Tor3

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by Tor3 10mo ago
EU? Brexit, remember? When that's said, there are forces in the EU as well which try stunts like this, kind of, but in the EU there are at least lots of countries and lots of opposing voices. In the UK the situation is different.
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by Tor3 10mo ago
To me, working with a computer language involves specific thinking, constructing stuff in my mind. But human language is nothing of the sort, though it's possible to kind of do the same if I sit down and try to polish a written sentenc
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by Tor3 10mo ago
The way he writes indicates that he has very little experience with reading in the first place. Weird wording, strange capitalization and punctiation, etc.
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by Tor3 10mo ago
I speak several languages too, though definitely not as many as you do. I'm also in the process of learning a completely new one, at an advanced age relative to when I last learned a new one (I was in my thirties then). To me, my brain
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by Tor3 10mo ago
In the early days when the kernel was small (I used to build kernels and copy them to floppy disks, and boot Linux from there) the kernel was called 'vmlinux', and when compression was added after the kernel started to get bigger
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by Tor3 10mo ago
The paradox isn't actually when the twin is returning, the paradox is seen during the trip away from earth. Both are observing each other through telescopes, and both can see the clock on the wall in each other's home (a house, or
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by Tor3 10mo ago
The _source_ of it was an ad. The _fix_ is not limited to ads.
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by Tor3 10mo ago
Sigh. "..that personal data processed must be accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date. " How do they think a hosting provider can check if personal data is accurate? Maybe if privacy didn't exist and everybody could be
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by Tor3 10mo ago
There are projects, or repositories, with a very narrow target audience, sometimes you can count them on one hand. Important repositories for those few who need them, and there aren't any alternatives. Things like decoders for obscure
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by Tor3 10mo ago
I've yet to see a description of what and how the problem with the ID occurs. And how it would be better with multiple authorities.
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by Tor3 10mo ago
The customer has no right to deside on issues that affect _others_. A customer can decide on what affects the customer. If car A is more dangerous for other people than car B, then it's for somebody else than the car customer to deci
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by Tor3 10mo ago
Come on, please reply to the questions. How is it protectionism to hold the competitors to the same standards? Please explain.
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by Tor3 10mo ago
Read some later articles. The first guy who did this was maybe that magician from Missouri, or at least one of the first ones (there aren't many). And it's turned out to be a useless gimmick, that magician's implant is curren
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by Tor3 10mo ago
It's not protectionism when all you require is that products which compete should be held to the same standards. Or do you mean that it's fine for US companies to undercut other companies by lowering standards and costs, and only
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by Tor3 10mo ago
"It feels very much an anti-US rule to me." It isn't. Quite the opposite. It's about a level playing field. There are standards for allowing products to market, some of them are more costly to implement. US car makers wa
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by Tor3 10mo ago
Build good relationships with Russia? That's a call to Russia, not the EU! First and foremost, Russia has to stop going to war with its neighbours. In any case, Europe doesn't need Russian gas for much longer.
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by Tor3 10mo ago
mchusma - the article specifically mentioned that this is about Japanese fonts, and being able to use fonts which look the same as they used to, in the games in question. And that getting other fonts is a) time consuming, b) needs testing,
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by Tor3 10mo ago
With many authorities then you have as many more possibilities to break them, right? Note that the central digital ID used in e.g. Sweden is not the same as a central place for storing your private information.
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by Tor3 10mo ago
In those places where a system like Sweden's has been implemented, the usage is constricted to certain areas. And in the case where it's used elsewhere, that's an option that is not mandatory (and in any case far and few betw
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by Tor3 10mo ago
A digital ID is not doing all of that. The way it's implemented in Sweden, just to take an example already mentioned, is simply to identify you, and only for certain parts of society (mostly governmental services, banks, insurance and
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by Tor3 10mo ago
"I'm aware that some Swedes are already getting microchipped." If you mean Swedish dogs and cats, then yes. Otherwise, no.
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by Tor3 11mo ago
Pyrotherapy. The idea of fighting untreatable (at the time) illnesses by inducing a fever in the patient. There's actually a Wikipedia article about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrotherapy As in deliberately
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by Tor3 11mo ago
You usually don't get a fever from a cold (except in Japanese anime), if there's a significant fever it's more likely to be a flu. Or, these days, could be Covid.
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by Tor3 11mo ago
Some years ago I stayed in a hotel outside London, and they apparently had a policy of saving as much as possible on soap bars.. so they used some horrible high-pH soap, very cheap looking. But it was nearly impossible to rinse it off.. too
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by Tor3 11mo ago
And count Planck time instead of seconds.. it's not as impossible as it may sound. You'll need more than 128 bits but less than 256 bits even if the epoch is the Big Bang (I can't recall exactly how many bits are needed, but
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by Tor3 11mo ago
Every day Teams gives me the choice to 'add Copilot panel', and the alternative is only 'Maybe later'. No simple "No".
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by Tor3 11mo ago
A lot of this could be said about specialized machines in general. I remember visiting the local university last century where a guy was demonstrating a US-made Word Processor machine they had bought, and around the same time a local compan
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by Tor3 11mo ago
They almost certainly do via the web interface, as I do (and lots of others). It works in general, though for some reason Teams via a web browser will often have problems seeing the microphone, or getting sound, even though every other web
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by Tor3 11mo ago
You answered that yourself, didn't you? You first said that Transmeta became a patent troll. But the one doing the trolling (a word related to "trawling") is Intellectual Ventures. Not Transmeta, the latter did actual work a
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by Tor3 11mo ago
I remember trying fsn back when everyone in our company used SGI computers.. and realized that in practice the 3D file manager is completely useless. In the movie they set it up so that it looked like you could navigate that way. Very cool.

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