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by hunter2_ 4y ago
But fonts are more than just typeface vectors. For example, it's code can cause any conceivable string of characters to look different than simply rendering each glyph immediately next to each other; sometimes it's kerning tweaks,
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by hunter2_ 4y ago
Do people even still use the analog hole, or is it all about stripping DRM/HDCP/etc. in the digital domain these days?
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by hunter2_ 4y ago
But I doubt the harmed people will feel materially less harmed if some tiny fraction of content isn't in harm's way while the rest still is.
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by hunter2_ 4y ago
Or monitor them.
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by hunter2_ 4y ago
> the larger thing likely either knows [about the fall] and can comprehend this message trivially, or does not and summoning help is the proper action to take. You did say "likely" but to provide an example: skiers who know the
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by hunter2_ 4y ago
Agreed. I wonder if it falls into traps that simply didn't exist in the past, and release notes about breaking changes regarding those increasing blurry-but-not-killed modes were ignored.
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by hunter2_ 4y ago
Japanese came to mind for me as having borrowed plenty of words from English (often modifying them simply to ensure a vowel between each consonant sound, as two adjacent consonants would be too foreign) as my contrarian reaction to > &qu
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by hunter2_ 4y ago
Interesting decision about which one is the orange in this analogy :)
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by hunter2_ 4y ago
I think the "fix" proposed here is that it be as frictionless as sending a DMCA notice. Is what you're talking about that easy? Sounds like we need scammy middleware between regular people and the complaint system to keep com
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by hunter2_ 4y ago
> getting a dangerous driver off the road [...] you'd need some sci-fi EMP/hacker darts I've been wondering about how cops might get autonomous vehicles to pull over. I predict that some day the vehicles will be required t
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by hunter2_ 4y ago
I should've quoted to avoid confusion, but I am replying to a comment talking about heating with gas vs this: > if natural gas is cheap it can also be used to generate electricity without having to run and maintain natural gas lines
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by hunter2_ 4y ago
It's interesting math. You can turn natural gas into heat directly at around 90% if it's plumbed to the building. You can turn natural gas into electricity at around 50%. You can turn electricity into heat (resistive) at 100%. You
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by hunter2_ 4y ago
> in a month It might make more sense to say "in a car ownership window" than "in a month" to prevent heavy months (say, holidays/vacations) from seeming problematic and lighter months (not doing much besides wor
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by hunter2_ 4y ago
Friction for sure. In most cases (other than trying to find parking where that's difficult) having a car means most of the friction (cost, maintenance) is decoupled from each ride. With other options like train, Uber, etc. most of the
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by hunter2_ 4y ago
This might depend on location. For me, maintaining a license works out to a few USD/yr so you might as well do it if only for emergencies, to avoid a citation in an emergency (though I'll admit it's far-fetched for that to oc
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by hunter2_ 4y ago
I just looked it up. The relevant definition of recall is to request returning a product. If it's possible to buy a software license online and then return it online after deciding you no longer want it (i.e., a non-physical return), t
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by hunter2_ 4y ago
Hopefully my insurance company doesn't have another customer who shares my name, who has those bad habits, with the matching being fuzzy enough that the raised rates are applied to both of us...
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by hunter2_ 4y ago
90210 of course. Although if you're customizing the area code based on current location, maybe do the same with the zip code.
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by hunter2_ 4y ago
> With facial recognition being a nearly solved problem, cash won't even save you. Would be interesting to see the drop in positive face recognition rate (per human detected) from mask usage.
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by hunter2_ 4y ago
Does one need to spoof a tower (actively transmit/handshake) or can one simply listen? Is it virtually impossible to do some kind of phased array that tracks the location of mobile transmitters since they're encrypted? Maybe the t
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by hunter2_ 4y ago
A pattern I'm seeing here is the possibility that these beneficial outcomes could be rooted in racism/sexism/etc.: having enough diversity among staff such that you can easily pair up people (provider and patient, fiduciary a
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by hunter2_ 4y ago
True, and it could even be as simple as: well-educated people make companies more successful, and they pursue diversity more, compared to other people -- i.e., one input has these two outputs.
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by hunter2_ 4y ago
I think the idea is that even if blind hiring makes for the best possible employees on an individual basis in the short term, loosening that optimization in favor of diversity is a worthwhile pursuit because the company actually will thrive
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by hunter2_ 4y ago
I never thought much about it before, but I guess forums should optimize the useful life of a given thread to loosely match the useful life of whatever is being discussed. For example, golfmk7.com is for a set of cars with model years of 20
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by hunter2_ 4y ago
I've gleaned that they use 'server' as something more like a 'workspace' in Slack: a set of channels and people. Odd, either way.
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by hunter2_ 4y ago
If customers are able to influence the content and recipient of these messages, they could use it for spam.
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by hunter2_ 4y ago
Drupal is up there, maybe not as a household name like WordPress, but in some big organizations.
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by hunter2_ 4y ago
I assume there's a sizable segment of VPN users who enjoy torrenting without DMCA letters catching up with them, FWIW. HTTPS doesn't help much with that.
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by hunter2_ 4y ago
Right: it turns out that when someone wants to offer someone else a plethora of options in one fell swoop, graphics are much more efficient than language because it takes way less time to consume. Even if commands like "help" or &
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by hunter2_ 4y ago
I agree very much, but CLIs are mostly for power users and developers these days. Normal users were on CLIs decades ago but have been primarily on GUIs since then, for essentially the same reasons that TFA argues. I think we can focus on no

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