britneybitch

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by britneybitch 4y ago
I looked at GrapheneOS too, but the author is philosophically opposed to letting users root their device.[1] I understand the security argument, I really do, but root is too useful to give up, and I don't want to be locked out of my ow
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by britneybitch 4y ago
Is there a reason LineageOS doesn't support recent Pixel hardware? I was planning to buy a Pixel to run Lineage, but the newest supported Pixels (5/5a) only have a support window of 3 years instead of 5 years for Pixel 6/7. A
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by britneybitch 4y ago
My pet peeve is people who can't resist writing comments dripping with sarcasm while everyone involved is obviously talking past each other. Why don't you just explain your point in plain language?
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by britneybitch 4y ago
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2014/08/12/study-you-have... > the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public p
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by britneybitch 4y ago
It's interesting you're only complaining about the images. If I ask ChatGPT a question and it answers, would you call that stolen text?
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by britneybitch 4y ago
Existing tax code already covered crypto to a large extent. If you buy a boat for $100k and sell it for $150k, you've always had to pay taxes on the difference. Crypto works the same way.
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by britneybitch 4y ago
In previous years, the question was worded "virtual currency". This year, it is worded as "digital asset". Looks like the question was broadened to include non-coin assets like NFTs.
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by britneybitch 4y ago
ETH/BTC reached 0.1515 in June 2017. This cycle it peaked at 0.08838 and it's currently at 0.07206.[1] If anyone in ETH multiplied their holdings by a number above 0.5, it had to be gambling on one of the small coins that has sinc
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by britneybitch 4y ago
It feels like Solana is moving fast and breaking things a little too much for a project that has to do with money. Uptime should be a competitive advantage for decentralized networks, but the Solana network went down 12 times in the first 6
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by britneybitch 4y ago
Other than the chicken, that description is a perfect match for New York City.
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by britneybitch 4y ago
They're not always treated as fiction though. Some police officers model their behavior after what they see on TV. And police departments have given shows access to locations and props in exchange for favorable portrayal. John Oliver d
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by britneybitch 4y ago
You're not wrong. https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
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by britneybitch 4y ago
That behavior is more common across industries than you might think. One example: https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/commodities/natural...
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by britneybitch 4y ago
Well first off it needs to be rewritten in Rust, obviously. I just can't enjoy playing a game if I don't know for sure it's memory safe.
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by britneybitch 4y ago
Primary source: https://devos50.github.io/blog/2022/ipod-touch-qemu/ Yesterday's thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34095830
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by britneybitch 4y ago
If you're talking about humans, I think you're underestimating the importance of the less obvious senses: - sound - touch - equilibrioception (balance) - proprioception - and surely there are more Think of the visceral difference
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by britneybitch 4y ago
You could store a `RefCell<Option<T>>` in an `Rc` and set it to `Some(rc)` after creation. Or you could use the recently-stabilized `new_cyclic` method: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/rc/struct.Rc.html#m
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by britneybitch 4y ago
Bitcoin is not a security though. Both the CFTC and SEC have said so publicly: https://bitcoinist.com/cftc-chair-only-bitcoin-is-a-commodit... https://decrypt.co/103926/sec-chair-gensler-bitcoin-not-sec
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by britneybitch 4y ago
Wow. PG did not even post any links, he pretty much just said "I have a Mastodon account." And just like that, banned. Looks like now you're not allowed to so much as mention that you use other websites on the internet beside
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by britneybitch 4y ago
> At that price-point, are there other devices on the market that already fulfill the need? No there aren't. Webcams in 2022 all have miniscule lenses/sensors paired with decade-old tech and none of the big players seem interes
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by britneybitch 4y ago
AWS wipes disks before reusing them (loosely speaking--an EBS volume doesn't correspond 1:1 to a physical disk). Forensic analysis of overwritten data requires disassembling the physical disk, so no, it's not possible.
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by britneybitch 4y ago
Are you saying every non-iOS software company with a profit margin under 18% should go out of business?
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by britneybitch 4y ago
If we ever try to create an artificial general intelligence, then we'll have to accept that it can't be fully controlled. You can't control a human intelligence either.
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by britneybitch 4y ago
"Ad serving has now been restored for the affected users." https://i.imgur.com/rnRiF6Z.png
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by britneybitch 4y ago
Thanks <3
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by britneybitch 4y ago
I took one for the team and disabled my adblocker so I could get a screenshot of the page. https://i.imgur.com/9n7HuLu.png