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by cm2187 3y ago
Talking about music Shazam fails to identify, I have a bee in my bonnet about a piece of violin that I found in several trailers [1] [2]. Sounds like Ray Davies but can't find the tune anywhere. [1] https://youtu.be/md9
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by cm2187 3y ago
Yeah but the headline says she says the quiet part out loud.
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by cm2187 3y ago
This is a disingenuous headline. From the context she clearly meant "locking in" as in a customer buying a subscription, not vendor lockin as in you can only use our ink (not saying it isn't happening, just that this was not
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by cm2187 3y ago
I don’t know. When youtube bypassed adblockers on iOS, I found it quite natural to break that habit and stop using youtube. I stopped watching TV 20 years ago, I have been using ad blockers as soon as they were introduced. The habit of not
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by cm2187 3y ago
I am not aware that customs controls are made in the passport area, at least not between London and Paris. It is done at the exit of the terminal, in a non blocking way like in UK airports (and always was, they were already looking for ille
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by cm2187 3y ago
I didn't notice a change in baggage inspections. The inspection occurs when you leave the terminal in London, but that's not blocking, like in airports, you just walk through unless you are one of the few unlucky ones. In 15 years
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by cm2187 3y ago
Also the low melting point in case of fire.
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by cm2187 3y ago
I can't imagine what the sound insulation between floors must look like.
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by cm2187 3y ago
> First I've heard of the deprecation The option to create software RAID 5 from disk management has been removed already from Windows 10 desktop (you are supposed to use windows storage space, but as I mentioned, it really sucks f
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by cm2187 3y ago
I think a lot of houses are made of bricks, not necessarily reinforced concrete. Appartement blocks on the other hand is all reinforced concrete I believe.
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by cm2187 3y ago
I was a bit shocked when I learned that reinforced concrete only has a lifespan of about 100 years. That means that if you buy a condo in a building built in the 1970s, the building will become unsafe and need to be demolished in your life
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by cm2187 3y ago
Do you store stuff on multiple disks? I struggle with windows as a NAS. Windows storage space sucks hard (particularly their RAID5 style parity which has unacceptable performances, but also I had it failing without reporting it, and it does
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by cm2187 3y ago
Even from a pure legalistic point of view, US laws have extraordinary extra territorial reach. I believe if a bribe occurs between two foreigners in a foreign country, the mere fact that they used USD for payment brings it within US jurisdi
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by cm2187 3y ago
They equally gather information on friendly democracies, bribe or blackmail people, hack computers, they are involved in trade negotiations, watch what all the parties are doing in civil wars, etc. It's not a good guys vs bad guys, goo
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by cm2187 3y ago
But it's also too often broken, fragile, and the worst sin of all, break default behaviours of browsers. It is the price we pay for html having been stale for 15 years between the late 90s and 2012-ish.
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by cm2187 3y ago
Intelligence agencies' very role is to break laws.
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by cm2187 3y ago
Would have been funny to see crypto competing with AI to splash ridiculous amounts of money on those chips.
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by cm2187 3y ago
Security was a side effect. By far it was ease of deployment, maintainability, and cross platform (as in mobile, not so much macos/linux). But agree that security considerations is what is making my hand shake if I am installing any de
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by cm2187 3y ago
But I only have 16GB RAM, so I can only have a dozen of those electron apps open.
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by cm2187 3y ago
I agree, I have very little trust in all those climate projections, even today. That being said the industrial rise of China and South-East Asia happened since, and I doubt those were baked into any prediction in 1989 (like I doubt any pred
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by cm2187 3y ago
Is it compressed? Also I presume the html must gross up the number.
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by cm2187 3y ago
I would bet those who grew up with 56k modems are more affected!
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by cm2187 3y ago
Heard the same in France, with the army making some trucks drive around in circle to use some gas to make sure their gas budget doesn't get cut.
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by cm2187 3y ago
To me the real thing missing is whether those drive advertise power loss protection or not. The next question is whether they are to be used in a laptop where power loss protection is less relevant given the local battery.
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by cm2187 3y ago
And less user hostile features. Like if you press shift, the website can't hijack your contextual menu.
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by cm2187 3y ago
I don't mind paying a small fee, assuming it goes to the creator (that's a strong assumption, youtube loves to demonetise creators if they don't stick to the doxa). But how can I do that without being tracked to death. I want
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by cm2187 3y ago
Front is also very tedious. Lots of reinventing the wheel every time, obscure css bugs, etc.
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by cm2187 3y ago
But chatgpt has no knowledge of the format of your file. Unless you provide the output of an ffprobe as part of your prompt. Like if the source is a dvd, there are all sort of ratio issues, deinterlacing, how you deal with subtitles, etc.
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by cm2187 3y ago
Dogs apparently see at a higher frequency. For those who want to torture animals...
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by cm2187 3y ago
Ask Ukraine if they are better off without their nukes now. I have read somewhere that after the fall of the soviet union, some historians got access to some invasion plans for western europe. Apparently those plans excluded France and the

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