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by pdkl95 7y ago
That might be one of the worst ideas I've ever heard. Do you really want to be near a nuclear weapon that is controlled by an opaque, unexplainable process? Even without the insane unobservable complexity of machine learning, do you wa
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Memory Mapping – Super Nintendo Entertainment System Features(youtube.com)
1 points by pdkl95 7y ago|0 comments
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by pdkl95 7y ago
Interesting... the arbitration clause includes a clause that might (if I recall correctly) be a response to a case where the person making the complaint ran out of money (Arbitration filing fees (and the arbitrators hourly fee) tend to be
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> The constant anti-systemd bashing every time the name is mentioned from people who seem to barely know much about what it's trying ... to do is rather annoying. The constant misrepresentation and/or refusal to address the act
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> nobody of the anti-systemd folk was willing to pick up the work needed to maintain consolekit Why would I want to start working on software I don't use or need? Why do systemd advocates always insist that every implementation must
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> it being open source and GPL, anybody can use it or fork it The entire point of the EEE strategy is to capture protocols or standards, such as software developed by other companies or free software developed under the GPL. Forking isn&
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> They're separate binaries https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19024256
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> does ONE thing and does it well: it manages the system "managing the system" is not "ONE [problem]". A big part of the problem with systemd is this presupposition that management of something as large and complex as
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by pdkl95 7y ago
Animaniacs Episode 7, "Piano Rag": [The Warners try to hide form Dr, Scratchandsniff in a piano recital, where Tymannini is about to perform] TYMP: Franz Schubert intended the scherzo to reflect the str
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> (they are all scratched out as 'missing') The 'missing' notes are incredibly condescending. Not only are the results irrelevant/incorrect, they also had to arrogantly point out exactly how they are choosing to
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> Technically this was always a possibility Even worse, as people normalize the use of a surveillance technology (a technology in general, NOT a specific product), eventually it will pass the "in general public use" test crea
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> You don't pay 0.4 cents to watch a video though Sometimes we pay a lot more : https://graphtreon.com/patreon-stats > The true value of the video is likely much lower. The true value of the video varies a lot.
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> Are we actually running out of addresses We ran out a long time ago: IANA Unallocated Address Pool Exhaustion: 03-Feb-2011 Projected RIR Address Pool Exhaustion Dates: RIR Projected Exhaustion Dat
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by pdkl95 7y ago
Coarse-grain location data becomes very revealing when you have enough timestamped data points. The NSA's CO-TRAVELER[1] program only needs to watch which towers cell phones use to build a very accurate map of each phone's pattern
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by pdkl95 7y ago
Anybody interested in a practical example of this should watch this[1] outstanding report about the problems in the video game industry and how the "higher-skill" workers are starting to unionize. [1] https://www.youtub
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by pdkl95 7y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC3OOXD_2MA
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> All countries already have laws regulating speech to various degrees of freedom. This is mostly unrelated to what I'm talking about. > The topic at hand is about monetization of ads That's one (important) aspect of "Y
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by pdkl95 7y ago
s/(algorithmic|human) moderation/a rule of law/g This mess will only get worse as long as Google insists on trying to fix unsolved social conflicts unilaterally. Google made themselves the primary target when they sta
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by pdkl95 7y ago
I'm only using X10 as an example with which I have personal experience. While it did have problems, it was a decent protocol considering it was developed in the 70s. I'm sure much better alternatives exist now (or could easily be
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by pdkl95 7y ago
Some of that automation might have needed servers to control, I was referring primarily to the "automatically adjusting lights", which hasn't been a luxury feature for a long time, even in Gates' house. > 50 NT-server
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> In the 90's Bill Gates had networked house and automatically adjusting lights and it was the peak of luxury. Nonsense. X10 devices cost a bit more than regular outlets/switches/fixtures, but not much more. I know many pe
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> the cheapest and best option My father and I implemented all of those features trivially and cheaply in the late 1980s with X10 switches/outlets/fixture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X10_%28industry_stan
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> Digital forensics is way outside typical leo training That's the problem: attempting to prevent important new technology (actually-secure encryption) from being used is not a substitute for updated training that provides "typ
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> Attorney General William Barr said in a speech last month that encrypted messaging services allow "criminals to operate with impunity." The cost of encryption is “ultimately measured in a mounting number of victims — men, wom
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EarthBound Battle Backgrounds(youtube.com)
2 points by pdkl95 7y ago|0 comments
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by pdkl95 7y ago
Tom Lehrer performing "Wernher von Braun " live (1967): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJ9HrZq7Ro His amazing wit is just as biting today as it was when he originally composed most of his songs over half a centu
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Changing My Mind about AI, Universal Basic Income, and the Value of Data(theartofresearch.org)
1 points by pdkl95 7y ago|0 comments
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by pdkl95 7y ago
One of the problems with many "smart" locks is that they tend to be made by people that don't have a lot of experience making locks. Many smart locks are vulnerable to many types of physical attack, including very old explo
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by pdkl95 7y ago
> we are terminating 8chan as a customer Probably a good idea, if only to send the message that there is a limit to how much garbage you can allow people to dump on your site before the neighbors decide to do whatever it takes stop the t
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by pdkl95 7y ago
Journals used to have several important roles: curation of articles, maintaining a reputation of quality (peer review, etc), and the actual physical publication and distribution of the papers. Cheap personal computers capable of "deskt

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