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by mcculley 3mo ago
The modern world is funny. I have a hearing impairment, tinnitus, and use both AirPods and less visible hearing aids to hear people better. I only wear the AirPods around people who know me well enough to know that I am wearing them so that
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by mcculley 3mo ago
But what if I want to access my cameras remotely but not have their manufacturer access them?
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by mcculley 3mo ago
I encourage my competitors to refactor a working codebase into a different language.
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by mcculley 4mo ago
> capable of accessing the sum total of human knowledge No. Lots of knowledge is still behind paywalls or not yet digitized. Some models have been trained on books that we cannot search or download.
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by mcculley 4mo ago
There were plenty of reruns. Not as much content back then as we have now.
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by mcculley 4mo ago
But is it a local disk? The post above says that one uses Chrome Remote Desktop.
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by mcculley 6mo ago
The web needs a HIG. All of these people who keep saying that webapps can replace desktop applications were simply never desktop power users. They don’t know what they don’t know.
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by mcculley 6mo ago
The existence of well maintained and clean public restrooms and hooligans is a shibboleth for culture. Some cultures are simply superior.
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by mcculley 6mo ago
> You now "own" the movie (or TV show), not a "license". You do not "own" the movie. You still only have the right to view your personal copies. You cannot broadcast it. You cannot charge others to watch it.
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by mcculley 6mo ago
Yes. I do mean designing software to make it testable. The code that uses that value can be run in an environment where that value can be controlled. I have written code that does this same thing and built a test harness for it.
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by mcculley 6mo ago
> It will not be caught in development testing — who runs a test for 50 days? You don't have to run the system for 50 days. You can simulate the environment and tick the clock faster. Many high reliability systems are tested this wa
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by mcculley 6mo ago
If the U.S. implements a draft, would we first implement exit visas?
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by mcculley 6mo ago
I never said that AI should replace all teachers. AI can help provide more teaching labor (more teaching capacity). Every child can have a personalized tutor in addition to human teachers. See Bloom's 2 sigma problem: https:/&#x2
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by mcculley 6mo ago
An idea I have been thinking about: Increasingly powerful chatbots provide more teaching capacity. I think this will lead to counterintuitive outcomes like teaching environments where the human student is not allowed to use any device but i
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by mcculley 6mo ago
What paid subscriptions respect the readers? I would love to pay for news from organizations that only get money from readers. For example, I have been paying for The Economist for decades and still see advertisements.
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by mcculley 7mo ago
I am surprised by the assumption that each box could only handle one modem. I seem to remember that some DOS BBS packages could handle multiple modems/users concurrently and only needed multitasking operating systems for “door” program
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by mcculley 7mo ago
You think an implementation of SQLite in another language, with more memory safety, has no value? I agree that this current implementation is not very useful. I would not trust it where I trust SQLite. Regardless, the potential for having a
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by mcculley 7mo ago
My interpretation of the GP comment is that you are saying the same thing. Linux will return a pointer that is valid for your address space mappings, but might not be safe to actually use, because of VM overcommit. Unixes in general have no
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by mcculley 8mo ago
I am bemused every time I use Uber and the car has some flush-mounted door handle that I have to figure out. When exiting the car and closing the door, I end up leaving fingerprints I would not have left if the handle had been designed by s
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by mcculley 8mo ago
> Whole disk encryption is pretty fast today, but probably is a bit slower than unencrypted. Isn’t whole disk encryption nowadays done in hardware on the storage controller?
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by mcculley 8mo ago
I am not sure that we are in the same conversation. I misinterpreted your reply to my comment as having something to do with it.
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by mcculley 8mo ago
I did not argue for or against collection of GPS data.
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by mcculley 8mo ago
What magical technology do you think would beat GPS?
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by mcculley 8mo ago
Cell tower triangulation does not provide the same precision as GPS.
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by mcculley 8mo ago
Cell tower triangulation does not provide the same precision as GPS.
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by mcculley 8mo ago
How was a noise other than ASCII BEL sent over telnet?
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by mcculley 8mo ago
> it seemed more as if it was an attempt to meta-engineer the opinion of people, e. g. to make them fearful of danger xyz > how the ICE deathsquads operate Hanlon's Razor applies. These are not complicated conspiracies. Just myop
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by mcculley 9mo ago
A lot of people seem to still use the service that was first hosted at airbedandbreakfast.com despite an unwillingness to rent an airbed.
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by mcculley 9mo ago
> And the orbital GPS clocks are controlled by the US Navy, not NIST. I thought it was US Space Force / Air Force. Was the Navy previously or currently involved?
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by mcculley 9mo ago
I like the idea of incentivizing people to stay, but I don’t know how we could “require” it. I don’t want the U.S. to implement exit visas or egress control.

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