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12031.
by api 10y ago
Sooner or later they'll get around to integrating this into systemd. /jk ...hopefully...
12032.
by api 10y ago
Lenovo installs malware by default, so nope.
12033.
by api 10y ago
"Life originated on Earth" is probably the last remaining geocentrism. Literally every other geocentrism has fallen. My prediction is that this one will fall this century, probably with the discovery of simple microbial life elsew
12034.
by api 10y ago
"like with numerous cryptocurrency companies relearning why the finance industry has so many dang regulations." My wife is into architecture and told me once that "every building code has a tombstone." Every building cod
12035.
by api 10y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFkcAH-m9W0
12036.
by api 10y ago
One of my favorite admittedly speculative evolutionary informatics papers agrees with you: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/513781/moores-law-and-the...
12037.
by api 10y ago
Life extension would really help environmental concerns. The problem with things like global warming, ocean acidification, biodiversity collapse, etc. is that the negative effects are usually too far in the future. But if you're actual
12038.
by api 10y ago
If some anti-aging magic bullet was discovered, the market for it would be insanely huge. Unless the technology is intrinsically complex, capital intensive, or "high-touch," it's going to rapidly decline in price with scale j
12039.
by api 10y ago
Most actually don't. The field is dramatically under-funded.
12040.
by api 10y ago
You're correct. It's imitating style, not creating substance. This is effectively the 2d image version of those "random text generators" that ape a given style. It's really interesting and cool but it's not &qu
12041.
by api 10y ago
Silicon Valley has shown us that this doesn't necessarily really help businesses. It's an irrational fear-based scarcity-mentality behavior that actually harms businesses by ruining their talent ecosystems. You want employees to
12042.
by api 10y ago
International flights can be brutally long. Los Angeles to Amsterdam is like 14 hours. I could definitely see a market for this.
12043.
by api 10y ago
In my experience they caused people to get slightly more serious about security, but the effect was minimal beyond crypto heads and maybe enterprise users. UX continues to dominate all other market factors in computing by a huge margin.
12044.
by api 10y ago
I ran a small community many years ago. As soon as the personal attacks, threats, and other juvenile behavior started I took it down. Done. Reddit is a for profit media property, but banning subs where this stuff goes on is indeed the corre
12045.
by api 10y ago
The key is economic. The cloud and SaaS have taken over largely because the cloud is DRM and because centralization creates opportunities for ad and ad-driven surveillance business models. There is merit in doing the technical work to make
12046.
by api 10y ago
Ahh, the BBS days. 513 represent!
12047.
by api 10y ago
This stupid hack exists because Linux is so fragmented it's impossible to distribute software easily in any other way. That and most Linux distributions are significantly harder to deal with both technically and administratively than A
12048.
by api 10y ago
Looks like they exceeded some kind of stupid limit on a cheap hosting provider... anyone got a mirror?
12049.
by api 10y ago
It's easy to prove if we were to ever receive, say, a string of Fibonacci numbers followed by their sum.
12050.
by api 10y ago
Maybe it is. I think the parent was suggesting directed panspermia-- that the Earth's biosphere is itself a B-vN probe in the process of self-replication. That's one way to do it.
12051.
by api 10y ago
Oh no I started a Fermi paradox thread! I don't have time for this but I'd suggest looking into other discussions on this. The Fermi paradox opens an entire monstrous tree of possibilities, but it's not quite as simple as &qu
12052.
by api 10y ago
No, it's not. While I agree that it should be a late-stage hypothesis for simple Ockham's Razor reasons, there is absolutely nothing irrational nor supernatural about ET. Everything we know about life and about the universe, inclu
12053.
by api 10y ago
I think it's almost a tongue in cheek thing in aerospace. There's stuff like "RUD" which stands for "Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly" and means the rocket exploded, etc.
12054.
by api 10y ago
It's a training phase to experience what the modern web can do.
12055.
by api 10y ago
So we have what appears to be a full-on hot propaganda war between an apparently independent "hacker" and the leading presidential candidate. I'll say it again: just move all those old 80s cyberpunk novels into the non-fictio
12056.
by api 10y ago
Traceroute to cloud.yeelight.com seems to go to China. Your light bulbs are talking to a cloud service in China. https://www.cnet.com/news/can-wi-fi-let-you-see-people-throu... Nope.
12057.
by api 10y ago
How about (3) don't ship devices with default passwords ever or face public flogging. Of course this will not change until users care about privacy and security and include it in buying decisions. I'm not holding my breath.
12058.
by api 10y ago
I'm skeptical of my own opinions, especially in any case where I do not have access to unfiltered direct evidence. IMHO to not be skeptical of opinions derived from Nth hand data is insane.
12059.
by api 10y ago
I wonder how much of Reddit is just paid troll armies battling other paid troll armies?
12060.
by api 10y ago
If this is the case (and I think it is), then what is the underlying motive? It seems to me that if things are coming to a head like this it's because there is an underlying Issue (capital-I) that is also coming to a head or will be so

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