behind the Turin protests that left 100 police officers wounded a few days ago, are a perfectly plausible candidate; not every attack comes from without. T
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by Telemakhos 8mo ago
Apple's niche product, consisting of like 1-4% of computer sales compared to its dominant MacBook line, is now flying off the shelf as a highly desired product, because of a piece of software that Apple didn't spend a dime develop
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by Telemakhos 8mo ago
This brings back some fun memories from the 1990s when this was exactly how we would send prank emails.
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by Telemakhos 8mo ago
If it's in a library, it's going to be in special collections, and nobody's going to see it. It will be preserved and kept safe for the rare scholar who has a legitimate need to see the original, but for most purposes the a
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by Telemakhos 9mo ago
> If there's no profit to be made in servicing said demographic and a law requesting at least end user 'agreement' that they are an adult, this should be sufficient. Is it still advertising if an "influencer" ta
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by Telemakhos 9mo ago
> The article says the data was 'surveilled' by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and HHS in the performance of Medicare/Medicaid claims Does this imply that undocumented aliens subject to deportation have been ma
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by Telemakhos 9mo ago
In 2023, 55% of visits to NYT's website were to games, not news. The puzzle-only subscription points to the NYT's fate as a game company that also offers news, much as airlines are credit card/loyalty point companies that al
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by Telemakhos 9mo ago
The WD in WD-40 stands for "water displacer." It makes water go somewhere else. Secondarily, it is a solvent, and it's great for dissolving glues, like the glue used to affix government-issued tax licenses to automobiles.
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by Telemakhos 9mo ago
I remember playing Doom on a single-core 25MHz 486 laptop. It was, at the time, an amazing machine, hundreds of times more powerful than the flight computer that ran the Apollo space capsule, and now it is outclassed by an earbud.
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by Telemakhos 9mo ago
I see the opposite effect with AI: I quickly find some error that it has made, because it always makes errors in my field, and that keeps me from disengaging with the problem, because it helps define what can be wrong. I mainly use AI li
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by Telemakhos 9mo ago
I've love to delve into that. https://pshapira.net/2024/03/31/delving-into-delve/
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by Telemakhos 9mo ago
On the other side of the fence, I enjoy the new Spotlight-for-Applications that opens when I hit the touch bar key (I still have an M1) for the old Launchpad. It seems to sort programs by frequency, so it knows that I open Ghostty far more
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by Telemakhos 9mo ago
From what I gather, corruption in this case means that civil servants of the Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali got business class travel when they should have flown economy class because the trip was under five hours (the establi
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by Telemakhos 9mo ago
When it became cheaper to publish text, for example with the invention of the printing press, the quality of what the average person had in his possession went up: you went from very few having hand-copied texts to Erasmus describing himsel
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by Telemakhos 9mo ago
You know what else would suffice plenty? Physical keys and mechanical locks. They worked (and still work) without electricity. The tech is mature and well-understood.
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by Telemakhos 9mo ago
Something similar happened to the macOS chess game, which has always been bundled with OSX/macOS. Once upon a time it was easy to beat in easy mode, which restricted how long it could thing in advance. When Big Sur rolled out around 2
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by Telemakhos 9mo ago
There have been a number of taste tests that show that, when blindfolded, most people can't distinguish between Coke and Sprite, let alone Coke and a close imitation, without the visual cue: throw together enough sugar, acid, and carbo
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by Telemakhos 9mo ago
Starlink now offers direct-to-cellphone 4G coverage, no extra equipment needed.
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by Telemakhos 9mo ago
Electricity, light, and heat aren't magic: they're science. Science is something well understood. Something that seems magical is something poorly understood. When I ask AI a question, I don't know whether it will tell me
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by Telemakhos 9mo ago
Someone actually called me on the voice line yesterday. It was the first time the phone part of the little pocket tracker-computer had operated in ages.
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by Telemakhos 9mo ago
YouTube has the sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAafRXddfxc
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by Telemakhos 10mo ago
> I wonder if that remains possible today. Parents still have the ability to raise their children according to their own values, despite the most earnest and eager intentions of the dopamine-dealing crowd. That bug hasn't yet been
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by Telemakhos 10mo ago
That sounds a lot like industrial safety culture: blame the process, not the worker, so we can iterate on the safety built into the process if there is a failure, because doing so lessens the chance of future failures. It’s a great way to b
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by Telemakhos 10mo ago
This. A decentralized, 90's-style internet would probably involve home servers, and there have been attempts to do that: Sheevaplugs would be a good example from the late 2000s. I don't think anyone ever managed to make self-hos
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by Telemakhos 10mo ago
I miss the 1990s Benz 190E I used to drive: the only electronics in sight were the tape deck/radio. Even the door locks ran off a vacuum system. I will never buy a car that runs an X-windows server.
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by Telemakhos 10mo ago
No hallowed skein of stars can ward, I trow, Who's once been set his tryst with Trystero.
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by Telemakhos 10mo ago
Home Depot put up the cameras to deal with organized crime, both theft and gift-card fraud. Flock specifically advertises that Home Depot put up the cameras to deal with gift card fraud: > The Home Depot leveraged Flock Safety’s techno
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by Telemakhos 10mo ago
Dr. Pepper is distributed by Coke in some states/countries, Pepsi in others, and by its own distribution network in like 30 US states. A friend likened it, not without a certain verisimilitude, to the result of the Treaty of Tordesill
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by Telemakhos 10mo ago
To add to that, I don't see how students having access to student data is much different from other people having such access. You don't have to be a student to stalk a student: administrators and staff members can be creepy too.
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by Telemakhos 10mo ago
I guess I have three questions here. 1) What happened to the days when universities published their own software, like pine from UW? It seems like Washington of St Louis, which offers a PhD in computer science, should have some students ca

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