netsharc

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   by netsharc 2y ago

   I can see your 40+ years of experience hasn't prevented you from offering out of context comments. The context being of the author's experience, who back then came from life in the West with (most likely) a "dumb" phone
2. 2282.▲
   by netsharc 2y ago

   Some of your questions are answered in the actual article... no mention of spouses or kids, so most probably they don't come along.
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   by netsharc 2y ago

   Obviously the average citizen don't have Internet, but an embassy without Internet (most probably through satellite) is unthinkable, they need to be able to talk to their home government. But if we go back 20 years (others have said th
4. 2284.▲
   by netsharc 2y ago

   The last paragraph talks about being cut-off and isolated. He didn't mention Internet or phones for private use, so I wonder if they didn't have that. I can imagine smartphones being disallowed, and even if allowed, limited to hom
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   by netsharc 2y ago

   Reminds me of a slashdot thread of "What's your best faking a software demo story?". Apparently when Steve Jobs demoed the iPhone, there was a second iPhone ready to be shown on the huge display in case the one he was holding
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   by netsharc 2y ago

   Oh no, taxes bad! Probably because we've all been programmed with the neoliberal agenda[1] of less money spent is better (for food, for cars, on taxes, like you've been programmed). Norway has had steep taxes for ICE cars for ages
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   by netsharc 2y ago

   There were talks for ending this last bit of "madness" to help with the climate (to go at double one's speed one needs to spend 4 times more energy).
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   by netsharc 2y ago

   I pass slower drivers not to save a few minutes, but because driving fast is much more fun...
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   by netsharc 2y ago

   Maybe the cars will come with something similar to "Are you of legal age to watch porn?" dialog boxes on porn websites, but it'll be "Are you in the EU?". Or if it uses GPS, I wonder if the next thing will be a Fara
10. 2290.▲
    by netsharc 2y ago

    If I understand correctly, if your WiFi chip comes with 2.4 and 5 GHz bands, it's "trivial" to connect to the network using the one band and provide the hotspot on the other one - it already has 2 antennas - at least the issu
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    by netsharc 2y ago

    I want to start a venture where in the small print I say that it's not actual Arctic ice, or that the ice is made in a fridge named "The Arctic" located in the corner of the kitchen we've named "Greenland". Or
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    by netsharc 2y ago

    I guess after seeing how industrially farmed chicken/pigs/cows are raised, people wouldn't want to eat them either. But yeah, I like my meat, and don't feel well about the idea of eating insects.
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    by netsharc 2y ago

    Start Menu and type away is a Windows... 10? 8? (Edit: Vista) addition. They had these launchers for Windows XP (OS X introduced them, and Windows devs copied the idea)
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    by netsharc 2y ago

    In the 00s there were a lot of them for Windows, since OSX introduced them and Windows devs tried to duplicate them. Some were really awful, needing a lot of time to render the prompt window (it was the age of the spinning disk, if that&#x2
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    by netsharc 2y ago

    I remember this site from the 00's: http://cdrfaq.org
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    by netsharc 2y ago

    Reminds me of this Zadie Smith writing about Facebook: https://archive.is/lRddT and how we've been lead to categorize ourselves.
17. 2297.▲
    by netsharc 2y ago

    A crowdsourced map with a collection of "favorite routes" would be an interesting idea, although some people (including me) hate trodding down beaten paths. I suppose these are mostly on websites/specialized apps, eg. for hik
18. 2298.▲
    by netsharc 2y ago

    I recall seeing CD-ROMs that had both Mac and Windows software on it, and depending on which OS it was mounted on, it would show the Windows EXE or the Mac app... I wonder how that's done. I'm guessing there was a clever trick so
19. 2299.▲
    by netsharc 2y ago

    Someone mentioned geofence warrants, i.e. cops/feds asking "Hey Google, tell us which accounts had devices found in these time-space coordinates!", I guess they'd be asking mobile providers to do more logging as an alter
20. 2300.▲
    by netsharc 2y ago

    Certainly! To build a bomb using household materials... It seems like CoPilot/ChatGPT has this all-too-eager tone in the beginning of their responses. The demo (1) of not Scarlett Johansson telling a blind man what a great job he was d
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    by netsharc 2y ago

    I guess it depends on the use case. Imagine adding an extra sentence in the second PDF, and this causes the paragraph to have 6 instead of 5 lines, and the next paragraph begins a line further down, and the last paragraph of that page ends
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    by netsharc 2y ago

    The zdnet article and the PDF also says 189,544lb of cobalt, 39,672lb of nickel, 44,080lb of lead, 130,036lb of zinc, 4,408lb of tin, and 6,612lb of silver. Divided by 2.204 they're 86000kg, 18000kg, 20000kg, 59000kg, 2000kg and 3000kg
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    by netsharc 2y ago

    Yep, as if we don't have a rapidly heating planet, Microsoft wants to add to that by adding several gigatons of e-waste (measurement is pulled out of my butt, just like Apple claiming it extracted 2204 lb of gold from recycled iPhones(
24. 2304.▲
    by netsharc 2y ago

    > he makes no attempt to hide that Does he not? His speeches promise a "great America again!" to the conned masses, when the reality it's "Put me back into power so I can stay out of jail, and grift, for another 4 yea
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    by netsharc 2y ago

    I've heard the Windows 3.1 ding (1) on an ATM. This was 2022. I hope it's just because the developers stole the wave file from Windows 3.1... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXF_pmcDghI&t=4s
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    by netsharc 2y ago

    If the 102 number is based on social media mentions... then that's just garbage statistics.
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    by netsharc 2y ago

    It mentions Xanga and MySpace... hah, those are ancient civilizations in Internet time... Yeah MySpace still exists. Incredibly it has a "Sign in with your Facebook account" button.
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    by netsharc 2y ago

    Ford was last century though, can you do that in this century? I wonder how far "no outsourcing" goes. Do they make their own nuts and bolts? Even if they do, the metal must've come from a supplier (unless they also have mine
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    by netsharc 2y ago

    Someone can just create a Twitter account, tweet that $airline lost their luggage, and skew the statistics.. considering there's some magic maths in the background...
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    by netsharc 2y ago

    Well, some people think they're conscious. I couldn't tell from your comment whether you're part of that "some".