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by bArray 3y ago
I think that given all of this information, they could run a very convincing scam either against you, or a service you interact with. From what I can tell, SSN is still somehow considered a form of identification in the US. Edit: Commented
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by bArray 3y ago
> Sadly, Pine has a long history of using poorly-supported chipsets and doing nothing to improve support. It wouldn't even be difficult either, they could just charge slightly more and then pay a kernel developer to solve these pr
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by bArray 3y ago
Reminds me of the Pine Tab (v1) with the contact pins at the bottom, fold-up keyboard, etc. Having an Intel processor would make me heaps more confident about good kernel support out of the box. The A64 by Pine is essentially abandoned for
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by bArray 3y ago
> Almost one in three children born last year were delivered by mothers born outside of the UK. The number of births by women born outside the UK rose 3,600 year-on-year to account for 30.3pc of all births. The previous peak was 29.3pc i
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by bArray 3y ago
There is a large LGBT framing in the article on Naomi Wu's situation. I would rather hear from Naomi, it's entirely possible this is about her stance on COVID, Uyghur Muslims or something else entirely. > Despite her primarily
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by bArray 3y ago
> Yes, all spending will at some point have to be accounted for, but it is relatively easy for governments to borrow money if the political will exists. I think the next few years will show you why unchecked borrowing is a bad thing. Ult
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by bArray 3y ago
Exactly. There's a good chance that climate change efforts are far better targetted at super emitters. We have limited resources and these are relatively low-hanging fruit.
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by bArray 3y ago
> And Linux GUI’s started to use the [x] symbol only after the release of Windows 95. Which? The website linked to is hardly comprehensive [1]. There's literally tonnes of X window managers pre-1993 [2]. [1] https://web.a
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by bArray 3y ago
I see them currently: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads Had a look on their page edits and couldn't see anything there: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads?action=history Perhap
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by bArray 3y ago
> I was wondering: how often do nanosecond timestamps collide on modern systems? The answer is: very often, like 5% of all samples, when reading the clock on all 4 physical cores at the same time. A few things to consider: 1. This would
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by bArray 3y ago
As a UK-based Amazon customer, these dark patterns are getting out of control. They keep swapping interfaces every few days, and they are becoming increasingly complex. Now you have to de-select "use the remaining balance in my gift ca
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by bArray 3y ago
Hello there, great work! I have been following since a long time, back when you were on Freenode IRC. If you do bridge your Discord to IRC, please do announce it somewhere. One suggestion: maintain your compatibility with Linux, as this wou
733.
by bArray 4y ago
I remember years ago the Pocket Pikachu game [1]. Would be cool to have something similar but using energy harvesting to keep your digital pet active. Given improvements in AI and processing power, with some form of decentralised trading, t
734.
by bArray 4y ago
My personal setup is to write a presentation using markdown and use pandoc [1] with LaTeX beamer mode, then output to PDF. This is with a custom theme. I think I could be inspired to come up with something somewhere in-between. Doing manual
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by bArray 4y ago
> In one such model, black holes do not contain a singularity, but are instead filled with vacuum energy. These vacuum-energy black holes are intriguing because their growth is coupled to the expansion of the universe: as the universe ex
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by bArray 4y ago
Exactly. It's more like: "[Some] Europe[an] [City] [Large Tech] data salary benchmark 2023" The _majority_ of people will not see anything even remotely like this pay on average.
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by bArray 4y ago
I don't not think that English isn't difficult to parse. I agree completely that it's all about the code you write. You can write nice C++ that is easy to understand, easy to debug, and that you can be quite certain is bug fr
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by bArray 4y ago
> Yet you see folks in her dismiss any arguments against DEI as boogeyman of right-wing pundits. I don't know how "right-wing" became a slur, but it's unhealthy for people to hold their opposition with such low regard
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by bArray 4y ago
I have come across Smithsonian Institute before [1] (unfortunately). I'm sure white supremacy is also defined by being healthy, having good money management, etc. Everything held up by white Western culture must be purged. I've wo
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by bArray 4y ago
> racism when upholding values of hard work and discipline to get ahead I think these activists are to racism what SlimFast/WeightWatchers is to dieting. They have no interest in actually solving the problem, they instead would much
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by bArray 4y ago
> This is the sort of thing that confounds me. It proports to be anti racist but it's the opposite, it treats minorities as a special lesser class that require protection from everyone else. It's the civil rights movement in re
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by bArray 4y ago
Potentially the killer application for this would be those wireless earbuds and music players. I would like to hear what this sounds like at lower bit rates when signals become strained. Really cool work!
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by bArray 4y ago
I remember needing to get Windows XP under 64MB of RAM so that I could run some photo editing software. XP was relatively feature complete, I don't think Windows currently ships with 32x the features of XP (64MB vs 2048MB minimum). Lin
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by bArray 4y ago
I don't see there is much of a discussion to be had here without going into politics. The situation is a lot more complex than is being put across in the article. This situation will get worse, everywhere.
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by bArray 4y ago
Exactly. I found myself asking "but how would draining batteries help them?". I think lots of companies already do stuff like this, for example, Microsoft rolls out updates to smaller groups before doing larger deployments. Google
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by bArray 4y ago
> 1.: Theres an email on the buttom. ;) I saw this, but if it was to for some reason to get even remotely popular or abused, this would not scale. > 2.: I thought of it, but that would make everything more complicated. So, no, not for
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by bArray 4y ago
@Visurox Didn't work for me (wrong secret), but I like the idea. I was thinking about a variant of this, but I am somewhat concerned about abuse of such a service. Being 1kB you aren't going to get much in the way of image media,
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by bArray 4y ago
Appreciated, the context is useful.
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by bArray 4y ago
I would ask a different 'why', which is 'why is fentanyl so easily accessible?'. We know where it's made, how it gets into the US, a long list of reasons for why people start taking it. But why hasn't the suppl
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by bArray 4y ago
As far as I'm aware, we are yet to create a complex simulation or game as rich as the world around us. That said, even if we could, games often have somewhat well-defined fitness functions. The other problem with simulated problem spac

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