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by jwalton 4y ago
I made the jump from Android to Apple a year ago. For me, the benefits were that Apple has a much nicer camera than any of the Android options (especially all the Pixel phones, which have essentially had exactly the same camera for the pas
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If you want to learn about this without YouTube: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/349408/lielow
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I just really like developing stuff. If my company went under, and there was a big software crunch that made it hard to get a job, I’d probably try my hand at being a professional photographer, but I’d probably spend my evenings writing co
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by jwalton 4y ago
If you had to pay the $200/ton ti remove the roughly 5 tons of CO2 your car produces every year, you’d probably want an electric car pretty quickly.
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They had some like this in 1939: https://youtu.be/LlyEIaRw010
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I think this example was even worse, because it wasn’t the government asking Google for data about a user, Google went out and proactively offered it (and erased this poor guy’s email and cancelled his phone). There’s also been plenty of ca
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by jwalton 4y ago
> tracking doesn't seem to negatively impact my quality of life It’s nice you’re willing to make this trade, but obviously some of us are not. I value my privacy, and I do not want Google to know what I’m interested in, how old I a
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by jwalton 4y ago
Yesterday: https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/a-dad-took-photos-...
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> There's no way to get away from them anymore. Well, you can just stop using Facebook. This is basically what I’ve done, because I can’t stand the ridiculously low signal to noise ratio. 90% if the content on FB is content I have
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by jwalton 4y ago
Maybe... But maybe not. If the browser was the one with support for pet names, the browser could see the UUID URI and replace it transparently for you. Would we want the browser to transparently replace a URI in plain text, even outside a
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> In effect, if I wanted to drop a URL in this comment, the petname model requires that I use the UUID. Yes... or, not at all, depending on how you want to look at it. To use their phone book example, if I want to call my dad, I look up
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> How do they tell if the man knows Chinese or not? Or if he is just emulating a machine that does? But this is exactly the wrong question; assume for a moment a computer program can be concious. Does the man know Chinese, or is he emul
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> Since an iron bar over some time period has a finite number of states Citation needed.
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> Imagine a native English speaker who knows no Chinese locked in a room full of boxes of Chinese symbols (a data base) together with a book of instructions for manipulating the symbols (the program). Imagine that people outside the room
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by jwalton 4y ago
I’d be happy to know what my friends are doing, but that doesn’t seem to be a service Facebook offers anymore. When I am stupid enough to go load my Facebook feed, it’s about 2/3 ads, 1/3 “recommended for you” posts that I have n
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by jwalton 4y ago
First you would need an economical method to capture the co2.
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> Obvious cartoons are no longer illegal. AFAIK they are still illegal in Canada.
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Nice idea. Terrible name. I can think of many places I’d use this that have nothing to do with events.
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by jwalton 4y ago
I don't actively monitor this, unless stuff gets through my spam filter - there's a few I notice I'm getting spam from though: * The NDP party of Canada * Animal Jam - a mobile game that my daughter wanted to play, and I had
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by jwalton 4y ago
Lenovo has some pretty good sales on thinkpad X1s (at least they do in Canada - didn't check the US site). But, if you're in Canada, I just bought this: https://www.newegg.ca/p/N82E16834233446?Description=gig
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by jwalton 5y ago
If you want to be even more upset, if you log into Chrome with this account on a “real” computer, I bet it will download and install a bunch of Chrome extensions without asking, too. It certainly did on my daughter’s PC when we were using
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by jwalton 5y ago
Or, buy a different 5K monitor? Apple is not the only game in town here.
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If 12 is midnight or noon, then 12:00am has to be midnight. If 12:00am was noon, then 12:59am would be in the afternoon, which would be weird. Of course, having your clock start at 12 and then go to 1 is also weird.
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Just like guns are secure, as it’s illegal to shoot someone.
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> but in hard economic times everything is on sale! In sufficiently hard economic times, everything is on sale because no one has any idea what will still be around tomorrow and what is going to drop to zero.
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> the only thing we can trust is that the person who made this release is (according to PyPI) allowed to make releases This is wrong. What we are trusting is the package author. In Node.js land, I trust the author of Express, because t
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by jwalton 5y ago
51% is not the minimum. In Canada the governing party got 32.6% of the popular vote.
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Your website renders as a big empty blue page in Firefox unless I disable tracking protection (and in my case, since I have noscript, I have to enable javascript for "website-files.com", a domain that sounds totally legit).
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Probably the best way to care for them is to ask how they want you to care for them. Everyone handles grief differently. I went through this recently - for me I want to talk about it, over and over again. And I want hugs. And I found it
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Not too far off why evolution put your eyes right next to your brain, if you think about it.

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