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by klingonopera 7y ago
Not all streaming services are DRM-free, though. This article [0] is 13 years-old, I wasn't able to find a better source with a quick search, but e.g. Netflix, Amazon Prime and Disney+ AFAIK have DRM, and there's a whole scene of
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by klingonopera 7y ago
To be fair, doesn't China have a head-start in recovery rates?
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by klingonopera 7y ago
I don't see the problem with the actual flatness here, but that they removed a lot of details, the black ring, the grey cross in the Bavarian flag, and the grey circle encompassing that. IMHO, they should've just removed the &quot
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by klingonopera 7y ago
...am I the only one who's picturing the Navy?
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by klingonopera 7y ago
Yeah, there are many political reasons for criminalizing it. What I found pretty eye-opening in the sense of "Oh wow, that's so obvious, I actually didn't think about that " was that one of the reasons was the America
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by klingonopera 7y ago
These are mostly myths, at best they are ignored, at worst, they perpetuate the assumption half the population in Asia would be nourishing themselves badly (since many thousands of years - seems a bit far-fetched, no?). https:/&#x2F
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by klingonopera 7y ago
Yep, there's actually is a reason why it's called a weed . It's so incredibly easy to grow, and very forgiving. They require a lot of water/irrigation, though. Probably also why they grow so fast.
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by klingonopera 7y ago
I know this is kinda against the guidelines, but just to highlight what an ideological war is being fought, at this moment, my parent post has received 5 upvotes and 6 downvotes, with the last 4 downvotes all occuring in the last minute. On
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by klingonopera 7y ago
By not treating consumers as criminals? By giving consumers, who are troubled balancing recreation and addiction, the proper treatment? In my opinion, it's definitely easier to "handle" drugs when we can openly talk about the
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by klingonopera 7y ago
"Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman" [2008] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/sep/29/cloud.com...
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by klingonopera 7y ago
I find Existential Comics to be an easily-comprehensible way to wrap one's head around some philosophical terms laymen aren't familiar with. On the topic of Postmodernism: http://www.existentialcomics.com/comic&#x2
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by klingonopera 7y ago
Would've done this too, but then LibreOffice came along and IMHO, it's basically the same minus the proprietary issues, so it's even less hassle!
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by klingonopera 7y ago
This needs a [2013].
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by klingonopera 7y ago
I remember a bunch of science books for kids in the 90s, that more or less all uniformly declared that planets were only "native" to our solar system. Like, they couldn't even allow the possibility "We don't know&qu
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by klingonopera 7y ago
So in essence, distances are basically discrete units thanks to the Planck Length? (Doesn't this have the profound implication that the Coastline Paradox[0] becomes theoretically solveable?) Naturally, this doesn't necessarily
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by klingonopera 7y ago
Uhhhh... doesn't discreteness actually mean that it's not continuous?
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by klingonopera 7y ago
Does this also mean, that that's the smallest unit of time? I've heard something like that from a non-physics person ten years ago, later then asked a person who actually studied Physics about it, and he claimed it was bullshit?
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by klingonopera 7y ago
> "The Orion spacecraft, designed to carry astronauts to the moon in a future crewed mission, will carry four computers, each with two processors working in parallel, the results of which have to agree." Wow, that's oct
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by klingonopera 7y ago
I'm guessing they're capping at 1k, because that's the resolution of the millisecond timer? I occasionally still run 3dMark03 to compare my modern PC's raw performance to one of the first rigs I built (150k now vs. 3.1k
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by klingonopera 7y ago
> it happened because certain aged batteries could no longer deliver enough current to sustain peak workloads Where exactly is the difference in this to a new battery that's not fully charged?
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by klingonopera 7y ago
Question to those affected: When Apple had throttled the CPU due to old batteries, did they suspend throttling if the phone was connected to a charger?
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by klingonopera 7y ago
I think this is a country- and thus law-specific case. In Germany, AFAIK, if the picture has less than five people on it, it is considered a photo of you, and both you and the photographer have a copyright on it. EDIT: Maybe not the entire
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by klingonopera 7y ago
I've managed to setup Code::Blocks[0] to use WinAVR to program Arduinos. Here's a guide[1] I found for that. It works, but I probably forgot to add some optimization flags, because the code ran slower than when compiled with the A
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by klingonopera 7y ago
I neither condone nor condemn your assessment, but I do agree it's somewhat relevant to keep these things in mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quillette https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelle
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by klingonopera 7y ago
Just like the $29 aren't really the true costs, that was a marketing scheme to soften the blow from the negative publicity of battery throttling. Point is: It costs Apple more than $29 to replace a battery and not make a loss while doi
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by klingonopera 7y ago
Precisely, get yourself five digital devices that track time, and see how many of them are even accurate to the second. Probably none of them. But implementation of leap seconds would only make sense on systems that at least fulfill that mi
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by klingonopera 7y ago
> out of range unsigned int AFAIK, that doesn't exist? Otherwise, unsigned would also have UB?
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by klingonopera 7y ago
One of the biggest mistakes in IT ever, in my opinion. I'd even go so far to say that defaulting to signed instead of unsigned was also one of the biggest blunders ever. I would've never defaulted to a type that inherently poses t
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by klingonopera 7y ago
Replacing the battery for a phone here in Germany would set you back about 50-100€. A somewhat usable smartphone costs 85-115€. Hm... I'd rather get a new phone. If I could replace it myself, I'm quite sure I'd find a no-name
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by klingonopera 7y ago
I think when people talk about phones with replaceable batteries, they mean ones that are replaceable by the user themselves. And $29 is still four to five times as much than just buying a battery and doing it yourself.

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