drclau

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   by drclau 7y ago

   Ken MacLeod. I read most of his hard SF, and I am just about to finish re-reading Fractions: The First Half of the Fall Revolution (The Star Fraction + The Stone Canal). It’s a great series, often underrated because it’s more political and
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   by drclau 7y ago

   Well, I hope Westworld’s creators have learned meanwhile how to make it clear what and when it happens.
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   by drclau 7y ago

   I keep seeing complaints from devs about the prices of MacBooks. One has to wonder, aren’t devs paid enough these days to not care about the extra few hundred dollars every few years?
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   by drclau 7y ago

   Make sure you don’t block ICMP, which is used by Path MTU Discovery [0]. Blocking ICMP may result in black holed connections. I experienced this just like you with websites not working, and with ssh freezing when doing an ll in a directory
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   by drclau 7y ago

   JFYI, at least on iOS 13, airplane mode disables only the mobile connection, while WiFi and Bluetooth remain on. This is not hidden in any way, the buttons remain active in Control Center. I assume that only mobile signal has enough power t
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   by drclau 7y ago

   As I understand it, “I don’t know why anyone would want to do that” comment was referring to showing a plane animation flying from origin to destination, while “we like IE very much ... but I’m using Netscape for this demo” was a quip and s
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   by drclau 7y ago

   Thanks for sharing. I did not expect 3 completely different issues to occur on a single machine in such a short time interval after purchase. I understand your dissatisfaction.
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   by drclau 7y ago

   @ryanmccullagh, can you please specify what the problem was? I have a MBP w/ Touch Bar, and the battery just started to swell some half a year after running out of the 2 years (European) warranty. However, I contacted Apple, they direc
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   by drclau 7y ago

   This reminds me of Iain Bank’s Excession. Great book, strongly recommend it.
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    by drclau 7y ago

    You assume that everyone wants to modify everything (or the unmodifiable, as you put it). After going through many years of FreeBSD and Linux, I now just want things to work. Mac gives me that. Should have switched sooner.
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    by drclau 7y ago

    And, in this case, the company will decide what laws are unethical?
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    by drclau 7y ago

    Thanks for sharing this article. The part about McCord firing an employee is sad and funny at the same time. To begin with, it looks like a page from Vonnegut’s Player Piano: “McCord mentioned letting go a product testing employee who “was
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    Volkswagen's CEO and chairman charged in Germany over diesel emissions scandal(cnn.com)

    4 points by drclau 7y ago|0 comments
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    by drclau 7y ago

    > If computers stop improving, efficiency will stop improving, which will ultimately mean that standards of living will stop improving. If standards of living stop improving, i.e., the pie stops growing, there could be a whole variety of
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    by drclau 7y ago

    Long time user of Autosleep here. It works like a charm.
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    by drclau 7y ago

    > And that itself has much deeper relation to a biological child than to adopting one. Not that adopting isn't significant or emotional, it's simply not that varying level of experience. How do you know your child is actually b
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    by drclau 7y ago

    "The Code is more what you call guidelines, than actual rules."
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    by drclau 7y ago

    Nonsense. Consciousness is a matter of information processing. We're just biological computers running a program. The so called hard problem of consciousness is really just folklore by now. Neuroscience will eventually provide a comple
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    by drclau 7y ago

    Note that Apple's Books app works with books that were not purchased from Apple. You can simply send an epub file to Books app via the standard sharing functionality, from any other app. I assume it is allowed because it does not pose
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    Peter Watts: Attack of the Hope Police, Delusional Optimism at the End of World?(youtube.com)

    5 points by drclau 7y ago|0 comments
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    by drclau 7y ago

    You can now set Fn keys to always show. Now, as in since one or two MacOS versions ago. More so, you can actually set Fn to show _only_ for certain apps. For instance, when I remote desktop to a Windows machine, I usually use Visual Studio,
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    by drclau 7y ago

    I nearly never need Caps Lock, hence I remmapped Esc to Caps Lock. IMO, it is a better position for the Esc key anyway. Top-left is a bit far from everything else anyway. As about Touchbar, I don't find it bad at all, and I'm not
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    by drclau 7y ago

    Why would you think that about rich people? I'm honestly curious.
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    by drclau 7y ago

    A similar comment of mine got downvoted, but I can at least upvote yours. Population growth is IMO a big part of the issue. I do not believe we can become so efficient and consume so little that adding more billions to the population can b
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    by drclau 7y ago

    I know I’ll be bashed for this, but: create fewer humans. Isn’t it obvious by now that population increase is a big part of the problem? Edit: I am not thinking of the direct CO2 emissions caused by breathing. It’s all the habitat destructi
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    by drclau 8y ago

    You may find this site useful: http://arewegameyet.com