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by joosters 6y ago
https://maps.apple.com/imagecollection/privacy/uk/en/privacy... has this comment on the historical image collection: To ensure that Apple was applying the best image blurring technology possible, Apple
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Oh, and look - it just so happens to be on the only farm you could get permission to dig on! This is somewhat tautological - of course archaeologists make discoveries on the sites they are digging on. It's very hard to make discove
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Or you could use any of the far cheaper options for international payments (Transferwise, etc)... why do cryptocurrency enthusiasts think that all international payments need to be done via Western Union?
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Not very many relative to the number of people on planes What does that even mean? Of course the number of people who catch covid on a flight is relative to the number of people on planes. If fewer people fly, fewer people will catch covi
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And yet, people catch covid on planes. Even the article you cite explains the flaws in the research
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I'm not sure what the big deal about 'without cameras' is - I would imagine that most areas of a store are already covered by security cameras, so every customer is being recorded already. The extra privacy-stealing step is i
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If you have antivirus software installed, you presumably want it to scan stuff that is downloaded from the internet. On the other hand, if you don't believe/trust in the efficacy of antivirus software, then there's no point
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Only if you believe apps like McAfee are benign. If sysadmins have installed McAfee on your workstation, then presumably they want to use it. Installing it and then excluding code downloaded from the internet defeats the whole point. (The
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Commands that download random 3rd party code and dependencies from the internet are precisely the kind of thing that should be included in a virus scan, surely?
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Stop setting homework questions in your posts, please. If you have something relevant to say, why not say it yourself instead of roleplaying a teacher delivering work to your students.
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Is the cost saving really measuring the right thing? Instead of comparing against the cost of pre-generating and caching every file preview, shouldn’t they be comparing against he cost of adding enough infrastructure (or just optimising the
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I agree with all you are saying, but I wonder how much this actually comes down to software developers. I suspect (but have absolutely no data!) that for many sites, the pressure to add extra stats, tracking, advertising, monitoring, etc et
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The article talks about a million web pages , but it's actually the top million domains . This is an important difference because the top sites could be completely different to the web pages that we view. For example, Facebook is pro
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Bad software development slows the web down This is an empty statement and another overly simplistic answer. Of course bad software development slows the web down, because you're defining slow web sites as being badly developed.
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I do this with my email, and it's definitely a non-issue. The problem is not people but processes - automated spam and the like.
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Compile linux kernels and boast about the speed?
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because they correctly realized selling an OS isn’t a profit generator anymore. Even Microsoft has realized that. Microsoft makes $billions in revenue from Windows OS. From the laziest of web searches, I see their revenue in 2015 was $14.
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by joosters 6y ago
'TV Light Simulators' are actually a thing: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=tv+light+simulator&atb=v172...
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But the only legitimate use of a flash loan is to do some arbitrage - and there’s plenty of that in existing financial systems. All the other uses are for leveraging up theft and manipulation of markets. Well done cryptocurrencies, you’ve m
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Local backups can be completely encrypted (used to be done by iTunes, don't know if they've changed that now though?) ISTR that local backups would contain more than the icloud backups as well - there are some things that won&#x27
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It's inflationary, since more bitcoin are mined every ten minutes or so. Sure, the code says that it will stop when 21 million are mined, but there's no real guarantee that the code won't change before we reach that point.
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Let's not get carried away, it doesn't even have a steering wheel :)
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A suggestion for the author: If you start a web page with 'Please bookmark the following address: https://okvs.dev ' then you should probably put an explanation of why I should do that pretty soon after, don't ju
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... which was caught in short order That means nothing, of course it was caught, otherwise we'd never had heard about it. We can only speculate about the ones that haven't been caught...
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That's 10 minutes more than it takes to show off any other collectible: "Here's my collection of beanie babies!", "Look at my lovely Van Gogh painting!" Now, to prove authenticity of an item obviously takes a l
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>> A terrible analogy, they aren't hurting anybody, > Hence the term boiling the frog Tell that to the frog!
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A terrible analogy, they aren't hurting anybody, something which would be fundamentally wrong. A better analogy would be that Apple is baking bread in a way that you don't like. Which is only a problem if you are forced to eat it.
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> The UK, for historic reasons, doesn’t believe in private property for the common man On the contrary, the UK is deeply obsessed with house ownership! The key word though is 'house', the Grenfell related scandals have all be
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Is this a technique that an optimizing compiler could automatically make use of? i.e. is it practical for a compiler to look at a (limited-size) function and be able to tell if refactoring it into a tail-calling version is possible? (I&#x27
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Similarly, I've used the 'NeuralCam Live' app that also turns an iphone into a webcam. It's free to use, with extra paid options too. The biggest downside is the lack of microphone support, which seems an odd omission. I

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