hankman86

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by hankman86 3y ago
You are regurgitating Google‘s marketing where their poor YouTube division struggles to stay afloat due to all the evil ad blockers out there. This is nonsense. They are the gatekeepers to what is effectively a captive market. And they don’
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by hankman86 3y ago
I would love to see the EU’s Digital Markets Act be applied to YouTube. By all accounts, they are a gatekeeper of the user-generated video streaming market. The DML could enforce some increased level of interoperability. This would not only
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by hankman86 3y ago
I suspect that AMD will use their improved compatibility with the leading ML stack for data center deals. Presumably by offering steep discounts over NVIDIA’s GPUs. This might help them to break into the market. Individual ML practitioners
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by hankman86 3y ago
I wish he would write a Commander Keen sequel instead.
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by hankman86 3y ago
And to what end? I fundamentally disagree with the premise that a downsized human population creates a better future, simply because fewer people will require less land, pollute less etc. This not to argue that land use, pollution, climate
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by hankman86 3y ago
This is not something you can “seek”. It happens due to circumstances beyond our control. As girls and women got more educated and started to enter the workforce, birth rates declined. This is for one the result of women pushing back having
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by hankman86 3y ago
How do you tell young families (women in particular) to have more children to avoid population collapse? This is a very real problem in a number of wealthy countries. I am not aware of government policies that have managed to coerce educate
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by hankman86 3y ago
There are nevertheless vast differences between demographic developments in different parts of the world. Many wealthy countries will see their population decline - unless they manage to compensate the same with drastically increased levels
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by hankman86 3y ago
They probably want to eliminate an attack vector. Removing PostScript support from WebKit/Safari seems like the right decision in light of PostScript’s waning relevance as a publishing format. Not sure about EPS - last I used it was fo
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by hankman86 3y ago
Since when does stuttering make you speak nonsense, be forgetful and tired?
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by hankman86 3y ago
Yes, in many ways a 70 yo is less capable than a 40 yo. Mental acuity, stamina/fitness, rigidity of thinking (the lack thereof) and general health (mental and otherwise). Never ending political terms may also come with a sense of entit
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by hankman86 3y ago
Tyres don’t last forever. With regulatory intervention in place, tyre manufacturers will bring products to market that lower or eliminate hazardous emissions. This problem could be solved in less than a decade.
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by hankman86 3y ago
Or walk, cycle, use car pooling or public transport. Move closer to where you work, if that’s an option.
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by hankman86 3y ago
Then again, EVs often use regenerative breaking (“one pedal driving”). I have made it a habit to engage this as often as possible, avoiding to use the brakes. I wonder if this results in fewer sharp stops and is easier on the tyres. What ca
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by hankman86 3y ago
It’s licensed under GPL3, where the developer suggests individually negotiating a license for commercial projects. I am not sure this is a good approach given the early stage of this project. Video game development is already commercially a
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by hankman86 3y ago
Sacrificing any animal would be morally justifiable if it saved a human life, as is the case with kidney transplants. It does not matter that we already breed and kill millions of pigs for meat consumption. The fact that some person with en
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by hankman86 3y ago
This is not about excessive meat consumption. Neither is it about animal abuse in the meat industry. It is not even about animal testing for pharmaceutical products. These issues are completely unrelated to harvesting donor kidneys from pig
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by hankman86 3y ago
Incorrectly weighed priorities IMHO. People on dialysis have a poor quality of life, a dramatically shortened lifespan and will frequently not survive until that time that a donor kidney becomes available. By contrast, donor organ recipient
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by hankman86 3y ago
That’s a common practice in enterprise software licensing agreements. The organisation that is being audited signed up for this. Oracle uses audits to enforce being correctly remunerated under the agreed metrics. Nothing scandalous about it
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by hankman86 3y ago
In other words, their EV strategy doesn’t work and they are losing to Tesla and the Chinese automakers.
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by hankman86 3y ago
I wonder what crops can cope with the shade that is being cast by the panels. Or whether there is a clever arrangement of the panels that allows for enough light to reach the plants.
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by hankman86 3y ago
Residential solar is an imperative when heat waves become more common. I live in Queensland, Australia where we are headed into an El Niño summer. Which means sweltering heat for many months. My current 10 kW solar setup plus Tesla Powerwal
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by hankman86 3y ago
But isn’t that the point of transmission lines - match supply and demand? Given a large enough region, there is going to be a place where renewable electricity can be produced. Case in point being offshore wind turbines where there are almo
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by hankman86 3y ago
Or you just use the iron to build more towers for wind turbines. Or transmission lines to send renewable electricity to where it is needed.
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by hankman86 3y ago
[1] is a bummer. Turns this project into a technology showcase without any practical use.
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by hankman86 3y ago
Who would want a lazily ported Java desktop UI in the browser? Web apps are bad enough as it is. But downloading massive jar files and execute them at a major performance penalty? No thanks. I will actively avoid websites that use heavyweig
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by hankman86 3y ago
VR is dead in the water and so is AR. I thought Google had learned that lesson from their own foray into the space with Google Glass. Latest evidence: Sony’s PSVR2 doesn’t sell. Oh and the ongoing crapshow that is Meta’s VR-based Metaverse
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by hankman86 3y ago
This is very, very bad news. Even if their client telemetry ends up being opt-in, the “feature” will be part of the client code base, opening up an attack surface and chance of data leakage. I can already see the apology letter from their C
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by hankman86 3y ago
Did you ever work out how much energy was expended to manufacture and transport the parts? Chances are that with solar panels facing west in a place like The Netherlands, it will take a long time to come out on top with your carbon footprin
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by hankman86 3y ago
Last I looked, the GDPR gives “data subjects” (=regular citizens) autonomy over their data in the first place. Your argument is rather flawed: how does it help well-informed people to merely know that LLMs use personal information in their

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