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by majewsky 4y ago
If you deal with tech-illiterate users by putting everything in black boxes, you're contributing to perpetuating tech illiteracy.
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by majewsky 4y ago
Of course there are things you can legitimately be glad about crashing. CO2 emissions, crime rates, frequency of famines, etc. Whether you count the event in question among such blessings is a legitimate topic of debate.
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by majewsky 4y ago
I was going to say the same. Working in the software industry has made me so cynical about the nature of our craft, that every news of hardware improvement immediately makes me wonder how exactly we are going to squander it.
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by majewsky 4y ago
There is no article, and it's also not clickbait since there are in fact new ToS. The assumptions that you imply say more about you than about other people.
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by majewsky 4y ago
sph's reaction when someone puts network volumes in the wrong spot: D:
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by majewsky 4y ago
All the digital bathroom scales that I've encountered refuse to display negative measurements.
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by majewsky 4y ago
This is absolutely correct for books, but a blogpost is not a book. The most significant reason to use sans-serif for UI text is that screens with less DPI tend to utterly destroy serif fonts with small font sizes. Serif fonts just rely tha
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by majewsky 4y ago
When Films&Stuff on Youtube did a 10-years-later video on Avatar [1], they said that it was not just about "the 3D hype". It was that Avatar was the first (and maybe still only) movie to use 3D effectively because they emphasi
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by majewsky 4y ago
Depends on how well you know the tool. I wrote my lecture notes for Graph Theory in LaTeX+TikZ, but it only went well because I had been doing TikZ drawings frequently for about 2 years by that point, and also the course was introductory le
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by majewsky 5y ago
Is this because of the whims of individual nurses, or because of policies put forth by the hospital administration?
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by majewsky 5y ago
User styles are not supported in most mobile browsers, as far as I'm aware.
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by majewsky 5y ago
Well yeah, that's KMS. The flickering was when Xorg and fbdev did separate modesetting, so every time you switched from terminal to Xorg and back, one had to reset the screens into the default mode and the other had to then set the des
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by majewsky 5y ago
Why would a grocery store have a phone number at all?
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by majewsky 5y ago
> AI managers who are optimizing transparent objectives All AIs that I've seen so far just optimize the reproduction of existing biases and/or serve to obfuscate policy decisions by ensuring that no person is left to blame. Are
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by majewsky 5y ago
I'm guessing this would still take more than one hour since it needs to rewrite all (or most) of the 4TB?
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by majewsky 5y ago
> Had some data in Rackspace Files where "list files" would say X existed, but "GET X" got you a 404. Well yes, Rackspace Files (aka OpenStack Swift) is eventually consistent. It says so literally in the first senten
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by majewsky 5y ago
> but changing the entire subscriber QoS because traffic to one particular destination is detected seems like too much work and doesn't really achieve anything useful. About seven years ago, when unencrypted HTTP was still commonpla
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by majewsky 5y ago
Mathematics is not a field of natural science, but it is a science too. I've seen it classified as "structural science" before. It operates on the same tenets of the scientific method (which, in one sentence, can be described
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by majewsky 5y ago
The most obvious problem with this conspiracy theory is that Bing became available in 2009, but DuckDuckGo was founded one year earlier.
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by majewsky 5y ago
The German defense budget was 46.5 bln € in 2021 [1]. The problem is not spending, the problem is the utter mismanagement in the defense ministry and military forces. I have talked to someone who did contract work for the ministry and knows
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by majewsky 5y ago
Not sure why the correction of a common misconception is being downvoted here. If you want to learn more about the history of the German economy between 1900-1945, the authority on the subject is the British historian Adam Tooze. He has a c
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by majewsky 5y ago
Exactly.
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by majewsky 5y ago
Isn't that what membership fees are for? If they came out and said "our entire publication catalog is free, but to cover the costs of hosting we are raising membership prices from 100$ to 105$ a year", I don't think any
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by majewsky 5y ago
The first time I saw it was here: https://nitter.net/daisyowl/status/841802094361235456 > If you ever code something that “feels like a hack but it works,” just remember that a CPU is literally a rock that we t
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by majewsky 5y ago
After Fukushima, nuclear was canceled by the conservatives (the Merkel II government), when the Green Party was not part of the government. The Green Party did cancel nuclear, but in the year 2000. Their timeline called for the shutdown o
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by majewsky 5y ago
Everyone has.
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by majewsky 5y ago
There exist mail providers other than Gmail (allegedly).
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by majewsky 5y ago
Many.
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by majewsky 5y ago
If we are going to mention Terraria, we should also talk about Minecraft. I purchased it in 2009 and I'm still getting new content on a regular basis today. It's true that they have a subscription offering through Realms at this p
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by majewsky 5y ago
> but we all have a Facebook account God no.

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