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by jarfil 7y ago
If the new owner of a domain can erase all the history of content published by a previous owner, that is kind of similar to forcing everyone to never speak of it again.
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by jarfil 7y ago
If binary has taught me anything, is that you can count up to 1024 with 10 fingers...
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by jarfil 7y ago
That is correct: since these were not usual players who abstained from playing, but rather casual players who bought extra tickets just on rolldown, while the State got a cut from every ticket sale, they were effectively pouring extra money
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by jarfil 7y ago
Official lotteries are usually heavily regulated and audited to ensure they comply with their published rules. These are state lotteries we're talking here, not random gambling websites.
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by jarfil 7y ago
That depends, are you being investigated by the Swiss government? Protonmail can not send data it doesn't have, so unless you think they may have singled you out to serve you client side code with broken encryption, they will not be se
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by jarfil 7y ago
It's kind of funny to speak of "stealing tech" when it's the foreign companies themselves who give Chinese manufacturers all that's needed to set up production lines to make the tech. Like, what did you expect, that
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by jarfil 7y ago
It's also a good reminder of why data portability is important. For the git part, you can just git push to another service, even a selfhosted one, and be up and running in no time, and GitHub does keep pages and wikis in git... but all
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by jarfil 7y ago
Maybe I'm just too old for it, but what is this "being bored" thing you're talking about? I clearly recall staring blankly into space while solving problems in my mind, or even just feeling the surroundings, as some of t
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by jarfil 7y ago
That highly depends on every subreddit's topic and how is it being moderated. Topics which invite populist responses in populist subreddits indeed behave like that, but other subreddits keep more of a Stack Exchange behavior, with out
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by jarfil 7y ago
I don't think that's really such a problem, it alleviates the echo chamber effect of personalized searches, ads, content, forums, etc. on most of today's internet. Some community intermingling is good, and afterwards everyone
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by jarfil 7y ago
Docker containers provide seccomp, cgroups and more. Yes, systemd unit files are containers, just like Docker.
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by jarfil 7y ago
VMs are application agnostic, while Kubernetes is a service manager. If you want to run 200 different services on 40 machines, you may find hand crafted VMs easier to create and forget. If you want to run 10 services with different levels o
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by jarfil 7y ago
Seems like by 2100, Nigeria will be the third "population power" in the world: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/projected-population-by-c...
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by jarfil 7y ago
Also, that's 25k/24h for the robot vs 10k/8h for a human. Taking into account that the time of day it's picked has a dramatic effect on a raspberry's taste, these robots may only be useful with artificially illumina
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by jarfil 7y ago
There is a startup trying to do just that: https://astronomy.com/news/2019/01/billboards-in-space
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by jarfil 7y ago
Or make the panels much thinner but also much bigger so we can save on street lighting; astronomers will want to use orbital telescopes anyway.
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by jarfil 7y ago
Sometimes people don't understand the difference between the Wikipedia and a random wiki, then insult its moderators, right before admitting they didn't even keep a copy of the document they've written. Makes me much less int
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by jarfil 7y ago
$150 for what looks like 12 simple games isn't that much different.
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by jarfil 7y ago
In practice, 5G is less about speed and more about massive IoT deployments, which could lead to massive surveillance. It's no surprise that those in the surveillance business are wary of foreign actors.
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by jarfil 7y ago
Just changing the zone would do nothing for people who blindly dial back without even checking the number. What we need is a system to report the per-minute cost of an outgoing call, and being able to block any call above that limit (like,
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by jarfil 7y ago
> being untrustworthy based on a single article A single article... and the negative to do anything about it. Yes it does.
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by jarfil 7y ago
Wasn't the problem that Boeing requires pilots to keep overriding the system in the case of a failure, while not training them to do so, or even mentioning the fact in the documentation?
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by jarfil 7y ago
How is this different from urlwatch?
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by jarfil 8y ago
If I understand it correctly, the feature is controlled via a user permission which is not granted by default.
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by jarfil 8y ago
> Scaling down the concept to the scale where it could operate on light waves and be placed on a microchip > “We could use the technology behind rewritable CDs to make new Swiss cheese patterns as they’re needed,” Could be not much di
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by jarfil 8y ago
On the bright side, it's probably less likely to have an input impacted by a mouse wheel on mobile, so just changing the input type between mobile and desktop might be good enough.
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by jarfil 8y ago
I think the point of the article is that brain neurons are not equivalent to the ML representation of neurons, so that count if 17 billion in the cortex would actually require many more "ML neurons" to be simulated. It also explai
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by jarfil 8y ago
If he got $120M over 3 years, there aren't many jobs out there which would pay $40M a year. And if you can just send invoices and get paid, why even do any work, like ever?
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by jarfil 8y ago
This kind of accident doesn't happen for just a single reason, they happen for a SERIES of reasons all together. Some of those reasons are technical, some are environmental, and some are human factor. Blaming any single of them is bull
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by jarfil 8y ago
Because anything less than "100% working" is considered a failure, and it might be a preventive measure to avoid bug reports or clueless user outrage.

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