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by loudmax 6y ago
Mythbuster Adam Savage has spoken about the improvement to his quality of life that hearing aids brought him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-Ptuq85R8Y Not Airpods, but I wouldn't be surprised if Airpods offered simi
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by loudmax 6y ago
> Apple isn't really a technology company anymore. They're a designer brand, so this makes sense. Those M1 chips certainly seem to be impressively well designed.
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by loudmax 6y ago
You can keep using your old phone, but no updates means no security updates. This means your browser and other apps are susceptible to compromise. As time goes on the exploits are automated, this becomes less the provenance of determined
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by loudmax 6y ago
Agreed, including the ">_" prompt in the command line isn't really helpful. The copy icon works, it's extra unnecessary cognitive overhead. Also, ">_" is an unusual prompt, I don't know what distro
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by loudmax 6y ago
Tesla's term "Autopilot" is misleading and it's gotten people killed. Tesla and Musk deserve opprobrium for giving their driver assist system a name that implies that the car can drive without constant supervision. But
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by loudmax 6y ago
Facebook is most definitely centralized. So is Twitter, and so is YouTube. While it's true that there are multiple platforms, there are a small number of platforms that are really widespread, and each one of them is centralized. I don
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by loudmax 6y ago
I think you're not wrong, but more cynicism is warranted. As a baseline makes sense that it's going to be easier for people to vote in some places than in others. Money spent in the right places could mitigate that imbalance by ma
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by loudmax 6y ago
> Remember when the industry were trying to compress CD Audio quality (aka 128Kbps MP3) down to 64Kbps? 128kb mp3 is good enough for most people most of the time, but it isn't CD quality. Having said that, 64kb Opus is almost or ab
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by loudmax 6y ago
Microsoft only appears to play the nice guy if you assume large swaths of the computing market are a natural monopoly. Enterprise level desktop software and the Office suite are still locked into a single vendor.
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by loudmax 6y ago
An infection fatality rate of 0.35% means 500,000 deaths if half of Americans are infected. Not the end of civilization, but certainly something to take seriously. The single worst aspect to America's Covid response was that what shou
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by loudmax 6y ago
My understanding is that this coronavirus originally evolved to infect bats. Presumably, bat to bat transmission would be mostly at night, so not much evolutionary pressure for the virus to last long in sunlight.
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by loudmax 6y ago
They don't hate their users, but they love their customers. Their users are not their customers.
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by loudmax 6y ago
If it is, is this MS's first Linux device outside of Azure?
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by loudmax 6y ago
Youtube channel Moth Light Media did a video on the largest flying birds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bXov-Z2_9U Fossil evidence shows records of some truly enormous flying beasts. One of the topics of the video is ho
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by loudmax 6y ago
Obviously good to have competition for Chrombebooks. Now imagine how good it would be if there were competition on the desktop market.
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by loudmax 6y ago
In order to do their job effectively, the WHO needs access to populations that live under a dictatorship. You can very reasonably argue that the WHO should be more open and transparent, but they need to be very careful about how they opera
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by loudmax 6y ago
Unless you happen to need to exchange Office type documents with other entities. In that case you'll need the MS Office suite for compatibility. Or your business needs niche software that only happens to exist for Windows. Or if your
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by loudmax 6y ago
The Revolutions Podcast, by Mike Duncan who also did the History of Rome podcast, did a series on the Haitian revolution. It's excellent! It may be the only successful slave revolt and a truly fascinating story. The series ran from 2
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by loudmax 6y ago
My first thought reading the headline was that this was an implementation of Awk that ran on a JVM. But no, this is the reverse of that. This is way is far less useful but infinitely more interesting. Bravo!
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by loudmax 6y ago
No kidding! I don't have any sense of how much these cost to manufacture. There ought to be a market for a A64fx based rackmount server system. If the price isn't outrageous, I'd love to see these sold as an SBC.
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by loudmax 6y ago
Any private citizen has a right to jawbone Congress. By itself, that isn't a problem. What is a problem is that congressional representatives are enormously influenced by donations to political campaigns. Even if they lose a reelecti
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by loudmax 6y ago
Shuffling money around is absolutely an important part of the economy. It moves resources from unproductive or low productive companies to higher producing companies. The name for this activity is called "Capitalism". One could
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by loudmax 6y ago
If you decide you need Linux due to drivers or whatever, I'd recommend giving Arch a try. Arch has a reputation of having a learning curve, but it's no worse than the FreeBSD and like the BSDs it has excellent documentation. In
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by loudmax 6y ago
Any genetic code analysis is going to be from creatures that are alive today, or at most were alive a few thousand years ago. When you're looking at the fossil record, you're basing families of species on the age of the fossils a
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by loudmax 6y ago
> Are you ready to double the pay of police? Yes, absolutely! Raise police pay, along spending money on police training. Then hold those officers to high standards. This is absolutely the way forward. This certainly entails raising ta
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by loudmax 6y ago
> milking their Windows/IE/Office monopolies (and eventually losing them) Losing them? Nearly all the business workspace I know is Windows-only. Maybe not in Silicon Valley or top tech schools, but Windows is the norm for mos
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by loudmax 6y ago
And as deeply entrenched as ever in the enterprise work space.
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by loudmax 6y ago
> on-par with the commercial offerings That should be "offering" singular, not "offerings" plural. And it's totally feasible to produce a superior ecosystem. The hard part is absorbing years of financial loss wh
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by loudmax 6y ago
Open document standards are a great place to start. Any standard format needs to have multiple possible vendors. And I agree it goes further than just document formats. This goes for all important formats, including how software interact
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by loudmax 7y ago
Focusing on growth first and security later is right out of Microsoft's playbook.

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