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by mirkules 12y ago
Or you can look at it from an optimistic-almost-narcissistic point of view and say that the interfaces that we have are so well-deaigned either by accident or on purpose that the same level of accuracy can be achieved with whatever appendag
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by mirkules 12y ago
I'll second this. Also, for board games like chess or othello, you should take a look at the mini-max algorithm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimax
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by mirkules 12y ago
My first thought was a space propulsion drive based on machine guns, much like ion propulsion. If humanity decided to get rid of all firearms (ha!), we could probably send them to space and drive a few spacecraft cheaply, easily and for a v
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by mirkules 12y ago
Bingo. My 80-year-old grandmother who is terrified of computers and doesn't speak english recently started having video skype sessions with me. As far as I'm concerned, that's a design and ease-of-use litmus test.
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by mirkules 12y ago
When I have to use Privacy Mode, I do. But the sheer fact I have to is mildly infuriating.
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by mirkules 12y ago
The other really frustrating thing is when you log out of Gmail, you are not actually logged out. You will be presented by a pseudo-looking login screen, which is really just an authentication screen to get back to Gmail. What really happ
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by mirkules 12y ago
> I'm sure that UI developers would hate this. Having to maintain old UI code, or implement pixel-perfect imitations of it using the new UI code. Needing to worry about how to shoehorn new features into an old UI that was not design
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by mirkules 12y ago
Maybe I'm a bit naive, would this be something EFF could handle or perhaps FSF?
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by mirkules 12y ago
My first thought was: "Why would they need a mic? There's no sound in space" and then I felt the whoosh over my head. Well done.
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by mirkules 12y ago
I feel the same about certain things, like video or music stores. It was kind of an event in and of itself to get up and go somewhere, maybe with friends or significant others. You could potentially meet new people, discuss movies or music
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by mirkules 12y ago
One thing that nobody has mentioned yet is that generally speaking, when you are booked, your possessions are confiscated (including your phone) and your fingerprints are taken. It is very trivial to transform even a latent fingerprint and
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by mirkules 12y ago
In a hydraulic power steering system, if the power is cut, the driver can still turn the wheel (although it's much harder to do). In an EPS, is this still true?
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by mirkules 12y ago
> Should I spend 1 hour explaining to every fucker with a headache why a CT head is more likely to cause brain cancer than it is to diagnose it? Absolutely you should. Because the beauty and the curse of the American health system is tha
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by mirkules 12y ago
Ah yeah, good observation.
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by mirkules 12y ago
Doesn't work on Safari either, same problem. Tried every combo of checkboxes.
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by mirkules 12y ago
A new part number doesn't necessarily mean new tooling. However, you are correct in saying that it is a way to cut cost by not issuing a new part number. A new part number means: - Entirely new release/approval cycle. That means
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by mirkules 12y ago
ABS is indeed the Anti-lock Braking System and I think it depends on sensors to determine the skidding amount and on software to determine the interval at which the brakes are applied and let go. So, the ABS is run off electricity and not a
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by mirkules 12y ago
If they really wanted to fix this, the text would read "How many rides would you like to purchase ($2.50 per ride)". Of course, this only works if every ride is $2.50.
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by mirkules 12y ago
I used to work for a primarily-hardware company, writing software, and we suffered from much the same politics and software quality problems you describe. There are really two issues at play: 1) Hardware companies have to employ the water
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by mirkules 12y ago
It looks like someone is systematically downvoting rational arguments in this thread without explanation, yours among them..
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by mirkules 12y ago
I'll bet you top dollar that's not what Jennifer Lawrence is thinking right now. She's not thinking "It was inevitable that someone will get my photos from iCloud". Instead, she's thinking "I should have n
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by mirkules 12y ago
Your line of thinking hinges on an optimistic view: "As long as X doesn't happen, we're fine". But what will you do when X does happen? You'll be completely unprepared for it. I prefer to take the "hope for the
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by mirkules 12y ago
Without intending to invoke Godwin's Law, I think what happened in WWII is a good lesson in dangers of overexposing your private life. Before WWII, Germany used "tax deductions" to entice people to reveal their religion to th
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by mirkules 12y ago
Whatever the IT policy is is not really relevant. There is a big difference between ending or not providing support for older browsers (passively), and actively deciding to limit functionality solely on the basis of having an outdated bro
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by mirkules 12y ago
> Reminds me of the time some kid was arrested for making a Counterstrike map based on his high school. Nobody seemed to mention this, and I feel quite old saying its, but "Global Thermonuclear War" was the name of the simulati
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by mirkules 12y ago
The problem with that approach - encrypt only things you need - is that it signals to the adversaries (whoever they are) that this is the piece of data they should try to get. By encrypting everything, you make the adversaries spend enormou
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by mirkules 12y ago
Same here. I decided to remove myself from FB altogether (inspired by 99 days of freedom). It's been 3 weeks so far[1] and it's amazing how after the first day Facebook started sending me two emails per day, along the lines of &qu
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by mirkules 12y ago
As I wrote that comment, BitTorrent came to mind with all the societal implications that carries (that's what I meant by "sanctioned" in the last sentence) I haven't really explored PopCorn Time but I'll take a look
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by mirkules 12y ago
From my understanding, these boxes are basically local copies of the entire Netflix online catalog - a catalog that frequently changes. How do these ~15,000 machines pick up new content? I assume they synchronize with the Netflix mothership
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by mirkules 12y ago
The canvas fingerprint is immune to this because your browser paints the fonts the same regardless of your history, and the fingerprint itself is not stored locally.

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