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by awalton 7y ago
From the original post, it's more like a language parsing issue - Chrome was original a desktop-only application and it had extensions. When it was ported to Android, they ditched extensions, as well as jettisoning numerous other fea
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by awalton 7y ago
Agreed. Piece reads like a CIA insider wanting funding for a pet project, designed to be put in front of the eyes of the public as a way to goad the members of the intelligence committees in congress to act.
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by awalton 7y ago
FreeDesktop.org solution (being deployed on several GNOME distributions today): https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/hadess/low-memory-monitor Used in combination with compressed swap (ZRAM), it greatly alleviates this probl
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by awalton 7y ago
> Complex systems become more complex over time and resist becoming simpler. Deserves repeating. At my job, it's repeatedly discussed as a feature to be an engineer who removes the most code. Most engineers are net positive, the f
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by awalton 7y ago
HTTPS would be overkill. TLS would require certificates and nobody's going to put up with that for simple network transparency. It already works over SSH and that's pretty much optimal as far as most of us are concerned...
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by awalton 7y ago
As an aside to this happening, I'm very excited about the idea of good Indian food making its way throughout the US similar to how Chinese food did before - even if it gets slightly Americanized along the way, I'd be extremely hap
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by awalton 7y ago
But then how would Apple sell you a Mac Mini?
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by awalton 7y ago
My cable box has a remote that's able to turn off and on my TV and switch the TV's sources. I haven't taken the TV's remote out of its original packaging. It's 2019 - this is a solution in search of a problem.
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by awalton 7y ago
This is precisely why my "smart TV" isn't allowed on my network. Millions of dollars of work to theoretically save the user on a $10 HDMI cable (but, more honestly, just to make consumers buy new TVs every couple of years reg
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by awalton 7y ago
Perimortem?
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by awalton 7y ago
It's way beyond Try 2. And the last company to try this exact model, Vessel, was snapped up and murdered by Verizon to keep it from being a threat...
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by awalton 7y ago
As far as I'm aware there's no beta blocker that's approved for performance anxiety in the US. Paperwork for Propranolol in the US has on-label usages listed as: Hypertension, Angina Pectoris, Atrial Fibrillation, Myocardial
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by awalton 7y ago
> We need to end off label use. Saying a drug is approved for one diagnosis and then allowing it for any other diagnosis is, in the modern age, simply crazy. One might as well not have fda approval. This is patently ridiculous. The FDA j
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by awalton 7y ago
My favorite example of this was when the feds essentially replaced pseudoephedrine (which works brilliantly, but now you're treated like a criminal if you need to buy it) with phenylephrine (which, quite frankly, doesn't do a damn
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by awalton 7y ago
Probably not strict enough. ISPs are just going to shrinkwrap their contracts with an extra clause saying they're selling your data unless you write them a letter to some address which they will check at a ridiculously low frequency or
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by awalton 7y ago
Yeah maybe, but not having an offsite backup is asking for trouble. They just failed to consider that "their site" == "digital ocean's cloud", and that since it's someone else's computers, they could easil
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by awalton 7y ago
"GTK2 is too big" "Just use Java or Electron" I'm sorry, I just can't reconcile the logic here.
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by awalton 8y ago
> That's why the state and federal governments maintain a system of talented-if-overworked public defenders. ...whose advice is usually "take the deal," because they're incredibly overworked and would rather get thing
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by awalton 8y ago
You should look at the S-1 filed by Lyft - their marketing budget losses was huge - $800M last year, compared to the operating deficit of $977M for that year. Doesn't seem like it would take a business magician to get this company in
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by awalton 8y ago
What's the accounting for people who still have Facebook accounts but realistically never or very infrequently check them? I've had no interest in using my Facebook since it became Babybook, and maybe I'll poke at it once a m
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by awalton 8y ago
> The trouble is, it works. Depressingly well. It does... if countries allow it. There was either some fear that this was happening or deliberate intent to keeping this from happening with the case of North Korea's sanctions - my m
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by awalton 8y ago
> Cambridge Analytica is not defunct, but rather changed its name to Emerdata. Not technically correct, but basically the truth. Cambridge Analytica declared bankrupcy in May of last year and the creators of that company created Emerdata
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by awalton 8y ago
> I don't know why there is so much negativity in the comments here. Probably because as of right now it's vaporware with a marketing budget. Drumming up hype for something you haven't released yet is a pretty good way to
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by awalton 8y ago
Worse, there was content on YouTube that used the annotation system to implement choose-your-own-adventure type stories and hidden easter egg videos. That content is now not just wrong, it's broken and unusable. It's almost become
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by awalton 8y ago
It was brought up during VMware's internal security conference called "MooseCon" earlier today during a talk on Unicode. No idea if it's just coincidental resonance though.
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by awalton 8y ago
> Maybe Intel knows something we don't. Or maybe Intel's chips miss less often due to more sophisticated branch prediction and prefetching? The Pentium 4s were victims of excruciatingly painful pipeline flushes and stalls. It&#
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by awalton 8y ago
> Is there evidence of a well-defined physiological mechanism rather than merely being a symptom cluster that might be purely psychological? Is there evidence of a well-defined psychological mechanism rather than merely a symptom cluster
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by awalton 8y ago
The differential diagnosis for fatigue is just so vast, it's easy to miss the marginal percent cases like various forms of hyper/hypothyroidism (yes, both can cause fatigue; I was tested for both, among many other tests.) Unless y
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by awalton 8y ago
> So who's 'fault' is all this? Uh, it was McDonald's fault, as proven by the several legal battles this woman won. This continuous questioning of settled arguments is absurd. They served the woman boiling hot coffe
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by awalton 8y ago
> The whole car just becomes trash. It's a fairly safe argument it was trash before it was purchased. Planned Obsolescence should be the last thing on a car manufacturer's mind. But they see the phone companies making disposabl

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