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by buran77 7mo ago
> Maybe for people in the US. Internationally? It was big internationally. But the jokes made Norris known to a whole different generation than the one watching WTR.
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by buran77 7mo ago
PlayStation 3 similarly had the option to run alternative operating systems, virtualized [1]. I remember running Yellow Dog Linux on a couple of PS3s. (edit. just found the YDL 5.0, 6.0, and 6.2 buried somewhere on my NAS). [1] https:&#x2F
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by buran77 8mo ago
> The question is why corporations think they can be leeches though Because they can , they don't just think they do. Everything about the framework they operate in allows or even encourages them to do it. > That's just not
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by buran77 8mo ago
> In industry Talk about specifics, eh? Didn't you just argue against an article addressing "_their_" specific usecase? In a store people will ask "is this better than an Apple?". And I'll tell you one more
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by buran77 8mo ago
> But why would an article address _their_ specific usecase? amelius, if anyone had specific requirements, it was you with your "systems for in-flight entertainment". OP asked a very reasonable question for a very generic c
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by buran77 8mo ago
This CPU will end up in products that are competing against Apple's in the market. People will look at and choose between two products with X925 or M4/5. It's a very obvious parallel and a big oversight for the article. For
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by buran77 8mo ago
> They deleted the article This was a big disappointment. I read the original article and the comment from the source highlighting the error, knew what was wrong with it, and still think it was the wrong move to just delete the article a
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by buran77 8mo ago
> No foreign superpower barged into the Civil Rights The presumably US Civil Right movement wasn't happening in an authoritarian state. There's no question that non-violent protest works differently in democratic or well functi
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by buran77 8mo ago
> not without serious external aid shifting the power balance. I second that non-violent protest alone is a moral high-ground stance that has little effectiveness without an external force amplifying the leverage. The assessment quoted a
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by buran77 8mo ago
His is a very idealistic take which weirdly omits that every major example of non-violent protest working to topple a regime involved some foreign super power spending trillions of dollars to wage very much violent wars for the purpose. The
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by buran77 8mo ago
> I’m just afraid that prices of $everything will go up soon and will not come down anymore, like they did after Covid. That's how inflation works. In this case it seems more narrow though, there's hope the prices will go down.
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by buran77 8mo ago
If you find a man made hole with a perfectly vertical shaft and high aspect ratio (tall and narrow), it was drilled. Individuals can float or be washed ashore on an island, populations can't. If you find entire civilizations on distant
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by buran77 8mo ago
Maybe a stupid question but I see everyone takes the statement that this is an AI agent at face value. How do we know that? How do we know this isn't a PR stunt (pun unintended) to popularize such agents and make them look more human
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by buran77 8mo ago
> If the server has considered fully the implications The server "considers" nothing. The considerations are for the human implementers to make when building their software. And they can never presume to know why the software o
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by buran77 8mo ago
I'm fine with people never justifying their personal choices. It's their business. But if they do bother to justify it then it's a show they put on for me. And reading this kind of explanation is like the show runner takes me
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by buran77 9mo ago
> it's your employer's insurance that will be liable if you have an accident while driving a company vehicle I think you're mixing some concepts. There's car insurance paid by the owner of the car, for the car. There&
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by buran77 9mo ago
> The comparison isn't really like-for-like. This is a statement of fact but based on this assumption: > low-speed contact events that would often never show up as police-reported crashes for human drivers Assumptions work just
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by buran77 9mo ago
Stop going around in circles kwanbix, you made your arguments for Vista being "trash", I showed you (with links and numbers) they apply to OSes regarded as the best ever. Unless you plan to address that directly you're just t
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by buran77 9mo ago
Even for civil law where the bar for the evidence is lower, it's hard to make a case that someone who posted wrong details on a free blog and didn't make money off of it should cover the damages you incurred by traveling based on
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by buran77 9mo ago
> To omit that disclaimer, the author needs to take responsibility for fact checking anything they post. > Skipping that step, or leaving out the disclaimer, is not carelessness, it is willful misrepresentation. Couldn't help but
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by buran77 9mo ago
> It is however fraud on the part of the travel company to advertise something that doesn't exist Just here to point out that from a legal perspective, fraud is deliberate deception. In this case a tourist agency outsourced the crea
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by buran77 9mo ago
> Valve the "game" company, has a relatively flat structure Valve has ~300 employees and operates in a field where they can afford more freedoms (try building large infrastructure projects with flat structures). Valve struck a
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by buran77 9mo ago
> so I know what I’m talking about Your arguments don't show it and if you have to tell me you know what you're talking about, you don't. It's tiresome to keep shooting down your cherry picked arguments. > Vista
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by buran77 9mo ago
> this could be solved With a USB stick and FTP. It's very easy to underestimate a problem when you've never encountered it or tried to tackle it in practice. Your shallow dismissal gives that away and brings no insight. Human
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by buran77 9mo ago
Everything you said was perfectly applicable (and then some!) to Windows XP, Windows 7, or Windows 10 at launch or across their lifecycle. Let me shake all those hearsay based revelations you think you had. Windows XP's GUI was conside
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by buran77 9mo ago
> but it is the truth It's a very superficial "truth", in the "I don't really understand the problem" kind of way. This is visible when you compare to something like ME. Vista introduced a lot of things un
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by buran77 9mo ago
The painful to answer question is whether the intention is to block the spreading of lies or the spreading of truth?
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by buran77 9mo ago
> By contrast, Qualcomm calculated the annual total compensation of its median employee at $101,639, putting Amon's pay at roughly 292 times that figure. For those who missed that in today's brand of capitalism in some countrie
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by buran77 9mo ago
And because plenty of engineering goes into designing subsystems with the explicit but unstated purpose of making them close to impossible to repair without ultimately resorting to help from the manufacturer. Software is just the latest lay
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by buran77 9mo ago
Is something similar available in iOS? Apple's full control over the hardware and software should make it easier than in the Android ecosystem. > software can only do so much. For these security features to work, your phone's m

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