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by cosmojg 5y ago
What's the lowdown on Apple and data retention?
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by cosmojg 5y ago
Those all sound reasonable and unbiased to me. That's exactly what most ads and cookies do.
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by cosmojg 5y ago
> the recent shoot down of ad blockers on the desktop browser Mobile browsers have been affected as well. uBlock Origin on Firefox for Android has been letting the ads through recently. Fortunately, NewPipe exists, but it depends on yout
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by cosmojg 5y ago
If it makes you feel better, efforts are being made to bring non-tyrannical operating systems to mobile in a braindead-easy, consumer-friendly fashion. You can search up loads of articles about the amazing stuff that the peeps running organ
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by cosmojg 5y ago
Well, now I'm feeling nostalgic. This little discourse brings back memories of the good old days on comp.lang.* and elsewhere on USENET and other ancient fora. ;)
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by cosmojg 5y ago
While semantic debates are undoubtedly a waste of time when we use an ever evolving descriptive language like English, I couldn't help myself. Most dictionaries appear to support OP's usage, and I would argue that it is very intui
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by cosmojg 5y ago
On the bright side, there's a spec.
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by cosmojg 5y ago
Last I checked, NASA issues Blackberries and iPhones: https://oig.nasa.gov/audits/reports/FY14/IG-14-015.pdf On the laptop side, they're using ThinkPads.
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by cosmojg 5y ago
I don't know about you, but I certainly like all those things, with some amount of flexibility of course. What are you trying to communicate with the quotation marks around "we"?
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by cosmojg 5y ago
I think this makes more sense if you think of it in terms of mean reversion [1], particularly as distinct from regression to the mean, that mean being the market return. Here are a couple articles that try to analyze the phenomenon [2][3].
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by cosmojg 5y ago
What the hell? What a meaningless metric by which to judge others or one's self. Facebook friends are cheap. I can send out 10,000 requests right now (~2 hours without writing a script, ~20 minutes with, assuming no rate limiting) and
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by cosmojg 5y ago
Huh? The day GitHub has that much control over the Git project, the world of software as we know it will end. GitHub ≠ Git. Far from it.
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by cosmojg 5y ago
> It involves naked women and copyright violations, but it get’s me around most aspects of a language and gives me a sense of how complete a language and its eco-system it. You can't just leave us hanging like that. What's the
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by cosmojg 5y ago
This guy has been wrong a lot recently. Admittedly, he was right once and in a big way. However, remember that success is mostly luck, and this is orders of magnitude truer for success in public markets. Outside of entertainment, it isn&#x2
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by cosmojg 5y ago
You ought to read more Fussell: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-fussell-on...
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by cosmojg 5y ago
Eh, your odds of outperforming a total-market index fund by attempting to take advantage of this opportunity are around ~50% or so. I'd stick to index funds, maybe use a little leverage if they aren't enough for me on their own.
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by cosmojg 5y ago
Maybe finding a line of televisions we could reliably lobotomize would work in the short term (a la Librebooted ThinkPads).
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by cosmojg 5y ago
Wait, why are these things mutually exclusive? He was both a physicist and an engineer! He literally used his knowledge of physics to physically engineer novel devices. As for your surgeon example, I sure as hell hope my surgeon identifies
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by cosmojg 5y ago
Out of curiosity, was your child enjoying them? What did you find objectionable? How did the subsequent conversation with your child go? I always wonder how I'll handle these types of situations if and when I myself become a parent. I
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by cosmojg 5y ago
Did markets incentive the development of agriculture, or was its invention largely independent?
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Hindsight is 2020 (TD3 and HER)(aimless-agents.github.io)
2 points by cosmojg 6y ago|0 comments
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by cosmojg 6y ago
Heh, that's actually pretty funny.
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Twizzler: A Data-Centric OS for Non-Volatile Memory(twizzler.io)
2 points by cosmojg 6y ago|0 comments
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by cosmojg 6y ago
Mastodon and Pleroma are home to many communities filled with people like this! One of my favorite instances, Merveilles[1], is probably among the highest quality in terms of the people themselves and the projects they work on, but there ar
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by cosmojg 6y ago
Who is Maddie?
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by cosmojg 6y ago
With a good PI, indeed it is, but similar to you, my experience is limited to neuroscience and biology departments. I have a feeling that the further you get from math, the more restrictive the intellectual atmosphere becomes. Math, as a to
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by cosmojg 6y ago
RIP Pebble. Their watches lasted over a week on a single charge. Fortunately, my Pebble Time Steel is still ticking, but it's only a matter of time before it breaks somehow. I already cracked the screen. :(
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by cosmojg 6y ago
Moderation, no?
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by cosmojg 6y ago
CGP Grey has an excellent video on this exact kind of goal setting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO1mTELoj6o And another on New Year's resolutions more generally: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVGu
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by cosmojg 6y ago
> "inevitable murder in outer space" Well that's depressing.

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