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by lmkg 5y ago
I disagree with calling it "corrupted." We're not tricking the browser into trying to render garbage bytes that are actually the middle of a jpeg or something. It's actually valid Unicode. It's an edge-case which is
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Blocking cell phones is legally problematic because it interferes with 911 calls. I'm sure there are technical strategies to allow true emergency calls without texting, but I feel like there's a lot of ways for that to go haywire
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> Also: why are Republicans proposing big new regulation that would apply to every US business, impose additional bookkeeping & accounting work for every business, and then not improve consumer privacy protection? Two potential reaso
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Not everything IS memorization, but lots of things HAVE memorization. You don't write by regurgitating exact phrases, but your ability to write will be significantly impeded if you need to constantly look up word definitions, spell
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Const Generics are a form of dependent typing, but a heavily restricted one. This will loosen some restrictions, increasing what can be done with dependent types, but still a far cry from languages with "full" dependent types.
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Parthenogenesis is more common in the animal kingdom than you might expect.
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Exactly. One aspect of the issue is the difficulty of self-hosting video content, but another aspect is everything else YouTube does beyond hosting the file. It's a marketing and distribution platform. Linking from your website to Yo
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If that number is true, it's probably being thrown off by a research group somewhere studying Copilot by having it generate gigabytes of code.
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by lmkg 5y ago
JavaScript stores all numbers as 64-bit floating points, so precision is limited to 53 bits (52 stored plus an implied leading 1). There are, of course, edge cases. For example, despite the fact that numbers are floats, you can still perfor
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by lmkg 5y ago
The feature is called "Google Signals." Here are documentation links to how it's use in Google Ads & Google Analytics. Ads: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662856#zippy=,when-yo... Analyt
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My degree is in mathematics. Opinions vary on whether that's considered a science (I consider them distinct).
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The experiment confirms the specific prediction made by the equation for this particular set of circumstances. That's good, that's useful, but it doesn't prove that the predictions made by the equations under other circumst
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There is a difference between "proving," vs "supporting" or "confirming." This observation still leaves the possibility that Einstein's prediction is wrong but within the margin of experimental error, or t
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There is some belief that when Newton said that, the actual meaning was to denigrate the contributions of Robert Hooke, who was physically infirm.
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Several ways of defining the Golden Ratio allow either, or both. One convention is that upper-case Phi or Φ is 1.618[...], while lower-case phi or φ is 0.618[...]. The values are related by φ = 1/Φ, as well as Φ = φ + 1. Both of these
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by lmkg 5y ago
On the initial headline I thought that $41 million would be negligible compared to the central role they have in the crypto ecosystem. But apparently that fine is 2/3 of their backing reserves.
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by lmkg 5y ago
Vivaldi is pretty pro-privacy. Every time Chromium adds a new API with privacy implications, Vivaldi makes a blog post publicly committing to disable or remove it from the version they ship. E.g. the most recent update, the headline feature
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by lmkg 5y ago
Free school lunches in the US are a defense program. The draft in WWII was impeded by the fact that poor kids tended to be malnourished, and grew up to be physically unfit for military service.
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To elaborate: While most of these tools can be configured to comply with GDPR, it is not their default configuration. The tools and products predate GDPR, and being enterprise software they value backwards-compatibility over other aspec
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Side-note: My favorite Wikipedia page is the List of Eponymous Laws. It's a very eclectic collection of interesting topics to learn about, many of which are worth knowing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epon
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by lmkg 5y ago
I know y'all are taking the piss. But real talk though: The consent-management space could do with some disruption. Like, for example, just a thought here, I know this sounds crazy, but hear me out: actually complying with GDPR. You&#x
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This looks like a modification of the California version, and I like the original more than the remix. The California version (CCPA) imposes restrictions on large businesses, and on data brokers. "Large business" is defined by rev
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That's already a feature of enterprise-level consent management platforms like OneTrust and TrustArc. Well, a milder version anyways. Look-up is only country level, not state, and what changes is generally the pop-up rather than the pr
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Opacity (of which complexity is a form) is an impediment to accountability. I agree there are many reasons that I don't want mass surveillance and profiling, but I think a lack of accountability of a system is a very large force-multip
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"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
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The science community as a whole needs to do the work of all three. The work of an individual scientist may be able to focus on just the one, and their lives are easier if they work in a context that gives them that specificity of respo
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Depends on what's being audited. For investors, you want to show a room of gear that other companies don't have. For certification of medical equipment, you want to demonstrate that your process works.
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Fine amount is a poor measure of compliance, for a few reasons. First, European regulators prefer nudges and strong words before fines. Second, Google is incorporated in Ireland and the Irish regulator is clearly and blatantly sandbagging e
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Google has a poor record on GDPR requirements. And in fact, common themes among the issues that they have are undisclosed secondary uses and unreasonable data retention.
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The Irish regulator is the one with jurisdiction, so they're the one that's on point for this topic. They're also quite proactive in offering guidance, material, and feedback. Their cookie sweep from a few years back is somet

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