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by dafoex 6y ago
I might be thinking about this the wrong way, but, scrapers as described by this article are more-or-less targeted web crawlers, right? Don't we have a de-facto standard for handling this? User-agent: scraperbot Disallow: /
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by dafoex 6y ago
I have somewhat a hypothesis that brainstorming had early successes due to the perceived democracy of it - i.e. everyone gets a chance to say how we do the thing - but started to become a poorly managed chore when the big extroverts and the
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by dafoex 6y ago
Along these lines it somewhat reminds me of the iBooks shelf from pre iOS7 days
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by dafoex 6y ago
As a slight tangent, generic trademark names aren't always as generic the world over. I've never heard anyone ask for a Kleenex when the want a tissue, and from your further examples I assume a xerox is something to do with stati
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by dafoex 6y ago
A way this could be solved would be to provide websites with an interface that appears to be the system with no devices attached (or dummy devices in the case of devices that are always present, such as a power adapter) and only connect the
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by dafoex 6y ago
This is kind of what I'm getting at, though. You've just made the assumption I'm hypersensive to noise, and while that does sometimes bother me, the thing that causes me sensory overload is heat. I can solve this fairly eas
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by dafoex 6y ago
I personally hate this expression for the double standards it creates. If a minority fights against violence - e.g. police brutality - they are stunning and brave. If white people fight against violence - e.g. rioting and looting - they are
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by dafoex 6y ago
Biological noob here, but isn't Cas9 not well suited for humans? I recall that I read or heard somewhere that Cas12 was preferred for this usecase.
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by dafoex 6y ago
Yes, I believe that is correct. The expression is, after all, "wreaks havoc".
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by dafoex 6y ago
This is great and all, but as someone who's been patronised in this way for being the autistic kid, I'd rather you just treat me like a human being. I've learned my coping strategies, I don't need you to cope for me.
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by dafoex 6y ago
For the longest time I felt like I didn't notice race: yeah, if I looked it was there, and the town I grew up in and live in is pretty multicultural, so it wasn't a novel thing to see people of different colours. Sadly, as I&#x27
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by dafoex 6y ago
Unless, of course, the product is a tool for surveillance and the users are therefore the ones doing the surveillance and not the ones being surveilled. The victim can only do so much to stop this maluse of technology when they aren't
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by dafoex 6y ago
In a world where some police forces don't use polygraph lie detectors because they are deemed too inaccurate, it baffles me that people would make an arrest based on a facial recognition hit from poor quality data. But no, its AI, its
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by dafoex 6y ago
I had a chance to ride an off road segway once and it was pretty fun, so I'd recommend it if you get the chance. Never seen a segway advert, so I never really got an elitist vibe from them (although I did see one for a similar product
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by dafoex 6y ago
Kinda feels like age of the people may have been a factor here. Segways do require good reaction times and constant awareness of your surroundings because they don't stop (even when stationary they have power to the wheels keeping the
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by dafoex 6y ago
I had a go on an off road one fairly recently (maybe a year or two ago at most?) And it was pretty fun! A comment above says they aren't good for cities because they're too fast for the path and too slow for a cycle lane, but I t
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by dafoex 6y ago
Not to mention, when hacking tools are used for good, they are often used from the perspective of people wanting to do bad: penetration testing
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by dafoex 6y ago
A web browser? Aside for a few apps that provide significant advantages over the web version (or those that force you to use the app even in "requst desktop version" mode), I use a browser for everything. Hell, even though the Y
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by dafoex 6y ago
I haven't read the article entirely because it very quickly started to feel like a conspiracy piece by avoiding the topic as long as possible, but I'm sure if any of the other search engines succeeded then we'd be seeing peop
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by dafoex 6y ago
I don't think this statement is inherently wrong, but perhaps misguided. Skyscrapers in there current state should be abolished, but I don't disagree with vertical expansion. The article makes what I think to be a very good case
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by dafoex 6y ago
It does look fairly discordant and messy, and I'm not sure if I'd like to try navigating the structure, but there is a symmetry and level of detail that goes above and beyond the typical vision of a concrete cube that the word &qu
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by dafoex 6y ago
You make a valid point, but I still would disagree. The closest cliffs I can think of that are just as stark and imposing would be Dover. They are dramatic, iconic, and even beautiful, but would you want to live there all year round? The
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by dafoex 6y ago
I think the "a house is a machine for living" and "form follows function" are actually very good ways to explain these complex topics, but they are very open to a wide array of different interpretations, and it seems to
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by dafoex 6y ago
I agree to an extent. Brutalism can look very good, but I personally think it only works on small scales like houses. A brutalist skyscraper would look oppressive and imposing, towering above you like a Vogon ship about to demolish your pl
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by dafoex 6y ago
You know what? I love space ships. I want to live on a space ship and flow effortlessly from my bed to the kitchen, rehydrate some food and put it in a crumb-free wrap for breakfast, flow to my office and work on my experiments, take a br
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by dafoex 6y ago
My Kobo Glo has an experimental web browser that works fairly well. It has no reader mode which would be nice on an eReader, but its still a reasonable experience.
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by dafoex 6y ago
I would disagree, I think this answer is not focussed enough on the semantics. For better or for worse, the "Linux" name has become synonymous with the whole OS and not just the kernel, and the person answering seems to take the a
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by dafoex 6y ago
I've had a breif look at IPFS, but not enough to say anything with any amount of confidence. That said, the thing that immediately put me off was that everything seemed to want to be browser based, like starting some service that make
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by dafoex 6y ago
This is true, there is very little stopping someone strapping a grenade to an off the shelf drone and flying it into a crowd, other than regulation on the explosives themselves, but that's not something that can easily be mass produced
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by dafoex 6y ago
While its true that they have human operators currently, they don't necessarily need a lot of autonomy to attack someone jamming their signal. Most of the drone signal jammers I've seen take the form of a handheld directional rad

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