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by loudmax 4y ago
100% this! The Google engineering underlying Stadia is impressive and there's still so much possible value. But Google management launched Stadia in such a way to minimize all of the benefits of online play, and maximize all of its sh
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by loudmax 4y ago
The book in question here isn't hardcore pornography or spicier excerpts from 4chan. And this isn't happening at the elementary school level, these are teenagers. The objective of banning The Handmaid's Tale from a high scho
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by loudmax 4y ago
To start with, technology in this White Mirror future shouldn't be dominated by corporations that abuse their monopolies to quash competition.
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by loudmax 4y ago
Thanks for providing those instructions. Encryption is inherently complicated, but it seems to me that GPG is far more complicated than it should be. Extra complexity isn't just an inconvenience, it is precisely where mistakes and bu
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by loudmax 4y ago
Heat pumps don't just convert electricity into heat. They work like an air conditioner in reverse, concentrating heat from outside into your house. Compared to a traditional heating element they're over 100% efficient.
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by loudmax 4y ago
Google is years overdue for a change in management. Google has been coasting on the strength of its engineering talent, but their execution on rolling out new products has been one disaster after the next. Hopefully this is a wake up call
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by loudmax 4y ago
> Embrace, Extend. Wonder what comes next from Microsoft after Embrace and Extend ...
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by loudmax 4y ago
The balloon was very high in the upper atmosphere, above normal commercial airline flight and above the reach of helicopters. If balloon pulling is a regular occurrence you can set up infrastructure for it. Devise some different approaches
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by loudmax 4y ago
When you put it that way it sounds like a nuisance, but surely that could be resolved through better UX engineering. Deciphering a captcha or staring at a camera each time you want to post are real annoyances and such a site probably wouldn
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by loudmax 4y ago
I misread your first sentence as "This could be the beginning of the end for CEO content." A good CEO provides irreplaceable value, but there is a significant fraction of enterprises that would probably do just well if they were
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by loudmax 4y ago
A lot of middle and upper management pays lip service to increasing value for the investors, but they don't really care for the investors any more than they care for their employees or their customers. It's better for them to be
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by loudmax 4y ago
You have to consider what the security landscape looked like when LastPass got going in 2008. The common practice for non-technical people was (or still is) to reuse the same password everywhere. A password that's really easy to reme
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by loudmax 4y ago
For important accounts you should probably update your passwords. Assuming you aren't reusing passwords, you shouldn't need to track down every online store you once bought something from. But your should consider updating your p
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by loudmax 4y ago
I tend to agree with you, but destroying public education does seem to be a goal of the most vocal members of the political right wing. Moderate voices are being drowned out, and increasingly excommunicated from the Republican party.
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by loudmax 4y ago
I can't tell whether you're making that argument in earnest, or you left out the /s sarcasm tag.
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by loudmax 4y ago
I'm not completely sure that everyone making this argument actually believes it. Presumably there are some who do, but I suspect there's a large portion of people who are looking for a way to selectively fire teachers they don&#x
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by loudmax 4y ago
> A book with sexually explicit material This raises the question of what is material considered sexually explicit. Do you have the title and author of this book?
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by loudmax 4y ago
This is all about the amount of money going into these movies. With hundreds of millions of dollars at stake it's much safer to rehash an existing franchise like Top Gun than to give directors and screenwriters the creative freedom th
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by loudmax 4y ago
Certainly a lot depends on the kind of development you're doing. Us greybeards programmed on systems with kilobytes of RAM. Of course we didn't have the benefits of a modern IDE, but the point is that programming on a limited sy
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by loudmax 4y ago
Agreed, but part of the teachers' job is to impart that curiosity and interest onto their students. That is hard to do, and only the very best teachers actually manage to do this.
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by loudmax 4y ago
Angela Merkel and the Germans thought the same thing about Putin. That is, Russia would never launch a war that would destroy its own economy. It makes sense, and I admit to thinking the same thing before February 2022. What we, living in
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by loudmax 4y ago
It would benefit autocratic dictatorial Asians certainly, at the expense of Asian democracies. Those of us who believe in liberal democracy will need to stand up for it. We can no longer take it for granted, even at home.
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by loudmax 4y ago
The meanings of "Liberal" and "Conservative" with respect to American politics are completely haywire. At the extreme ends we have a far left pushing illiberal restrictions on free speech, and a far right cult of person
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by loudmax 4y ago
I also recommend using an old laptop as a server. Benefits include the built-in battery backup, built-in KVM, and relatively low power consumption. The other major benefit is that if you're the kind of person who's apt to set up
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by loudmax 4y ago
This isn't exactly an endorsement of ChatGPT, but a lot of human reasoning follows that approximate logic.
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by loudmax 4y ago
Each of these predictions you describe, save the first, are capitalism at work. As far as I see, the alternatives are either some form of government intervention, or a world in which only the elite can afford to purchase personal privacy.
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by loudmax 4y ago
Bad for the environment is relative. If the alternative to fracking is less energy consumption, then of course fracking is bad. But in the short run that means lowering the standard of living and politically that is a non-starter. If the a
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by loudmax 4y ago
"Second most powerful military in the world"? What world is that? Russia isn't even the second most powerful military in Europe or in Asia. At this point, Russia is on the verge of being the second most powerful ex-Soviet
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by loudmax 4y ago
If you configure a StarFighter model on their website, it says it will ship in "4-5 months" and have a production run of 1000 units. So not out yet. They also offer a more moderately priced StarBook model which ships in "4-5
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by loudmax 4y ago
Agreed about the methodology. I was going to vote for Lenovo X1 Carbon because I have a 6th gen and I love it, but there may be better options these days. Obviously Framework's approach is interesting, but that StarFighter looks real

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