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The bizarre, true story of Metal Gear Solid's English translation (2019)(polygon.com)
2 points by maxwell 5y ago|0 comments
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Energy Footprint of Blockchain Consensus Mechanisms Beyond Proof-of-Work [pdf](blockchain.cs.ucl.ac.uk)
1 points by maxwell 5y ago|0 comments
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by maxwell 5y ago
Looks like this is mostly about PoW. Here's a recent report on the environmental impact of PoS: http://blockchain.cs.ucl.ac.uk/blockchain-energy-consumption...
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How to Generate Noise with the Web Audio API (2013)(noisehack.com)
3 points by maxwell 5y ago|0 comments
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by maxwell 5y ago
This is really cool. I was looking into latticework for a UI experiment the other day and was struck by the design of this stool from a few dynasties earlier: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/54
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Raspberry Pi attracts $45m after lockdowns fuel demand for PCs(archive.vn)
3 points by maxwell 5y ago|0 comments
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Microphones with HiFiBerry(hifiberry.com)
1 points by maxwell 5y ago|0 comments
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by maxwell 5y ago
> I assume that if Google wants to continue to do business in Russia, they have to fulfill some amount of requests from the Russian government. On the other hand, it seems to me that if Google wants to attract and retain talent to build
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iOS 15 Removes Do Not Disturb Option to Silence Notifications Only When Locked(macrumors.com)
2 points by maxwell 5y ago|0 comments
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by maxwell 5y ago
> Latest iteration of coercion is called Google AMP. I changed my default search engine from GSearch to DDG a couple years ago because of AMP, but it's now thankfully dead in the water, e.g. https://searchengineland.com&#
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by maxwell 5y ago
The FCC just makes decisions, we're talking regulations here, not laws. They justified it with "preventing spam" and enabling competition with unregulated OTT apps. I'm glad that Twilio fought for Title II governance: h
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Microsoft OneDrive is now a progressive web app(windowscentral.com)
2 points by maxwell 5y ago|0 comments
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by maxwell 5y ago
Might be fixed in the iOS 15 beta. Also could be workaround, but looks complicated: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39665367/how-to-prevent-...
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by maxwell 5y ago
Yeah, I've run into that too. Seems to affect most/all permissions, e.g. https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213468 Looks like persistent permissions might be in the iOS 15 beta though: https://bugs
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by maxwell 5y ago
Well, they all use WebViews, as far as I know, but Safari has its own browser UI "chrome". https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkit/webview Before iOS 14.3, getUserMedia didn't work in WebVi
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by maxwell 5y ago
That's a good one, here's the feature request: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182566
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by maxwell 5y ago
There's no reason to think telegraphs, physical media, and mechanical transport wouldn't have continued to scale and improve, merging in typewriters, punch cards (following Jacquard and Hollerith), CRTs, etc. As well as, say, high
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by maxwell 5y ago
Which features? getUserMedia is now supported in WebViews, so one can build, for instance, a FaceTime competitor that runs on Chrome on iOS, where it wasn't possible a few months ago. But the Fullscreen API still isn't supported,
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by maxwell 5y ago
The .app TLD is owned by Google, requires HTTPS, and I haven't run into any issues in practice. Whereas my corporate VPN blocks all .xyz domains.
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by maxwell 5y ago
Why not impose costs instead of filtering?
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by maxwell 5y ago
The FCC classified SMS/MMS as unregulated, filterable "information services" rather than regulated "telecommunications services". https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/sms-mms-deemed-infor...
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by maxwell 5y ago
Did you really hear anyone talk about AJAX in the '90s? Looks like there was some work done on XHR in '99, but it seemed to roll out across browsers in the early '00s and seemed peak hype when I started my career in the mid &
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by maxwell 5y ago
I'm specifically arguing that there has been little meaningful innovation between the late 1960s and 2020s. Outside internet protocols, applications, and appliances, what's been invented since the late 1960s? Between 1712 and 1870
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by maxwell 5y ago
Most of what you describe could've been accomplished with sufficiently advanced telegraphy, optical media, and mechanical transport. Untenably expensive, but doable with 19th century tech. The idea of "timeshifting" TV has be
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by maxwell 5y ago
Listening to music? Looking at television screens? Pushing typewriter keys? Playing videogames? Programming computers? Video calls? While more expensive when adjusted for inflation, all were commercially available in the '60s. You coul
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by maxwell 5y ago
It's harder to regulate a bunch of protocols and distributed entities. Regardless of purpose, regulation which only kicks in at 50m users seems a solid incentive to force networks to remain under that size, and that seems socially bene
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by maxwell 5y ago
Exactly. Transistors were invented in 1947, Engelbart presented on downscaling ICs to an audience including Moore in 1960, and he observed his law in 1965. It's mostly held, transistors have incrementally increased as predicted over 50
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by maxwell 5y ago
Do you have specific examples of "massive" progress and improvements to efficiency since, say, the late '60s? I tend to agree with Neal Stephenson that "the threat now has become not too much innovation, but not enough&q
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2021 Nabisco strike(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by maxwell 5y ago|0 comments
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Adding Computer Modern to Google Fonts(github.com)
1 points by maxwell 5y ago|1 comments

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