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by muyuu 4y ago
it's doubtful that advertisers and media would be blamed for Roald Dahl being simply a person of his era, if anything they are taking the risky position by interfering and actively censoring classic work - they risk selling nearly f*ck
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by muyuu 4y ago
we're living in an age of censorship so extreme I could have never foreseen for it to be possible in a (nominally) democratic, consensual government
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by muyuu 4y ago
i can't see why would the market treat this one differently, but if they can keep their costs low they may carve themselves a sustainable niche and perhaps aim for a bigger market in the future
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by muyuu 4y ago
good luck with your next endeavour
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by muyuu 4y ago
without friction with the air/medium it would have to turn it off or it would start spinning
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by muyuu 4y ago
I've spent considerable time studying both approaches [SICP-like, nand2tetris like, and I'd include a third OS-centric approach as in MIT's Xv6 courses] (SICP and SICP-adjacent I would also include programmes based on Forth a
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by muyuu 4y ago
early expectations on code interfacing and re-usability failed catastrophically in my previous job rather than give people root access to their laptops we had to do things like running a docker image that ran 7zip and we piped the I/O
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by muyuu 4y ago
I see the end of the SICP approach (not just SICP itself) as the canary in the coalmine for the end of University education itself for technical fields. Killing SICP is the admission that the artist/creator-engineer is dead and the tec
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by muyuu 4y ago
that's my wallpapers sorted
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by muyuu 4y ago
why would anyone assume deep learning to beat everything at everything, even applied relatively naively?
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by muyuu 4y ago
first link is dead
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by muyuu 4y ago
at some point there's a conflict on what compassion is or the trade-offs involved with placing emphasis in some sort of compassion for some given target demographic
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by muyuu 4y ago
last I checked archive.is had killed its bookmarklet, which is very annoying haven't checked in a while though, maybe there are workarounds
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by muyuu 4y ago
"better" yet: ads download immediately but the content you are looking for takes forever - bonus points if they automatically play some loud audio
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by muyuu 4y ago
same you best offer me something very concrete before you give me the slightest inconvenience this is partly why the Euro cookie laws have made the web even more hostile for smaller players, if you had any good reason to track me with cooki
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EU Proposes to Screen Your Personal Messages(lexology.com)
4 points by muyuu 4y ago|1 comments
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by muyuu 4y ago
the dysfunctional behaviour online is that of the 2020s, not the 1990s the draconian legislation attempts we're seen now are the govt's weaponisation of 2020s dysfunctional behaviour to shut down the free internet wholesale and su
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by muyuu 4y ago
I have, and he's right also, learn not to overexpose yourself with your real id online, also from 1990s internet 101 the idiotic model of the 2020s with everybody posting their entire private lives with their real names and profiles th
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by muyuu 4y ago
over the last 10-15 years there has been an open war on the early, wild internet model - not just from governments (early on it was just the so-called autocracies, now it's pretty much all of them) but also from Silicon Valley/Big
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by muyuu 4y ago
as stupid as this sounds the US does the reverse already
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by muyuu 4y ago
only a tiny fraction of the people will bother with the immense overhead of steganography it would much more practicable to resort to alternative channels outside the internet, like mesh networking using direct comms (typically ad-hoc wifi
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by muyuu 4y ago
at some point e2e encrypted comms will be grounds for getting swatted don't think this is a bridge too far, covering your face in the presence of public CCTV got you fined/arrested the week before covering your face with feel-good
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by muyuu 4y ago
are we pretending that access to govt info and its subsequent quid-pro-quo is not a MSM dynamic basically everywhere?
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by muyuu 4y ago
why would you though? the amount of high-volume, tight margin budget laptops with Windows pre-installed is huge
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by muyuu 4y ago
HP Dev One, same thing maybe they expect those dev compys to be used with external screens, and maybe they also need the Linux computer price points to be lower
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by muyuu 5y ago
oil is too good a resource that any major economy could just move away from it without wrecking their competitiveness, certainly in 2022 still and for the foreseeable future
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by muyuu 5y ago
it seems also disingenuous that the environmental impact at origin of the imported oil is completely ignored, and the same applies for other imports including consumer goods or even "green energy" related devices and materials (ba
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by muyuu 5y ago
> "However, the concept of IP ownership -- let alone specifics of how its structured -- are a cultural and human construct." This "X is a social construct" meme has degenerated from meaning "it could have been de
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by muyuu 5y ago
it's a common thing across Europe that people of Muslim descent/culture vote for socialism very heavily, I believe it's because of a strong common ground between their culture and the view of the State in socialism (this happ
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by muyuu 5y ago
my mum is too much of a normie to use computers regularly at all, which helps she either calls or messages, which from the lock-in standpoint is just better and perfectly adequate - it means much less spurious messaging

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