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by peatmoss 9y ago
Thank heavens for this advancement! I imagine those using Doom to manage system processes ( https://www.cs.unm.edu/~dlchao/flake/doom/chi/chi.html ), will appreciate the security measures implemented in th
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by peatmoss 9y ago
This shit just erodes my trust in ALL the streaming services, devices, and companies. I cannot believe regulators aren’t going to use these shenanigans as evidence for some future action. Really, the fact that each company abuses leverage i
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Yes! And the history of far left labor movements like the IWW (“Wobblies”) in MT is interesting too. Butte, for example, has historically been very blue collar, socially conservative / Irish Catholic, and left wing in a “you can’t scar
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Oh interesting, on my cursory glance I assumed PostmarketOS was only for rootable Android devices. This might actuall be pretty fun to try and get my 3rd gen iPad going. It’s barely usable as is, so no great loss if I brick it. Even then, I
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Tangentially related: I keep wondering what to do with old Apple devices. I have an old 3rd gen iPad that is intolerably slow, but has such a nice form factor and screen that I hate to get rid of it. If someone made a swap-out logic board t
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by peatmoss 9y ago
I’ve heard it posited that oysters should be on the menu for vegans (one’s who are vegan for ethical rather than dietary choice reasons). The rationale is that oysters specifically have no nervous system in the way that, say, a clam does. I
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by peatmoss 9y ago
I get that it's a metaphor, but I seriously am having a hard time equating automated image classification to accessibility ramps.
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by peatmoss 9y ago
I love utopian language communities. I finished out the Duolingo Esperanto course. And of course, a Lojbanist would tell you that Esperanto is too Euro-centric to be truly international, and not nearly as linguistically precise as Lojban. I
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by peatmoss 9y ago
But how would advertisers know when you’re watching / listening? Broadcasts will clearly never work!
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Wow, the bioethical implications of potentially identifying the mechanism of sexual orientation are staggering. I wonder if / how long it will be before parents have the technical means—if not the legal right—to alter their child to be
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by peatmoss 9y ago
I just found this note that suggests the AMD PSP (ME equivalent) can be disabled, officially, and not as a hack: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-PSP-... If so, AMD is looking relatively good comp
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by peatmoss 9y ago
They could likely sign up an account with the Living Computer Museum in Seattle, and possibly find an appropriate machine running actual Unix V7. Aside, the Living Computer Museum is amazing, and well worth a trip for anyone. Most of the co
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by peatmoss 9y ago
> Risk increases monotonically with absolute speed, but if you are going around the average speed of other vehicles on the road, that is safer than going slower. This advice is good on highways to avoid colliding with other vehicles at h
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by peatmoss 9y ago
On the other hand, now that we've had a few terrorist incidents where vehicles were used to plow through groups of pedestrians, there is kind of a perverse intersection of these two issues. Also, there has been a proliferation of bolla
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by peatmoss 9y ago
People often don't think that 5 mph is significant, but it absolutely is. https://one.nhtsa.gov/people/injury/research/pub/HS809012.ht... Table 2 in that link shows fatalities approximately doubling
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Well, if we’re doing > 10 9/11s per year, and we’ve had 16 years of comparison since 9/11, my back-of-a-napkin reasoning suggests we’re almost half way to a year’s worth of 9/11s.
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by peatmoss 9y ago
I used the term detained intentionally, and then specified that arrest wouldn’t be unreasonable if required by circumstances of the investigation.
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by peatmoss 9y ago
This is what I took your comment to mean as well. To me, watching the responses to your comment illustrate why it is that it’s so hard for anything to change with respect to traffic safety. I mean, we have here a story with a dead child and
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Yeah, still not getting it. Wouldn’t normally a person be detained for questioning if they had just killed a person in some other context? Maybe arrest isn’t warranted—maybe a, “hey you look pretty shook up, would you mind coming down to th
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Not sure why this is being downvoted. Whether you agree with the values expressed or not, it is a fact that people who kill people with their car rarely face any sort of legal repercussion. And yeah, I don’t think the fragility of the agent
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by peatmoss 9y ago
The OG self-driving tech. Side benefit, you get more than small marginal, theoretical gains in terms of the numbers of people who can be transported, especially at peak demand times!
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Reducing speed limits and designing roadways to discourage high speeds. But yeah, I like to measure annual traffic fatalities in 9/11s. Here in the US, we typically do >10 of them per year. We toppled the governments of two countrie
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Can I message you in a month to see how your experiment is going? If you've ever had a desire to blog, I'd love to see a Medium post or similar.
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by peatmoss 9y ago
AFAIK, you still need the iPhone, but it can remain plugged in at home.
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by peatmoss 9y ago
I've been wondering about the new cellular Apple Watch. In particular, I wonder if I could get away with just having that, and use it to train myself out of idly reading the news during periods of micro-boredom. The main thing keeping
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Man, the iPod had a great interface for quickly browsing a hierarchy of organized music. I know that people hate organizing music into hierarchies. I know that search is faster than browsing (usually). I know that curation is hard generally
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Even if you don't run OpenBSD, you almost certainly use code written by the OpenBSD project—probably in a security-sensitive context. Given that I rely on the OpenBSD project for things like secure access to remote systems (OpenSSH), I
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Wondering the same thing, though presumably if one researcher were able to deduce how the exploit worked, more will soon.
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by peatmoss 9y ago
There’s also a major interaction with poverty. From a dollars per calorie perspective, fast food can be a great bargain... at the expense of nutrition of course. Similarly, healthy foods can be a luxury from a time-to-prepare perspective. T
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by peatmoss 9y ago
> Nowadays (40ish) I wouldn't even build my own gaming PC anymore. I want to exchange money for something that works as I expect when I need it and have done with it and at best swap a GPU or SSD sometime. I think I go in phases. In

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