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by pbasista 4y ago
One of the reasons might be that there are no non-smart TVs with the same kind of features available. For instance, I am unsure whether there are non-smart large OLED TVs. Also, price of a TV with "smart" features typically does n
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by pbasista 4y ago
I am viewing the standard version of HN at 270% on a 4K screen. The main reason is not the font size but the layout. Only at that zoom level would the page span the entire width of the screen and wrap the text around .
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by pbasista 4y ago
> in some sense might also possibly be true The article you cited mentions "evidence". If there was indeed "evidence", we would know it for a fact. These articles merely try to attract facts-ignoring audience to which
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by pbasista 4y ago
> I'm not sure What I am saying is that medicine is a science and as such uses the scientific method. The people involved in it can develop vaccines, perform neurosurgery, etc. They do not need a bunch of misinformation spreaders to
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by pbasista 4y ago
This is pseudoscience at large. This article itself cites ~60 other articles on the same subject. Unbelievable. If any of what they claim about "grounding" was true, the doctors would notice it a long time ago and they would be wi
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by pbasista 4y ago
In such a situation, the expectation about the content moderation would remain the same. Specifically, such a network should still disallow hate speech, actively seek it, remove it and ban users who repeatedly spread it.
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by pbasista 4y ago
> This entire thing isn’t twitters fault any more than it is WiFi’s, DNS, or TCP’s. I respectfully disagree. TCP or DNS or WiFi or other technologies are merely means to achieve some result. A tool. Twitter, like most services, is also
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by pbasista 4y ago
> whole circumstance of people wanting you dead is not twitters fault The hate speech itself is of course the sole responsibility of whoever created it. Twitter is, however, fully responsible for allowing it to be spread. Without a major
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by pbasista 4y ago
> Am I remembering something else here? No. That has indeed happened. It was a work by Alyssa Rosenzweig [0]. If I understand correctly, she implemented the userspace Mesa driver. The kernel driver is being developed by Asahi Lina. Toget
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by pbasista 4y ago
> I recently read that Asahi now has pretty much a finished driver for the M1 GPU Where have you read that? According to Asahi Lina's tweet from a few days ago, they are just starting with it: https://nitter.net/Lina
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by pbasista 4y ago
> trying to build wealth The reasoning behind many people claiming that ~$1500/year for software subscription services being "too much" is, in my opinion, not based on the intention to save money. Rather, it seems to be th
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by pbasista 4y ago
> Activist employees This is a broad term that different people might understand differently. Please define it first, then use it. > politics and religion This is off-topic. The mentioned discussions and disagreements at SpaceX were u
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by pbasista 4y ago
Thank you, I was unaware that such sites exist. It reminds me of the GSMArena's Phone Finder ( https://www.gsmarena.com/search.php3 ?) which also allows specifying very narrow search criteria. But it is specific to phone
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by pbasista 4y ago
> Private entities can make whatever rules they want for their property as long as those rules don't break laws. Yes. At the same time, people can use whatever publicly accessible resource in any way they like, as long as they do no
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I am also not a lawyer. But it seems to me that public usage of any publicly accessible resource can only be restricted by law. Regardless of what some ToS say, they can only apply to the people who explicitly agree to them. It would not ma
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by pbasista 4y ago
As long as Twitter's API is publicly accessible, I cannot imagine how making an HTTP request to it would constitute an implicit agreement to any ToS.
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by pbasista 4y ago
> not work around any technical limitations ... reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the software If I understand correctly, Twitter users and whoever else who agrees with these ToS surrenders their right to explore how Twitter sof
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by pbasista 5y ago
Tangential. Information on the internet is often intentionally incomplete or difficult to filter. For instance, it is impossible to filter apps in the Google Play store by the presence of ads or in-app purchases within them. Why? Because Go
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by pbasista 5y ago
With TVs it is especially important to look at the _software_ it comes with. If it is some locked-down piece which requires the blessing of the manufacturer to install anything on it, then I would stay away from such TVs. It seems to me tha
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by pbasista 5y ago
I do not understand your argument. You suggest that there are work-arounds in the drivers. And then you imply that people do not want to see them. First of all, I am unsure if people not willing to see the work-arounds is generally true to
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by pbasista 5y ago
> I pay a lot more for other services that I use far less often and provide me far less value, so why not pay for this Is that the only reason why you would like to pay for this service? It seems irrational to me to justify an expense me
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by pbasista 5y ago
> because of a lot of work That is possible. And irrelevant. What matters is that it is simple for the end user. === Consider, for instance, a "payment screen" which would require the user to enter the exact value of a product
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by pbasista 5y ago
> Of course it's piracy At first define piracy and only then it would be possible to determine whether something is or is not piracy. > Piracy is taking shit that doesn't "belong" to you... This is a vague and impr
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by pbasista 5y ago
> in the context of YouTube where ad-blocking is very difficult No, it is not. All a regular user needs to do in order to remove all YouTube ads is to either: 1. install a browser extension like uBlock Origin or 2. install a mobile YouTu
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by pbasista 5y ago
> 8 years of support This is unrelated to support from the manufacturer. The manufacturer may not provide any software support at all and still be friendly to software right to repair. For instance, it would be sufficient if they did not
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by pbasista 5y ago
> $0.5/kwh This seems to be wrong by an order of magnitude. $500/kWh is more plausible at that time. Otherwise you are claiming that you paid $7.5 for a 15 kWh worth of cells, including the shipping, in ~2010.
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by pbasista 5y ago
That is possible. But apparently, people in Germany are looking for software based on attributes that reach beyond the elemental metrics like "nice to use" or "supports corporate integration". They might care more about
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by pbasista 5y ago
> Their only purpose is to encourage customers to buy from these companies. No, you are assuming too much. People who do this are typically not interested in boosting Apple's sales at all. They merely want to make a good use of a go
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by pbasista 5y ago
> it's foss that's why it crashes I am not making such an implication. In my opinion, Blender's software quality is simply lacking in some very basic areas. At the same time, it is great in some other areas. I absolutely
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by pbasista 5y ago
> Blender has managed to overcome this perception by changing its UI and engaging with artists The UI might be designed well but at least from my experience it is still buggy and freezes [0] regularly. I fully agree that the core functio

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