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by bad_user 3y ago
Your argument isn't as strong as you'd like. Microsoft having a Windows monopoly wasn't illegal, what brought their antitrust case was distributing IExplorer with Windows, taking market share from Netscape. But in 2023, are t
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I've tried using DDG for years, on and off, and it's been a terrible experience. Local searches simply don't work. My favorite example is searching for "restaurante" and getting Spanish results, even though I'm
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> Math is how the universe works This is bullshit, and the mathematicians themselves know it. Just one obvious example that everyone can understand: Euclidean geometry does not describe the universe, even if it's useful. But more
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Right. And the workers can renegotiate, or are free to leave.
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In the West, the alternative is seldom starvation. Given the very low rate of unemployment, despite the post-pandemic climate, it's pretty obvious that people still have choice when seeking employment. And there is always choice, which
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Obviously, yes. Integers don't exist in nature, being an abstraction made up by the human mind. Math is only “discovered”, if by it, we mean the ability for humans to have the same ideas, simply because we think alike and live in the s
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The cashiers at the supermarket are paid a wage they agreed on when they were hired. There's nothing more fair than supply and demand.
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Math should be patentable, too. The idea that math is "discovered" instead of "invented" is bullshit. That, or get rid of patents altogether.
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This would be a very legitimate concern. Not sure what the difference between regions is, I'm in Europe, but on my S21U I have the option to unlock the bootloader in “Developer options”.
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There's nothing in Samsung's privacy policy that companies like Google, or Microsoft didn't already do. I'm also an EU citizen, and the GDPR and ePrivacy Directive, i.e., the law, is above any terms of service, as Facebo
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Yes, I am sure, this is a somewhat more recent pledge from Samsung.
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Not sure what you mean by bloatware, but I prefer several Samsung apps over the Google ones. I prefer the Calendar app, for example because it allows me to draw on it with the pen. I also prefer Samsung's Calculator, Notes, Clock, and
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If you want to get into Android, a safer bet for high-end devices would be Samsung. It helps if you have other Samsung devices, like TVs or Galaxy Watch. I have an S21 Ultra (2021). It's big and somewhat heavy, but it has 16 GB of RAM,
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by bad_user 3y ago
What you're talking about is civilization, and it's great, being why we're here, living in comfort, with our belies full, having a conversation on armchair philosophy. We're not plants dude.
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Don't forget there's a lot of prose in software development, too. You can always tell which people are comfortable writing their ideas down, versus those that don't, by how they express themselves in emails, issues, documenta
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Before that, Joda-Time was the de facto standard, with `java.time` being a port to the standard library by the same author.
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At least it has the unit in the name, could be worse.
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If you want to compare abilities, in the 90s you also didn't have Internet-connected cameras on every corner, or in public transportation, also able to do face recognition even with masks on, you couldn't use Wi-fi to see through
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Wiretapping was also used by all police states to preserve dictators, by eliminating competition and punishing citizens for wrongthink. As citizens of a country behind the Iron Curtain, my parents were always afraid to talk on the phone, be
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You jest, but every word coming out of our mouths is a generalisation that someone thought of.
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> Do humans generalize outside of their training data? JFC, is this a joke?
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> You cannot, (should not), do blocking IO in async in any language. On platforms with 1:1 scheduling, of course you can. Blocking I/O executed on another thread, with a callback to execute when done, becomes async I/O (from
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Java, C#, probably Go and others, are able to do async I/O on multiple threads. It doesn't help with the actual async I/O being performed, but it does help with parallelising CPU work, or with the fact that not all I/O c
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You can always subscribe.
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by bad_user 3y ago
Terminal is cool, but it's just an app that's not even shipping with Windows. The best terminal app for macOS, iTerm2, isn't built by Apple. It says something about the Windows ecosystem that it took Microsoft to come up with
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For developers, the great addition has been WSL2. But that's about it. For regular users, Windows 7 has been the best, and after noticing how my parents struggled with the updates, nothing can convince me to think otherwise.
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The GDPR makes it pretty clear that you need a legal basis for processing personal data. And serving personalised ads, with the purpose of increasing revenue, is not a legitimate interest. Moreover, consent is not only required for such use
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2018 — "GDPR doesn't work, says tech bros"
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Our experiences are different indeed. It is on facebook where I've seen the most vile shit, which happens especially in private (yet big) groups. I've also reported posts for blatant sexism, racism, antisemitism or dangerous medic
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Because defaults matter for people that simply use what is given to them. Also, those payouts have addition benefits. Given the billions they give to Apple, I'm pretty sure that it prevents Apple from developing their own search engine

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