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   by lsh 9y ago

   Have you actually used Windows 10?? The spotlight is squarely on Facebook and it's privacy intrusions right now, but the data collection when you own the OS must be several orders of magnitude larger. Don't be so eager to forgive
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   by lsh 9y ago

   Only if they confer an evolutionary disadvantage - for example, a higher cancer rate. Otherwise it will just be there as so much genetic baggage.
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   by lsh 9y ago

   Terrible article, the wikipedia page is much better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Grünberg The man was a Nobel Prize winner and instrumental in bringing about gigabyte harddrives.
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   by lsh 9y ago

   And then it got even worse with some guy who couldn't leave well enough alone and felt compelled to point out nitpicking by nitpicking and then making a wrong assumption! Quick! Somebody on the internet is wrong! And true to form, I&
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   by lsh 9y ago

   Bring back Maemo/Meego/Tizen/Mer/Sailfish! I wish I had more time and patience for smart phone development and that the heroic efforts of those unlocking these devices, writing OS drivers for proprietary (and adversarial
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   Time out for sci fi(nataliedee.com)

   1 points by lsh 9y ago|0 comments
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   by lsh 9y ago

   a good read. a few points/observations: * zero mention of the lack of GUI development. seesaw is no longer maintained and javafx support is very spotty * I have the strong impression it's Clojurescript users of the language that a
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   by lsh 9y ago

   If sci-hub is going to scrape OA publishers, they could put in a bit more effort. For example this (which sucks): https://sci-bay.org/article?link=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.go... Versus the actual article: https
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   by lsh 9y ago

   > but the system is bad and needs to be destroyed The system needs to be reformed, and that is currently happening, peacefully. Perhaps not everywhere at once and perhaps not as quickly as you might prefer, but open access publishing has
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    by lsh 9y ago

    Unless the article has been published as open access under a CC-BY (or similar) licence, it's not open access, please don't confuse the two. I agree with you in spirit - tax payer funded research outputs should be publicly availab
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    by lsh 9y ago

    Which model do you have? I don't get this performance issue on mine. Web OS has always been a little laggy in responsiveness though, but not so slow I end up pushing a button twice.
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    by lsh 9y ago

    yes, you can get rid of that quite easily though and preserve your viewing privacy (LG collect all they can on you as well). You just have to block your TV's MAC address at the router.
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    by lsh 9y ago

    Just imagine what you would ideally like to eat.
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    Clojure Don’ts: Lazy Effects (2015)(stuartsierra.com)

    108 points by lsh 9y ago|41 comments
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    by lsh 9y ago

    I kind of agree. This Troy Hunt guy is doing a fantastic job with HIBP but this particular release is just so nebulous it's a real time waster.
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    by lsh 9y ago

    I don't recognise any of the hosts in that list. It's going to keep me awake now wondering which one of them I had an account with that was leaked. Might go find a torrent and do some spelunking ...
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    by lsh 9y ago

    here is a comforting article I read about bedbugs when I had my own case: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/feb/09/bed-bug... "Don't sit down on public transport."
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    by lsh 9y ago

    and they are perfectly evolved too. they multiple quickly, know the difference between an awake warm body and a sleeping one, can travel vast (to bedbug) distances in a night, can live anywhere in your house/room, bite several times
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    by lsh 9y ago

    and for a solid documentary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo_and_Behold,_Reveries_of_the...
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    Patterns Failed. Why? Should We Care?(deconstructconf.com)

    3 points by lsh 9y ago|1 comments
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    by lsh 9y ago

    And for those Vulcans that are still confused, this is Morrisette-level irony.
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    “Sousveillance”, watching from below(nytimes.com)

    1 points by lsh 9y ago|0 comments
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    by lsh 9y ago

    I know, right?! This is the first I'd ever heard or read about it and I've been using linux now for ... wow. since 2000? I remember several distros had ctl+alt+backspace mapped to something that would kill your X session and boot
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    The Magic SysReq Key On Your Keyboard(en.wikipedia.org)

    3 points by lsh 9y ago|2 comments
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    by lsh 9y ago

    Vivaldi! +1 for mentioning Otter though - those guys are doing amazing work https://vivaldi.com/ https://otter-browser.org/
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    by lsh 9y ago

    better than 2001. I thought the commie Russians dated the novel when I read it in the 90s, but here we are, 2017, and everyone is worried about the Ruskies again. Funny ol world.
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    by lsh 9y ago

    I'm a tech, not an academic, but I see it as part of the broader problem of science reproducibility. Software plays a huge huge part in modern science publishing and, in the case of data derived using proprietary software, it's ex
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    by lsh 9y ago

    thankyou for the downvotes, it was a genuine question. I see a lot of this bot-like behaviour on HN these days
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    by lsh 9y ago

    you know, I never noticed the number labels, but I did notice all the fig leaves ... https://realhousewifeadventures.wordpress.com/2014/06/04/fig...
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    by lsh 9y ago

    just a few pages in, but there is a mention there would be more push web technologies out there. Did websockets ever get much traction?