abiox

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by abiox 9y ago
ratio != resolution != pixel density it's not the ratio that gives you "extra space".
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by abiox 9y ago
i really wish there was a 15".
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by abiox 9y ago
well, i guess in the same way that javascript or anything else is, when there are sandbox escapes. bugs are a thing.
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by abiox 9y ago
i find it fascinating how some in a community notoriously anal about 'being precise' want to be less precise, presumably because of some incorrect assumptions about a word. is it because they think it's a neologism? is it be
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by abiox 9y ago
> If you're so against collective terms, I hereby insist that you no longer refer to the "United States", or "European" culture. that is being reductive. sufficiently so that you're basically straw-manning
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by abiox 9y ago
there existed "translators" from one asm variant to another in the past. [0][1] so i guess one might use "transpile" wrt bytecode in the spirit of that. but i guess asm source files are still "human readable",
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by abiox 9y ago
are you saying it's not useful to refer to something as a transpiler if it's not a transpiler? that sounds reasonable.
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by abiox 9y ago
well, there's even a wiki page for source-to-source translation. it's not always useful to distinguish 'truck' from 'automobile', but sometimes it is.
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by abiox 9y ago
> untrusted binaries afaik, wasm is not 'binaries' in that it's not an arbitrary blob of machine code fed right into the cpu. it's still running in a sandbox (a la javascript) including similar limitations wrt CORS e
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by abiox 9y ago
an example of "transpiler" from 1989 ;) https://books.google.com/books?id=l5I_AQAAIAAJ&q="transpiler...
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by abiox 9y ago
it's not a new word. i find it odd how some people react to it.
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by abiox 9y ago
seems to me that a touch screen laptop is a real touch device with browsers emitting (afaik) the same real touch events. as such it would seem to be better for tuning behavior compared to a laptop without real touch events. (of course it&
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by abiox 9y ago
you seemed to say that no people are 'pure rationalists' ("people are emotional animals rather than pure rationalists"). but now you seem to say some people can embody this idea of apparent perfection. there are extreme
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by abiox 9y ago
then it seems like word games around a useless dichotomy. if "emotional animals" includes rationality then my point stands. based on how you seem to be stressing the words, i don't know what "pure rationalists" is
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by abiox 9y ago
seems like a nonsequitur; either way, if a bad guy wants to throw away opsec and publicly document information for a court to use as evidence... well, i guess it's nice that they're making policework much easier.
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by abiox 9y ago
> What you are writing here is a dangerous thing because it relativizes the holocaust. i'm honestly not even sure what this means. could you rephrase? > Military Dictatorships don't suddenly appear out of nothing. sure. th
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by abiox 9y ago
> Logic and reason have value, of course, but most people are emotional animals rather than pure rationalists. there isn't an either/or situation... people are both. and people must obviously be sufficiently rational, a suffic
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by abiox 9y ago
military or organized physical violence is not the same as a random yokel saying dumb things on the internet. invoking real world violence as a stand-in for which one calibrates their regard for a person's tweets seems more like an emo
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by abiox 9y ago
> we've had enough of that shit here 70 years ago. you had a military dictatorship. it couldn't be opposed or contested by anyone, because you and/or your family would just be killed. german citizens couldn't stop th
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by abiox 9y ago
> Because it forces the rotten core of the ideas to the forefront. it seems to me it would do the opposite. it simply requires that one pursue the same goal in a more polite manner, to avoid being put in prison for one's words. id
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by abiox 9y ago
what i mean is: if a law just says 'people can't say mean words', is every private company expected to thereafter analyze all words that exist on it's platform (be it twitter, or sms text, or gmail, etc) make a determina
202.
by abiox 9y ago
this seems like a red herring or something... are 'calls for genocide' actually a thing worth caring about? is there a legitimate possibility that, say, bob goes on twitter and says 'kill all romanians!' and suddenly th
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by abiox 9y ago
if the law states that companies are deputized to act as police and enforce the law of the land, then i guess they have to comply. do the companies engaging in policing actions receive the same protections and considerations as actual polic
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by abiox 9y ago
> criminalizing speech to stop the spread of fascist ideas i wonder... is that actually something that works? or does it just mean fascist ideas gain a more polite presentation?
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by abiox 9y ago
> it is not ethically sound to intentionally induce leukemia well, shucks. there goes my startup idea. :\
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by abiox 9y ago
> > In a document, the US Government Accountability office specifically singled out the rise of Chinese companies with state ties as worthy of more scrutiny i suppose you could say this about almost anywhere, to varying degree, but es
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by abiox 9y ago
it's not stated why they felt that way. i'm a guy and have thought that at times myself... for me, mostly because it seems (from this angle) that MBA types can get a great/better salary and have a FAR higher income/stat
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by abiox 9y ago
i submit that if you transmit data to me, i have a right to observe it. the immoral thing is to expend my bandwidth, cpu and memory with data and content you're obscuring.
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by abiox 9y ago
what makes you think that is the "entire scope"?
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by abiox 9y ago
perhaps i'm uncultured swine, but the first i've heard of 'michelin stars' is when a few of these sorts of articles popped up. does it really matter? how much do the stars impact a restaurant's business? i usually

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