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by jodrellblank 7y ago
How are you going to datamine and AI train and sell customer data for to advertisers for profit, if you can't read the customer data? Google makes billions from doing this, if we wanted Google to not be able to do this at all, we would
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by jodrellblank 7y ago
> "Obviously the way it is, is the way it is. Obviously". In conclusion, you think no company should adjust their prices, ever? Because the current price is the market price which is obviously the right price because it's
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by jodrellblank 7y ago
I’m sure if it was indeed popular, there would be some way of demonstrating that. Google Trends suggests that searches for 'Hackintosh' peaked around 2009 and have been steadily declining down to around a half since then. Search
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by jodrellblank 7y ago
> and... and... what? Unless telekinesis has been invented, a photo of your door doesn't increase the amount of people who are able to try opening your door. If you're about to say "someone might choose to come a long way
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by jodrellblank 7y ago
The internet brings a much bigger attack surface than local people who can reach a front door, and home users access the same openssh as companies do, but companies (can) afford stronger doors. "Most people's home doors can't
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by jodrellblank 7y ago
Viber 2010, Pinterest 2010, Ask.fm 2010, Twitch 2011, WeChat 2011, Medium.com 2012, Slack 2013, Telegram 2013, Musical.ly 2014, Discord 2015, are all in related/overlapping space and have tens of millions of users.
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by jodrellblank 7y ago
What I think you're missing is that the disclosure could come from a bad person who doesn't care about any of your arguments. It's like I'm saying "banks should invest in vaults to protect against theft" and yo
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by jodrellblank 7y ago
The idea behind your complaint is " if we tell good people about risks, then bad people will know about them. If we keep them secret from good people, then bad people won't find out about them ". Or, " if we don't m
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by jodrellblank 7y ago
If you're planning to brute-force count through 2^(128x8) possible bit inputs, it will be quite a few decades indeed. And you'll need a few spare solar systems to annihilate to get enough energy to drive your counting engine throu
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by jodrellblank 7y ago
You want to see it? Spend some days watching https://reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/new until you've seen enough to recognise the common patterns, recommendations, requests, and reasons.
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by jodrellblank 7y ago
It's quite rude to put words in my mouth which I didn't say, then make up some things about what I have or haven't done and use them as an insult against me. "I'm amused by X" != "X is true"
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by jodrellblank 7y ago
> Enter Lee Smolin, Anyone else recognise his name from years of pop-physics articles about this or that fringe idea .. and nowhere else? I'm amused by the idea that he might not even be a real person, but rather a shared pen name u
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by jodrellblank 7y ago
Seems that either the NN memoizes all the inputs and outputs until the function is totally mapped - then functions as a memoized lookup table, or the NN has discerned what the mortgage calculation is, and is doing exactly the calculation y
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by jodrellblank 7y ago
People should just vote with their pockets for a better user experience, IMO. How? How can I vote with my pocket for old.reddit.com instead of new reddit UI? How can I vote for another site which is different, when the main draw of Reddit
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by jodrellblank 7y ago
The main idea being that for a given input the output really is 100% predictable [..] I think it would be super fast once you got it working. I imagine it would be fast, then you realise you've made a static content caching layer out
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by jodrellblank 7y ago
A single dropped can on the grass is a small impact. Everyone dropping their litter everywhere, because "a piece of litter doesn't matter" is a large impact. I can deal with a 1 second delay to run a script. I can deal with a
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by jodrellblank 7y ago
Sturgeon's Law, "Ninety percent of science fiction is crud, but then ninety percent of everything is crud".
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by jodrellblank 7y ago
See: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20170517-00/?p=96... for an explanation. " A customer reported that each time they restart their Windows 10 PC, the file association for PDF documents keeps get
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by jodrellblank 7y ago
The reason Microsoft do this is to respect the user preferences[1]. When a program goes through the proper channels, Windows pops up the dialog which says " you have installed a new program which can handle {Foo} filetype, would you li
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by jodrellblank 7y ago
I have read of Dementia having “sun downing” issues as patients get worse symptoms around dusk, and care homes having good results by brighter daytime lights and working on day/night rhythms. Prof. Satchin Panda’s work is on intermitte
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by jodrellblank 7y ago
I'm surprised there's no workaround "set the clock back to 2019, generate a certificate, then fix the clock time". Would that not work?
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by jodrellblank 7y ago
But why? What is behind your anti-Esperanto agenda in this thread?
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by jodrellblank 7y ago
On a local or communal level, all residents would have access to computer systems, and persistent accounts Reading this line, I'm reminded of being in University, having written some coursework on the shared computer system, and havi
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by jodrellblank 7y ago
I spent five years learning German at school and got decent grades, but also got nowhere in useful skill. I spent two years learning Latin at school and got nowhere near comprehension. I spent some months learning Esperanto on and off as an
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by jodrellblank 7y ago
What a weird, accusatory, windmill-tilting comment. to satisfy your own philosophical needs that they may not share They are, presumably, adults who could reject the suggestion to change if they had strong feelings about it. but that’s n
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by jodrellblank 7y ago
Esperanto has a Wikipedia of a quarter million articles, the Klingon Wikipedia was locked because there weren't enough speakers (last estimate from the 1996: 12 speakers) and the language is fixed and too limited to make for reasonable
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by jodrellblank 7y ago
Citation needed. I have no plans to ever go to China. Mandarin has an estimated 0 utility for me. I have read more school-level German than I ever will read or speak Mandarin in my life. The number of Mandarin speakers could be 5 or 5 trill
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by jodrellblank 7y ago
Thinking about this kind of thing recently, I'm not sure it helps to consider "learning" as a boolean state which you don't have, then you study, then you have forever more. Think of "use it or lose it" - thing
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by jodrellblank 7y ago
If you're considering going to work in China, and wondering if you should learn Spanish instead of Mandarin, what are you doing. If you're trying to get a promotion in a Spanish-speaking company and considering learning Mandarin i
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by jodrellblank 7y ago
How long are you planning on living? 63,000 people is chatting to one person per day for 172 years, assuming no new people learn it in that time and you never speak to the same person again. It's a stretch to say every one of them woul

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