masfuerte

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   by masfuerte 4y ago

   I'm looking forward to a future in which people have plastic surgery to get "AI hands".
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   by masfuerte 4y ago

   Copyright is a legal invention and the law is clear that unauthorised copying is not theft. Feelings don't come into it.
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   by masfuerte 4y ago

   There is an important missing detail. The Swedes agreed to interview Assange about the rape allegations in London but the British Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) put pressure on the Swedes not to. The CPS deleted the emails they sent to t
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   by masfuerte 4y ago

   Microsoft often do this. They introduce an unwanted feature but they include a checkbox to turn it off. After a year or two they remove the checkbox. My Windows profile doesn't have any ads or Bing integrated search or other nonsense b
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   by masfuerte 4y ago

   Cuba and the USA have roughly the same life expectancy, with Cuba slightly ahead. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_ex...
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   by masfuerte 4y ago

   Gnu stuff tends to be properly documented in info, not man. But yeah, loads of stuff just isn't well documented.
7. 967.▲
   by masfuerte 4y ago

   Error: missing member reference
8. 968.▲
   by masfuerte 4y ago

   I meant the system including human reviewers.
9. 969.▲
   by masfuerte 4y ago

   I liked that the X-Files reboot kept the old credits. Mulder and Scully look like babies. Then the credits end and reality intrudes. Of course, I'd aged at the same rate (maybe faster) but it was still a shock.
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    by masfuerte 4y ago

    Or Amazon could pay someone to review reported listings. This kind of DoS only works if the system fails to distinguish good listings from bad.
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    by masfuerte 4y ago

    I think you're agreeing. The "yet" implied a contrast.
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    by masfuerte 4y ago

    Over lockdown I watched a lot of films from the 40s, 50s and 60s. This was a common pronunciation in America back then. The current pronunciation becoming standard is quite a recent thing.
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    by masfuerte 4y ago

    You don't need a phone or a hardware token. e.g. https://github.com/rsc/2fa
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    by masfuerte 4y ago

    Many Autonomy people went to Darktrace. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darktrace
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    by masfuerte 4y ago

    As long as it's not wrong too often, a black box that coughs up answers which are hard to find but easy to verify is very useful.
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    by masfuerte 4y ago

    Stop convincing them to want it
17. 977.▲
    by masfuerte 4y ago

    "Smart" devices are getting everywhere, but surely no-one would build a Mars base that stops working when it loses comms.
18. 978.▲
    by masfuerte 4y ago

    Same with tonic water in the UK. You have to buy the much more expensive premium products if you don't want artificial sweeteners.
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    by masfuerte 4y ago

    I've had several hard drives fail over the years. They all signalled their impending doom by making interesting noises so I never lost any data. When my SSD fails I think I'm going to miss the noises.
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    by masfuerte 4y ago

    A bit more than 20 years ago Microsoft released a desktop product that automated producing a CRUD interface from an XML schema. It looked very nice but it was immediately withdrawn. I was puzzled at the time but I guess now they were threat