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by hilbert42 7mo ago
I'd like to answer that in detail but it's impractical to do so here as it'd take pages. As a starter though begin with them not violating users' privacy. Another quick point: my observation is that the worse the ad prob
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by hilbert42 7mo ago
Solution, see my post. ;-)
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by hilbert42 7mo ago
These days the NYT is in a race to the bottom. I no longer even bother to bypass ads let alone read the news stories because of its page bloat and other annoyances. It's just not worth the effort. Surely news outlets like the NYT must
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by hilbert42 7mo ago
"Parenting and parental control applications." Correct. For the life of me I cannot see how this can ever work in practice. For such a scheme to work all users would have to be physically and electronically locked out from acces
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by hilbert42 7mo ago
"…easier to authoritatively tell people what time it is, with a one-hour jump twice a year,…" Exactly. Also, changing business hours to suit specific work conditions would ease traffic congestion. For instance, a farmer would mi
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by hilbert42 7mo ago
"But why school is out at 1500 and job at 1700 is a mystery." Same here. And I've never figured out why DST fades the curtains.
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by hilbert42 8mo ago
What this tells me is that the era of code obfuscation through compilation is likely coming to an end. If anyone is able to reverse-engineer a program it'll have huge ramifications for the industry. This won't be welcomed by softw
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by hilbert42 8mo ago
"This is a failure of regulation," Despite my comments I cannot agree more. When it comes to IT, computers and the internet governments have failed abysmally to protect consumers from exploitation, both online and otherwise. I&#
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by hilbert42 8mo ago
IoT, internet privacy, spyware, etc. have been repeatedly in the news ad nauseam since about 2000. If they don't know by now where have they been for the past quarter century? The first and most obvious question an owner should ask &qu
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by hilbert42 8mo ago
"Nobody expects the spanish inquisition…" Why not? They bought roving cameras that surveil their homes and connected them to internet servers they neither own nor control. They obviously don't give a shit about privacy or t
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by hilbert42 8mo ago
I give up. Privacy's hopeless as none care. When so many are prepared to chuck privacy to the wind and connect a roving camera in their homes to an internet server that's not under their contol there's no hope. The few who do
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by hilbert42 8mo ago
It's good to know people are finally working on long-term nonvolatile storage. To date, just about every storage syatem we've developed has had a storter lifespan than the previous one, NAND versus magnetic storage for instance. T
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by hilbert42 8mo ago
There are multiple ways to tackle the problem, once we had competitions such as 'Miss World', 'Miss America', etc. that were popular but which now are very much seen as sexist. The message would soon get across if bein
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by hilbert42 8mo ago
"...it literally costs less to make surplus items than to scrap them." Right, my rhetorical point somewhat expanded here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47031527 "But you can't entirely blame th
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by hilbert42 8mo ago
Trouble is if democracy worked properly then corporate entities wouldn't be able to lobby and influence governments to weaken laws out of self-interest.
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by hilbert42 8mo ago
"There are companies selling cotton t-shirts with a logo on them for 500 dollars. ..." I used to be very tolerant of people's idiosyncrasies but with the internet, social media etc. that brings out the worst in people I&#x2
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by hilbert42 8mo ago
"Asking/convincing companies or individuals to be voluntarily ethical, one at a time, is not a solution. ...just increases the opportunity, profits and incentives for less-altruistic actors." Exactly, it's why we need
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by hilbert42 8mo ago
"financial incentive to a) not over produce, b) sell the clothes - even if it means selling them for next to nothing." That's not how it works in practice, with the economies of scale/production it makes more economic
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by hilbert42 8mo ago
"So instead of destroying those clothes in Europe, we'll just add an unnecessary shipping step to the process, producing tons of unnecessary CO2." The world being as it is you're likely correct and your cynicism makes
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by hilbert42 8mo ago
"By 'repaired' you mean closing a fracture?" Right, I haven't had many fracture but it was more than I expected. I've had some come apart (completely—shear off). One I recall fixing (replacing the reed) with
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by hilbert42 8mo ago
Further to my unforgivable boo-boo. This article provides a pretty good introduction to the subject and there's a diagram of a quartz crystal at the beginning indicating the position of AT cuts in relation to the crystal and other cuts
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by hilbert42 8mo ago
"Crystal Oscillator Design and Temperature Compensation :Marvin E. Frerking (1978)." Ah, that has to be the book, just did a search and there's a photo of the cover on Amazon that I recognize. I said it was bright yellow wi
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by hilbert42 8mo ago
Ha-ha, I didn't read this until I'd written the above reply, seems we have something in common. Incidentally, I'm one of those mad people who'll put on a recording of Helmut Walcha playing Bach's Passacaglia and Fug
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by hilbert42 8mo ago
Could well be either, it was around the late 70s early 80s when the book went walkabout. Damn nuisance my memory isn't better. However, I'd recognize it instantly if I saw it. Must check those references out. There may be enough i
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by hilbert42 8mo ago
Funny you should mention that another hobby of mine was rescuing old harmoniums and making them playable again—you know, fixing and replacing reeds, renewing bug-eaten felt, sealing rat holes in the bellows, etc. I grant you it's not i
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by hilbert42 8mo ago
I can't recall exactly but I'm pretty certain most crystal are synthetic these days, at least so for the common cuts. I'd imagine most watch quartz would be synthetic but that's only a guess.
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by hilbert42 8mo ago
I wish I could but it's s long while ago. More precisely the book wasn't lost but loaned to someone who never returned it and I lost track of him. The book was a harback with a bright yellow dust jacket and I think its title was p
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by hilbert42 8mo ago
In my case the HF came in small black plastic cylindrical bottles of 50 perhaps 75 ml (could have been 100ml but that seems a bit big). Back then they were commonly available at local hardware stores. The bottle was flat on top from which p
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by hilbert42 8mo ago
Heavens, that should be AT cut not XT. What on earth was I thinking of? Some of you guys should have picked that up. ;-)
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by hilbert42 8mo ago
You can get quartz to resonate down to upper audio frequencies with certain crystal cuts and manufacturing techniques but it's difficult. Typically, the lowest frequency in common use is with its use in watches with a frequency of 32,7

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