falcolas

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by falcolas 3y ago
> From a security and economic perspective there's a big difference between the company behind it being Meta or bytedance. Only for Americans. Not much different for the remaining 96% of the world.
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by falcolas 3y ago
> this is pure addict behavior It's one part entertainment, one part news, one part streaming platform, and one part peer-to-peer communication. It makes sense people can spend a lot of time there if it replaces many different apps&
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OTOH, average citizen preference still shapes the blowback, and (many) politicians still care about these things.
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It's probably simply efficiency. You can check an entire pipeline faster from space than from the air, and from the air vs. the ground. Those efficiencies save a fair bit of money, and probably also lead to earlier detection. And while
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by falcolas 3y ago
IIRC, it also offered an anonymous forum. Plus, it can be easily "hidden" and remain available without its owner babysitting the hardware.
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by falcolas 3y ago
> There is little use in asking the court to award an amount that the defendants cannot pay Tell that to Gary Bowser. Nintendo absolutely can, and do, request punitive damages that will put the defendants in permanent debt.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Old (sysad)man yells at cloud: Using provisioning software is not the "Hard Way". Does bring back memories of working with Docker in the early days though.
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by falcolas 3y ago
> “Knocker-up” — when alarm clocks were neither cheap nor reliable, knocker-up's job was to rouse sleeping people so they could get to work on time Some fancier hotels still offer this as a service.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Also lives on through its spiritual successors, the black ops and spy trades.
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Procreate is pretty cool. But my own dream is being able to run Procreate and Photoshop (gimp too, since why not ) on the same device.
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A non-trivial percentage of women are physically larger and stronger than a non-trivial percentage of men, yet those smaller men are not scared to walk alone at night for fear of running across a large woman. The real hard truth is that som
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So, an amusing anecdote related to your second paragraph - one reason it's taking so long the second time around is everything has to be repeated. They lost the knowledge of how to make rocket stages and engines of that size, and had t
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So, they're spinning this as a positive - limiting content that should be scraped - but ultimately I see this as just another cash grab. A real positive, IMHO, would be to funnel that money back to the creators of the content that they
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by falcolas 3y ago
> because it doesn't cause them any problems. Yes, this is the defining line of a clinical diagnosis: are the symptoms inhibiting your ability to live. You'll also see similar claims around depression, OCD, and any other mental
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I have a problem with their test for ADHD - two things. One, it's a 6 question test. Pretty limited. Two, the test diagnosed half of the participants as having the equivalent of clinical diagnosis of ADHD, when the global diagnosis r
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by falcolas 3y ago
Something else that struck me, they said of the ~500 participants, about half of them scored as having a clinical diagnosis of ADHD using some black-box test of 6 self-reported questions. Given that ADHD diagnoses are about 5% of the glob
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by falcolas 3y ago
Most companies with 1k+ employees will have offices or at least contractors in different countries, adopting a "follow the sun" support model typically. I'd start by looking at public companies, or potentially companies (like
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by falcolas 3y ago
Yes, it does help with working memory. I'm not sure if it adds a slot, or makes it harder for other items to sneak into the limited slots, but it helps. It gives me some control over my focus, leverage against the executive dysfunction
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by falcolas 3y ago
I have a similar opinion, but with one big caveat (which means I'd be happy to drop Spotify in a heartbeat): I still have access to all those old albums I bought with my wages and allowance. I've digitized them, and they have migr
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by falcolas 3y ago
For the uninitiated, or those who don't want to read the article, Findaway Voices is the pipeline for getting new audiobooks into Spotify. It connects authors with narrators and arranges for profit sharing or up-front payments. Much li
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by falcolas 3y ago
IMO, it's more like circuit design than programming. Similar mindset, slightly different method of solving issues. And personally, if you're a fan of puzzles and optimization, I think you'll love it. There's an amazing a
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by falcolas 3y ago
Isn't rainwater slightly more acidic than ground water?
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by falcolas 3y ago
Customers: The ultimate QA department. Most of 'em won't even report the issues back. No reports, no issues!
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The passthrough looks and works better than expected, but also a bit fuzzier than expected. I do appreciate how crisp the "desktop" windows look though.
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Do you believe NHTSA forcing Tesla to fix a safety issue is not worth calling out, in particular to TSLA shareholders? The solution to many recalls these days is a software update. Cars are becoming computers with wheels...
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The solution for many recalls these days is quite often a software update. No, what's notable is Tesla was forced to issue the update. This probably has consequences for Tesla beyond some bandwidth.
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If it's become as formal as a recall, it's worth at least noting. Sure, the fix is simple (and most folks won't even notice), but Tesla was still forced into making the fix.
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You're absolutely correct. But as they say, if you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball. It doesn't have to resemble real world constraints to be a useful exercise.
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Smartphones are the easy ones. It's the surveillance cameras on store fronts, speed cameras/license plate scanners on the poles, and dash cameras you are probably caught the most on. And that's not counting other wearable cam
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Probably have to go with "prevent", since avoiding is kinda out of question these days. As they say, that time has passed with cameras everywhere, including mounted on street poles and store fronts. IR LED laden accessories will p

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