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by dirkg 10y ago
Its really sad and terrifying that most people think spending all day taking care of and raising their children is terrifying, boring, unproductive, undesirable because of a variety of reasons etc etc. No one has mentioned the joys. And rai
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by dirkg 10y ago
Thank you, fantastic comment. It reminds of this quote - "Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now." I am guilty of procastination, analysis and obsessive resear
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by dirkg 10y ago
So if a friend or family member from Europe wants to visit, they shouldn't travel with their personal laptops, phones etc? All this talk of 'keep your data on a private vpn server and ssh' is so far outside of what a normal p
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by dirkg 10y ago
TSA, HS and Border protection are a bunch of unqualified, uneducated, underpaid thugs put in a position of absolute power with zero consequences, and rewarded for every 'criminal' they catch. What exactly do you think will happen?
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by dirkg 10y ago
These articles are just wishful fantasy. Our history has shown that people are perfectly willing and happy to tolerate any form of govt abuse as long as they get their dose of reality tv and 'justifications' from mass media, all y
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by dirkg 10y ago
Its sad, and telling, that the majority of people in this country still believe that he's a traitor, should be punished, and that the govt is right and should be allowed to abuse power. People actually believe that someone revealing in
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by dirkg 10y ago
I wish more people would donate to them. So many tech billionaires, you'd think at least one of them would be aware and not mind spending what amounts to loose pocket change for them to preserve information.
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by dirkg 10y ago
Which by definition is impossible to reach.
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by dirkg 10y ago
Science is by definition incomplete. It only provides a means for proposing theories to test observed phenomenon, test them, and use them to extrapolate and make future predictions, which can invalidate or strengthen the theory. e.g. we don
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by dirkg 10y ago
The best wine experts and master somm's can't tell the difference between cheap and expensive wine, red and white etc. Wine is almost completely marketing and psychology.
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by dirkg 10y ago
I don't understand why people continue to believe that SUVs are safer just because they are huge. Seems like a very common myth. Also Tesla's radar which can detect vehicles 2 cars in front of you by bouncing signals off the car i
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by dirkg 10y ago
So now Firefox will become much slower due to per tab process overhead, just like Chrome, will pollute the task list with processes, and lose the enormous benefits of it's fantastic extension model, all for some intangible security ben
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by dirkg 10y ago
All the technical stuff aside, the simple fact is Apple enjoys a level of brand loyalty and market hype unlike anyone else, which is why they can afford to do practically whatever whatever they want and get away with it. Their every decisio
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by dirkg 10y ago
Chrome is the culprit. For as much as they helped with V8 innovations, they've also done harm - ignores usability basics: horrible UI with > 10 tabs, reloads all tabs, many other issues - all of these are things people have complain
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by dirkg 10y ago
Microsoft Cortana achieved parity with human voice recognition for continuous speech input. Google has the best machine learning along with MS, and they have billions of data points. Amazon has neither comparable tech nor the innovation or
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by dirkg 10y ago
> I want a nice car Translation: I can afford a luxury car, Tesla is one of the nicer luxury cars and happens to be electric.
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by dirkg 10y ago
Why are diesel cars hated in the US? You can get a range of diesel car sin Europe which give you 50-60mpg, have all kinds of comforts and can be cheap, without the trickery of tax credits.
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by dirkg 10y ago
"no AI system is good enough to understand conversational speech just yet" Didn't MS just announce that Cortana has achieved exactly this?
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by dirkg 10y ago
The arguments against Redux (which this article doesn't really make, but still) are very valid - it is a nice abstraction and way to think about data flow, but its simply too much boilerplate. Almost every Redux example is tons of repe
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by dirkg 10y ago
This is only for low memory devices. From the linked article - "All the improvements discussed above reduce the Chrome 55 overall memory consumption by up to 35% on low-memory devices compared to Chrome 53. Other device segments will
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by dirkg 10y ago
Chrome can't even begin to compare to Firefox when it comes to handling anything >10 tabs, which is I think what 99% of people max out at, so Chrome doesn't bother about the rest even though people have been begging for years.
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by dirkg 10y ago
Buying glasses in Asia or online is so much cheaper than the scam run by Lenscrafters, most optometrists in the US. Its sold as a designer product where you spend $$$ on frames, the glass material with fancy treatments, and they charge you
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by dirkg 10y ago
I don't understand the negativity. This isn't buzzfeed or reddit, the target audience is supposed to be people who are already devs and not need handholding. So there's no website. So what? The github page clearly explains wh
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by dirkg 10y ago
NSL's are unconstitutional and should be illegal, sadly nothing is technically illegal if you are the govt. The govt should not be allowed to operate in secret and issue gag orders, because then there is no recourse and no oversight, w
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by dirkg 10y ago
I wish one of the ultra rich people who are in tech would donate a huge amount and keep essential projects like this alive.