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by dwild 7y ago
Recently I bought a large format printer for a project (a HP Designjet 488ca 36") and I was amazed when I found out that the drivers, dated from 1997, were still working on Windows 10. All you needed was to deactivate the signature ver
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by dwild 7y ago
> #1 complaint I hear from software _users_ is “damn, this thing is slow”. I strangely hear that quite often too on morning traffic ;). When will theses real professional engineers will learn?!?!?! > make the most efficient use of res
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by dwild 7y ago
> It's weird that I manage to do that entire list of things without saying a word aloud. That's a incredibly broad statement... anything you do can be done in another way which someone could define as luxury. I can churn butter
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by dwild 7y ago
> Uber is a corporation and the property is the corporations. The data is the corporations too, and not the property of the individual. I'm not arguing who is owning that data, I'm arguing about what happens to that data and wh
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by dwild 7y ago
Your ISP have ALL your internet data. Would you be okay if they shared it with the government? Sure they hold it temporarily, but they NEED to hold it to carry their business, even for a short amount of time. The same is true for theses sco
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by dwild 7y ago
> The core issue is that ridership data is a key piece the cities need to craft a tax on ride-sharing, Can you explain how the real time data can be used for that and why not some aggregated anonymized data, or data gathered by the gover
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by dwild 7y ago
Thus you are agreeing that the government should get access to every phone calls, because some people may use it for illegal purpose and phone company doesn't regulate their behavior? If you have an issue with how theses companies oper
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by dwild 7y ago
> The employees might lose a crappy near-subsistence job, but both the employees and owners can then concentrate their efforts into something better... Before the hike, both the employee and owners could do that... yet they didn't.
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by dwild 7y ago
> airplanes I remember when Mythbuster did their episode on driving an airplane in emergencies like they do in movies, they came to the conclusion that if it was going to happen, the airplane autopilot would be used instead or a civilian
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by dwild 7y ago
You don't want to flood github with wrong issue, that's a good way to lose the right to open issue altogether.
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by dwild 7y ago
> Some people consider that, when the rich are hiring a duplicate of a public service, it proves the public service is not fit for purpose. Hire a thousand person to just constantly spray water at a single house, I'm pretty sure you
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by dwild 7y ago
This is crazy, in 3 days they got 46 fines! How much is a parking fine though in NYC? His average is 69.44$. I'm Canadian and my last parking ticket was 63$ CAD (47.71$ USD).
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by dwild 7y ago
> .then waiting until I typed a pin and stealing my phone again seems like a bit of a hassle. Why would you have to steal it again? > Or, do they have to jail break my phone to do it? They will most likely have to jailbreak it. > I
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by dwild 7y ago
You can also most probably install an application that will be able to catch both your pins and subsequently, much more data. Considering that both your password and email are protected by pins, why not have a pin on the device too?
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by dwild 7y ago
> Supposedly he was just drunk and wandered into the wrong house anyway. That's what made him fine, not the fact that you didn't lock. That's a thing that quite misunderstood, but for a crime to be committed, you need crim
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by dwild 7y ago
That can only works without risk in a monopoly.
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by dwild 7y ago
>I don't see any reason why the last-mile Internet shouldn't be built that way; the city can get traffic to a peering point, and from there, you can pick what ISP you want to connect you to the actual Internet. Yet not everyone
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by dwild 7y ago
Just in case there's confusion, the Internet Archive isn't Archive.is but Archive.org. They are 2 differents organizations. Internet Archive seems to be handling this kind of trouble quite well.
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by dwild 7y ago
> As far as I remember, when websites were doing window pop-ups and Google toolbar removed them, they didn't block the toolbar users. So, the risk is low... He never said anything about blocking, here his exact quote about the retal
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by dwild 7y ago
Yeah that's probably that. I always laugh when I see an ads for me on any of my colleague computer. if they use that on ads, they certainly use it on Youtube. I also gets recommendation for videos that my SO watches even though we don&
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by dwild 7y ago
> There are legit evil people in this world. There's 8 billions people in the world. There's every kinds of them. The commons one aren't interesting, they are commons, they aren't the one that we want to talk about. T
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by dwild 7y ago
Would your in-laws would let a kid play with power tool too? They are aware that someone not able to understands the danger of power tools and how to use them safely shouldn't use them. That's nothing new. Yet they still do...
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by dwild 7y ago
> you need to make sure that your service can not be affected by a simple leak How can you use any service then if in your mind any service should be be able to not be affected by a leak? My username/password combo is everything I
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by dwild 7y ago
> Why do you believe that is the case? And what can be done to change that situation for the better? The current HTML/CSS rendering is currently done by the browser. That part is native which means it can benefit heavily by the reso
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by dwild 7y ago
Considering that a train can require 2 km to break, I'm sure they keep enough space between trains that there's plenty of space for both 258 or 2 axles trains. Knowing a train is there seems much more important than its lengths (u
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by dwild 7y ago
I have seen worse, in the escape room industry, some even use the name of the competitor in the title. I'm pretty sure they were able to get them down the few times I saw it happens, but it was certainly not quick nor easy.
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by dwild 7y ago
I paid for this car but it doesn't works underwater, I been screwed so hard... You can't support every use case sadly, whatever happens, some people won't be supported because of specific needs. It's sad for sure that no
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by dwild 7y ago
> I imagine you'd see a lot more casual piracy if it were trivial to copy, i.e., people just sending the videos to their friends. Then just put enough of DRM for that not to happens. The fact that it's working through an app is
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by dwild 7y ago
If you follow the pull request, you'll see a commit has been done to add it to the easyprivacy list for tracking servers though. It is still there: https://github.com/easylist/easylist/blob/master/ea
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by dwild 7y ago
> how do people find real-life things on the internet? Originally I was planning to put them all on Facebook because I was expecting our market to be there (young adult who want to do something with friends). I was only taking ads on Goo

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