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by mcbits 9y ago
Although I've never been to a developer conference in person, probably a majority of my YouTube time is listening to conference talks that are the best (or only) multimedia available about a topic. They do seem to give certain people t
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Anyone with small channels, remember that you can turn off ALL ads for your videos (under Channel -> Advanced) if you're not going to get your cut, as small as it may have been. Surely that option will also be taken away eventually,
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by mcbits 9y ago
I've used a mechanical keyboard for a couple years. Yes, there is a 1-2 mm buffer zone after the keypress registers. No, it's not practical to manually stop and reverse within that zone consistently while typing at a fast speed. I
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by mcbits 9y ago
Just stuff I've seen on Twitter, so it could all be fake, but things like military helicopters and convoys of humvee-style trucks.
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He mentions about JavaScript libraries and reCaptcha, "As I have set up uMatrix in my browser, this cost me some extra time to finish registration." So basically, prepare to be annoyed. Considering reCaptcha has some tasks that lo
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More design principles for the NewWeb(blog.plan99.net)
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If you count "dwellings" or "housing units" then surely yes. Many/most of those will be apartments and multi-tenant buildings rather than houses per se. And then there are all the "houses" built from salva
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The maximum daily points add up to around $5/month. A little more if I used Windows and Edge, but it's not worth taking it that far. I just participate because I would love to see other sites adopt the concept and start a biddin
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If they're not running new features through their Beta channel, then you have a point. Otherwise, I'd assume the features that make it to field trials have already gone through Beta testing and are thought to be ready to release
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I guess the question is what prevents those contributors from suing the licensee (or even Hwaci) in the country that doesn't recognize public domain? I assume we'll never find out because contributors obviously don't intend t
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by mcbits 9y ago
Twitter's words are that one factor they may consider is "the report has been filed by the target of the abuse or a bystander." That seems reasonable enough because the "target" may not consider it abuse at all, eve
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We already have a potential treatment for age-related cognitive decline: vampirism (kinda). https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fountain-of-youth...
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Long-term survival could be the sort of problem that requires people to think about it for 100-500 years beyond kindergarten. Moreover, societies here on Earth could benefit from people caring more about the impact they will have beyond the
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by mcbits 9y ago
That would be about 2x the average of margins across all industries, but I also doubt it's accurate for the moving business. http://www.aei.org/publication/the-public-thinks-the-average...
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All the widgets (1990) [video](vimeo.com)
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Canadian regulators have blocked Soylent, producers say(arstechnica.com)
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Start at 300ms and gradually reduce it in 10ms increments until UX test subjects stop saying they like the animation. If people notice it, it's too slow.
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States and school districts still have a fair amount of control over curricula, so "the US" does mandate hands-on classes in some places. My high school had a mandatory shop class (student's choice of woods or metals). Middle
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It's disturbing that people are engaging you in discussion without mentioning that Galt's Gulch would be impossible without a free energy device and invisibility cloak. Pure science fiction. Let's totally discuss that in dept
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by mcbits 9y ago
To rephrase again... regarding patents, assuming you don't first sue RedHat or Facebook, then: RedHat won't sue you over your FOSS project that infringes any of RedHat patents, but your proprietary software is fair game. Facebook
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by mcbits 9y ago
I wasn't referring to copyright laws. If someone in the "move bits from point A to point B" business wants to make it their responsibility to suppress activities that are legal, purely on ideological grounds, then they should
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by mcbits 9y ago
> Do you think an expensive restaurant should be able to deny service to a guy who comes in shirtless even though it is completely legal for him to walk around like that? If the restaurant benefits from special safe harbor exemptions to
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by mcbits 9y ago
In a post-carrier world, she would be paid with tokens that she could use to buy faster network access later in the day or sell any surplus to heavy network users (probably indirectly through a brokerage, perhaps even run by a company tha
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by mcbits 9y ago
For anyone put off by the .ps.gz, it's actually just a normal web page that links to the full article in HTML and PDF. Not sure what they were thinking with that URL. I almost didn't bother to look. (Maybe that's what they we
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by mcbits 9y ago
Yeah, I mentioned that above: "unless you sue them first." That's not a major difference from Facebook's terms.
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Red Hat: You can use our patents if we can use your software. Facebook: You can use our software if we can use your patents. That's my severely over-simplified interpretation. The most significant difference is that Red Hat's prom
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The way I'm reading it, if you develop free/open source software that infringes Red Hat's patents, Red Hat promises not to sue unless you sue them first. The "combined" part seems to be saying you can also develop a
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by mcbits 9y ago
So to be clear, when someone calls an easily supported public fact a "conspiracy theory" to dismiss it, "stupid" should be applied to them, not to the so-called conspiracy theory.
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I can agree with the tautology that if a company is too insignificant for Facebook to care, then they're safe. But it doesn't take a large company to be a thorn in Facebook's side. Imagine a tiny company finally figures out U
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Those were also just a few examples. Companies negotiate reciprocal agreements for baskets of patents all the time. Who knows what's in the basket? My point was that they have circumstances that don't apply to any other company, a

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