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by adolph 2y ago
The answer is transaction costs. Details at patio11: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/
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by adolph 2y ago
> [PHP] makes sharing a server trivial Is that still a thing? Why would an application on a server share anything other than the kernel?
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by adolph 2y ago
This was written in 2004, the year of Google's IPO. Atwood and Spolsky didn't found Stack Overflow until 2008. [0] People knew things as the "Camel book" [1] and generally just knew things. 0. https://stackove
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by adolph 2y ago
> Devices that are locked become e-waste once a manufacturer stops supporting them. This keeps happening like clockwork: > Spotify’s Car Thing Contrary to the author's claim, Car Thing is a great example of what can happen with a
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by adolph 2y ago
> to fall for a scam that made them follow the complicated procedure of rooting If you are unable to imagine how a 3rd party might root a device without the principal being aware of it, then maybe it is a shortcoming of your risk survey,
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by adolph 2y ago
What the author calls "double standard" could be reframed as "consumer choice." A vendor sells different devices. Some have provisions to make changes to the bootloader and some don't. The phrase "have provisio
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by adolph 2y ago
See also this week's IEEE Robot Friday for another uav with bird-inspired legs: We’ve seen hybrid quadrotor bipeds before, but this one, which is imitating the hopping behavior of Jacana birds, is pretty cute. . . .What’s a Jacana bir
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by adolph 2y ago
Link going next to Diataxis [0] in my bookmarks. 0. https://diataxis.fr/
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by adolph 2y ago
Is it ironic that the electrically expensive part of the LaserJet, the fused, is pretty much an iron in a different format? https://www.inkguides.com/printer-fuser/
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by adolph 2y ago
Every day "Austin" refers to a larger and larger part of the earth so maybe specifying where in Austin is appropriate? https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/report-austin-top... https:/&#
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by adolph 2y ago
> "Move our trust and safety and content moderation teams out of California, and our US content review to Texas. Prediction: it'll be cali-expats in Austin and nothing changes.
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by adolph 2y ago
Mea culpa--I used the wrong word, settlement, instead of the correct one, verdict. OTOH, this has to do with inter-corporate battles starting 25 years ago, not some recent rise of commodity cartelling. A 12-year-old federal antitrust case
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by adolph 2y ago
There will undoubtably be a Mac Studio (and Mac Pro?) bump to M4 at some point. Benchmarks [0] reflect how memory bandwidth and core count [1] compare to processor improvements. Granted, ymmv to your workload. 0. https://www.macs
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by adolph 2y ago
The universal theme of Her was the set of harmonics that define what is something and the thresholds, boundaries, windows onto what is not thatthing but someotherthing, even if the thing perceived is a mirror, not just about human relations
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by adolph 2y ago
It is interesting to think about crypto as a stairstep that Nvidia used to get to its current position in AI. It wasn't games > ai, but games > crypto > ai.
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by adolph 2y ago
Lazy? This is Nvidia eating their own dogfood. They put in lots of work to get to the point where someone can call it "lazy."
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Why use correlation to develop a neutral cause hypothesis when there are lawsuit settlements which theorize vast conspiracies of billionaires? That doesn't activate dopaminergic systems at all.
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by adolph 2y ago
> My stove fan vents straight back into the room. Yes, unless you have equal amounts of outside air entering your domicile, a vent leading outside is not effective. A recirculating vent, however, still has a filter. Hood filters capture
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by adolph 2y ago
I think https://chainpatrol.io/ is fake. Look at things like the "legal terms." To make a DCMA (US Law) counterclaim, they want "a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the Province of Ontario.&qu
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by adolph 2y ago
do things that don't scale https://paulgraham.com/ds.html
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Was there some previous interpretation that was utopian?
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VW paid "$14.7 billion to settle civil charges in the United States" and was ordered "to pay a $2.8 billion criminal fine for 'rigging diesel-powered vehicles to cheat on government emissions tests'." https:&#
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by adolph 2y ago
The article linked as “W3C specifications are bigger than POSIX.” is also worth reading. The total word count of the W3C specification catalogue is 114 million words at the time of writing. If you added the combined word counts of the C11,
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by adolph 2y ago
To recap: >>> . . . worried that the internet will get less and less free as tactics like this become more common >> On the other hand, where do you draw the line with regards to lawbreaking? > Do electrons on a wi
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> police regularly seize . . . Yes, civil forfeiture would be absurd if it weren’t a farce of force. https://www.aclu.org/issues/criminal-law-reform/reforming-po...
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by adolph 2y ago
Do electrons on a wire or photons on glass break laws?
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To the author: The above is a high quality comment with worthy areas to study. Additionally I would draw your attention to NCCN’s “Developer API” which is not interesting technologically but how it reflects the IP landscape. https:/&#
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by adolph 2y ago
I’ve been assessing this. Is it possible to MDM-install a VPN to the home network so the same policies are enforced?
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by adolph 2y ago
The photosphere is the visible surface of the Sun that we are most familiar with. Since the Sun is a ball of gas, this is not a solid surface but is actually a layer about 100 km thick (very, very, thin compared to the 700,000 km radius of
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Thats improv, not standup; granted, one must be agile either way.

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