angus-prune

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by angus-prune 5y ago
The regulations apply to new cars. That’s how almost all regulations for vehicle standard enhancements are implemented.
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by angus-prune 5y ago
The original Xbox lost $5-7 billion in 5 years Epic games has lost $593m on the Epic Game Store in 3 years Apple invested $500m in Apple Arcade (and that was on an existing hardware install base). I couldn't find how much Google has sp
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by angus-prune 5y ago
The legal precedent isn't that Apple doesn't have a monopoly. There is no legal precedent on whether Apple has a monopoly. The law is entirely agnostic on whether Apple has a monopoly until it is put to a judge.
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by angus-prune 5y ago
Whats the benefit of low latency when playing prerecorded music?
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by angus-prune 5y ago
Apart from industrial raves where gas masks are already part of the fashion
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by angus-prune 5y ago
The grain still needs to be hauled to somewhere else though. If the grain only ever exists on your farm, it has no value to anyone else whether for coins or axe heads.
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by angus-prune 5y ago
Before even checking the username, I had guessed that this would be as a result of cryptocurrency speculation. From reports from other crypto investors, I would also suspect that the investment also wasn't limited to buying on a mainst
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by angus-prune 6y ago
I'm afraid that you're wrong about how Atmos works. Previous Dolby standards worked as you describe, but Atmos is most similar to your alernative 2. Atmos has up to 128 audio tracks which are each positioned and moved within a vir
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by angus-prune 6y ago
That's not how the planning system works in the UK at all. You need planning permission to demolish any building (with a few explicit exceptions). This is something that is priced in to property valuations. It is entirely normal and ex
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by angus-prune 6y ago
The discoverability of voice commands is terrible . I have no idea how to find out what I can do with Alexa, or which particular magic phrasing Alexa will understand. My personal biggest issue, as means of illustration, is that I have no
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by angus-prune 6y ago
If you want a masterclass in moral game design, then you can't do better than Brenda Romero's game Trains[1]. You are unlikely ever to get to play this game (it is more art piece, than game), but there are spoilers below and in th
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by angus-prune 6y ago
Constant painting is also a sign of efficiency. Rather than a large number of people painting it for a small period of time, which requires a startup and close down overhead; they have instead resourced it so that they can keep a small numb
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by angus-prune 6y ago
There are services called tumblers which take bitcoins from multiple people (often multiple sources per person); mixes them up with bitcoins from lots of other people, transfers them about a lot randomly etc, then at the end spits out a ser
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by angus-prune 6y ago
The key missing choice is (3) Make it possible to tell the difference between the cables/devices. Thats what everyone is complaining about, that there is no way to know without trial and error what combination of capabilities across (a
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by angus-prune 6y ago
It is not a foreign court, it is the highest court in Ireland's legal system. No law has been sturck down. No law has been rewritten. No law has been applied retroactively. A deal was found to be illegal, based on the laws at the time,
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by angus-prune 6y ago
The highest authority in any modern deomcracy should be the rule of law. What you're advocating for is despotism.
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by angus-prune 6y ago
Hard agree. You don't describe the business problem, but go into incredible detail about technical details that either nobody reading the email[1] cares about. Even more than that - you're basically asking them to run random bash
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by angus-prune 6y ago
> eg "Insert -> Image -> From File". In the latest version of word the progression is: "Insert > Pictures > From This device"
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by angus-prune 6y ago
Anvil looks really interesting, and I appreciate your free forever tier, but I think you're missing a hobbiest tier. I'd be concerned about investing too much effort in case my project strayed over one of the limits and I have to
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by angus-prune 6y ago
Might be less limiting than you think. There was famously an apple store employee called "Sam Sung" - https://www.cultofmac.com/290116/sam-sung-auctioning-apple-s...
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by angus-prune 7y ago
They frequently seize domain names used for malware or controlling botnets. Just one example: https://www.cyberscoop.com/vpnfilter-botnet-fbi-seizure-apt-...
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by angus-prune 7y ago
It doesn't apply if you're only occasionally processing personal data or not doing so on a large scale. If you're regularly processing personal data of EU citizens on a large scale then you damn better be doing so securely an
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by angus-prune 7y ago
The English Bill of rights is not what you think it is. It wasn't about giving freedom to the people, but shifting power from the monarchy to parliment. The freedom of speech enshrined in the English bill of rights also isn't remo
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by angus-prune 7y ago
I remember reading that some of the textile techonology that enabled the arctic/anarctic expeditions in the early 20th century has already been lost. They're having to analyse the garments in medical scanners to work out how the f
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by angus-prune 7y ago
Probably more than Amazon. There are several countries, multiple markets, and potentially countless government agencies or local companies operating in the area.
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by angus-prune 7y ago
In case anyone hasn't seen it already - Planet Computers have built an android device explicitly inspired by old Psion devices and by the same industrial designer as the Psion Revo - https://planetcom.squarespace.com/
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by angus-prune 8y ago
If one dumbass in the company can screw up that catastophically, then the protections in place were always criminaly negligent.
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by angus-prune 8y ago
What negative impacts have you seen from GDPR?
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by angus-prune 8y ago
I thought I'd heard that they were commingling their own stock too, so even sold and shipped by amazon is no guarantee.
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by angus-prune 8y ago
People pay them to put things into space

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