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by chithanh 1y ago
You were just lucky, because YouTube uses A/B testing and does not roll out anti-adblock-measures to everyone simultaneously. This gives UBO some time to react.
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by chithanh 1y ago
It's a self inflicted problem. Rather than using some standard message format for backups (like eml / RFC 822), and putting them in a standard encrypted container if so desired, Signal chose to use some proprietary database format
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by chithanh 1y ago
> It is also unethical to propose a radical change to society with only very tenuous basis in reality: people should be able to demonstrate knowledge (and not just knowledge about what beliefs will prove popular or fashionable) before th
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by chithanh 1y ago
In the developed world and large parts of the developing world, meat is consumed for entirely hedonic reasons (ie. for pleasure). I would not consider this materially different from killing for sports or entertainment.
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by chithanh 1y ago
Here in the EU, insect powder is now an approved food additive. https://food.ec.europa.eu/food-safety/novel-food/authorisati... As I don't closely read labels of everything I eat, probably I consumed it inadv
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by chithanh 1y ago
In my understanding it is mostly a cultural thing that makes people reject insects. I am unaware of any objective measure by which are insects are terrible foods.
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by chithanh 1y ago
> Meat was important as a calorie source but it has many drawbacks in modern society totally unrelated to animal ethics; cancer risk, inefficient land use, methane production, etc. I think the most important drawbacks which actually thre
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by chithanh 1y ago
Is it like coffee? People say they want a coffee with a strong flavor but they then proceed to mask the coffee flavor by adding milk and sugar (or plant-based creamer and artificial sweetener).
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by chithanh 1y ago
The reasonable way is to buy a PHEV and use the fuel tank as range extender for occasional extended roadtrips or when chargers are unavailable. However that may or may not be desirable when it comes to regulatory concerns (taxes etc.).
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by chithanh 1y ago
In case of kidneys, my understanding is that only a certain subset of glomerular cells are actively filtrating blood at any given point. The other cells form the functional reserve, and start to become active once the other cells age out, o
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by chithanh 1y ago
> I think your comment actually hits the heart of the issue. Most software developers I have met have this kind of disdain for their users familiarity and ability and act like they are above that. That is not what I meant. I don't s
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by chithanh 1y ago
> What UK Biobank is revealing, scan by scan and layer by layer, is that disease doesn’t arrive out of nowhere. It accumulates quietly, shaped by genes, environment, and habits. I think that is already known for a while. It's called
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by chithanh 1y ago
That is seriously how some people navigate through life, not just computers. Like if they want to go to a certain office in a building: My "instructions" would be to go to department foo, room A5.303 (made up number). Their instru
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by chithanh 1y ago
KTransformers now supports Kimi K2 for MoE offloading They claim 14 tps for the 4-bit quant on a single socket system with 600 GB RAM and 14 GB GPU memory.
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by chithanh 1y ago
Or in North Korea which has outlawed birth control
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by chithanh 1y ago
That is not how it works. When car licenses expire then you can still download the racing games in your library from Steam etc., even after new sales are discontinued. You are already the owner of the licensed content and you get access to
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by chithanh 1y ago
Directive 2009/24/EC clearly makes reference to the first sale doctrine in Article 4
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by chithanh 1y ago
And that is totally fine, as long as people know what they are investing their time and money into. I know that some years back, getting your mobile phone financed on two-year contracts was a normal thing. But it was a debt trap for consume
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by chithanh 1y ago
VLIW is maybe cool, but people will be relieving themselves on EPIC's grave for the pain that it inflicted on them. Like if you tried to debug a software crash on Itanium. The customer provided core dump was useless as you could not se
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by chithanh 1y ago
If you use your bank's rate by paying in foreign currency then this is usually fair, at most they will add a 1% foreign currency transaction fee. When it comes to exchanging cash, avoid currency exchanges at places like airports, touri
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by chithanh 1y ago
Newspapers even advise travelers against terminals who try to trick paying in Euro instead of local currency. This is a rip-off.
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by chithanh 1y ago
I don't buy these arguments. If game developers don't want to sell games that way then don't. Sell subscriptions instead. Like instead of $60 for a game, $60 one-time fee for a two-year subscription, which afterwards renews a
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by chithanh 1y ago
No, even if the licensing agreement between the developer and the car maker ends, then according to first sale doctrine, the game buyers keep the licensed content. Removing it from user systems would be undue (but admittedly has happened su
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by chithanh 1y ago
> Game publishers have chosen to revert to centralized servers, rather than allowing private servers. Thus they have also taken on the additional cost of running those servers. I fail to see the principal difference between a "centr
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by chithanh 1y ago
> The EU does not care about what Apple does in the US. Well, partially they do. For example when it comes to the Right to be forgotten , there were attempts to apply this also to data which is stored and displayed outside the EU. Only
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by chithanh 1y ago
> Unfortunately browsers don't allow those in image contexts The fact that we have the <img> element at all is bad. HTML has since the early days a perfectly capable <object> which can even be nested to provide fallback,
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by chithanh 1y ago
Yes, it is happening already (both the pivot away from unprofitable non-renewable energy, and US government intervention to tax imports of photovoltaics). Levelized Cost of Electricity (LCE) from PV is below the fossil fuel range since 2020
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by chithanh 1y ago
> Anti-cheat today is a stop-gap measure at best. For various reasons such as improved OS security and security concerns with this software, ring zero anti-cheat won't be around forever. I think that traditional kernel-level antiche
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by chithanh 1y ago
It is not necessary for the majority to install solar. Pakistan had similar problems with rolling blackouts, and mass import of photovoltaic equipment and batteries from China has reduced the load on the grid so that outages no longer occur
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by chithanh 1y ago
When it comes to converting small video snippets to animated graphics, I think WEBP was much better than APNG from the beginning. Only if you use GIF as intermediate format then APNG was competitive. Nowadays, AVIF serves that purpose best

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