darkpuma

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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "That is was not a prompt critical nuclear explosion is semantics." In a world where nuclear weapons are a thing and the public is generally aware of their horrific effects, the distinction between a meltdown and a 'nu
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by darkpuma 7y ago
You get asked to accept a cookie once per site. The proposal above is way more annoying.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Causing incredible annoyance is obviously the idea. It would drive away users, making business models that relied on it less efficient. It's a great idea.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Could be. Where might such a restriction be coming from though? I don't think it would run afoul of interstate commerce stuff. Is there something in their state constitution that interferes with it? Alternatively maybe they didn&#x
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by darkpuma 7y ago
That's not remotely comparable. Comparable would be asking if you're allowed to release third party components (hardware or software) for Ford cars without asking for Ford's permission. Obviously hardware third party compo
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by darkpuma 7y ago
It's a good bill iff it proves effective. I'm optimistic that it will, but that still remains to be seen. (An ineffective bill can be worse than none at all, since it's existence may confuse people who believe they have pr
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by darkpuma 7y ago
May as well forbid it outright at that point. (They should. Everybody deserves protection from this, even the people who don't understand the threat it poses. The uninformed, ignorant or naive all deserve protection, since preying o
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "Every company deserves a “monopoly” on their own product," Why?
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Pathetic FUD.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
uMatrix and uBlock Origin are complementary. Specifically uBlock Origin has cosmetic filters which uMatrix doesn't have. Using both is quite handy in my experience. Anything "Adblock" should be avoided. Borderline malwa
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by darkpuma 7y ago
You can change Chromium but you cannot change Chrome. The majority of Chrome is Chromium, but there are parts of Chrome that are not Chromium. Particularly the branding. Furthermore if you're actually forking Chromium like suggested
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Chromium is not Chrome. Switching from Chrome to Chromium is still leaving Chrome. Whether or not Chromium or Firefox are more to your liking is another matter, and whether or not switching to Chromium accomplishes what you want to accompl
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by darkpuma 7y ago
The content is: > Switching to Firefox is fast, easy and risk-free. Firefox imports your bookmarks, autofills, passwords and preferences from Chrome. 1. Select what to take from Chrome. 2. Let Firefox do the rest. 3. Enjo
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by darkpuma 7y ago
The stuff that [we're aware that] New York Times gets wrong in the modern era barely even holds a candle to what they got wrong in the past. Particularly the case where the NYT was publishing Soviet genocide denying propaganda as thoug
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Incidentally, after the second atomic bombing the, officers from the Staff Office of the Ministry of War of Japan and many members of the Imperial Guard staged an attempted coup aimed at preventing the emperor from delivering his surrender.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Superb, just what I was looking for. The official documentation really is spartan.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
If you ranked all wars humanity has fought from most justified to least, I expect your proposed war would be rather near the top.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "The rationality of hoarding makes more sense if you have 'warehousing' capabilities" Or if you believe you could/will organize the data in the future, perhaps with an unrealistic expectation that doing so wi
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by darkpuma 7y ago
That makes a lot more sense, thanks. But if the metallic lattice is retaining the pressure of bringing hydrogen nuclei that close together, wouldn't the whole thing tear itself apart? Is that the instability they're talking abo
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "The Google team explored three experimental set-ups that have been proposed to generate cold fusion — two involving palladium and hydrogen, and one involving metallic powders and hydrogen. None found evidence of fusion. The res
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Unfortunately individual executives have historically not been made to adequately feel the pain when companies lose control of user data. Nothing will change until that changes.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Gray is a color as good as any other.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Mackerel in particular is far superior to salmon in my opinion, but few seem to even give it a chance. There seems to be a widespread public bias against canned fish in general, and small canned fish in particular (larger canned fish such
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by darkpuma 7y ago
That's a pretty popular viewpoint to be honest. Glue traps aren't even particularly effective, and neither are they particularly reusable. So in addition to being cruel they just aren't a good deal for the money you'l
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Beyond what we traditionally think of as color blindness, there is an almost unlimited number of vision impairments your users may have that call for different colors, levels of contrast, and font size. To make software that is truly acce
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Changing two things at once (the target of the slander and the nature of the slander) is bad science.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "It's not much different than insects. We've chosen a few "pest" insects as the scapegoat/enemy and have bent over backwards trying to exterminate them. As a result, we've decimated all insect popula
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "Imagine someone saying “why are we racing to the moon? Why are we racing to quantum computers?” I can imagine that easily, the benefit of both of those is far from clear to many people.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Maybe some cowboy fame-hungry fighter pilots got jealous of SEALs getting all the juicy post-retirement book deals?
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by darkpuma 7y ago
If you care to roll your own solution, I think the silenceremove filter of ffmpeg should do what you want (I've not used it myself.) https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#silenceremove

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