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by nerdbert 4y ago
I don't think DRM protects content at all. Every DRM scheme out there has been broken (or will be soon, if it just came out). It is trivially easy for any interested party to find copies of content with DRM removed. In fact I'd sa
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by nerdbert 4y ago
That's missing the point, I think. The HTML spec includes elements that cannot be rendered using open source software. Yes, of course other parts of the page can be rendered (at least today) but it's absurd for them to claim that
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by nerdbert 4y ago
> Name a single city in walking distance to a forest. Offhand, from relatively recent experience: Singapore and Hong Kong contain forests, and when living there I regularly walked to them. Hong Kong is more than half green space. The eas
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by nerdbert 4y ago
You make a very good point: Only cities chop down trees, private landowners absolutely never ever do.
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by nerdbert 4y ago
> Less people per unit land also means less cars per unit land. Only if you arbitrarily cherry-pick the unit of analysis to support your argument. The only way to actually reduce cars per unit of land across all available land is to incr
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by nerdbert 4y ago
Build subsidized housing for people who need it. Time and time again experience has shown that to be the cheapest solution. But many Americans who never grew past toddlerhood find that unacceptable because it means someone else is getting s
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by nerdbert 4y ago
And people will be homeless in large numbers until enough housing is built for them, and the government is allowed to spend the $x to house them rather than the $(x * y) required to deal with all the effects them being homeless.
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by nerdbert 4y ago
There are going to be times when someone is legitimately responding to an emergency and doesn't have a stop sign handy. And there are going to be a lot of pranksters who do, and will use them to mess with so-called self-driving cars.
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by nerdbert 4y ago
I hope you're not suggesting like a hater that a Tesla with FSD (available next week, I promise) isn't capable of performing a snap psych eval of any random person standing at the side of the road.
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by nerdbert 4y ago
Singapore does a decent job of it. ISPs provide service over shared fiber infra - https://www.netlinktrust.com/ They don't have to be at the cutting edge of future innovation. If customers in the USA or somewhere else,
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by nerdbert 4y ago
I would hate to have all the devices in my house connect directly to a wireless signal from the ISP, for example. I manage the DNS and firewall to control what goes on. Giving up that control means more ads and more tracking and nothing goo
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by nerdbert 4y ago
How could that work? Don't managers have budgets? Do they get drugged and blindfolded while their departments' AWS costs are deducted every month?
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by nerdbert 4y ago
I expect we will see a low-frequency supplemental band carved out to ensure low-bandwidth connectivity in cellars and carparks before too long. You won't be streaming movies over it, but they'll be able to talk to that car.
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by nerdbert 4y ago
OSM is far superior to Google or Apple if you're not driving or riding public transit. They have much better pedestrian/cycle accessibility data. Google will send you on preposterous detours on a bike, whereas OSM gives you exactl
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by nerdbert 4y ago
I am reliably amazed by how many people are completely unable to read a map these days. I hate turn-by-turn directions and never use them, with the result that I am naturally paying enough attention that I can always find my way back to any
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by nerdbert 4y ago
Google Maps is even worse about this. Dear Google: If I have my directions preference set to walking, cycling, or public transit, there is no reason to EVER show me the route number of a street that has a name. I don't care about it, a
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by nerdbert 4y ago
> For sit down restaurants, or many service oriented jobs it makes for a better customer experience. In my personal experience, it makes it worse. They annoy me with attempts to be ingratiating. They fish for tips with forms and devices
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by nerdbert 4y ago
> It's fairly reasonable in this case to tip in proportion to the total bill. Someone who helps you at a $10/plate restaurant can be just as helpful as the person working at a $200/plate restaurant. Often less annoying, in
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by nerdbert 4y ago
When you log in to your account you have to provide your password and also use the key. You can choose a key that has an additional factor built in, such as a fingerprint reader. If you lose one of the keys you can authorize a new one. If y
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by nerdbert 4y ago
> in those days, most of us used 300-baud VT100 terminals, which were VGA (640 X 480). VT100 terminals didn't have addressable pixels at all, nor colors - only two brightness levels. The screen was an 80x24 character matrix. You cou
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by nerdbert 4y ago
7:37 I would like to know how bad that meat smelled to get her to make that noise.
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by nerdbert 4y ago
People were not detained in the USA for using the wrong nomenclature to describe the Iraq invasion, and yet that was also an unspeakably cruel, venal war of cynical aggression knowingly perpetrated on laughably false pretenses. To this day
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by nerdbert 4y ago
In the linked document they say to only do it with @gmail.com addresses.
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by nerdbert 4y ago
This really doesn't work very well for a great many users. You can have all the bandwidth in the world, but the magic that Youtube does is mainly dealing with the users' bandwidth, for example, it switches video resolution on the
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by nerdbert 4y ago
> I live in a heavily populated area with high standard of living, and yet we have had power outages lasting up to a week in the years we've lived here. Maybe you are in the USA? The infrastructure situation seems to be different th
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by nerdbert 4y ago
Until a couple years ago we had a gas-fired tankless water heater which used a single D-cell battery for ignition, which had to be changed once every year or two. It wasn't connected to wall power at all.
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by nerdbert 4y ago
I don't live in the UK nor work anywhere near the energy sector, and yet I found this a really fascinating, clear read that opened my eyes to many issues I'd never considered before. Thanks.
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by nerdbert 4y ago
I have that line in my .ssh/config and I never use password auth. I explicitly list every server that I want to connect to in the config file, so I know exactly what is going to happen.
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by nerdbert 4y ago
Being the only person eating can feel weird, but if I'm one person among a group I don't feel strange not eating and I've never picked up that it was strange for anyone else. Sometimes I don't feel like eating, and I don
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by nerdbert 4y ago
Let's say there were a drug that made people motivated to study hard and get a lot of work done. Would the successes people reaped from that be less useful to themselves and people around them, than those which other people reaped from

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