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by nix0n 7y ago
> Custom silicon seems like a much harder problem for VM/Toyota Nvidia built a custom chip for Nintendo, I'm sure they would build one for Toyota or VW.
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by nix0n 7y ago
Crucifying Clearview is HOW we open a dialog about regulation. We have to attack the clearest misuses of the technology instead of the technology in the abstract.
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by nix0n 7y ago
I do pay several hundred a year in tolls but as far as I can tell it all goes to state or local DOTs.
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by nix0n 7y ago
Healthcare comes to mind since we're discussing US politics. Roads might be the canonical example but I'm not familiar with any examples of privatized roads.
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by nix0n 7y ago
Why would it need to be unusually sophisticated? Speech to text and keyword search are both fairly mundane.
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by nix0n 7y ago
They get close to that theory, but from a zoo animal angle as opposed to local animals. "Add that to the fact that children frequently conceive of a vehicle as an enormous living creature—“It has lights and those look like eyes, so sud
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by nix0n 7y ago
One of the things you sign when you visit a doctor or hospital says that you'll pay whatever insurance doesn't cover. I've seen maybe 10 versions of this and none list any limits. If you were charged $1T you might be able to
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by nix0n 7y ago
Probably Meltdown and Spectre, but I've never seen the two of them abbreviated in this particular way.
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by nix0n 7y ago
This is murder. Uber wants to increase ridership any way they can, and if you're walking then you're not a customer. Since they got away with it in beta, the release version will continue to murder people.
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by nix0n 7y ago
Probably most people wanting to learn Win32 in 2019 have inherited a legacy codebase too large to convert. Personally I work in wxWidgets but occasionally it's useful to dig into wxWidgets's internals which are (for the Windows ve
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by nix0n 7y ago
I've always read "this is the future" in a different way. For those of us in the USA, seeing increasing militarization of local police, plus PRISM etc revelations, the CCP looks like it might be our future.
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by nix0n 7y ago
For a website that does follow this advice, see motherfuckingwebsite.com[0] [0] http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
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by nix0n 7y ago
It seems to work well for motherfuckingwebsite.com (their <head> is almost exactly the "recommended minimum" here). But, I also have no problem with Facebook's mobile site, so maybe I just don't see the same proble
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by nix0n 7y ago
It's an impressive human accomplishment, but that doesn't mean it made the world better. I think the world may have been better for a little while, during the era of the chronological timeline (maybe not), but facebook has devolve
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by nix0n 7y ago
Unfortunately, the XZ1 and XZ1c (which I have) seem to be discontinued.
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by nix0n 7y ago
Craigslist works great on mobile Firefox.
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by nix0n 7y ago
> someone should make an app that makes it easy for restaurants and customers to have a relationship with each other They already exist and they're installed by default. Maps to find a nearby restaurant, browser to look at the menu
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by nix0n 7y ago
Which rural areas have you lived in?
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by nix0n 7y ago
In Boston, Waze and Google Maps will often suggest routes that are illegal, whether it's an NTT zone, a completely closed road, or no-left-turn violations.
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by nix0n 7y ago
The bill as written[0] is limited to social media sites and has an exception for music playlists, so both your examples would be allowed. [0] https://www.hawley.senate.gov/sites/default/files/2019-07/So...
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by nix0n 7y ago
Saying publicly "our modems are bad because..." is probably not a great way to sell more modems. Once they're out of the business, they have no incentive to say why, they just focus on other things. Since Intel has not always
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by nix0n 7y ago
> Is there still a risk of MCAS causing another crash? Yes, because it's difficult to recover when MCAS goes wrong, even when you know about it. The pilots of Ethiopian 302 turned MCAS off and still crashed[0]. https://w
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by nix0n 7y ago
Fedora has a 32-bit LXDE version available[0], although I've never tried it. I did use regular Fedora and Lubuntu simultaneously for about a year, and didn't find it hard to switch back and forth. [0] https://spins.fedo
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by nix0n 7y ago
In Massachusetts, convenience stores and gas stations seem to be the only things open at night. I wonder if grocery stores do better in places like upstate NY where the grocery stores are also open 24hr.
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by nix0n 7y ago
You don't need 100% though, just 51%
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by nix0n 8y ago
Changing the color scheme in your editor can make your work seem novel again. Electronic music also helps me, but this is counterproductive for some.
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by nix0n 8y ago
Facebook still has profiles on all 15M of them.
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by nix0n 8y ago
Can you recommend something better?
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by nix0n 8y ago
Full rewrites aren't great either, Netscape[0] is a classic example. [0] https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
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by nix0n 8y ago
> That's like saying "solve this coffee table". If I can set down my mug on the coffee table, I'll consider the coffee table to be solved.

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