drdaeman

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by drdaeman 3y ago
I'm sorry, but your comment has a lot of simple facts stated plain wrong, and then it entirely misses the point (which could be my fault for not making it clear what it was about). macOS and iOS are based on Darwin, which is a BSD-deri
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by drdaeman 3y ago
Just wait until application designers start to create machine-hostile interfaces to prevent vision models from recognizing what to click, or introducing rate limits on UI interactions. There is a strong desire to control how one's prod
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by drdaeman 3y ago
“Web” as an OS is overbloated, with decades of legacy junk. It was never meant to run applications, and yet it does. The strong indicator for this is that there are only, what, 3 (two sharing common ancestor, so more like 2.5?) non-dead ren
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by drdaeman 3y ago
He absolutely increased poverty levels, education is in extremely sharp decline, propaganda is thriving, and he started to fight birth control (so far, emergency contraception only). And I must remind that Russia is having an electoral even
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by drdaeman 3y ago
Cool, but see the drastic difference in quality ;)
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by drdaeman 3y ago
Let's hold our breath. Those are specifically crafted hand-picked good videos, where there wasn't any requirement but "write a generic prompt and pick something that looks good", with no particular requirements. Which is
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by drdaeman 3y ago
Ah, I didn't knew about that tool - guess it wasn't popular where I've lived. Thanks for explaining!
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by drdaeman 3y ago
The deeds speak more than the words, so I'm highly skeptical of their stance on privacy and attitude toward their users in general. I fail to see how it's any better than your average corporate "we highly value your privacy h
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by drdaeman 3y ago
Yes, this also happens, the second scenario I've mentioned. But I've heard about moving away from virtual servers specifically, or only using those for the highly elastic parts when the load fluctuates a lot. Bare metal is simply
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by drdaeman 3y ago
I'm sorry but I fail to find how this is relevant. TSR was an old simple trick in achieving a likeliness of non-preemptive multitasking on an operating system that didn't have any multitasking, but only one single active process.
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by drdaeman 3y ago
> people opt for that less and less these days Do they? Could be my bubble, but I’m hearing stories how moving away from clouds to bare metal dramatically lowered costs, even accounting for having to hire some sysadmins who know how to d
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by drdaeman 3y ago
Also, consider making backups append-only as an extra precaution: https://ruderich.org/simon/notes/append-only-backups-with-re...
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by drdaeman 3y ago
There are always caveats and eSIMs are a double-edged sword. I'm locked down to my current phone because of eSIM. I have two eSIMs from different countries, both necessary for long-term use (e.g. I have bank accounts in both countries,
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by drdaeman 3y ago
Given that it most certainly doesn't work with current big-name advertising companies, I'm skeptical it's gonna work with some random data leak. But if a data leak finally gives me meaningful ads - that'd be nice.
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by drdaeman 3y ago
That's modern large corporate PR for you - they can stop any kind of service and remove any features and the PR department will release that happy post parading it as a giant leap forward. What's bad is that people are so used to
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by drdaeman 3y ago
> or $199 with a two-year $8.90 monthly subscription to the app Oh, an IoT door that requires a payment? Someone finally made Ubik real? ;-)
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by drdaeman 3y ago
Not if they move fast and build that moat to maintain their castle as the only provider of highest-quality models' services.
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by drdaeman 3y ago
Hah! I'm not sure about this. It could, but it also could help with language preservation. I was quite surprised when GPT-4 was able to talk in Lojban to me. Somehow, I doubt it was intentionally trained to speak Lojban - that's a
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by drdaeman 3y ago
That battle is long lost. For me the revelatory moment was in mid-00s, when everyone screamed anathema at XHTML, saying it was bad because it required people to write well-formed documents, when everyone just wanted to slap random tags and
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by drdaeman 3y ago
That's fair, but I guess my problem is that they don't even seem to try. All rental agencies surely know what fleet they have - typically it's as uniform as possible, to make the maintenance easier. Yet, it's not exactly
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by drdaeman 3y ago
Uh... because they're very different? Obviously, if all you care about is getting from point A to point B somehow then you're probably don't care much. However, different cars have different characteristics, such as safety
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by drdaeman 3y ago
Mainstream rental car industry being a complete mess doesn't help - they don't bother to even promise you the make and the model, best they can do is "a sedan with 4 doors and automatic transmission." I have no idea why
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by drdaeman 3y ago
Right, but thousands is a minuscule number - there are myriads of services out there. While it would've been nice if 23andMe would've used a service like this, can't exactly blame them if they didn't - it's not like
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by drdaeman 3y ago
https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords > This password wasn't found in any of the Pwned Passwords loaded into Have I Been Pwned. That doesn't necessarily mean it's a good password, merely that it's not
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by drdaeman 3y ago
Surely that's not the whole point. Genealogy is not the only use case for genetic testing. Health information is another pretty major niche. Curiosity is the third contender. And there's probably more.
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by drdaeman 3y ago
Just a reminder that despite whatever their front page advertises, while your account will be marked as "deleted" (23andMe still retaining your email address and some other pieces of information), your genetic data won't be d
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by drdaeman 3y ago
> Today, the world is slowly changing direction on globalization. I'm not so sure about this. The world is slowly realizing heavy dependence on exports of autocratic countries was not exactly the brightest idea - and this superficia
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by drdaeman 3y ago
And then, sadly, you’ll most likely get beaten by some foreign country’s slap-shit-together-and-ship-it junk. Because people don’t think in terms of TCO and product lifespans, they see that “-30%” and “$X.99” and buy things that possibly ev
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by drdaeman 3y ago
That could create some wrong incentives. But the targeted party must have an easy way to painlessly dismiss a notice.
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by drdaeman 3y ago
It absolutely is not a superpower, but it has a madman and some nukes, and at this point no one is willing to risk.

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