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by fwlr 3y ago
Also a good option. Edge and Chrome are definitely on the biting edge of this particular ratchet, while Firefox and Safari are at least half a whole rotation behind. (We could split hairs about who is a click behind whom, and how much of th
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by fwlr 3y ago
It is most convenient by far to set defaults from within the app, but I don’t think it makes the most sense , it produces too much “spooky action at a distance” where e.g. because you clicked a button in Edge, now when you’re in Chrome a
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by fwlr 3y ago
> Why is it not enough that the user clicked on the button to change the default browser? It’s a button in Chrome, intuitively it should only be able to affect things inside Chrome. If you want to affect system-wide (user-wide…) defaults
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by fwlr 3y ago
I have no illusions about Apple being “good guys”, but this is why I use MacOS and Safari - both of those exist to sell Apple hardware, which is at least a little better than existing to sell my eyeballs. Not great, but not Microsoft or G
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by fwlr 3y ago
Trying to set yourself as the default handler for anything should pop up a system preferences box. Beating a dead horse perhaps but in the Apple world this works quite well: there are various permissions like “read folders”, “capture keyboa
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by fwlr 3y ago
Yes, I suspected that if there were dependencies on black-powder, it was because it was being used in older weapons systems and those were being supplied to Ukraine. There are plenty of black-powder substitutes that are carefully designed t
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by fwlr 3y ago
I figured out rendezvous pretty late, some time after figuring out landing on other bodies but before returning from other bodies. I think I had five Kerbals in orbit around various planets before I decided to go rescue all of them and it w
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by fwlr 3y ago
Probably the optimal way to learn orbital mechanics (n=1 it worked flawlessly for me): 1. Install KSP, try to get to orbit. Don’t overthink it, just use the base game in sandbox mode, don’t bother with science, just build something that loo
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by fwlr 3y ago
Interestingly, there is now a common product available (Faraday bags and wallets, for wireless device / RFID security) that actually achieves the intended goal of tinfoil hats. I would absolutely wear a beanie / knitted cap made f
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by fwlr 3y ago
Not sure I understand. Udemy being fined for deceptive advertising won’t have any impact on whether other companies decide to break other laws. Regulatory capture is an entirely unrelated thing, that’s when law- makers are influenced to ma
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by fwlr 3y ago
> Does it mean anyone can jump in and demand a slice of the pie? (Not a lawyer etc) As long as someone purchased a course at the discount price during the period specified (and meets the other criteria), yes - they qualify to get a porti
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by fwlr 3y ago
I was also in favour of the bulletproof suits. The progression in the John Wick series is actually extremely well-done: in JW1 he outclasses his opponents in every metric except numbers; in JW2 he meets several opponents whose hand-to-hand
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by fwlr 3y ago
Yes, the author is confused. This factory produces black-powder , which is a mixture of charcoal, sulfur, and saltpeter. All modern ammunition uses smokeless powder , which is stabilized nitrocellulose and nitroglycerin. (This confusion l
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by fwlr 3y ago
I also pour beer (multi-talented, I know) and my opinion is yes, it is beer. Most common types of beer are between 3% (typical mid-strength “crisp” beers start here) and 7% (typical IPAs top out here), but you also have light beers down at
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by fwlr 3y ago
The “you can’t call it milk” argument was funny when the alternative being offered was “nut juice”, but it’s a dumb hill to die on as a serious proposition. I’m a barista and these alternatives resemble milk, they behave very similarly to m
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by fwlr 3y ago
Not geothermal in the sense you might be thinking (tapping into geysers); rather, it is taking advantage of underground temperature remaining constant around 55F, essentially using the soil underground as a giant and consistent heat sink &#
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by fwlr 3y ago
Between investors, executives, media and the stock market, the economic dynamics of modern companies have become complex enough that not everyone loses money when fraud happens . The 30-under-30 reporting is in a weird spot where, by accid
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by fwlr 3y ago
Rocket launches are a religious experience for me, regardless of who’s launching them. So it’s disappointing to see so much selective reporting being done in service of a negative perspective on the most exciting launch ever. SpaceX operate
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by fwlr 3y ago
Tesla will obviously want to make their product appear as safe as possible. Detractors will obviously want to make Tesla’s product appear as dangerous as possible. As long as they’re not outright lying, I don’t begrudge either side for obey
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by fwlr 3y ago
So the theory is that, basically, there were shamans going around introducing ancient peoples to snake venom trips and telling them this new experience of salience they are now having in their brain is called “na”? I love it, as a fan of Ju
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by fwlr 3y ago
I’m aware - I used to work on facial recognition technology for law enforcement.
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by fwlr 4y ago
Whatever algorithm they’re using is a capable assistant, I only had to decapitate a few heads and it learned to slay that hydra for me.
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by fwlr 4y ago
Some of the stuff you listed under “in-store analytics” is more like “in-store statistics”, the kind of privacy problems addressed by this bill/proclamation don’t seem related to analyzing CCTV footage to optimize store layout or deter
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by fwlr 4y ago
Not to be dismissive but it seems like a skill issue to me. I have the thread emoji muted, that does 90% of the work. I had to click “don’t show me this guy” ( not “don’t show me this topic”) on maybe half a dozen that slipped through, and
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by fwlr 4y ago
The article mentions the AI Act and claims it “restricts the use of remote biometric identification — including facial recognition technology — in public places unless it is to fight “serious” crime, such as kidnappings and terrorism”, whic
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by fwlr 4y ago
I would have thought so too, but losing 6 minutes out of 10.5 hours in just 25 years is a pretty major change on the timescales that planets operate on.
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by fwlr 4y ago
From the way the cursor moved on the screen and the visualization of input with those orange squares, it looks like it operates similar to the thinkpad trackpoint. (There’s a dose of serendipitous humor here - the trackpoint has an infamous
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by fwlr 4y ago
The two proposed theories are “deception” (hiding the age of the movie) and “convention” (it’s how everyone else does it, so we keep doing it that way). General consensus seems to be the deception theory is nonsense and the convention theor
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by fwlr 4y ago
For some scientific purposes, eliminating 99.6% of the Earth’s atmosphere is approximately the same as eliminating 100% of it. E.g. precise imaging and characterization of nearby interstellar bodies, those projects get Hubble-tier data thou
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by fwlr 4y ago
It’s getting to the point where I’m thinking about downloading the Wikipedia archive, mirroring all of archive.org, downloading Common Crawl, etc., and then setting up some kind of super-powered offline query machine.

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