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by ohithereyou 7y ago
>Which is a nice way of knowing that Google employees aren't randomly snooping on your files. Why would I, as a end user, be given to trust this if I think Google employees are snooping in my files? I have no way to audit how this
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by ohithereyou 7y ago
Being called out by Don Hopkins makes my day. Edit: On a serious note, thanks for pointing out my careless and potentially insulting word choice. My fiancee has an 'invisible illness' (lupus), and I would be very upset if someone
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by ohithereyou 7y ago
TF2 is also less aggressively monetized despite being free to play.
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by ohithereyou 7y ago
>Apple developers rewrite software in a butterfingered way on a consistent basis, creating software that lacks any design, missing large chunks of functionality and often lacks any kind of polish or coherency. The day they completely gim
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by ohithereyou 7y ago
Should be simple enough to have the government/LEAs posses the training data and have a standard harness/workflow you integrate your training program to. Then you send your training peogram and get the resulting trained model fil
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by ohithereyou 7y ago
Should be pretty easy to install your own hardware switch.
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by ohithereyou 7y ago
In the minds of Apple, anything not programmed solely for the Mac is 'not properly made for macOS'. It's shades of "you're holding it wrong" again.
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by ohithereyou 7y ago
Anything requiring more than Intel integrated graphics tends to not work well on the Mac. The vast majority of Mac models can't even take a dedicated GPU upgrade, so you're stuck with whatever Apple soldered to your motherboard a
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by ohithereyou 7y ago
> All the small issues here show, together, that indeed Apple doesn't give a shit about gaming and about interoperability with other platforms. They want developers to be faithful to their locked garden and their technologies. Espec
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by ohithereyou 7y ago
Anecdata here, but I knew a couple of sex workers (one was a stripper, one was an escort) at university. Both of them looked at their options - food service worker, work/study job in the bookstore, and retail employee at the local big
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by ohithereyou 7y ago
pant.su used to exist
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by ohithereyou 7y ago
pleasedont.su used to be registered, and a friend of mine had aboynamed.su once.
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by ohithereyou 7y ago
Punk's not dead
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by ohithereyou 7y ago
Apparently neither if the book publisher actually refuses to sell the ebook to libraries. It's almost like they want people to pirate it.
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by ohithereyou 7y ago
>Part of the problem is any universal program gets attacked for helping people who don't 'need' the help and that being a waste of money. It's funny. When you suggest that everyone gets a tax cut, people whinge about
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by ohithereyou 7y ago
>I suspect there is a strain of us at HN interested in sports analytics for financial gain I would assume that people who post to Hacker News, as a rule, are less risk averse than the general populace due to Hacker News being more focuse
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by ohithereyou 7y ago
>If you can, donate money to Mozilla regularly. [1] As of a couple of years ago (IIRC), more than 90% of Mozilla's revenue was from its partnership with Google for being the default search engine in many geographies. This is also li
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by ohithereyou 7y ago
The Windows version is complete unusable for me because of how slow magit is on Windows (though that's not the fault of magit or emacs). I haven't yet tried WSL (I run Windows on a work issued laptop), so my emacs sessions run in
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by ohithereyou 7y ago
Cybercafes, LAN gaming centers, and PC bangs are about to have some interesting times.
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by ohithereyou 7y ago
I have never thought that Apple considered iPads general purpose computers. One of their biggest ads about the iPad Pro[0] even implicitly states that. The proposition, in my mind, that Apple is trying to sell with the iPad to the majority
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by ohithereyou 7y ago
>Consider all the market validation they did, for you, for me, for free. Consider all the product design work they did, for all of us, for free. I have a feeling that their intent wasn't to do it for free. What happened is that the
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by ohithereyou 7y ago
They're willing to sell you both the problem they're trying to fix and the fix for the problem they sold you. Talk about modern capitalism in a nutshell.
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by ohithereyou 7y ago
We do not have a Ministry of Truth that restricts and punishes people before for what the have not yet said. We have the rule of law that gets involved after the fact.
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by ohithereyou 7y ago
>there are some ideas that don't deserve a seat at the table Is it possible to enumerate the set of all ideas that cannot be expressed, and if so, how do you enumerate this set, and who has the power to determine the members of this
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by ohithereyou 7y ago
>Unfortunately looks to me that if you do not have a Ministry of Truth, you end up with a society where private actors pump people with soma This is not a new phenomenon. There have always been snake oil salesmen, con men, liars, and th
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by ohithereyou 7y ago
Per my parent post: >Most western democracies long since scrapped proper education because it's easier to win the support of the population with propaganda^H public relations than it is to make a reasoned argument. In my mind, the c
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by ohithereyou 7y ago
I don't want a Ministry of Truth filtering what I'm allowed to hear. In a functional democracy, education and robust debate are supposed to be the defenses against misinformation. Most western democracies long since scrapped prop
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by ohithereyou 7y ago
For what AirBnB hosts charge for a "cleaning fee" I would sure hope so. (Yes, I know you were being sarcastic, but ffs, a $50 "cleaning fee"?)
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by ohithereyou 7y ago
>Servers are set up and administered in a way such that it is far harder to get somebody to run the payload containing the virus in the first place So this is why the 'curl | bash' idiom feels like an anti-pattern to me...
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by ohithereyou 7y ago
>A good debian maintainer will also review code of their packages and make sure such trickery has no chance to be afood Except for that time that Debian developers "knowing better" completely neutered most cryptography on all u

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