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1. 271.▲
   by ddalex 3y ago

   > If I see an ad I just close YT for the rest of the day. I'm sure that's exactly the behavior YT wants here.
2. 272.▲
   by ddalex 3y ago

   Not sure why down voted. Even the quoted article states: > Border Patrol, nevertheless, cannot pull anyone over without “reasonable suspicion” of an immigration violation or crime (reasonable suspicion is more than just a “hunch”). Simil
3. 273.▲
   by ddalex 3y ago

   But then you can't just reset the state when crashes happen and data corrupts
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   by ddalex 3y ago

   I feel that Optane is a missed opportunity due to economics - the cost of adapting our algorithms to multi layer storage (breaking the abstraction) is much more expensive then the economic benefits of nonvolatile "RAM". Perhaps th
5. 275.▲
   by ddalex 3y ago

   Specifically what deep-Q learning (as in Q*?) does....
6. 276.▲
   by ddalex 3y ago

   ... why do they need to ship these features to non pixel phones ? It's Google's special software sauce that make people buy pixels. Google doesn't ship advances Photos app tools on non pixel phones
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   by ddalex 3y ago

   I'm amazed - I get this so often when I fell asleep that it's a trigger for my lucid dreaming; boom! and now I know I sleep. I silently assumed that this is true for everybody, I'm amazed to find out it's rare, at least
8. 278.▲
   by ddalex 3y ago

   No, the network is not hardcoded, you can build any network you want. Only the expensive step, the matmul, is hardcoded.
9. 279.▲
   by ddalex 3y ago

   the design language and the consumer software in the Geely era are of atrocious quality Hopefully the safety, mechanics and embedded software are still Volvo-engineered, but I wouldn't bet on it
10. 280.▲
    by ddalex 3y ago

    I stopped worrying about swap when I learned how to use zram.
11. 281.▲
    by ddalex 3y ago

    Meaning "you're right but I don't like it". :)
12. 282.▲
    by ddalex 3y ago

    Nobody forces you to watch video content. It's your choice.
13. 283.▲
    by ddalex 3y ago

    Stop using Google software and services if they annoy you so much. Vote with your browsing habits.
14. 284.▲
    by ddalex 3y ago

    I don't understand why modeset causes flicker - fade to black, turn off screen, change resolution, turn on screen, fade to image.
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    by ddalex 3y ago

    There was a point in the past where various empires were competing, and by no means was it clear that The Roman Empire would end up dominating the world close to being a monopoly. The Roman Empire is moving away from the parameters of their
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    by ddalex 3y ago

    This is not a software quality problem, this is a business efficiency problem. We could write commercial software with no bugs, but it would be very expensive (slow process, complicated tooling, etc). It's far cheaper to accept some ra
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    by ddalex 3y ago

    This is a skewed view - the critical piece that made Linux "enterprise-ish" was the memory management system that was contributed by IBM, part of the SCO lawsuit
18. 288.▲
    by ddalex 3y ago

    careers are just social constructs; and I've not seen yet Google maps fail to find me a public transport
19. 289.▲
    by ddalex 3y ago

    Who cares what's real if it's useful? We use all the times fictions that are not "real" but are useful, such as law codes, corporations, religions, etc.
20. 290.▲
    by ddalex 3y ago

    Check out https://github.com/aleixrodriala/wa-tunnel tunnel over whatsapp
21. 291.▲
    by ddalex 3y ago

    Why do you permit ad blocking and no subscription ?
22. 292.▲
    by ddalex 3y ago

    My go to page about this is http://widgetsandshit.com/teddziuba/2008/04/im-going-to-scal... which perfectly summarizes the problem AND solution
23. 293.▲
    by ddalex 3y ago

    The other frightening possibility is that the attack surface targeted by persistent threat actors is so large that a breach becomes certain (the law of large numbers): when you have so many accounts owned that one of them will have the righ
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    by ddalex 3y ago

    I feel rust may not be enough parallelizable to accomodate very fast typist, I am looking for the erlang version
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    by ddalex 3y ago

    Yeah, very comfortable sweat shops for highly paid manual laborers. Why do you think open seating plan exists?!? Open plan is the default layout of a standard sweatshop. The key observation is that they successfully made the "design&qu
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    by ddalex 3y ago

    This, and more. Like it or not,the incredible success of software made it an industrial affair, the way clothing industry went 200 years ago - from highly skilled artisans creating unique beautiful designs tailor specifically to their custo
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    by ddalex 3y ago

    Would you go into a restaurant, occupy a table, spend server's time to bring you only tap water, loiter for a couple of hours, and leaving without paying anything OK? if that's what you want, go to a public library. I think the so
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    by ddalex 3y ago

    Theft? Of course it's theft, if I reduce to what is happening - you're using their services for free with no compensation. That is the definition of theft. I would agree with you it's ok if there was no way to _otherwise_ pay
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    by ddalex 3y ago

    If you don't consume ads, please do not use any ad-supported service, that's the easiest thing to do.
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    by ddalex 3y ago

    Wouldn't be not using Google at all the morally right choice ?