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by fidotron 1y ago
In fairness to the BBC on the rare occasions they do cross paths with the government this happens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutton_Inquiry I'm not sure anyone that is familiar with this has been able to take
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by fidotron 1y ago
> And why isn't there a "Content-Rating: sex" or "Content-Rating: gambling" HTTP header? Or something along those lines? Why isn't there one easy "under 12" button on a phone to lock down tons of s
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by fidotron 1y ago
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ianmorris/2019/03/14/yes-a-poli... For anyone doubting the veracity of that.
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by fidotron 1y ago
Absolutely nothing about it has gone wrong. They have collected some personal data from law abiding pornography consumers: obvious perverts who should know better anyway. If their information gets released it will be their own fault. Some o
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by fidotron 1y ago
> Computer science is an interesting career choice for someone who hates computers and being with computers. Dijkstra famously wasn't exactly keen on computers.
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RIP Shunsaku Tamiya, the man who made plastic model kits a global obsession(japanesenostalgiccar.com)
425 points by fidotron 1y ago|88 comments
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by fidotron 1y ago
I'm always reminded of this http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7970731.stm "The Home Secretary's husband has said sorry for embarrassing his wife after two adult films were viewed
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by fidotron 1y ago
The Amiga scene has been headed this way for decades - it's deeply bizarre. At what point do these things stop being Amigas? PowerPCs? GPUs? FPGAs? A whole separate memory bus? It's a bit like some retro car modding scene where as
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by fidotron 1y ago
This is the payment people making excuses. If something isn't illegal it is legal, and therefore they should be allowing payment for it.
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Two-hour screen time limit for children being considered by government (UK)(news.sky.com)
2 points by fidotron 1y ago|0 comments
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by fidotron 1y ago
The performance here is less interesting than the apparently quasi imminent availability of real RVA23 devices. If/when that occurs it will set a baseline and things should not warrant from scratch rebuilds constantly for at least a wh
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by fidotron 1y ago
Yeah, but some of us like pf and systemd. It's so confusing.
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by fidotron 1y ago
Yeah, another side effect is management types are now allergic to things which look like maker projects, even if done with a level of professional engineering seriousness - they are unable to distinguish between the two, so now they dismiss
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by fidotron 1y ago
Yep, or the old GreenArrays GA144 or even maybe XMOS with more compiler magic. One of the big questions here is how quickly it can switch between graphs, or if that will be like a context switch from hell. In an embedded context that's
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by fidotron 1y ago
https://www.teaforwomen.com/about Two people, in public.
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by fidotron 1y ago
In fairness to Air Canada a few months ago they pleasantly surprised me. Admittedly long haul international, which does not seem to be as extremely bad as their domestic. Pearson is clearly a disaster area at this point, as that whole gold
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by fidotron 1y ago
All of the "bad" examples look like they're playing on a PC with poorly set gamma curves. Play on a TV where the curves are setup properly because TV people actually care about color reproduction.
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Satya Nadella seeks to reassure Microsoft employees in layoffs memo(theverge.com)
3 points by fidotron 1y ago|0 comments
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by fidotron 1y ago
Some of us have been pointing out Intel was in a systematically impossible situation even back when they had that process advantage, now almost a decade ago. Quite simply imagine being dropped in as CEO of Intel in 2015. Could you have prev
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Sonos Appoints Tom Conrad as Chief Executive Officer(sonos.com)
4 points by fidotron 1y ago|0 comments
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by fidotron 1y ago
This problem is how you spot people that have tried to do it vs those that just talk about it. Everyone ends up with batching calls back and forth because the cost is so high. Separately the conceptual mismatch when the js has to allocate&#
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by fidotron 1y ago
Those are distinct actions though. "Anticipation" in character animations is a source of persistent friction between game programmers and animators because if incorporated as part of user/player action it simply kills respons
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by fidotron 1y ago
Honestly, I think once you are tired of easing functions you are best off going to real physics. (By which I mean a simple Verlet integrator). I've posted this before for other reasons but https://www.luduxia.com/showdo
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by fidotron 1y ago
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ianmorris/2019/03/14/yes-a-poli...
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by fidotron 1y ago
> But privacy is a bug on a school laptop used by a child. What you're going to learn is how many people that think like this consider you to be in the same position as the child.
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Trucking's uneasy relationship with new tech(bbc.com)
31 points by fidotron 1y ago|23 comments
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by fidotron 1y ago
What is efficient varies based on changes in the prices of different elements of the process. Energy, materials, logistics, labor, these all vary over time, with the oil crisis being a huge step change both in costs to businesses and consum
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by fidotron 1y ago
> Many comments here are arguing that quality has actually gone up over the past decades. Yes, many people confuse technological development with quality improvements. Technology can improve quality, but it can also be used in other ways
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Netflix uses AI effects for first time to cut costs(bbc.com)
1 points by fidotron 1y ago|0 comments
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by fidotron 1y ago
Apparently the providers recognize that there is significant growth in the complexity of control systems, and so there is a lot of fishing around for R&D funding on that side, however, being classic physical hardware people they severel

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