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by grandalf 9y ago
I could see XCode and Command Line Tools becoming apps. And Homebrew could be an app that let all of its contents run in a sandbox and not touch any of the device's other data.
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by grandalf 9y ago
Since this thread is broadly about Apple losing its edge as a fairly secure-by-default platform: I installed Windows 10 on a computer and use it from time to time and the built-in anti-virus and malware protection makes me feel more comfort
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by grandalf 9y ago
Would this vulnerability also exist in iOS devices using APFS?
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by grandalf 9y ago
> more akin to an auto mechanic than a scientist Keep in mind that society has chosen to have physicians carry social and often moral authority. They are the modern priests and priestesses of our secular world. What stings when a physic
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by grandalf 9y ago
Is a first world person who purchases long-term-care insurance or health insurance infinitely more selfish than a third-world person who has no insurance of any kind? The things you describe are just forms of insurance that are not consider
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by grandalf 9y ago
Well, I'd argue that what you're seeing is a second-tier of power/wealth-hungry individuals. The first tier occupies our political leadership. The behavior is basically identical, but with dramatically different payouts. Both
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by grandalf 9y ago
> I can't think of any internet stars I'm particularly desperate to see go into politics, and that's not because I'm delighted by the status quo This is a good point, but consider how a lot of politics is kept off of
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by grandalf 9y ago
The idea of emergent PR via this sort of mechanism combined with a trustless and difficult-to-regulate infrastructure offers significant promise for breaking the glass ceiling that makes fame so difficult to achieve. Ever wonder why news pe
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by grandalf 9y ago
This comment is absolutely right. The algorithms are not optimized to inform people, they are optimized to maximize the number of ads people click on while consuming whatever content the algorithms promoted to the top. This is at best a con
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by grandalf 9y ago
The more I think about it, the more I realize that what I really object to is the clickbait headlines, since they cause me to use up my five free WaPo articles very quickly each month, only to be disappointed that the articles do not actual
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by grandalf 9y ago
The "things" that don't work are roughly 30 feet from the hub. For some reason they become unavailable from time to time and stay that way for up to a week. During that time they don't function properly and it's no
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by grandalf 9y ago
I like it in concept. The app is very useful, etc. The issue I have had is that the hardware simply doesn't work.
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by grandalf 9y ago
This looks very cool. Can't wait to try it out.
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by grandalf 9y ago
I tried formatting an external SSD as APFS and the gui disk utility was extraordinarily buggy. It certainly appears that nobody tested this before High Sierra was released.
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by grandalf 9y ago
Looks really interesting. I'm not sure where the breakdown in my SmartThings setup is happening -- might be the hub or might be the remote devices. Do you know if Home Assistant can interact directly with sensors, etc., without requir
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by grandalf 9y ago
My intent was to critique the sort of viral content farm plus paywall approach that the NYT and WaPo are moving toward. That approach increases the percentage of people who clicked on a viral headline only to find a paywall. The problem
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by grandalf 9y ago
Roughly $50
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by grandalf 9y ago
I recently reached the conclusion that Samsung SmartThings gear is junk, so I'm trying to figure out what to do next. Several of the sensors corroded inside the box (copper battery contact on PCB interacted with the metal in the batter
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by grandalf 9y ago
Indeed. It's true, in a world where a major newspaper will decide to write a multi-page story about one of Trump's silly tweets and run it on the front page, it's not all that hard for a large number of news orgs to write a
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by grandalf 9y ago
Paywalls are a dying gasp being uttered by the publishing industry. Here's why they don't work: - If I respect a publication and feel that the content has value for me, I'll happily subscribe. - If I click on a clickbait head
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by grandalf 9y ago
> Neither of those square with observed data What is the observed data? Anyone who had a VPS in Russia could have been responsible for the data that is currently known to the public. The intelligence agencies claim there is additional da
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by grandalf 9y ago
FWIW I much prefer the RNNoise version to the Speex version. With the Speex version the nosie is much more consistently present/noticeable/distracting.
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by grandalf 9y ago
> throw a wrench into our credit system How, by getting Equifax to hire IT staff that does not see the wisdom in patching known vulnerabilities? > everything we now know about Russia's attempts to influence our elections and se
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by grandalf 9y ago
I've been a ham since I was a kid. There are so many different, interesting things to explore. These days I find high speed telegraphy pretty relaxing and meditative, and I have a few ongoing RF projects that keep me going even when ev
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by grandalf 9y ago
> separate tab in the photo app Where is this? Which OS? I believe the composition optimization is not something you can turn off. What's the difference between optimizing the landscape composition and modifying a composition of a f
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by grandalf 9y ago
OK so in the next release it might make human arms look more buff, teeth whiter, and faces friendlier-looking. Is this really a good thing?
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by grandalf 9y ago
> We are going to end up in some weird future I worry about that too. It may also end up being a future where we are no longer fooled by fake effects and they start to feel inauthentic. Chances are when plastic were new, people remarked
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by grandalf 9y ago
Sure I can use a tiny fish-eye lens and some algorithms to create something that looks good, but if the goal is to start with an accurate representation of reality, then the algorithm does not necessarily help. Some of the landscape photos
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by grandalf 9y ago
A top performing smart phone "camera" is really just the algorithm that creates a psychologically appealing composition. Note that AI is not being used to (simply) mimic a better sensor and lens, there is all sorts of stuff going
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by grandalf 9y ago
Following the whims of officials is quite different from the rule of law!

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