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by novok 4y ago
It just won't work that well. Recently in the past few months I've been noticing more and more ads with safari style content blockers, while ublock style continue to work fine. I fear this style of 'adblock' will have
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by novok 4y ago
Google and others are also not allowed to do blanket data collection by law, they are restricted in how and who's data they can collect with stuff like the GDPR. You can debate how effective it is, but they are not allowed to do it, an
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by novok 4y ago
CPI is already a huge political football that does not accurate reflect inflation measures in core things that matter for most people, like a lot of housing costs.
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by novok 4y ago
Dark scenes tend to look better on bad TVs because they tend to brighten everything too much with LCD bloom. I feel like it's an opposite problem with OLEDs, they're the one with scenes that are too dark.
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by novok 4y ago
For how popular this is, streaming providers and major video websites like youtube sure phone it in with subtitle placement. They could do basic shit, like force the subtitles to be within the black bars as much as possible with some basic
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by novok 4y ago
I have a 5.0 system, and the dynamic range mumble voice + super loud explosion is still very present, even when I artificially boost the center channel. I think voices are actually better on a typical tv speaker 2.0 setup.
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by novok 4y ago
The astroturfing was more of the 'submarine' type [0] that took skill and effort for more niche products than the more low effort mass spam & fraud types you see on amazon and such. I remember talking to an accquantance who ha
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by novok 4y ago
It really is area specific, and I think that is on purpose. When there was the superbowl in SF, all of a sudden certain BART stations stopped smelling like piss and homeless population in those areas were not there any more. Tell me wher
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by novok 4y ago
No, if you are susceptible to schizophrenia, it can trigger it and turn it into full blown schizophrenia including all the other comments about potential downsides.
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by novok 4y ago
Not only the transfer issue, there is no way to have the root source of truth be yourself or your corp for corp owned devices, or dealing with mud puddle issues combined with an inability to have proper off device backups. You bring it up
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by novok 4y ago
It creates self understanding that lets you figure out how to treat yourself properly. What to attribute to the autism, which is also pretty diverse in itself in what parts of it people have, and what to attribute to yourself. What to wil
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by novok 4y ago
Neuroatypical doesn't just mean ASD. It can be a lot of things. GP, if you think your have it, get assessed, it will help you a lot. Don't WebMD yourself. You also might not have it, but stuff close or related to it, like ADHD o
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by novok 4y ago
No, many interview loops have sections basically about 'how well do you work well with others / not a jerk'. Someone with social skills, leadership skills and software skills is definitely valued.
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by novok 4y ago
I think our industry underemphasises soft skills because it tends to be a bigger weakness than usual in the general populace of practitioners, and people tend to minimize & avoid what they are weak at. We treat it as such to counterac
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by novok 4y ago
In my school in Canada it had one extra class per semester and I think took 5 years. It was known as a place where you didn't have a life and you were buried in coursework and not really expected to get great grades because of the wor
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by novok 4y ago
There are many places in europe and asia that build faster, cheaper and safer or just as safe as modern standards today. There is specifically something very wrong with north american infrastructure capabilities.
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by novok 4y ago
The vast majority of people who are smart enough and have the work ethic to finish an EE degree are also smart enough to become a FANG engineer. EE is harder than computer science by far. So for the set of people who can be fab engineers,
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by novok 4y ago
That assertion doesn't stand up when relatively simple equivalent things like bridges and bus lanes are built slower and more expensively in certain regions compared to the 1930s, which is a main premise of the article.
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by novok 4y ago
And then you need to spend all of that time managing that machine for a lot of labor cost. It's all about a balance overall.
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by novok 4y ago
You don't create an ability to have redemption, forgiveness, rehabilitation, or regret. The first step to get someone to change their mind is to remove the dependency of them having an income on said philosophy, and one of the best wa
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by novok 4y ago
If TSMC poofed out of existence because of a few bombs from china or a freak super natural disaster, global GDP would drop significantly and quickly. One of the biggest SPOF that I'm worried about in the world.
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by novok 4y ago
Apple hardware has never been about non-consumer, server or industrial applications outside of some film, music and movie studios using mac pros and the Xserve long time ago. And if your making an MRI machine or other industrial equipment t
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by novok 4y ago
That data is looking over a 1985-1990 / 1950-1990 time period. I wonder what the numbers are now with modern emissions improvements 30 years later, which are pretty big now! And with electric car & electric heat pump transitions,
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by novok 4y ago
While your waiting for your fraud process to finish, you don't have money in the bank. Also as you said, more fraud liability is shifted to card holders, so if someone stole your pin then it's even more pain. While with a credit
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by novok 4y ago
How does it work with travellers & tourists then?
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by novok 4y ago
Your going to pay with some sort of payment card, and credit cards are easy to sign up for and less hassle to use with payments than debit cards, which require you to tap in a pin all the time. Also less fraud protection, etc.
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by novok 4y ago
I have gotten random spam email to one so far from https://parkmobile.io/ and it came from them getting breached.
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by novok 4y ago
They make it work via renting people's bandwidth at homes, so their connections source from residential ISP IPs. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/netflix-is-adding-re...
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by novok 4y ago
Protonmail does not allow VPN only registrations I think without payment?
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by novok 4y ago
No your credit card does not. Your credit card can show one of your office address for example and be very legit. You can possibly losing some very wealthy customers, or customers who are victims of domestic violence. They don't want

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