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by mikro2nd 3y ago
Funny how people have been granting pretty much the same batch of rights to Microsoft for decades when they used Skype, and nobody minded . In addition Skype's ToS granted MS a licence to any and all IP you might discuss during a Skyp
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Officials bust illegal lab containing 20 infectious agents, hundreds of lab mice(arstechnica.com)
5 points by mikro2nd 3y ago|0 comments
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by mikro2nd 3y ago
The point is that "as designed" was really "designed to mislead" aka "lying", and they got caught red-handed.
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by mikro2nd 3y ago
Except they did not fix anything. The battery readout was lying as so ordered by Musk. This caused people to complain, wanting it fixed. Instead of fixing it (in a service centre or remotely) they lied some more. What's so hard to pa
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by mikro2nd 3y ago
I don't think you need more data. Tesla had a team of people "managing" this issue to relieve demand on their service centres. What more data do you think would be useful to clarify Tesla's actions?
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by mikro2nd 3y ago
Step 1: let n = 0 There is no Step 2.
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by mikro2nd 3y ago
Ah the sweet smell of Astroturf in the morning... Article claims that Fediverse (Mastodon) engagement is down, when, in fact, the past weeks have seen an increase in both sign-ups and active engagement.
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The Black Blood of the Earth(funraniumlabs.com)
2 points by mikro2nd 3y ago|0 comments
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by mikro2nd 3y ago
Seriously? I can't think of a single instance where an interviewer has spent more than a cursory 5 seconds reading a candidate's CV before interviewing them. Many times not even that much courtesy.
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by mikro2nd 3y ago
http://one.mikro2nd.net/ More WebGarden than Blog these days. No trackers. No analytics.
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by mikro2nd 3y ago
There is no obligation on you or I to provide those companies with a viable business model, nor any moral compulsion to cooperate with their invasive, privacy and mental-health degrading ad-based monetisation strategy. edit: My browser, my
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by mikro2nd 3y ago
"I don't allow ads" because ads are malware for the human brain. An ad is explicitly designed to hack our minds/emotions, and I, for one, won't go there (as far as I am able).
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by mikro2nd 3y ago
(speaking as someone who has just recently installed a solar installation): The panels are around 15% of the system cost (small-scale residential system, so things will likely be different for municipal/grid-scale systems -- I can&#x27
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by mikro2nd 3y ago
Insurance is cheaper than tracking hardware.
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by mikro2nd 3y ago
Speaking as someone who recently installed solar panels on the roof... you get insurance! Not a big deal.
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by mikro2nd 3y ago
And if you don't have a phone?
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by mikro2nd 3y ago
> We will not scan or read your Gmail messages to show you ads. is not the same thing as "We will not scan or read your Gmail messages".
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by mikro2nd 3y ago
At wethinkcode.co.za (A non-profit coding academy in South Africa) that's exactly how exercises and projects are done. Students are encouraged to add more tests than we provide initially, but grading is done by running the provided t
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by mikro2nd 3y ago
OOP was never " centered around deep class inheritance hierarchies". It was centred around message passing and dynamic method dispatch. The only significance of inheritance is to resolve the receiver of a message. I feel strong
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by mikro2nd 3y ago
Realy? I saw "Spring", suddenly acquired a skin rash, and swore I'd never look at this again...
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by mikro2nd 3y ago
OK, I'll bite: How much energy can they harvest? While realising that this is still highly experimental, early days and bleeding edge (and also very exciting!) it would be very interesting to get some idea of the actual energy harves
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by mikro2nd 3y ago
And yellow on white is completely unreadable...
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by mikro2nd 3y ago
Ah... so the one that myriad people have been chasing for at least 2 decades, now. I've lost count of the number of companies I've consulted to who were chasing that chimera. Good luck to them, I say, while gleefully taking money
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by mikro2nd 3y ago
One place we named all the (Unix) machines with names beginning with a 'C': cbed, cnic, cweed, csun (a Sun box, of course!), cmen,... We were (obvs?) developing in C, and our office was known in the company as "C-centre"
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by mikro2nd 3y ago
And what is that model?
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by mikro2nd 3y ago
I heard, just the other day, about someone (in the UK) using their Tesla to make money by buying cheap (night-time) power and selling it back during high-rate times, and I was moved to wonder... Does this "profit" making scheme st
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by mikro2nd 3y ago
It sounds like the tooling was just being used as an excuse, that they'd decided to fire you regardless for reasons that they wouldn't want to articulate because they'd be grounds for legal action. Just guessing, of course, b
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by mikro2nd 3y ago
The email that is important to me is not in Gmail. Gmail is there for all the throwaway/don't-care email, like signing up to websites I "don't know" or for corporate zombie OSIAs[1]. [1] Old Slow AIs, aka "co
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by mikro2nd 3y ago
"free use of Gmail" but only if you're using Google's email client. If you're using the POP (and, presumably, IMAP) API, you're not going to see any ads, amiright?
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by mikro2nd 3y ago
The issue, though, is not the code I personally upload to my own public repositories, but the code that someone else uploads to Github by cloning my repository held somewhere else than Github. Personally I have eschewed any personal u

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