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by digdigdag 4y ago
This is just a symbolic hand-wavy gesture. Nothing Wyoming does in this context is of meaningful consequence to the rest of the nation. Why you ask? It has < 200 registered EVs in the entire state. Per this data they don't even regi
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by digdigdag 4y ago
The codebase goes back to nearly 40 years. It would be more shocking if it there weren't legacy code hanging around. Windows is one of the most impressive pieces of software I have ever seen. No other platform boasts the kind of backwa
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by digdigdag 4y ago
Won't happen. It would cut out a lot of creative, legitimate content from people who would otherwise be unwilling to divulge their personal information to a CCP-governed application.
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by digdigdag 4y ago
"up to" means it can be as little as 0%. Not sure where the scam is.
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by digdigdag 4y ago
I live in Texas. I don't care. This is just another political grandstanding to get back at Biden for repealing Title 42.
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by digdigdag 5y ago
Does it matter anymore? I haven't used the Google homepage to use Google in years. It's integrated into the search bar now... Also, the Google home page loads dependent services (single sign on, lots of JS for XHR searches, etc.)
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by digdigdag 5y ago
It's open source ( https://github.com/allo-/firefox-profilemaker ). It's python based so you could run the app and serve the page locally, if that's what you want.
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by digdigdag 5y ago
I think this would be the beginning. China has taken notes from the Soviet's downfall and they're not making the same mistakes here. They have no desire or intention to nationalize everything, but instead to stay in the shadows an
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by digdigdag 5y ago
Throwing random percentages is silly. In reality, these vehicles have only been tested within a very tight scope, in near-controlled conditions in Arizona, California, etc. with very specific conditions for their operations. I would conside
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by digdigdag 5y ago
You put forth a quasi-patriotic interpretation and a false premise, as the true benefactors of attacks on the 1st world have long been indicated (though not officially confirmed) to state sponsored groups in Saudi Arabia. Yet there they sti
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by digdigdag 6y ago
The way I see it: the more skilled labor we can import, the better. The U.S. owes its success largely due to migration (be it through merchants, slaves, or otherwise). I don't agree with the notion that we must "close off" th
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by digdigdag 6y ago
No one is forcing you to use "Silicon Valley" products. There's already a precedent set in the courts when a bakery refused to offer service to a gay couple because of personal beliefs. Likewise, Twitter et. al. are simply fo
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by digdigdag 6y ago
Did you even read the article? The reason the Ugandan government is blocking these apps is with the intent, as the article suggests, of stopping misinformation through "citizen journalism", not because the nation of Uganda suddenl
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by digdigdag 6y ago
GNU Phones suck. You have to drastically lower your expectations and pay more for the experience. For instance, Librem 5 USA costs a cool $2,000. That's $2,000 for a phone with specs comparable to phones in the mid 2010s. To make it wo
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by digdigdag 6y ago
It's illegal. Prior authorization _should_ be required using someone's copyrighted work . In this case, the AI firm that compiled the profile of this poor soul probably had not reached out and asked for authorization for use of hi
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by digdigdag 6y ago
Oh, besides the back-end technical mess that is AMP, just from the standpoint of a user, one can encounter catastrophic faults with its design: - can't share articles using android's builtin share widgets because it points to the
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by digdigdag 6y ago
Ask yourself -- what object would be so massive and heavy and yet needed with such immediacy that a company would be willing to pay millions -- perhaps beyond the cost of the object itself -- to ship in a sub-orbital manner? Large and criti
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by digdigdag 6y ago
6th cranial nerve palsy is what got my vision. Unknown cause. I chanced it with strabismus surgery and it has really paid off for me.
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System76 – Pangolin(system76.com)
371 points by digdigdag 6y ago|381 comments
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by digdigdag 6y ago
A long time ago, I wrote and maintained a fairly used Userscript plugin to scrape and download YouTube videos. Let me tell you -- without constant updates (which I've gotten complacent of by using `pip install --upgrade` with youtube-d
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by digdigdag 6y ago
What happens when the rector runs out of fuel? Control rods permanently insert or it just, you know, proceeds to melt down once arrived at Mars?
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by digdigdag 6y ago
...and spotify would then sue SongShift. Because why not? Even if you can empirically prove that SongShift is in the right and the API keys belong to the end users, Spotify would only need to litigate long enough for SongShift to give in, s
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by digdigdag 6y ago
How is this, in principle, different from the credit scoring system in western states? Lenders, banks, landlords, employers, insurance companies, utilities and hell even your cable company can assess the level of service rendered to you bas
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by digdigdag 7y ago
Isn't this essentially what Terror Management theory ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terror_management_theory ) outlines?
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by digdigdag 8y ago
His evidence is based on predetermined assumptions. He does not even have the scientific background to even tackle this area of study. It's not even that he said something controversial. He made crude errors in his research that would
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by digdigdag 9y ago
I think it's time there was a legitimate, organized fork of Firefox. None of this Iceweasel nonsense, but a proper, mature, organized initiative to diverge from Mozilla's codebase. They've made it very clear with the addition
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by digdigdag 9y ago
Google seems to be doing a very fine job of showing that it is has reached monopoly status for way too many verticals. They're getting way comfortable in their success, and this is exemplified in the certain level of hubris they exemp
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Syria from Space(bbc.co.uk)
108 points by digdigdag 9y ago|32 comments
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by digdigdag 10y ago
And I bet you a lot of them also at some point felt unhappy or felt a sense of misalignment with the ideals of their host nation, despite benefiting from the spoils of a western democracy. Some of them are brought up with the belief they&#x
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by digdigdag 10y ago
In my humble opinion, this is a bad idea. ISIS is an ephemeral problem in the world. One does not simply become a mujahideen convert from a YouTube session. More often than not, a lot of these guys and girls have lingering emotional baggage

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