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by _bxg1 6y ago
Most of the "past few years" discussion happened when many thought AGI was just around the corner, which would allow robots to take over virtually every job. But it's become clear that isn't happening any time soon.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Hah, they were even cheeky enough to put the Aperture logo on the robots
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by _bxg1 6y ago
The PS4 officially supports replacing the internal hard drive, and that's not even getting into the question of repairs
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by _bxg1 6y ago
What's a "nick"?
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by _bxg1 6y ago
As a relatively young developer, I have to ask, are comments not a better place to document context? Commit messages are much less discoverable to me than comments when I'm looking at a piece of code. I usually put the "why"
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Unfortunately lots of organizations haven't switched to Windows 10 yet, despite end of support.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
It only declared and didn't let you individually toggle permissions until version 6.0. You just had to take-or-leave the app as-is. I don't know whether or not it declared them from the very beginning.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
You can disable it by turning off "Handoff" in your iOS settings
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by _bxg1 6y ago
That's great when my threat model is "there's a firm boundary between my devices and everything third-party". Now that that's been punctured, it's a nightmare.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
I would tend to agree, but a handful of people have a handful of reasons why they like it, and so removing it completely isn't as much of a no-brainer as adding a permission dialog is.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
iOS very early-on took on a model of not trusting the software you install on it, and for good reason. Android and the web followed soon afterward. This is the expectation today. Doubly so given Apple's chest-beating about privacy. Thi
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by _bxg1 6y ago
The screen capture is from an iPad Pro. It's not clear how it was getting the Macbook clipboard; via AirDrop maybe? Really that just makes it even more concerning. Edit: Apparently it's Just A Thing: https://support.app
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Guess I'm never copying and pasting anything sensitive on my phone ever again. Still don't understand why clipboard-sniffing isn't behind a permissions flag.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Irish Gaelic, at least, is available on Duolingo. I've thought about learning it before; I listen to the music constantly and while I don't normally enjoy learning languages, this is one of the few that I feel drawn to based on it
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Those are pretty strong words. I wouldn't use Lisp for a project I expect to scale, but I can still appreciate it for its merits, including what it represents.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
I checked and mine filters people by symptoms at the door and has symptomatic people wait in their cars. But then, something crazy like 70% are asymptomatic, right?
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Yeah, unfortunately what I go to is a "medical center", which I don't believe counts as a "hospital" in terms of having emergency rooms and such, but it is a large medical complex including lots of GP offices; not j
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Already did a remote screening and the current thing is a referral. The symptoms are definitely real and not in my head, but my doctor said the chance of it being something serious like cancer is "small".
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Ask HN: Would You Go to the Doctor Right Now?
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by _bxg1 6y ago
As someone who deals with anxiety I sometimes wonder if this is to blame for the wave of anxiety and depression that we've seen in recent decades, as well as the rampant personal insecurity (across the entire political spectrum, despit
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by _bxg1 6y ago
We're good at avoiding small, mundane risks. We struggle to prepare for large, novel risks.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
I only use my credit card for online purchases, but now that you say that it would be several times my credit limit so it probably wouldn't go through
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by _bxg1 6y ago
It's funny that the United States prides itself on being the heart of capitalism, where anybody can allegedly strike out on their own and make their own way thanks to The Market. But in reality, Ecuador sounds much more capitalistic (i
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by _bxg1 6y ago
It was terrifying to click this link and have it open up in the Apple Store app, with my payment info already available, and a big blue "Add to Bag" button under my thumb.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
I believe they're mostly used by people who can't afford to have a checking account but need to do something that would otherwise require a check. The poverty tax is real.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Is it naive to assume that the advertising ID, etc. are left out of plain Chromium?
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by _bxg1 6y ago
It's possible to have photo-realistic lighting without photo-realistic art. For example see the Link's Awakening remake: https://d1lss44hh2trtw.cloudfront.net/assets/editorial/2019/... Even the Fina
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Unreal shares its source purely for the sake of people who already license it and need to know how something works/fix something/customize something. Wouldn't be surprised if the same is true here.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
I think the best colloquial definition at this point is "a higher-level language that delegates to lower-level code for core logic". Usually that higher-level language is interpreted and dynamic, but it doesn't have to be. I
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by _bxg1 6y ago
I've seen some corners of twitter start to slowly realize and acknowledge that cancel culture is bad. I think when the number of people caught in the maelstrom gets high enough, general awareness will increase. The danger is when there

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