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by bscphil 3y ago
> To put it bluntly: you’re wildly out of touch with reality for most people. 99% of people who have a phone I don't think 99% of people who have a phone have any kind of extensively worked out plan for what happens if their phone i
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by bscphil 3y ago
Possibly a dumb question... the Yubikeys a bunch of us own were originally sold as U2F / FIDO keys. My understanding of this system was that it was, as labeled, a "universal second factor" standard. But passkey is supposed (?
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by bscphil 3y ago
> Failing to applaud a speech by Joseph Stalin could get a person arrested. So could listening to bootlegged copy of the Beatles. Moreover, Stalin died in 1953. The Beatles were not even formed until 1960. It's fair too sweeping a w
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by bscphil 3y ago
Complete speculation on my part, but I wonder if maybe snap applications have trouble accessing the keyring from inside the sandbox.
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by bscphil 3y ago
In addition to Baraka and especially Samsara (the best known film in this genre), I'd suggest the films of Nikolaus Geyrhalter. "Our Daily Bread" is a really good film looking at food production specifically.
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by bscphil 3y ago
> if Microsoft ever ruins Minecraft somehow Honestly I haven't touched Minecraft since Microsoft started enforcing "you have to have a Microsoft account". It's not ruining the game per se, and it's not an overwhe
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by bscphil 3y ago
The film was shot and framed in 4:3 but was cropped down (for reasons unknown to me) into widescreen for the theatrical and later the Blu-ray releases. There is a rare uncropped DVD release of it by a distributor called "IRE" out
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by bscphil 3y ago
I would love to see Comcast forced to put a precise number on what upload speed they're giving me. They actively refuse to say. There's nowhere, anywhere in the Xfinity interface, that tells me what upload speed I'm supposed
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by bscphil 4y ago
Good point, although you could still do logic like only activating the throttle after the customer visits netflix.com. You can't distinguish the CDN traffic, but you can still tell what website is being viewed. Incidentally, my speed
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by bscphil 4y ago
> Since fast.com is a Netflix ip, and the isp can’t distinguish whether it’s video that is being transferred or a file to measure throughout, It is really trivial to do basic traffic snooping and see what people are looking at. I'
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by bscphil 4y ago
Thanks, that's an interesting find. Although it makes the story more confusing, doesn't it? Why bother with voting for CEO while everyone is offline and hoping no one notices, if you have 100% of shares and can be guaranteed to wi
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by bscphil 4y ago
Some (purported) details here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/12a6szd/pandemic_horde... > Flam Hill owned 100% of the shares, and thus could do whatever they liked with the company. I think thi
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by bscphil 4y ago
Something's wrong with your setup. Typical latency for opus is only ~20ms and you can get it lower than that by changing an encoder setting. FLAC is usually more than that, but it should be negligible regardless. Maybe you are trying t
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by bscphil 4y ago
It's sort of bonkers that we've quietly gotten to the point that codecs for music are getting compared at the 32 kbps level, for full stereo. Audiophiles used to constantly be making comparisons between codecs to see what's
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by bscphil 4y ago
I don't think that confirms this is not a bug. It's a function that runs on the `mouseup` event, so it's presumably intended to activate on clicks that last less than 200 ms (anything longer is considered a click and drag). T
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by bscphil 4y ago
Isn't Ctrl-Q quitting the program normal and expected behavior? For example, right now on Firefox 111, I can see in the File menu that the "Quit" option has the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-Q. I'm fairly sure it works.
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by bscphil 4y ago
I think we're arguing on multiple fronts here and that is confusing things. 1. My point about Linux on the desktop is that there are in practice users like me who are already getting the (many) advantages of dynamic linking, and don&
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by bscphil 4y ago
I think a central element of the article is its focus on the needs of genomics researchers. In this field there are many tasks that are highly parallel but not embarrassingly parallel. Ideally you want to scale out to as many processes as p
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by bscphil 4y ago
> "because you don't actually want the thing you said you want" I guess I didn't feel, reading the article, that they were saying that. They never said that you don't really want a dumb TV, they said that none of
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by bscphil 4y ago
> > Sometimes developers in this mindset forget there's a whole other world out there, a world of personal computers, that each have hundreds or thousands of applications installed. > it's not that i forget about these us
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by bscphil 4y ago
> it’ll likely be missing several other salient features that you may actually want I disagree with you; the answer they give is pretty reasonable. Sceptre TVs are recommended everywhere you look if you search for dumb TVs, they're
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by bscphil 4y ago
> it allows for all of the things you list, yes, but those things just aren't really valuable compared to the reliable execution of a specific binary > smaller executable sizes, shared code in memory, synchronized security update
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by bscphil 4y ago
> p=0.2 feels strong enough for me to at least consider the possibility of no children == more regret You got the correlation backwards. In their sample, parents experienced more regret.
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by bscphil 4y ago
Yes, thank you for pointing this out. To be more precise about it: Original PNG: 1310987 bytes Lossy PNG: 1154386 bytes (90.4% of LZ4i) Lossy LZ4i: 1276477 bytes More Lossy PNG: 693278 bytes More Lossy
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by bscphil 4y ago
Even commodity Dells like the Inspiron and XPS models tend to be extremely repairable ( and fairly upgradable, which is where Apple really falls flat). Granted that there will always be lemons (and there have been lemon Macs, in which ca
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by bscphil 4y ago
Admittedly there are a lot of variables here, and this may not be a fair test at all, but it's interesting to me that Firefox on Windows loads many web pages much faster (relative to Chrome) than Firefox on Linux loads those same web
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by bscphil 4y ago
OP is presumably talking about stuff like dictating the future of web development, not about who gets money as a result of users having a browser installed. It's a different definition of "sameness" than you're using, bu
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by bscphil 4y ago
> I guess people don't want to upstream patches for some reason. My insanely biased impression based on my experience is that this is just the norm for Windows-centric development. Generally you have no expectation of being given ac
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by bscphil 4y ago
No - but what we can report on is basically where there's a discrepancy between what the scientists who wrote the report wanted to put in the report and what delegates from individual countries with special interests pushed to have it
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by bscphil 4y ago
This is getting picked up on blogs and so on now because of the recent report release, but the underlying facts about delegate lobbying were known back in 2021, thanks to reporting from Unearthed at Greenpeace: https://unearthed.

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