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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
This sounds fun. Let's pick a state that is not known for onerous regulations...how about South Dakota? >Food employees must clean their hands in a handwashing lavatory and may not clean their hands in a sink used for food preparati
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
Would it be illegal to put up a billboard ad which includes a large stop sign in the ad copy? Like, "{STOP}: hummus time" for a Mediterranean restaurant?
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
Traditionally, the main difference was a full-featured MMU which allows virtual address spaces. But these days, you have advanced 600MHz microcontrollers with simple GPUs, and full-featured CPUs which get used as an embedded platform. You c
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
Most hardware is not field-programmable. You can't update a CPU's DDR3 PHY to DDR4, or switch to DDR3L if your needs change. The single-purpose nature of ASICs and hardware blocks is what makes them fast and power-efficient.
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
Nobody mentioned Lua? Really? Lua's arrays are 1-indexed, and it is a terrific interpreted language! Array[0] is nil, makes sense. v5.1 has a solid JIT, and it's got a great 2D game engine called Löve2D.
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
The Honda Super Cub was pretty cool, and it dates back to the late '50s. Apocryphally, it used a centrifugal clutch to free the left hand so the rider could hold a package while driving.
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
Sure, but latency matters, and everybody near the same datacenter will want to use your rental GPUs at about the same time every day. And as a side deficit, fewer artists will be able to run ML models to template their next works and do oth
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
Well as a user, it helps to protect me against the tracking scripts which IG/TikTok/etc inject into their webviews. I bought my phone, I own it. I know that disabling JS breaks some things, but I don't want random fly-by-nigh
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
Most modern automatic transmissions let you pick a gear if you really want to, either with paddle shifters on the wheel or a sideways +/- slot next to "D" on the gear lever. You don't get the sensation of letting the clu
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
Android uses your default browser for webviews, and that works fine. It's not hardcoded to Chrome, and there's no reason it should be. With Firefox, your extensions like adblockers and NoScript also run in webviews.
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
The difference is that their shares are not publicly offered. Their shareholders much more likely to be people with vested interests in the company's long-term health, rather than retail investors and hedge funds who reliably demand s
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
Among other things, Steam is not operated by a publicly-traded company. They don't need to answer to faceless shareholders at the end of every quarter. They can settle for making whatever they consider to be "enough money" wi
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
The media market seems to be cyclical. Piracy is always an option, but most people prefer to pay for content if it is reasonably priced with few strings attached. When a lot of people are paying for content, media companies look for ways to
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
If you use the platform, you've expressly agreed to this behavior. You can't create an account without affirming that you read and agreed to their policies and terms of use. Instagram's privacy policy: https://priv
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
FTA: >Another plaintiffs' attorney, Sol Weiss, said he would begin a probe of the judges' assets, but did not think they had any money to pay a judgment. Still, I find it hard to believe that two high-profile judges nearing ret
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
There is a functional difference in how credit/debit cards work, though. With credit cards, you get an invoice with fraudulent charges at the end of the month. You can choose not to pay those charges, citing fraud. The bank will clear
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
I wouldn't put money on it either way. On one hand, their focus on tactile controls is a key differentiator for their brand. On the other hand, it is very difficult for automotive companies to diverge from their peers, as we saw with t
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
Of course, portability is the point of a laptop. Absent precipitation, I'd rather use one in a park than indoors.
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
This is a popular trope, but could you say exactly when the Roman empire ended? If we are in a Rome scenario, the good news is that we probably won't live long enough to see the real collapse.
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
When I was in middle-high school, "private messages" got shared all the time. The first time it happens to someone, myself included, it's a bit of a ride awakening. But once it happens, you learn that what you say online is a
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
That approach has many perverse incentives. Fortunately, we've already figured this one out: manufacturers should only be able to disavow their warranties if they can prove that a modification caused the need for a repair. https:&#x2F
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
I didn't make it, but IIRC it was coated in a biocompatible polymer or wax. It was a cylinder maybe 3mm tall, 5mm diameter?
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
IMHO it's in a trough on the hype curve. Tech needs to improve before it'll rise again. The promises of devices like neuralink are decades away from widespread voluntary adoption, at least. You can get small things done today, as
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
Yeah, I'm pretty happy with how Google tends to follow Apple's better ideas, but Apple has usually been the leader in privacy innovations. It's frustrating. They make fantastic hardware, but their software leaves a lot to be
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
Eh, it's overblown. I use Android, and I don't see ads. I tried moving to iOS for the bleeding-edge app permissions and privacy protections. But because they forbid any browser besides Safari/WebKit, the iOS version of Firefo
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
Wow. People are really paying $80k for an F-150? Every time I think I can't get any more cynical, life throws a curveball like that.
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
They can't. The money is in ads, and advertisers won't touch anything that isn't family-friendly. A startup might be able to do a decent job, but they would get booted off the app store faster than you can say a four-letter w
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
You keep saying "lifted truck" like it's something to aspire to, but aren't pickups dirt cheap in the US?
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
It feels like big tech companies enforce a vicious cycle on the software landscape. Step 0: Someone has a good idea and builds a solid product around it. Step 1: BigCo sees the new growth budding out of the software landscape. Step 2a: BigC
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
It would be interesting to see this for the US. You might be able to get from New York City to Boston within 5 hours. If you're leaving from Fargo, though, it would be hard to make it into neighboring Montana. Our best case for taking

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