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by chc 5y ago
I think the point is that it doesn't sound like Apple did anything to this person. This person apparently ran into a bug and it took Apple's engineers a few days to get a fix out. I do agree, though, that I wouldn't suggest h
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by chc 5y ago
Yeah, people had already been using the private APIs on jailbroken phones. That's still a pretty ambitious timeframe even just to get out all the supporting infrastructure, though.
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by chc 5y ago
How did it bring you around? This piece doesn't even contain any concrete accusations. The headline claims that Twitter is waging war on India...somehow, and the rest of the article just assumes this is a) a meaningful claim, and b) tr
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by chc 5y ago
But that just makes your login not work if the rest of your site is HTTP, doesn't it?
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by chc 5y ago
The blanket rule is because even "good" necroposts tend to encourage bad ones. If I'm on an active forum and I revive some ancient discussion with a useful comment, lots of people will click on the thread and try to argue wit
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by chc 5y ago
I disagree that it's actually redundant. It's like if back in 2004 somebody said "Apple computers are overpriced and underpowered." Technically, "Apple" in that sentence stands for "Apple Computer," s
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by chc 5y ago
"If you want to inherit from an object, just create a class based on that object" is a description of how you'd imitate prototype inheritance in a language that only has class-based inheritance. It does not mean you're a
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by chc 5y ago
I don't think you have that quite right. Objects don't inherit from other objects in Python — you can't do `class Foo(object())`, for example. Python has class-based inheritance.
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by chc 5y ago
What's strange is the README says this, but I don't see a linking exception in the actual license.
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by chc 5y ago
This is basically "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame." but make it pro-Apple.
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by chc 5y ago
This viewpoint seems a bit defeatist. It's true that even buying local rarely avoids 100% of interaction with overseas companies, but there's a lot of room between 100% and 0%. If you just don't want to think about it, that&#
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by chc 5y ago
Strange, that's not what I've read. Obviously some people were doing that, but all the articles I saw suggested that there just wasn't a lot of excess capacity in the toilet paper industry, so even just a lot of people buying
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by chc 5y ago
In this case, "malicious" clearly means "interested in misusing the private data under discussion."
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by chc 5y ago
"Term of art" means that it has a technical meaning in a specific field, while "idiom" just means that a phrase has a meaning. For example, "a dime a dozen" is an idiom but not a term of art. If you wanted to a
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by chc 5y ago
> But while downvotes seem useful for comments where there's a lot more scope for false information, trolling, etc., I'm not sure what the additional value would be for posts -- they're either popular or not, and you can s
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by chc 5y ago
"A term in linguistics" is imprecise — it's also a term outside of linguistics. The phrase "term of art" means basically "I know that you think you know what this means based on the words, but it is a special d
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by chc 6y ago
And I did not say "He said she was a willing participant." I think it is fair to say that Stallman believes it should be considered consensual sex as opposed to rape. Based on what he has said, I'm pretty sure that if you wen
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by chc 6y ago
From emails posted here: https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec21... > The announcement of the Friday event does an injustice to Marvin Minsky: > “deceased AI ‘pioneer’ Marvin Minsky (who is accuse
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by chc 6y ago
I think you have drastically misunderstood my argument. To use your analogy, let's say Bob is constantly stealing from you. You urgently need some essentials, and you say, "I know, I can steal them from Bob." But somebody sto
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by chc 6y ago
These sorts of arguments always fall a bit flat with me for one simple reason: They assume a false causality. Our forbearance doesn't force others to reciprocate. If we try to stop people from encouraging the mass murder of protesters,
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by chc 6y ago
I think both sound equally valid. One sort of expands to "a GUI editor for plain text" in my mind and the other is more like "a plain text editor with a GUI."
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by chc 6y ago
They probably didn't intend for the headline to read "One hundred mega posts," so if anything you're arguing in favor of how they wrote it.
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by chc 6y ago
Per capita. Florida did anomalously well given its seemingly poor handling of the situation. It's likely related to the fact that California has 3 of the 10 biggest cities in the US while Florida has 0, but that doesn't seem like
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by chc 6y ago
Canada has a bunch of covid impact programs ( https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/economic-respons... ), as well as normal unemployment insurance. I can't speak on the experience of actually using them,
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by chc 6y ago
I mostly agree, but I don't think that's responsive to what I said. My point was that, to the best of my understanding, the idea of "female DNA" just doesn't seem like a good way of conceptualizing biological sex, t
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by chc 6y ago
Thank you — I've never been able to find any actual references to the page, and have found a lot of other people who found the book Sokal and Bricmont cited without being able to turn up the actual quote. I'm not sure your hostili
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by chc 6y ago
I don't think you're supposed to understand that quote. While the quote was attributed by Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont to a feminist writer, nobody seems to be able to find an actual appearance of the quote before Sokal and Bricmo
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by chc 6y ago
That doesn't really make "female DNA" a thing, because XX vs. XY does not tell us enough to know for sure if someone is male or female in the sense that the words are normally used. There are natural XY females who have a mut
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by chc 6y ago
You seem to be reading in a bit here. Observing how societal traditions and roles are passed on and reinforced is a far cry from "thinking dolls are some sort of abusive form of biased gender conformity."
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by chc 6y ago
I think the problem there is the password policies more than the screen-locking policy. The locking policy is just shining a spotlight on the password policy issues.

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