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Malware also broadly refers to software unwanted by and malicious to the user. So it includes pre-installed auto-executing OEM adware, spyware, and grayware (colloquially also known as bloat).
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There is one more reason why on-the-spot learning is prevalent in tech - tech moves fast. Faster than documentation and much quicker than courses or literature. Anyone trying to reach some finality in learning tech before practicing it will
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Disconnecting works for me. I don't participate in social media outside Hackernews and only read RSS feeds and newsletters from high signal-to-noise sources. About phones, I have a basic smartphone that I use for calls, messaging, cale
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It's predictable. General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was signed into law in mid-2016 and came into effect in mid-2018. That is two years to designate data controllers, processors, and a data protection officer, to ask for the cu
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I can empathize with this. I also partially rewrite my old blog articles where I made a mistake, the status quo has evolved, or I want more SEO keyword hits. More authors probably do it, but it is not publicly spoken about - perhaps it is a
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Do you mean corporatese (corpspeak) and CEOspeak? You naturally learn to speak and write it publicly, not to upset cynical people. It comes without rehearsing with enough experience and is difficult to emulate. You need to know the conversa
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Generally yes. I've been interviewing people in tech for about half a decade, and it never occurred to me to ask about their grades. It is irrelevant compared to testing how well the applicants know what they need to know for work. Bes
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If success is a premise, and learning is the conclusion, then it is not tautological. But yes, while not the only possible, it is a very likely result. And tautologically or not, it is important to recognize the value of how much we could l
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To clarify, I meant that we would inevitably do so when we live on Mars. But good observation - it is certainly not inevitable overall at this point in time.
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We will inevitably learn more about adapting our environment to our needs, as well as what our needs are when we are challenged by life on Mars, similarly to when we were challenged by life in LEO, on the ISS. I do not know a space equivale
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by clnq 4y ago
I feel like hundreds of government organizations constantly scheming something, in part to justify their existence, is not a good use of taxpayer money or human effort in general.
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Greta has some work to do.
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The article argues with two strawman claims and (unsurprisingly) wins. The first one is that the "year of the Linux desktop" jokes mean that the Linux desktop (or something else in computing) is impossible with open source, and th
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The argument that privacy is terrible because it can facilitate crime also neglects to consider that many other ways exist to encourage and obstruct crime and that nearly everything facilitates crime to a degree. For example, car ownership
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And for most non-English books and movies, good luck buying them anywhere in the English-speaking world.
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A lot of people did. Most business communication happens in virtual meetings or on platforms like Slack and Teams. Most informal communication occurs through voice calls and instant messaging. All that used to be email around Y2K, as far as
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by clnq 4y ago
The internet is full of lemons, not only social media, SEO-influenced services, and services where money buys you reach. If you take any popular medical fact (for example, about diets), you will find countless published academic articles su
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by clnq 4y ago
I suppose this is an unpopular opinion, but when I am old or if I have a severe incurable disease, I want to choose how I die. And if a doctor has the grace to give me a dignified death, I do not want them to be prosecuted for it or to have
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by clnq 4y ago
I don't think humans are that logical. Feel-good marketing aims to associate buying, owning, or doing something with a pleasant emotion. Whether any pleasant feelings, added value or utility are achieved by actually buying, owning or d
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How would one snap out of being seduced by feel-good marketing? For the last six months or so, I've been aware that I want to buy an iPhone even though I have a smartphone that fulfills all my needs. The cost for the value proposition
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by clnq 4y ago
On Android 12, at least, the current version of Google Play groups "Payments, deals and recommendations" into one notification category. Want to avoid deals and recommendations? Won't get notified when you're charged mon
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I don't know how the economics can or would work out for a modern drug company. It's agreeable that Western personalized medicine seems to lag behind Europe and Asian countries like China. However, this Georgian phage producer doe
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All of these could be true. However, the start-up was using GSuite a lot. It constituted about 90% of the company's interactions with Google. It's impossible to certainly know what happened since Google can't be asked where i
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I know a company that once worked on an unannounced product, X, a few years ago. At the time, you could Google "who made X," and Google would correctly show you that company. It was a start-up size business using GSuite, so far to
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Phage therapy is already used in Eastern Europe and Russia. I received phage therapy there myself against an antibiotic-resistant GI infection about 15 years ago. It has been effective. Of course, this is a sample size of 1. I genuinely bel
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I don't know off the top of my head. But missing tags or mistagging is a slightly different problem than tags that are difficult to parse. What's un/mistagged can be corrected in a crowd-sourced way (as Google Maps is doing).
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College-aged students are called young adults. And they definitely are. Infantalization of young adults is not good for their development in my opinion and experience.
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I agree with this sentiment a lot. Many people could benefit from understanding that a whole world of hard facts exists outside of their feelings.
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I don't think this is a bold statement at all. I agree with you about "pretty consistently", but that is not consistent enough for many uses. Let's say I want my maps application to know whether a building is commercial
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It means nothing except that there will be more contributors and/because OSM data will make it into more projects. OSM might also feel more pressure to standardize things like tags for features, which would resolve a considerable probl

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