johansch

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by johansch 9y ago
Just noting that this comment first only talked about the browser bundling antitrust thing, and then, after I commented, completely morphed into something else.
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by johansch 9y ago
Hi. It does illustrate the power of the combination of time and lots of money. You can literally alter truths.
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by johansch 9y ago
That was at very end of the Gates era.
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by johansch 9y ago
How about this for an attack? What is your current connection to the Microsoft ecosystem?
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by johansch 9y ago
Today I learned: Asking someone their age is equivalent to doing an ad hominem attack.
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by johansch 9y ago
Do you at all remember any market abuse, or do you only remember the good stuff? (Is this an attack? I can't tell any longer.)
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by johansch 9y ago
> Yeah, you definitely have something against him, don't you? Well, yeah. I think we'd be at least 5 years further into the future in terms of software than we currently are, possible 10, unless he hadn't abused the market
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by johansch 9y ago
It wasn't an attack (heck, wtf, I was just asking your age, maybe stop over-dramatizing?); I was trying to find out if you had some sort of personal experience or was just parroting the newer reddit hivemind.
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by johansch 9y ago
You're very naive if you think that Microsoft's market abuses was limited to web browsers. This is way too non-inclusive, but at least it's something: https://www.pcmag.com/feature/302767/9-companies
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by johansch 9y ago
I think his primary motivation is so simple.. he wants people to like him. Many, many people disliked him after his predatory business days. This is the perfect way to a) keep doing interesting work, b) getting people to like him again, c)
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by johansch 9y ago
How old are you? Let me just guess; not old enough to have experienced living/working in tech while Bill was doing his thing. Did you ever pause to consider how much humanity would have progressed without him stopping so much progress
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by johansch 9y ago
It's probably possible, somehow, to quantify how many americans perish every year because of this.
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by johansch 9y ago
I don't disagree with you. Sort of related: It's a bit distressing, in away, how hard it is to access information from before like year 2007. Most of it is locked up in government reference libraries and you generally have to bona
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by johansch 9y ago
Guess: it was perpetuated because lots of tech people hated him and what he did to the industry and to computing progress in general. He has since gotten way, way better PR handling though. Just look at the way Reddit absolutely adores h
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by johansch 9y ago
That is.. bad, particularly since the presumed context here is about fire emergencies where speed is of the essence. Any extra steps will add delays and/or opportunities for potentially disastrous mistakes. https://motherboa
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by johansch 9y ago
Ah.. I guess that explains why they moved my city's fire station from the city center to something closer to the nearby major highway. (Europe/Sweden though.)
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by johansch 9y ago
http://www.firefightermath.org/index.php?option=com_content&... "A 100-foot length of 1-inch diameter hose is charged with water. How many gallons of water are in that length of hose?" Ugh.
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by johansch 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrestrial_Trunked_Radio It's getting outdated though. In Sweden there's talk about a nation-wide LTE network specifically for first responders. Cheaper and better, I presume.
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by johansch 9y ago
I doesn't sound all that unlikely to me that all these temporary UI freezes are related to the new APFS then. "How to skip converting to APFS when installing macOS High Sierra": http://osxdaily.com/2017/1
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by johansch 9y ago
It's strangely quiet compared to everything except B787 and A350. Are you really sure it was an A380 you flew?
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by johansch 9y ago
Scotland saying F-U to the UK and joining the EU would be so neat!
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by johansch 9y ago
Maybe it's a Commonwealth thing? :)
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by johansch 9y ago
I've just started to use AWS Polly in some demos, but the speech synthesis quality feels 2-3 years old at least :/
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by johansch 9y ago
"This content is currently not available on this device. Please try again later." VPN time I guess... (Location: Sweden)
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by johansch 9y ago
I think what's missing is to understand and adapt the speech rhythm and pauses based on the language. At first sight I would say that this requires human intuition, but then again, lots of literature is repetative, so I think ML could
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by johansch 9y ago
With the rate speech synthesis is developing, it's probably going to be hard to distinguish between human speakers and synthetic speakers in a few years from now.
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by johansch 9y ago
Why in the world would they do this, though? I'm at a loss. Arent' they making lots of money off these poor addicts already?
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by johansch 9y ago
I clearly owe you an apology. It's not a trillion-dollar scam, it'a half-trillion-dollar scam. That totally changes everything.
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by johansch 9y ago
So this might be the largest scam, ever? We're talking trillions USD. (Their yearly revenue is around $200B, most of it iPhone.) (Wow, that was downvoted almost instantly.)
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by johansch 9y ago
The wonderful thing with multi-user forums like this is the crowd-sourcing aspect.

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