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by mokus 6y ago
If it can’t be built, how does the patent harm anyone except the one who wasted their money to get the patent? There will never be a licensee or infringement to sue over.
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by mokus 6y ago
Just in case: https://web.archive.org/web/20201118010404/https://www.cisa....
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by mokus 6y ago
I’m not sure exactly what you mean so maybe I’m missing the point, but pre-NeXT Mac software handled multiple monitors back in at least the early 90’s, maybe even the 80’s. A friend of mine had 4 displays on his Power Mac 8600 for example.
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by mokus 6y ago
I’d be thrilled if self-driving cars could meet that bar, because then I can feel at least as comfortable napping in the car as I do driving it. And unlike humans, I have the expectation that my car learns when other cars crash, so I have a
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by mokus 6y ago
On top of the issues raised by this article I have another problem with people telling me the indicator LED makes it unnecessary to cover my camera. It’s quite simple, really - the indicator only works if I look at the indicator. A sticker
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by mokus 6y ago
I always felt like the explanations people give are way too complicated. The simple version, to me at least, is this: A mirror doesn’t flip left to right. It flips front to back. YOU flip left to right when you turn things to the mirror.
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by mokus 6y ago
What about the idea that parallel lines do not intersect and that there is exactly one line through a point parallel to another given line? These were thousands of years old and well accepted until pretty recently.
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by mokus 6y ago
Maybe I should apply to WD and fill my resume with things like “25-years-class experience as distinguished-class engineer-class for HGST-class employer”.
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by mokus 6y ago
What’s wrong with letting the language die?
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by mokus 6y ago
You can get in serious legal trouble for a “booby-trap” inside your own home, if a criminal accidentally is injured by it. Placing one in a publicly accessible place without even notifying the people living in the nearest homes? Failing to
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by mokus 6y ago
Isn’t QI specifically an immunity against civil suits?
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by mokus 6y ago
I’ve done it in Agda - it’s not even hard. The naive definitions are accepted without issue. https://github.com/mokus0/junkbox/blob/master/Agda/ack.agda
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by mokus 6y ago
Guaranteed termination of a sound dependent type system is only useful as a mathematical property, not a practical one (yes, I know the mathematical consequences have practical benefit but I mean directly it doesn’t say anything about what
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by mokus 6y ago
My gut feel is the same. Ironically, the fact that this usage sounds wrong might, in fact, be a paradox :) It’s an apparent contradiction between our understanding of the meaning of the word and the actual usage of the word. The resolution
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by mokus 6y ago
My initial gut response was the same - that this isn’t a paradox, but rather a proof by contradiction that one or more of the assumptions are wrong. But after thinking about it a bit more, I don’t think there’s really that much of a differe
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by mokus 6y ago
I guess the list of things keeping me off catalina (and, by extension, new Mac hardware) just got one item longer. I recently bought a new System76 laptop as a stopgap, but it might end up becoming permanent. Kind of a sad end for 25+ year
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by mokus 6y ago
Just wait, someone will implement that as May 4, 2020.
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by mokus 6y ago
Wow, I have been using iOS (and keeping it up to date) and macOS and Photos.app and uploading images to sites regularly for quite some time and this is the first time I’ve ever even heard of HEIC. Whatever they are doing has been beyond se
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by mokus 6y ago
It’s really quite infuriating to me that I can’t just say “yeah I made this, but anyone can have it.” I mean, really. It just seems batshit insane to me that this is problematic.
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by mokus 6y ago
I agree with your overall point, but regarding your “could you design....” rhetorical: in that example, isn’t it already inspecting the type of the list elements and then doing a specific different thing (printing that message) if it happen
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by mokus 6y ago
Speaking for myself only, I haven’t changed my preference, I’ve just given up hoping that any company gives a shit about my preference.
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by mokus 6y ago
Normally, yes. Today, I’m not even able to find isopropyl at many stores. I’m actually thinking about ordering flux cleaner for my soldering, for the first time in my life.
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by mokus 6y ago
To be fair, that’s probably true. It’s just that the particles at that scale are other molecules and they are indeed very hard to filter out mechanically.
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by mokus 6y ago
> The perspective “of you haven’t worked with SAP you are in a small org” is wrong. The fact that you are arguing against this might be why you are getting downvoted. The original comment was saying “if you are in a small org you probabl
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by mokus 6y ago
Kleenex is a specific product too, but is often used as a generic term. “Bitcoin” might not be commonly used that way but it parses just fine to me.
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by mokus 6y ago
Providing remote control options is probably the first step to automating the last 10%, too. Once the control and feedback channels are completely digital, it’s just a matter of time until the decision-making is too, at least for jobs wher
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by mokus 6y ago
That would explain why in our current system the conservative faction is more like this than the liberal faction. But what I was getting at is the reason that the conservative faction is essentially singular. In a less broken system, there
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by mokus 6y ago
This is speculation but it seems like we should inevitably see political factions in the US being defined in this way (and it happens in the Democratic Party too, maybe not in as obvious or extreme a way) as a result of the well-known two-p
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by mokus 6y ago
> There needs to be a different word than conservatism for having positions that aren't part of the Liberal platform It feels like in many circles the most accurate word would be “heretic”. (and the same is true in many conservative
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by mokus 6y ago
And that’s not even going into the inevitable push-back over transporting that kind of power wirelessly in public spaces. Consider how much more virulent the 5G panic would be if 5G involved these kinds of power levels. I feel like politica

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