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by ksk 8y ago
While its obvious that I have done no such thing, I find it rather interesting that people calling other people "scum" are not reminded of "civility".
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by ksk 8y ago
You seem very confused. FileZilla wasn't "caught". They openly say that they bundle crapware. Sorry, this is not a productive conversation. Goodbye.
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by ksk 8y ago
Because nobody really wants to give the AppStore 30% of their revenue. Having it be a percentage of the revenue instead of just a flat fee means its just a money-grab IMHO. Ironically Apple is arguing in court that Qualcomm is doing the sam
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by ksk 8y ago
>HN readers are capable of not using FileZilla, because its admin is actively trying to mislead its users into running malware. Then your prior comment makes no sense to me. >Of course there is trustworthy freeware. You can get it usi
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by ksk 8y ago
Well, I do think there is some hypocrisy on the part of people (including myself) enjoying free software and services, when the revenue of those is generated by unaware people clicking on ads or accidentally installing crapware. >You CAN
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by ksk 8y ago
Which facts did they dismiss? I just saw a lot of rabble rousing..
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by ksk 8y ago
Vendors who have partaken in the "bundled crapware" model of distribution - Google, Amazon, Yahoo, Microsoft, Adobe, Oracle, etc, etc. >They have decided that tricking people into downloading malware is a reasonable alternative
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by ksk 8y ago
I don't support crapware but I'm not going to tell someone how they should make their living. That post looks like rabble rousing to me. I have yet to see any factual information except a whole lot of "it seems" "it
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by ksk 8y ago
There is pretty much no freeware download site that doesn't bundle crapware. I guess all freeware is untrustworthy by your logic. https://www.howtogeek.com/207692/yes-every-freeware-download...
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by ksk 8y ago
What factual information do you dispute from their responses?
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by ksk 8y ago
>I can give you an example of semiconductor manufacturing and its supply chain. Say, I am a company with X billions to throw at building a Fab. You could probably build one, but finding lithography suppliers, automation, building long te
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by ksk 8y ago
>You simply cannot out innovate 4 decades of work in a few years no matter how much money you throw at it. Could you explain your reasoning?
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by ksk 8y ago
git is popular because of many external factors, some of which (github gitlab, etc) are centralized closed systems. I don't think git by itself would have become popular. I'd say that in today's world, you need someone somewh
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by ksk 8y ago
Because torrents are not a storage network. Even ignoring the read-only aspect of it, there is no way to ensure that someone will download your torrent.
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by ksk 8y ago
That is not a solution though. Its your personal wish list. Neither Intel nor AMD is going to publish their CPU design. No consumer is going to purchase/use software that arbitrarily breaks. Its as unrealistic as someone saying don&#x2
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by ksk 8y ago
>What I'd like is to be able to write a compiler that could understand the difference between as-fast-as-possible code (most code) and constant-time code, and build the latter correctly. If you want your compiled code to rely on the
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by ksk 8y ago
>we could just as easily go the other way: "It is completely unethical and immoral to delay technology that has the potential to save lives." No, you couldn't "just as easily" go the other way. Those are not iden
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by ksk 8y ago
Right, and machines could prevent other forms of murder, or help the elderly, or reduce fatal injuries in construction by using robots, etc, etc. It would be cool to get to that stage. Potential != Reality. The reality is that we're fa
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by ksk 8y ago
>If autonomous cars can drive at the skill level of average drivers - and not get drunk or angry or distracted by forwarding cat videos - then they will significantly outperform humans. As long as you use the word "if" you can
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by ksk 8y ago
>So are big corporations going to do kind of a careless job testing live vehicles in a rush to market? Yes. Will people get hurt? Yes. Is it worth it? Yes. Hey, another human driver on the freeway here. Sorry, but I don't want to be
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by ksk 8y ago
>Branch prediction is great except in the rare cases where it isn't. Sure, is there any CPU feature that this does not apply to? >I wouldn't want to see it removed but I would like to see better documentation and a more tran
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by ksk 8y ago
> Imagine if x86-64 ditched the variety of non-32/64-bit modes. Would x86 be able to better compete with ARM in power consumption? In what way? Do you mean instruction decoding? There is very little separation between x86 and ARM on
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by ksk 8y ago
>It's more like evangelical Christianity--the belief that we can uplift people not only by giving aid, but by teaching them to live and govern themselves like we do. That sort of comparison is going to only get you into trouble. For
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by ksk 8y ago
>MS Office was essentially feature-complete by Office 95, Sorry but that comes across as a bit ignorant in my opinion. It seems to me you have never studied how non-programmer powerusers use excel/word/powerpoint. People are ru
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by ksk 8y ago
I'm using a Filco Tenkeyless (FKBN87ML/EB) for about 8 years now. The mouse I'm using is the Microsoft WMO which I purchased in 2003 or 4.. cant remember.
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by ksk 8y ago
>It started out being close to the metal but now it's an abstraction that can mislead you if you think processors are literally working the way x86 assembly describes. Well, the fact that we were able to abstract it out into an ISA,
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by ksk 8y ago
Billionaires are the outliers among wealthy people. Its hard to connect what they did or are doing, to anything that most people will ever know or experience. https://imgur.com/a/Bu8iLiz
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by ksk 8y ago
But people don't need the "best product" whatever that means, to derive value.
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by ksk 8y ago
Okay, I'll go ahead and agree with you that it can be a factor. My opinion is that it is an insignificant factor for a person in a store buying a computer.
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by ksk 8y ago
Yeah, it is a cool camera. Would love to play with one, but its a bit outside of my budget like most Leicas. Sigh..

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