kevin_b_er

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by kevin_b_er 4y ago
And now we see the asymmetry of a contract with Adobe Inc. Adobe has altered the deal, pray they do not alter it any further.
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by kevin_b_er 4y ago
For the usage? I guess it is natural now, like left and right. For the names? The little stick figure is leaning forward or backward in reading order.
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by kevin_b_er 4y ago
"Skype for Business" was just a rebranded Lync. Consumer-land skype remained a different thing until Microsoft killed that for Teams. Skype for Business' exe was lync.exe right up until the end. "Teams" was a brand
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by kevin_b_er 4y ago
FogBugz got bought out by a vulture capital style firm that fired everyone and outsourced everything. They're going to extract as much value as they can. The reputation doesn't matter if they can sucker enough people into paying f
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by kevin_b_er 4y ago
> My 70 year old uncle might just -reasonably- assume that buying from walmart.com is the same as walking into the store, and comes with the same return and quality guarantees. And that is exactly the deception the Walton family wants ou
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by kevin_b_er 4y ago
and how do you know its actually Na₂B₄O₇·10H₂O? How much filler did the 3rd party seller add? How much of the filler is toxic or will react in unexpected ways? At least if I bought walmart borax from a brick&mortar walmart, I generally
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by kevin_b_er 4y ago
I recall they also claimed performance benefits at one point.
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by kevin_b_er 4y ago
I'm not familiar with FIDO2's changes, but FIDO1/U2F stuff. What happens is the browser signs the request to the security token with the website URL. The security token's response based on the secret includes this as a r
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by kevin_b_er 4y ago
So, what caught my interest was this quote at the bottom: "Alternatively, you can donate roughly 2 weeks of A100 GPU credits to me and I'll train a suitable recognition model and upload it to HuggingFace." This takes 2 weeks
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by kevin_b_er 4y ago
This is good. Can we use it to crack open any DRM systems?
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by kevin_b_er 4y ago
And engage in political propaganda.
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by kevin_b_er 4y ago
BSD: "Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:" Can you use and redistribute it or not? "Permission is hereby granted, free
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by kevin_b_er 4y ago
Read the opening license line for BSD: "Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted" This feels incompatible with a spontaneous patent claim, because otherwise "use" is
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by kevin_b_er 4y ago
A modern read-protected Office document is AES encrypted, so you cannot read those at all. But the read-only one, much like PDF do-not-print/do-not-copy protections, is just relying on the viewer to honor the protection marker.
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by kevin_b_er 4y ago
Thank. Either way, this is from the oral polio vaccine. Its shelf stable, easily given to a child, and is extremely effective. Downside? It is an attenuated virus. A weakened virus. And the stupid thing 'fixes' itself in the intes
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by kevin_b_er 4y ago
I'm still curious what all the 'red tape' is. > Just to operate around metro Atlanta today, [gyro truck owner Ali] Moradi has to have seven county permits and 13 city business licenses He needs a food permit for every coun
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by kevin_b_er 4y ago
You don't even need that, we just need less zoning that is "single family residence" only. Disallowing higher density housing is what caps housing growth. Combine that with permitting more mixed use. Much of this is borne of
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by kevin_b_er 4y ago
You really think appeasement will work this time? It hasn't in the past.
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by kevin_b_er 4y ago
They are subject to an intense propaganda campaign. NYC is viewed as democratic, and so the propaganda attacks it by amplifying any problem or just fabricating them. You can see the top stories your parents are exposed to on FB, https:&#x2
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by kevin_b_er 4y ago
Ford wanted exclusivity.
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by kevin_b_er 4y ago
I have no intent on living through a new North Korea, a new Russia, a new Greater German Reich, or a Gilead. We're only a few years away from the collapse. It is a smart move to escape while you can. If I need heart pills or insulin in
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by kevin_b_er 4y ago
But that's just what it is now, isn't it? A political entity driven by political goals. With an outsized power to reinterpret laws and rules to suit a certain group's political goals. It may have started with a certain role,
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by kevin_b_er 4y ago
This is a win for corruption.
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by kevin_b_er 4y ago
This is an odd quote, so I had to look it up. This quote appears to be related to this piece of headwear: https://weburbanist.com/2013/06/30/ziggurat-hat-deconstructi... The headwear and the energy storage co
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by kevin_b_er 4y ago
The court took this step because certain terrestrial invertebrates were explicitly added to the category. So it can no longer be interpreted as somehow only being aquatic critters. "Zero evidence" is a strong claim and much of thi
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by kevin_b_er 4y ago
The article is estimating the cost at 2150 KWh per transaction vs the total bitcoin estimated power usage. So this is trying to average out the total electrical cost including mining into a per-transaction cost.
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by kevin_b_er 4y ago
This is because systemd-oomd developers failed the https://www.linuxatemyram.com/ test. If your cache/buffers fill up your RAM, the daemon will go to town on your applications. Because it was checking Free and not Avai
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by kevin_b_er 4y ago
Nope. They bought 'shares', voted themselves total control, gave themselves all the assets, sold all the assets, and emptied the organization. Basically vulture capitalism done at speed. Hilarious. Because crypto opposes all regul
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by kevin_b_er 4y ago
Here's an open declaration that it would be if they get the chance: https://www.businessinsider.com/mitch-mcconnell-national-abo... Your view that the Republicans will follow the constitution is flawed. They follow pow
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by kevin_b_er 5y ago
Looking at the wikipedia page, I'd say "ego death" sounds like a very different concept. What the parent posters are talking about is when you have two personalities: the original and the mask, but the mask stays on so long i

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