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by ajnin 7y ago
The fact they they are installed in a read-only partition is what makes them non-removable, if they were installed in the regular partition then the "system" partition wouldn't need to be so big, they would be removable and
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They still take up significant space, and they often are re-enabled automatically whenever the device gets updated.
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"No Code" tools do have an actual advantage in that they only allow to create valid programs. They don't prevent bugs however so that advantage is pretty tenuous, it's akin to a type system that works as you go. The main
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I created something similar for my personal website. I don't get spam comments, but I think that's only because I'm too small to be worth the effort for spammers. It would be pretty easy to pattern-match the few different que
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Machines need to be maintained. Machines of useful complexity include such parts as microprocessors. To create new or replacement parts, nothing less than the full Earth industrial complex is required. It's not clear how to package all
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I used this algorithm to detect the signal sent by heart belt sensors a few years ago. Those belts send a quite weakly powered 5kHz "chirp" through a coil for each heart beat. You're suppsed to detect those chirps via another
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> neutral marketplace Nothing neutral about that. The one with the most money gets the better QoS. We don't need yet another market ruining things the real world uses so that some finance type can make bank. I wish ads for hostile i
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I don't think going closed source is the solution to fight against others leeching off your work. The solution is more stringent GPL-style licenses that are more protective of the open-source community. Overall BSD-style licenses are n
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What was the original plan exactly ? Subscribe to as many groups as possible and then wait until the last moment to grab the data ? That would almost certainly have resulted in massive bandwidth problems and massive bans by Verizon in respo
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Gifs are lossless, ideal for pixelated low rez graphics. Video formats usually aren't.
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> an editor that works for all Slack users That's a common pitfall many companies, including Google, seem to be falling into. Everyone uses tools a bit differently. Imagine that each feature is an axis in the space of all the ways t
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Forcing poor people to choose between their health and some other need seems extremely cynical to me. Often the poor just can't make that choice, they need food, shelter, clothes first. It's not a real choice when your immediate b
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I don't see how splitting code in multiple modules makes it easier to communicate to others. It forces you to constantly switch places, which, knowing the limitations of the brain with regards to short term memory, would make it harder
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PE firm appoints former ICANN executives to top positions. ICANN lifts price caps on .org registry. PE firm acquires .org registry. ICANN executives acquire stakes in PE firm. I don't know how this kind of behaviour is qualified legall
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An extensive rewrite in only a few months (they expect a return to service by the end of the year), involving a whole new paradigm of 2 computers monitoring each other vs the old failover mechanism. I'm sure the aviation industry has e
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> Boeing decided to make the two systems monitor each other so that each computer can halt an erroneous action by the other I thought the whole point was that you needed 3 computers monitoring each other because if you have only two, you
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I wish the Mona Lisa would be restored too. The brown color is probably due to oxidized varnish and not the paint itself and I don't think it has any particular value, to the contrary.
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I sometimes get that urge, either because there are so many paintings that I can't possibly watch them all in detail in a single visit, so I snap a picture thinking I'll review them later (I usually don't), or I like a painti
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by ajnin 7y ago
I really dislike this kind of reasoning. Saying this is "highly rational" is saying the only value is money. Everything else can be set aside if it leads to more money. Even if people get hurt or worse using shoddy equipment. Ther
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by ajnin 7y ago
Is the "Mac OS Lion" version accurate ? If so it seems wildly inferior to the other versions : - it's hidden, meaning you don't know where to put your mouse to interact with it - it's hidden, so you don't even
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by ajnin 7y ago
One of the very first comments below the original announcement post was someone wondering about the RGPD implications of that change, and mentioning that locking features behind a mandatory opt-in to tracking might be illegal. That comment
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It's not that they can't, more that they don't want to, because that gives them leverage on their employees. Look at the recent GM strike : not happy ? We're cutting your health insurance. They reversed it ultimately but
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Same in France. They make it illegal to bring respiratory masks or saline solution to protests, then they flood them with tear gas; they launch military-grade grenades (GLI-F4) into crowds, harming and maiming indiscriminately, and prosecut
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by ajnin 7y ago
I've had one great experience working in an "Agile" team using the Extreme Programming method. I have fond memories of pair programming, starting work by writing tests with the business analysts, and focus on principles : DRY
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So, if you're not a "Tetris piece" that stacks well (i.e. bends the whims of your superiors at the expense of your private life and mental health), then you're a "shit hire" ? Yes, that situation sucks, but not
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I disagree with the premise. There are no autonomous robots on their own, there are autonomous robots that someone decided to deploy and target on something. That's just too easy to say that oh, the robots are autonomous so nobody&#x27
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Pretty cool, some basic documentation would be nice (the readme does not tell everything). I didn't find how to reproduce some of the behavior of the loan example in the GIF, like how to format cells (turns out formatting is just writi
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I think this should. Using the same logic, this should apply to in-game items and other "dematerialized" goods.
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Why is it wrong to defend someone that is accused of something ? Does an accusation equate to culpability ? He defended him by doubting that he did the things he's accused of, not by excusing those things. Yes, this bashing is totally
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Why is it wrong to defend someone that is accused of something ? Does an accusation equate to culpability ? Should we ban lawyers and move all court cases directly to sentencing without defense arguments ? This total abdication of reason an

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