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by madars 3y ago
I think OP is referring to Sundar's time as a CEO which started in October 2015. Crome's rise had already flattened out by then: https://www.statista.com/statistics/545520/market-share-of-i...
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by madars 3y ago
And prime minister of Singapore was a senior wrangler at Cambridge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Hsien_Loong : "His college tutor, Denis Marrian, later described Lee as "the brightest mathematician he ha
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by madars 3y ago
>This line of reasoning reminds me of the petulant discussion revolving around overdraft fees... as-if it's difficult to spend 3 seconds tapping a button in your banking app. Not sure which discussions you call "petulant"
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by madars 3y ago
12% of phone sales in iPhone-heavy Japan are Pixels and Apple has fallen below 1/2 - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-28/iphones-s...
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by madars 3y ago
No idea about this particular organization but the ideas like these have been successfully tried: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch_and_kill
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by madars 3y ago
For anyone else wondering: it's Bitrex (not Bittrex like the crypto exchange) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denatonium
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by madars 3y ago
Hiew is peak ergonomics, kinda like good orthodox file managers (FAR Manager/Total Commander). Hiew's color scheme is, obviously, Norton Commander's as well :-) One of the few Windows applications that make me keep a Windows
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by madars 3y ago
Easy: offer a discount if purchase is made on an unsupported device, just like how grocery stores offer discounts for food that's about to expire. I don't think there is a real concern about app store economics collapsing, the app
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by madars 3y ago
They should stop charging 30% App Store tax for an inferior product at the very least.
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by madars 3y ago
It's fine for a vendor to completely abandon 10 year old hardware but if you can still pay 30% App Store tax/pay for iCloud/etc, the security fixes should be backported as well. The current situation is charging full price fo
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by madars 3y ago
DEA has a set cap for amphetamine production and demand is higher than the cap.
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by madars 3y ago
Baseband blobs are isolated with IOMMU (at least on GrapheneOS https://grapheneos.org/faq#baseband-isolation , but maybe that's also true for stock Pixels idk) and Google spends a lot of effort on baseband security: ht
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by madars 3y ago
Why don't you see millions buying a real self-driving car? You can work (or read or watch movies or whatever) during a commute and buy a bigger house where land is cheap. I doubt there are fundamental reasons why sensors couldn't
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by madars 3y ago
You don't even need rails for traffic to improve. Just think at what happens when a traffic light goes green: human drivers slowly, one-by-one, cross the intersection. Whereas a platoon of self-driving cars can, in principle, just acce
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by madars 3y ago
Nitter instances work: https://nitter.net/laurenancona/status/1731900441800155459
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by madars 3y ago
>Speed is noticably worse than any chromium fork. My experience is decidedly the opposite, and the single reason for that is uBlock Origin. The principal way to make websites load fast is to make them load less garbage. Fast browser engi
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by madars 3y ago
The claimed features (see pg 5 of https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/wyden_hemisphere_... ) operate at a cell service level, so as long as your phone is still connecting to base stations the answer wou
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by madars 3y ago
It has auto-updates until June 2031 (almost 8 years from now), and you can reflash it to Linux after. Sounds like a pretty decent vendor promise for a $300 device to me. Windows/macOS don't promise me anything.
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by madars 3y ago
Recent Chromebooks are extremely nice devices. For example, $299 at BestBuy gets you an Asus CM3401. It has AMD Ryzen CPU (with similar performance as 8th gen mobile i7), 1080p screen, and an M.2 SSD you can upgrade yourself. Downside is th
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by madars 3y ago
I don't know about merits of this case but some of the controlling interstate commerce interpretations are quite broad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn Even growing your own wheat affects intersta
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by madars 3y ago
CNAME uncloaking does not work in Chrome: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
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Google witness accidentally blurts out that Apple gets 36% cut of Safari deal(arstechnica.com)
155 points by madars 3y ago|4 comments
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by madars 3y ago
I wonder how it works from the business perspective. There is an adverse-selection argument against introducing ad-free versions of an ad-supported service: the people who are most likely to pay for an ad-free experience are also the same p
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The state of our union is dumber (2013)(theguardian.com)
1 points by madars 3y ago|0 comments
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USPS is offering Covid tests again(special.usps.com)
48 points by madars 3y ago|56 comments
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Freivalds' Algorithm(en.wikipedia.org)
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by madars 3y ago
webp is not proprietary. There is a patent grant https://groups.google.com/a/webmproject.org/g/webp-discuss/c... and reference implementation is BSD-licensed.
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by madars 3y ago
Which briefing was that? Edit: it appears to be this https://networkcontagion.us/wp-content/uploads/NCRI-White-Pa... ("Network-Enabled Anarchy: How Militant Anarcho-Socialist Networks Use Social Media to Inst
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by madars 3y ago
I'd call Pinocchio [PGHR13] the first truly practical zk-SNARK and Groth16 close to being the endgame of pairing-based SNARKs. The difference between earlier constructions and Groth16 (in proof size/prover complexity/verifier
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by madars 3y ago
Very impressive! Famous previous work captured moving objects and did gesture recognition through the walls https://people.csail.mit.edu/fadel/wivi/project.html but this new research can capture still objects. UCS

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