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by gcthomas 5y ago
Walmart is competing openly with the store down the street. If I have a iPhone I can't use another store — it is a lock-in.
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by gcthomas 5y ago
Exactly this ^^^^. This would not be permitted on other platforms, but mobile devices seem to have a new level of monopoly.
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by gcthomas 5y ago
Apple has built itself up into a vertical monopoly, which used to be illegal. There is no good reason to allow anti-competitive behaviours. They shouldn't be allowed to host the platform and compete with applications at the same time.
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by gcthomas 5y ago
If only the refrain was "EU's territory, EU's rules". No platform can operate in isolation from the laws of the places they wish to trade.
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by gcthomas 5y ago
The UK Met Police have been using facial recognition systems on London without regulation for a while, under the same law, - it'd be nice for our ICO to make a ruling on it.
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by gcthomas 6y ago
Vivaldi uses the Blink rendering engine from the Chromium project, itself just a fork of WebKit, but the application code is not from Chrome or Chromium (no code comes from Chrome, AFAIK.) So 'Google Blink Vivaldi' at best.
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by gcthomas 6y ago
I use !s for Startpage searches instead of !g - Google without the Google nonsense.
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by gcthomas 6y ago
I watch YouTube exclusively on Firefox and never have a problem (I especially like FF's pop-out video window thing.)
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by gcthomas 6y ago
It is in the UK, effectively. I have a choice from a good thirty ISPs over preexisting cable connections.
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by gcthomas 6y ago
I use it to make it easy to pass the video only to OBS Studio - the video shows up as a separate window.
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by gcthomas 6y ago
We get the browser for free and these are just ads, not trackers - they are not stealing our data like Chrome, FB, and the rest. I have nothing against straight ads.
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by gcthomas 6y ago
Still 38% renewable/low carbon sources, so that's not bad even with wind nearly out of the picture this afternoon.
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by gcthomas 6y ago
Any machine covered by Ubuntu certified hardware seems to work very well by default, including my work Dell XPS13. Sleep/wake happens flawlessly.
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by gcthomas 6y ago
Systems where there are multiple sequential collisions are not fundamentally deterministic. There are quantum-mechanical effects in the dynamics of the collisions between the electrons in the atoms, whose positions are thoroughly probabilis
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by gcthomas 6y ago
The independent Covid Symptom Study app from Kings College, already on 3 million UK phones since March, took three days to write and largely would do that if it was more publicised by the government. The NHSX app tried to do too much — tryi
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by gcthomas 6y ago
Wouldn't that require an NSA operative in that role? I'm probably mistaken, but what powers does the NSA have to force programmers to write code? National Security Letters, the ones that come with gag orders, are for requiring th
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by gcthomas 6y ago
How would the NSA gag-order work on a Canada-based organisation with open source code worked on by devs around the world? (Libressl is developed by OpenBsd)
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by gcthomas 6y ago
I find it easier to access GOogle Scholar via DDG with !scholar than I do with Google Search.
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by gcthomas 6y ago
When I do it from the UK, with localisation on I get a whole page of links on the UK Worcester, with it off the hits are mostly the US one, but the Wikipedia page like is still UK. YMMV, of course, but this search works fine for me.
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by gcthomas 7y ago
Apple fined again - but it's going to appeal because they thought the law allowed such dodgy practices. Who'd have guessed that fixing prices with other companies to abuse your market dominance wasn't a proper way to run your
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Apple fined $1.2B in France for running a cartel(engadget.com)
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by gcthomas 7y ago
I don't know how you got the idea of property or lack of trust here: my family know exactly what has been done and how to bypass it — I have taught my children to break unjust rules, but obey just ones based their moral judgement. The
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by gcthomas 7y ago
The second half of your comment is true, and I don't think anyone has claimed otherwise so the strength of your assertion is unnecessary. On the first half, children need boundaries set for them. And unless you are yourself a child reb
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by gcthomas 7y ago
It is not voluntary for my children to leave their phones downstairs and go to bed at a bedtime I picked myself, but I think that's OK. It is entirely commonplace for a family to impose restrictions on its children — anything less is n
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by gcthomas 7y ago
"An empirical comparison of c, c++, java, perl, python, rexx and tcl" Lutz Prechelt IEEE Computer 33 (10), 23-29, 2000 80 implementations of the same set of requirements, created by 74 different programmers in various languages, a
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by gcthomas 7y ago
To answer your question, Python is several times more expressive than C++ given that is is a higher level language, and since fewer lines are needed for a given program it is likely to be quicker to write. To quote Martelli from Google talk
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by gcthomas 7y ago
Working in an international school, I find that my German students routinely have the best formed handwriting of all. Many use Lamy pens. Chinese writing (in English) is easy to read, since they don't usually do joined up writing, and
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by gcthomas 7y ago
> Also learning to remember to complete a closed book exam is not a useful skill anymore. Looking up stuff is no good if you can't integrate it with a pre-existing scaffolding of concepts and knowledge. That pre-existing knowledge i
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by gcthomas 7y ago
Yup. The target for MFA is not perfect security, but security better than passwords alone — the bar is quite low to start with. And all of the above techniques offer that to varying degrees. I use strong passwords on all sensitive accounts,
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by gcthomas 7y ago
I thought that Latex/Beamer was a default amongst certain scientific disciplines?

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