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by njharman 6y ago
> Why are there so many people who absolutely deny Russia does any hacking. Because there are many people paid to do so. (and soon if not already automated bots).
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by njharman 6y ago
Holy crap, first 4 lines are cancer! HATE hilight, incremental, very much want case sensitivity, and don’t need wasted space and attention with numbering every line. Current line (and column) in status bar is enough. No swap file is good th
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by njharman 6y ago
I acknowledge I'm not typical. But, that sounds horrible. And torturous. Constantly smoothened by all these people. Whom I'm expected to be cordial to, regardless of how douchebag they are, because of the accident of being related
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by njharman 6y ago
VW certainly tried. Who else has been more successful at cheating?
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by njharman 6y ago
If you are super rich sure, if not, Quality of Life in CA city is small apt in not great part of town vs suburban home in great part of town. > Texas is still predominantly white. Texas is big, it's not monolithic, percentage of eth
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by njharman 6y ago
no texas is horrible, esp Austin. Please don't move here.
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by njharman 6y ago
I believe parts of German law enforcement works like that. Copyright (or did 25 years ago when I was there). Lawfirms exist that just look for violations and "take them to court" to get part of the damages. Kind of like bug bounti
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by njharman 6y ago
People don't know or underestimate how much Unix has taken over. From cellphones to super computers. From consumer devices to industrial control. Unix servers made and continue to run the internet, aka everything.
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by njharman 6y ago
> If you ask anyone The world makes more sense when you learn that what people say and what they do are almost never the same. This is why markets and other analysis of behavior are greater predictors than polls or surveys or esp anecdo
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by njharman 6y ago
Interesting. But propulsion is strapped to his body (fuselage) and not his wings. Planes have things attached above fuselage AWACS have huge dish. The Space Shuttle transporter too. A-10's have engines above wings (although they are n
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by njharman 6y ago
> the art/science of aerodynamics in modeling has fallen by the wayside. You are not wrong. That is a valid lament. But, this is the definition (or at least a very common result) of innovation/progress. Tech/automation adv
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by njharman 6y ago
From the wiki article YOU quoted (USA specific) > there is an absence of cases actually giving any value to the poor man's copyright.
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by njharman 6y ago
> “well we have video of him doing this”. The fact that deepfakes will exist will erode confidence in even those things that are true That's good. Courts should not have high confidence in any single bit of evidence. It can all be m
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by njharman 6y ago
Deep fakes typically are putting a face onto an actor (or other footage). Not faking an entire scene with multiple people, that's just called CGI/Animation. So you could easily take existing footage and change who it appears to b
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by njharman 6y ago
The movie “Brazil” comes to mind.
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by njharman 6y ago
> I still think it's debatable RIAA depends on it being debateble. Debatable means you get to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars arguing over it in court. Sine the RIAA’s members business model depends on it, they are willing to
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by njharman 6y ago
So, the banning worked. There is no opinions you don't like on the internet anymore? And all the reporting and exposure from protesters and activists, and portrayals in media aka sunshine. Hasn't reduced racism and gender bigotry
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by njharman 6y ago
You can't stop attacks. You can only defend against them. Which means; treat the mentally ill, reduce ignorance (education), and widely and pervasively teach critical thinking skills.
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by njharman 6y ago
In many jurisdictions knives of certain length or design are illegal. To posess to manufacture. In short to exist. Many many other tools are deemed iheirently illegal. Guns, explosives, motorcycles over certain CC, encryption software, etc.
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by njharman 6y ago
> Because anything hard to test has been mocked to oblivion. Agree. Not an integration test. If it has mocks in it, it is not testing the INTEGRATION of/between components. Mocks are for Unit tests. Where you want to isolate testing
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by njharman 6y ago
This is going to sound insulting, maybe it is, sorry. It's definitely subjective. The reason I reach for Postgres over MySQL isn't features or technical superiority. Although those result from the reason. Which is, PG devs consis
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by njharman 6y ago
Yeah, I came here to say same/related; technology did not create these problems. We created them. Our society, our social norms, and the very hard to avoid evolutionary programmed behaviours; "display" (for mate), "herdi
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by njharman 6y ago
Need to shower? Sure clickbait title. Still I don't understand. For almost all of human existence we've somehow survived without showering. You obviosly don't ever need to shower. But also, nearly as far back as history goes,
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by njharman 6y ago
Almost any multicentury period has dramatically changed human society. Also people knew about and have already experienced pollution and other effects of industrilization. Read about London big stink. Social aspects too, ludites, social di
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by njharman 6y ago
ORA is a services/consulting company, now. The DB is important but company will easily survive its death (which will never happen) look at IBM big iron for similar story.
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by njharman 6y ago
Fork source and organize like minded developers (if any) around that concept. Of course, that is a lot more work than posting comment...
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by njharman 6y ago
The mantra "security by obscurity (is bad)" has been so oft repeated without context that the contextless "interpretation" become a false truism. The missing context; "Security by (only) obscurity". Is not go
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by njharman 6y ago
I'm pretty positive that the "they should" was in reply to > whether the general public should have greater access. Not that AI should have special legal standing.
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by njharman 6y ago
TIL Amtrak is a government agency and not a private company. Sounds simliar to USPS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amtrak
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by njharman 6y ago
You should absolutely personalize tools you use extensively. Vim if your a writer or programmer. It’s very little to cp .vimrc. I do a lot more, have dotfiles git repo scripted to self install. But yes transient vms are problem. But I’m wil

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