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   by Zikes 10y ago

   All too often a person's entry into success is described as a single moment where they finally catch a break, but I think it's more accurate to consider their life leading up to that moment. Perhaps Stephen King's success cou
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   by Zikes 10y ago

   > With the law as it stands, though, copyright is the best tool we have. In this particular field, it's already far weaker than it should be—it offers borderline irrelevant protection (even as it lasts far too long) that fails to re
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   by Zikes 10y ago

   I always assumed that AI consciousness would be an emergent property, not a feature we would (or even could) effectively develop towards.
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   by Zikes 10y ago

   This puts a fun spin on the teleportation/cloning thought experiment.
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   by Zikes 10y ago

   Linux gaming support will be a slow process, but it has definitely improved a great deal in recent years thanks in large part to Valve's efforts. I think that Steam Machines were more of a signal to consumers and developers that Valve
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   by Zikes 10y ago

   It's not absurd because: 1) Whatever you're making, you're starting out with 177 modules minimum if you use React + Reactpack. 2) See 1.
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   by Zikes 10y ago

   177 modules for a Hello World page? Is this satire?
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   by Zikes 10y ago

   You can total up one of those here: https://steamdb.info/calculator/
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   by Zikes 10y ago

   https://www.google.com/work/search/products/gsa.html
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    by Zikes 10y ago

    In my opinion, being "dated" isn't entirely a property of a site's design, but of its functionality and usability. With HTML5, a plethora of new features and tools are available enabling new accessibility, semantic, and
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    by Zikes 10y ago

    Queryable and even indexable! Hardly a trade-off at all, really.
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    by Zikes 10y ago

    Speaking as a native American, I cannot disagree more. The spirit and very origin of our great nation is to never accept the bad with the good, but to doggedly pursue the very best in everything.
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    by Zikes 10y ago

    PostgreSQL and jsonb: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/datatype-json...
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    by Zikes 10y ago

    Last time I tried to do some web dev on a Windows machine, I had to install bower to install a web component. So I installed npm, then installed bower, then installed the component. When I was finished, I tried to delete bower, but Windows
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    by Zikes 10y ago

    Having watched both of the available trailers for the new Ghostbusters movie, I think I will very much dislike it and have no intentions of watching it. By the measure of many prominent online media publications and verified Twitter users,
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    by Zikes 10y ago

    If fingerprinting is the primary concern then bundling should solve that, right?
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    by Zikes 10y ago

    > So Vaudreuil starting taking undergraduate classes tuition free at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts by day, and cleaning up after his classmates by night. There ya go.
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    by Zikes 10y ago

    I don't recall the US nuking anybody recently. Did I miss something?
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    by Zikes 10y ago

    The original study: http://randomwalker.info/publications/OpenWPM_1_million_site... The relevant section of the study is "6.4 AudioContext Fingerprinting", on page 15. Notably, they link to an online tool the
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    by Zikes 10y ago

    Because there's nothing left to be learned from experimental prosthetics?
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    by Zikes 10y ago

    Like keyboard predictive text suggestions haven't existed for years already.
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    by Zikes 10y ago

    Their proposal wouldn't ban Fox from taking down legitimate infringements as you suggest. It would simply not automatically take down videos which appear to violate the laws of time and space.
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    by Zikes 10y ago

    Why not just build the same features into Hangouts? It's already got enough momentum, instead they have to start from the ground floor yet again with a completely new app. Is it going to have SMS/MMS support built-in? Do I have
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    by Zikes 10y ago

    Yet another messaging app: Allo. Goodbye Google Talk, Hangouts, Google Voice, and Messenger. This time, they're getting it right!
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    by Zikes 10y ago

    > The individual must have a net worth greater than $1 million, either individually or jointly with the individual’s spouse. [1] http://www.sec.gov/info/smallbus/secg/accredited-investor-ne...
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    by Zikes 10y ago

    I just opened Hangouts and pressed and held my Home button for NoT. After a few seconds of analyzing the screenshot it finally came back with a "no results found" screen with a Google Search field at the top. I typed in "danc
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    by Zikes 10y ago

    They've finally revised their policies about how those copyright claims work revenue-wise, but it took them far too long.
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    by Zikes 10y ago

    Wasn't Windows 7 supposed to be built on a revolutionary new filesystem based on a rdbms? I was pretty excited about that because it would have natively enabled a lot of the features listed here. Unfortunately it was one of the featur
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    by Zikes 10y ago

    So it would be the RRS David Frederick Attenborough OM CH CVO CBE FRS FLS FZS FSA?
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    by Zikes 10y ago

    I could listen to Davey McDaveface talk about rare birds for hours.