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by dTal 3y ago
...and yet, efficiently transferring a 1kb file between two physically adjacent smartphones remains an apparently unsolved problem.
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by dTal 3y ago
Agreed, .jar is an underrated deployment mechanism. Or, you know, make the darned thing a web app.
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by dTal 3y ago
I was impressed by the IKEA demo until I looked more closely and realized it was complete gibberish. Every single part is number "101339" and it keeps talking about "attaching the hammer-shaped piece"; it gets worse from
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by dTal 3y ago
Tails are extremely useful to mice, especially for balance and climbing: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/apr/30/why--mi... Be careful with assuming functionlessness, in general. Evolution d
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by dTal 3y ago
>I guess they legally need consent for that, and tying a feature improvement to data collection is still totally allowed somehow. As egregious as this is, it still doesn't strike me as nakedly insulting as Google's refusal to l
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by dTal 3y ago
Choosing a specific track is easier on vinyl than cassette, not tougher; there are often visual cues, and you can seek in constant time rather than linear. It takes a steady hand to be sure, but I'll take it any day over fast forwardin
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by dTal 3y ago
> Victims, looking forward to confirming they were up for cocktails and canapes, were directed to click on a link to a hijacked, Cozy Bear-controlled website – waterforvoiceless[.]org/invite.php – which would download a .zip file. M
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Hyper-REALITY (short film depicting the future of AR) [video](youtube.com)
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by dTal 3y ago
Much has been written about the dystopia we are already in, but I am specifically concerned about the dystopia they are earnestly building. Meta is aware of these problems and is trying very hard to solve them. And they won't be useles
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by dTal 3y ago
I'm sure the tech is neat. But I get a real sinking feeling from how hard tech giants like "Meta" are trying openly to create dystopia. The "Metaverse" is not aspirational! > That understanding would let AR glass
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by dTal 3y ago
There's no such thing as pure PLA, like all industrial plastics it's filled with additives to improve its properties and these have endocrine disrupting / carcinogenic properties just like all the others.
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by dTal 3y ago
Why is BitTorrent not supported? Perhaps I'm misunderstanding this thing but it seems like application #1.
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by dTal 3y ago
Considering that I would pay double this to avoid doing a captcha, I conclude that 1) captchas are irretrievably broken, 2) there is a profitable arbitrage opportunity here.
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by dTal 3y ago
Indeed. Just because it is widespread doesn't make it okay. We should not allow greedy companies to set the Overton Window of acceptability.
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by dTal 3y ago
If your business is "doing sketchy shit with people's data", and the regulatory hammer just came down on you... well, yeah.
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by dTal 3y ago
It's rather interesting that the "compression ratio" is fairly constant. I'd like to see a more thorough treatment of where that number comes from.
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by dTal 3y ago
What would be the point? Contra-rotation has limited use as it is. In this case the stated reason is to ensure the axial flow has no energy wasted in twisting (though this can also be achieved with a stator) - in any case two stages are eno
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by dTal 3y ago
>Imagine noticing a weird rash on your arm, but as soon as you look at it, your glasses immediately diagnose it as a potential MRSA infection and pop up a notification allowing you to call an urgent care clinic that’s open right this sec
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by dTal 3y ago
>So one app that is totally unknown to another app can introduce reflections into the objects it displays Reflections of the real environment on virtual objects do not imply a global scene graph, or the ability of apps to reflect one ano
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by dTal 3y ago
Filters to discourage use? Do you have a source for this? Surely they are just low-res, infrared cameras.
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by dTal 3y ago
>The world of the empire in the 9 films seems orderly and well orchestrated I'm curious what you mean by this, since we don't actually see a whole lot of the civilian day-to-day running of the Empire. In the original trilogy, t
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by dTal 3y ago
I get a similar feeling looking at instructional videos from that era[0][1], or reading books like Stick and Rudder[2][3], or even the simple brilliance of the visual design of the London Underground[4]. There's a pervasive sense that
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by dTal 3y ago
Offtopic perhaps, but I am interested in reading an explanation of the good, big reasons why not "programming languages should be able to wear syntaxes like themes". Racket seems quite an interesting counterpoint, and I've ne
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by dTal 3y ago
What temperature is that, then? I would think that a finger, being an extremity, would be cooler than core body temperature - and not by a precise amount, either. "Lukewarm" by this definition would be cooler on a cold day, and va
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by dTal 3y ago
Quite possible the trackpoint was genuinely worse in 2007 than in 2001. Like Windows 95 itself, huge amounts of human factors research went into making it worthwhile when it was new and unproven, with usability studies deriving the optimal
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by dTal 3y ago
The superuser on iOS is Apple. Apple can do whatever they want, to any iPhone, whenever they want. Final, ultimate control must always be vested somewhere . Your argument is that it's "more secure" for it to be in the hands
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by dTal 3y ago
If bait, it's very effective. 13 comments on this article and all replying to this hyperbolic sideshow.
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by dTal 3y ago
They said "by far" the worst, which is pretty much opposite to your point. If we soften it down to "dropping nukes was pretty bad", it becomes a boring and uncontroversial comment with no punch, and we wouldn't have
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by dTal 3y ago
Bad? Yes. "By far the worst war crimes ever committed by any nation"? In war which also featured the holocaust, not even close. You must have anticipated this response?
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by dTal 3y ago
To anyone doubting this, note that llama.cpp does not slow down by a factor of 16 when you pass -c 2048 instead of -c 512.

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