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by jarfil 8y ago
The thing is, I don't care what will happen when I can't think for myself anymore. If my family, or whoever, wants to think about what I would have wanted... that's not my problem anymore, I'll be out, and as far as I&#x
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by jarfil 8y ago
Consumers don't want that. There is already a kind of hardware and software where companies are liable: in medical equipment. Now look at what that does to the prices. Open source and consumer serviceable makes sense, but that's a
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by jarfil 8y ago
If I had a choice between suffering and dying... I'd pick whichever had a greater chance of letting me achieve any of my goals. Maybe seeing my family one more time would be a worthy goal, or maybe sparing them some suffering would be
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by jarfil 8y ago
My stance is simple: selfie sticks are evil, reachie sticks and monopods are fine.
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I think it's because the boot sequence is always pretty much the same on a given architecture, but process management is where things start to depend less on the hardware and more on the OS design.
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by jarfil 8y ago
There, open source, that's the key point to avoid lock-in. There is no problem with going with any single provider, as long as you "can" replicate any functionality you're using. You may never actually replicate it, but
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by jarfil 8y ago
It's easier to find more than fewer palindromes that when summed up will give a certain number. Finding just the three, is not that easy.
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by jarfil 8y ago
There's Diaspora, since 2010 no less, but it's hard for it to really take off when most people would rather use a centralized service, and centralized services would rather lock people in.
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by jarfil 8y ago
10 GigaRays/sec = 80 rays per pixel at 1080p60fps. That should be enough to do full scene real-time raytracing with rays per pixel to spare (usually 10 rays per path are more than enough).
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by jarfil 8y ago
This is interesting research, but I think it's been accepted for some time already that two identical neurons with the same chemical composition and the same neural connections will behave in the same way, and that cellular function is
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by jarfil 8y ago
Let me try: "Modular something, with an SDK, app store and prize based compensation to developers". Yeah, it's really hard to say anything non-biased about that thing.
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by jarfil 8y ago
A bash script would have to automatically install all the dependencies. Over time, there is a growing chance that some of the versions required will conflict with whatever is already installed on the machine, and someone will have to go in
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by jarfil 8y ago
You don't need docker to run a single program on a single computer... but the moment you either want to run multiple copies, or distribute it to multiple computers, particularly if they're not your computers, then being able to en
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by jarfil 8y ago
These attacks can be made into a pendrive you just need to plug in. On laptops that's easier than hiding some extra hardware.
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by jarfil 8y ago
Some parts of a computer are easier to access than others. Like, it's quite easy to access the contents of a hard drive, but not so much some value stored in a particular register in the CPU. That's why it makes sense to encrypt d
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by jarfil 8y ago
So when are we getting encrypted RAM? With all the talk I hear about "cache being the new RAM", since it's so much faster, particularly the L1, it sounds like it would make sense to have some transparent encryption going on.
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by jarfil 8y ago
I'm in Spain, and when some Amazon Prime orders with two-day shipping get fulfilled from Germany or Italy, I have to wonder whether not having a local Amazon branch makes that much of a difference.
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by jarfil 8y ago
Reading memos is best done on a tablet or smartphone. Doing the work depends on the kind of work, only content creators and programmers need a full PC; everyone else who works in the non-digital physical world, doesn't.
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by jarfil 8y ago
If session times go down, there is a lower chance users will notice the ads, and Google wants them to see the ads.
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by jarfil 8y ago
I find using Docker (or any container) actually simpler than maintaining a pet server, even if you never need a cluster or Kubernetes. Just the ability to develop & test in an environment identical to production is a huge benefit on its
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by jarfil 8y ago
Depending on your target audience, if your product becomes viral you may need to be able to scale to 100x in a very short time. That's too late to rethink stuff. Of course this depends on whether your product CAN become viral in the fi
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by jarfil 8y ago
That's why 90% of Debian packages are reproducible.
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by jarfil 8y ago
The GDPR made me switch my cookie policy, to using two Chrome extensions in tandem: - I don't care about cookies: auto accepts all cookies - Cookie AutoDelete: auto deletes all cookies So now you can track me all you want... until I le
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by jarfil 8y ago
Socrates already thought of some... and yet here we are, with people being born as ignorant and uneducated as ever.
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by jarfil 8y ago
Not if you set your DKIM/SPF/DMARC/etc. correctly. If you can't be bothered, just use a provider who will set it for you... like Google.
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by jarfil 8y ago
It's not like that. All your content is still yours, and with the GDPR you can request a copy of it at any moment. However, Facebook has no obligation to preserve copies of your posts, there is no provision in that respect in the TOS,
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by jarfil 8y ago
What would happen is the Asus Eee, which got such a high rate of returned units from people who didn't understand Linux that it ultimately got canceled.
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by jarfil 8y ago
There is a solution for "printing" magnetic domains in a base magnet, maybe a printable material could be devised such that later on a "magnet writing head" could create whatever magnets are needed. https://yo
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Right? I thought that was the new normal.
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by jarfil 8y ago
I saw no hostility. Are you sure you're not hostile hourself?

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