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by loudmax 5y ago
> build a database for any state agencies As opposed to building a database for private agencies?
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Absolutely! The first time I heard of Electronic Arts was from Archon in the early 80's. It's a positive association, and I thought the name "Electronic Arts" was pretty damn cool for a video game company, maybe even b
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by loudmax 5y ago
Skepticism is indeed healthy, but beware of selective skepticism. Humans have a tendency trust people that they like or who make them feel good about themselves, and distrust people they don't like or who challenge assumptions they&#x
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Healthy for the market. Not necessarily healthy for the climate.
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The cost savings from SpaceX's reusable rockets are absolutely revolutionary. If SpaceX manages to get their Starship rocket to follow the path laid by their Falcon rocket, they'll be even further ahead of the competition. So go
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by loudmax 5y ago
> more sensitive personal information (like social security numbers or other government ID numbers) I tend to think that there should be a publicly accessible, unique, and more or less immutable ID number for every citizen or resident.
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by loudmax 5y ago
In my experience, banks and other online institutions have spent years training their customers to fall for phishing attempts by sending legit emails with embedded links. People take it for granted that emails coming into their inbox that
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by loudmax 5y ago
I would draw the line at €200. A lot of people can justify €200 for nostalgia. If you can run the old software and the hardware has the right look and feel, people won't mind the details too much. Far fewer people can justify nearly
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by loudmax 5y ago
I think one of the things we need to appreciate is the scale of video uploads that YouTube has to deal with. There are something like hours of videos uploaded to YouTube every single minute. Aside from dodgy medical advice, they need to l
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by loudmax 5y ago
This exploit is for a combination of fail2ban and `mail`. Reading how it works, it seems much more of a vulnerability for anything using the `mail` command than in fail2ban per se. That ~! escape is really dangerous. What percentage of sy
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by loudmax 5y ago
A carbon tax would be the most efficient ways to reducing CO2 emissions. It's a far simpler system than trying to work out average average emissions for different fleets of vehicles, never mind trying to balance competing CO2 producti
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by loudmax 5y ago
To be clear, the issue here is noise pollution, right? If the deliveries were silent, we generally wouldn't care how our neighbors were getting their coffee. I think the distinction is important because that points us in the direction
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Along similar lines, the name of the famous renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci is "Leonardo". He was born in the city of Vinci, so calling him "Leonardo from Vinci" was an easy way of distinguishing him from the oth
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by loudmax 5y ago
The first IBM PCs I was exposed to as a kid in the early/mid 1980's booted into BASIC if you didn't insert a disk into the 5.25" floppy drive. I think if you booted in this mode, BASIC had no access to the floppy drive a
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by loudmax 5y ago
Youtube channel Launch Pad Astronomy discussed some of the challenges for a lunar telescope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKJY7gH2n9I One of the problems is moon dust. There's a lot of it. If you build a big parab
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by loudmax 5y ago
Amazon's delivery time targets are more likely to cause accidents than employing pot smokers. As long as their drivers are sober while they're driving, what they do on their own time shouldn't be a problem. What's like
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Microsoft's crime was doing this in the 90s when they had nearly complete control of the desktop market and there were few alternatives for getting on the internet. This was a monopoly. Apple has about half the mobile market share in
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by loudmax 5y ago
I tend to agree with most of the points you're making but I do want to point out that "If you don't like it, don't use it" isn't helpful advice for system administrators who weren't given a choice in the m
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by loudmax 5y ago
A hangover is a symptom of physiological alcohol withdrawal. That's why having a beer at breakfast helps with the hangover. It is traditional and there's nothing wrong with it every now and then. I'd caution against allowin
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by loudmax 5y ago
I played a game just a week ago, but sadly my Morganite faction was crushed by the Spartans. The version GOG sells works on Linux on Lutris/Wine. I did find myself rescaling the screen because it expects the display to be 640x480. IMH
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by loudmax 5y ago
Totally agreed. I have several single function pieces from sets from the late 70s and early 80s: - spring actuated forklift loaders - boat hulls that actually float in water - airplane/helicopter rotors (incompatible with tech
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by loudmax 5y ago
Free stuff, like a free web browser? Or a free smartphone OS? If you don't want to be tracked by Google, don't use their software. Now, if you're having a hard time avoiding their software because it's become a de-facto
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by loudmax 5y ago
This was posted to HN a week or two ago: https://github.com/vkbo/novelWriter I haven't tried it, but it looks interesting. At least, I like the idea of basing it on a custom version of Markdown.
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by loudmax 5y ago
In my experience, ripping my DVDs is easy. On most Linux distros, mplayer will either do it out of the box, or you'll need to download a single extra library. Blu-Ray is another matter. As far as I can tell, it seems to involve a lot
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I could see a use for hydrogen filled drone zeppelins carrying cargo. Cargo typically doesn't need to travel as quickly as people do and we can take risks with cargo that we wouldn't take with people. Also, I have a feeling that
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My feeling is that David Brin's notion of a transparent society is probably a more sensible policy than trying to maintain privacy: https://www.davidbrin.com/transparentsociety.html In the twentieth century world most
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As I understand it, Oxide is going to have deep software integration into their hardware. So the expectation isn't that the servers in this rack will be running Windows or a generic Linux distribution. In case anyone from Oxide is he
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by loudmax 5y ago
There is seL4: https://sel4.systems/ The resources going into seL4 appear to be nowhere near "similar effort" to what Google is putting into Fuchsia, but it is a legitimate alternative.
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I'm not going to defend stereotyping. There are lots of legitimate uses for a pickup truck, whether it be hauling things around or off-road capabilities. In the suburban environment where I live, the majority of pickup trucks are effe
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I agree with your issues 1 and 2. Batteries do not yet match the energy density of petrol. There are plenty of cases where the shorter range isn't a problem, but buyers need to know have a clear understanding up front. I don't t

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