jlarocco

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by jlarocco 7y ago
You're better off just dropping Google altogether. Paying for GSuite doesn't eliminate any of the problems (they'll still ban you, spy on you, have relatively poor support, etc.) and many of the alternative services are simpl
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by jlarocco 7y ago
Is there a reason the FCC can't fine the telecoms for allowing the illegal calls? My guess is they'd fix the problem pretty quick.
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by jlarocco 7y ago
Not hard to find... I think the original is here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/09/17/can-mark-zucke... And then there's a ton of commentary about it: https://www.theguardian.co
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by jlarocco 7y ago
Garmin hardware is great, but their software is terrible. My friends and I had been using Garmin cycle computers and watches for a while, but lately we've been moving to Suunto and Wahoo devices - entirely due to software bugs. My Feni
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by jlarocco 7y ago
This might be on your radar already, but the rendering is broken in Firefox. I'm using version 60.8.0esr, which is what I get with "apt-get install firefox". When I open the link I see the table of contents on the left and a
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by jlarocco 7y ago
> As a gmail user, I 100% appreciate keeping my inbox extremely clean. That's a silly way to spin this. They can keep your inbox super clean by just not delivering any mail at all. The way GMail is going, you'll soon only be a
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by jlarocco 7y ago
On the other hand, I have 6 keyboards near my desk and only one has a Windows key. YMMV, I guess
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by jlarocco 7y ago
I don't know... I own a 2013 MBP and also use a Thinkpad P52s for work, and I really hope there's a better competitor than the Thinkpads. The Thinkpad feels cheap and poorly built compared to the MBP. The plastic creaks and it f
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by jlarocco 7y ago
> Splitting a NURBS surface "in half" is an insanely complicated operation, and the way you do it almost certainly depends on your intended use case. It's actually not "insanely complicated", and there are resour
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by jlarocco 7y ago
That could be. Unless I'm actually using it, I block all requests to Google servers. I have good enough results with DDG and Bing that it's not worth enabling Google's spyware.
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by jlarocco 7y ago
That's great if it works for you, but doesn't match my experience. I've been using DDG for years now, and rarely bother with Google any more. If I can't find what I need with DDG I have better luck with Bing than with
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by jlarocco 7y ago
> * modifying keyboard shortcuts is extremely difficult; I really wish linux had a karabiner equivalent That's not a Linux problem, it's a window manager problem. Setting keyboard shortcuts is a piece of cake in StumpWM. >
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by jlarocco 7y ago
Most people who play sports never earn money for it, perhaps you shoud ask them.
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by jlarocco 7y ago
Maybe I don't understand your question, but there's a huge network effect of people browsing the site and answering questions. Anybody can put up a Q&A site, but to gain traction the site needs answers. It does raise the ques
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by jlarocco 7y ago
I don't think that's a big concern because law enforcement will have to refuse the information or the case will be thrown out. They can't just go up and present illegally obtained evidence. Even the crappiest public defende
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by jlarocco 7y ago
I haven't used Reddit in a very long time, but does it not allow anonymous posts and comments any more? My account, at least, isn't tied to my real name or identity in any way, IIRC. Anyway, I'm not sure anonymity is a great
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by jlarocco 7y ago
What's silly is that somebody asked a legitimate question in good faith with code samples and everything, and you responded with an ad-hominem attack with no useful information.
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by jlarocco 7y ago
It would be less condescending if the author just stated what type of math was used and left out the passive aggressive nonsense about people "unwilling to learn difficult concepts through prolonged mental concentration and effort.&quo
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by jlarocco 7y ago
Never heard of this, but I once wrote a Perl script (it was a long time ago ;-) that created Perl/Tk UIs around CLI tools by parsing the output from "$CMD --help" or "man $CMD". It never worked perfect, but was &quo
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by jlarocco 7y ago
Journalism is a big field. Just because journalists did a good job in three situations you know of, doesn't mean the average quality is plummetting. As counterexamples, they've done a terrible job investigating anything related
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by jlarocco 7y ago
> The entire premise of free exchange is that I give you my services in exchange for something of value of yours. The problem is that these companies advertise their products as "free," which means something very different. And
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by jlarocco 7y ago
> Because if you were to run a survey over the general population the large majority is fine not having to pay for gmail, google search, maps and other "free" services while some data may be collected doing so That's nonse
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by jlarocco 7y ago
> The only reason those services are being provided at all is to get that data. If people don't find your product valuable enough to pay for, then your company should go out of business. Companies have been exploiting people's
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by jlarocco 7y ago
> "President rootusrootus spent the entirety of his term in office attempting unsuccessfully to undo the legacy of the previous occupant." is not exactly what I would be going for. Tearing down a legacy is not the same as build
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by jlarocco 7y ago
And I thought it was common knowledge that corporations "settle without admitting wrong doing" when they're guilty as shit but know they'll have even larger punitive damages if they drag out a trial. But then again, mayb
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by jlarocco 7y ago
If they didn't break the law they wouldn't have agreed to a $1B settlement.
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by jlarocco 7y ago
Great article, misleading title. It's not "from scratch" if it's using OpenCV, TensorFlow, and a web service to do all of the work. Imagine, "Bake Cookies From Scratch," and step one is remove the Pillsbury co
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by jlarocco 7y ago
I'll complain that Firefox isn't supported. Google is the worst.
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by jlarocco 7y ago
That's a straw man. The underlying issue is that companies are shipping products that do a bunch of extra shit that nobody expects or can predict. The solution is for companies to be transparent and open about what their products are a
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by jlarocco 7y ago
Around 2008/2009 I was briefly (about 6 months) employed to write Jovial and 286 assembly language for software that controlled satellite communication base stations. Unfortunately I was laid off before I got to write very much of it,

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