hughw

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   by hughw 6y ago

   "We believed the web was dead"... well there's your problem.
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   by hughw 6y ago

   Microsoft went far down this road in the early 2000s with WinFS [1] but abandoned it. [Edit: WinFS and Longhorn together] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS
3. 303.▲
   by hughw 6y ago

   I would think federal charges will follow.
4. 304.▲
   by hughw 6y ago

   You will have the option to enable tracking. We won't all have to see it the same way now. Those of us who don't see it your way will no longer be tracked involuntarily.
5. 305.▲
   by hughw 6y ago

   Their complaint isn't that it won't be possible to track you. It's that it won't be possible to track you without your permission.
6. 306.▲
   by hughw 6y ago

   Now do GPT-3.
7. 307.▲
   by hughw 6y ago

   > Barr suggested that Apple iPhones "wouldn't be sold (in China) if they were impervious to penetration by Chinese authorities." Are iPhones in China different from those sold in the US, from a security or privacy perspect
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   Attorney General Barr Accuses Hollywood, Big Tech of Collaborating with China(mobile.reuters.com)

   1 points by hughw 6y ago|1 comments
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   by hughw 6y ago

   The most frustrating part is the gcc version dependency.
10. 310.▲
    by hughw 6y ago

    Don't you see the difference between state-sponsored outlets like RT and the individual activists Zoom banned?
11. 311.▲
    by hughw 7y ago

    It was more than a complaint about downvotes. It was an observation on an unflattering characteristic of parts of the HN community.
12. 312.▲
    by hughw 7y ago

    Nothing like smug HN downvotes to reinforce the Darwinian message.
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    by hughw 7y ago

    >I spent the last 2 weeks doing nothing but reading reports, stats etc about the program to ensure I was able to get it for my team. Lots of people submitted with a big bank and just waited accepting no updates, now are complaining after
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    by hughw 7y ago

    One twist in my case was, the Chase webapp gave me an error page on about page 5 of the wizard interface, where you upload your payroll documentation. The webapp had no state persisted -- any error and you have to start the whole 25-minute
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    by hughw 7y ago

    Seismologist here. The problems you describe sound reminiscent of those in seismic imaging. Ideally you'd bury geophones below the weathered layer (typically 3 m) at the surface, to get ideal coupling. In practice that's not econo
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    by hughw 7y ago

    I've done it both ways. I've had to partition a years old code base, keeping an old SVN repo up to a certain date, then using my own limited git-svn skill to promote some recent months to git, to establish a git repo for use from
17. 317.▲
    by hughw 7y ago

    Whats' TIM?
18. 318.▲
    by hughw 7y ago

    We need software escrow for consumers.
19. 319.▲
    by hughw 7y ago

    Apple cables are notorious for wearing badly. I suspect it's because they favor very thin casing and for greater flexibility -- a lightning cable winds tighter than typical charging cables for other phones. MacBook Pro chargers also su
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    by hughw 7y ago

    To prove NSO used WhatsApp servers, I suppose WA will have to present inferences from metadata it recorded and saved. So WA will be required to demonstrate how much can yet be learned about its users by passing communications through its se
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    by hughw 7y ago

    HTTP was very much designed to work well with caches.
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    by hughw 7y ago

    That Oryx model in the link uses a GTX 1070
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    by hughw 7y ago

    Yep. Mine is in the System 76 repair shop right now for the third time. Which is why I'm using my Matebook Windows laptop for dev. Extremely unsatisfied with Oryx Pro materials and build quality. Oh it's back for the third time be
24. 324.▲
    by hughw 7y ago

    I'm running Windows + WSL2 on my Matebook X pro. Couldn't be happier with the construction, performance, battery life, and the 3:2 aspect ratio.
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    by hughw 7y ago

    It's pseudonymous.
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    by hughw 7y ago

    Full NYAG complaint here [1]. [1] https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/425-2018-10-24-exxon...
27. 327.▲
    by hughw 7y ago

    There's some chance that governments worldwide will decide the costs of transforming the energy base and applying conservation measures, outweigh the benefits of possibly avoiding the increase of 2°C and attendant problems. In that cas
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    by hughw 7y ago

    For those dismissing the Bloomberg reporting, what exactly is the scenario you find more believable? Did the reporters improperly extrapolate, either through ignorance or eagerness for a story? Did they unknowingly succumb to CIA disinforma
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    by hughw 7y ago

    Strong claim supported only by conjecture.
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    by hughw 7y ago

    To be truly ethical, you must watch the ads.