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by pippy 7y ago
I'm still annoyed that Google bowed down to them in their litigation settlement. Getty wanted have their cake and eat it too, by having Google surface the images, but not really surface the images. Google should have treated it like an
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by pippy 7y ago
I started using DDG after Google settled the lawsuit with Getty Images. The "view image" button is incredible handy.
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by pippy 7y ago
You could also poll the client to see what threads they're reading. You could add this to an engagement score of some sort. On a page with a long list, you add this score to all the items on it they're reading
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by pippy 7y ago
Removing Flash from the web was done with good intentions. It was a propitiatory system plagued with security holes. Instead of replacing it with similarly capable open standards, we've got a propitiatory Encrypted Media Extensions (EM
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by pippy 7y ago
This is great. Frankly ctrl-r is almost useless. I've never had it find the command I want, because if I can remember enough of the command to find it, I can just write the whole line myself. And if it was a black magic command I'
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by pippy 7y ago
Taking away the the struggle to live is great for the human psyche. There's plenty of evidence that being in poverty creates a mental trap. When you're worrying about the roof over your head or food on the table, you're less
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by pippy 7y ago
The difference is that automation is now targeting skilled, social, and technical work. Traditionally they've been aspirational fields of work due to their resilience. Limiting capacity to enter these fields is only going accelerate th
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by pippy 7y ago
Completely agree. The developer account is a great way to disincentive malicious apps from being made. I would accept the following for not supporting MacOS: * lack of vulkan support * porting code to the apple SDK * cost/benefit for
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by pippy 7y ago
Have you thought about making the data distributed and p2p? that way it's more resilient. Reddit at one stage was also minimalist and open source
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by pippy 7y ago
very interesting, thanks!
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by pippy 7y ago
Experiments with mice have shown that if you shock mice at certain times during sleep, their fear conditioning will change. https://academic.oup.com/sleep/article/26/5/527/2707886 This seems to indi
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by pippy 7y ago
> that these craft are extra terrestrial. I'd say it's more likely there are other intelligent earthbound beings rather than from outer space. It's called the Silurian hypothesis. There have been several extinction events
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by pippy 7y ago
Here's a 2019 APA study that suggests that technology, and digital media use, and sleep disturbance may play in mood disorder. https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/abn-abn0000410.pd...
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by pippy 7y ago
Seems like a move to prevent RISC-V from gaining a foothold in the server market. Recently there's a potential for server market upset; with trade wars, Intel struggling with die shrinks, ML and custom silicon demands (see FPGA), and r
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by pippy 7y ago
Also cosmonauts smuggled Armenian cognac during Salyut 7. This was just before the dry laws of Soviet Union, when they started cracking down on drinking on the job.
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by pippy 7y ago
Leaking a bit of code will unlikely cause a problem, but the guns that can backfire are some of the cert checkers and SAML validators.
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by pippy 7y ago
These changes are very welcome, but in my opinion are too little too late. Qt has missed the boat with the current developer mindset. While I want Qt to 'win', as the end result is superior to say an electron app, most developers
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by pippy 7y ago
N7+ in early 2020 and 5nm by end of 2020 is pretty impressive. Intel should be worried.
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by pippy 7y ago
This article highlights a massive issue with the field of philosophy in which there's a disconnect between advancements in neuroimaging analysis and metaphysics. The author claims that physical properties define "nothing at all&qu
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by pippy 7y ago
This is what happens when you lose a BDFL. While things become more "democratic", you lose the vision and start trying to make everyone happy.
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by pippy 7y ago
I came to the same conclusion after reading his book. His book is pretty terrible. His viewpoint (while interesting) was not very grounded at all. Simply because agriculture requires more work doesn't mean it's inferior to hunting
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by pippy 7y ago
>It’s my own shortcoming Physiologically, there's comfort in knowing that your community and government has your back. Increased depression rates, mental health issues rising, and social isolation is a result of living in a Neo-libe
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by pippy 7y ago
> since most of the information published by the Soviet authorities was intentionally incorrect or misleading There's also the opposite - cold war era propaganda trying to make the Russians seem backwards and primitive. The Soviet U
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by pippy 8y ago
Products that serve ads and sell your user data should be free, see Facebook or Google Search. If I fork out money for a product, I expect to do what is says it does. To have Windows auto update and serve ads in the start bar or lock screen
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by pippy 8y ago
When the web started to mature, seeing the MSM lose control of the narrative was a breath of fresh air. However the average person started to understand and use the web, so did sponsored entities and governments. After this there was a noti
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by pippy 8y ago
I still use Netbeans as my daily driver, but it's been in a death spiral. Now it's the Apache graveyard and will never get modern features like SASS. Of all the IDEs I've been dabbling with for a replacement, I'm still d
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by pippy 8y ago
netmarketshare collect data from their slim clientele base. A few years they had to modify their data using weighting to get inline with other websites. Other sites have more accurate data which will reflect browser usage more accurately. I
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by pippy 8y ago
I want to love Atom. I really do. But it's been four years and they still havn't fixed jump to definition in PHP. Visual Studio Code has this, out the box. And it works really well.
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by pippy 8y ago
It looks like nuclear didn't grow as much as they were hoping. So Sellafield's parent company could take their earnings and dump the tax payer with the clean up cost. I won't be surprised if they put Sellafield into liquidati
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by pippy 8y ago
Why is mcrypt listed as a future extension? it's removed in the latest PHP version and probably best to not even bother with

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