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> It's really a shame that Adobe's absolute garbage treatment of Flash People praised Steve Jobs' decision that the iPhone shall have no support for Flash, and evangelized that Flash shall be dead - the future shall be HTM
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> Well then it should be "a goat format" instead of goated... First Google search result when I googled for 'goat format': > https://www.goatformat.com/
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Simple solution: let the employee pay for the training. If the employee stays for x years, the training costs are waived.
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> But they won't spend any significant amount of money to keep valued employees, which of course makes said employees look elsewhere. Isn't it rather the other way round: you should be very careful to invest too much money int
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A central limitation of Betamax that is rarely mentioned is that the tapes were too short to fit very long movies on them; see https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Videotape_format_... "While VHS machines&#x
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> Isn't leaking the length pretty harmless? Whether this is harmless or not is up to a debate. But it is a clear violation of the "information-theoretic security" property that (nearly) every textbook about cryptography me
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> It seems like they're using "secure cryptography" kind of narrowly, as AFAIK a one-time pad could still be secure without any kind of one-way function. The security of OTP is much more restricted than most cryptography b
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> I don't know how one can design a social system where you balance both in the right way. The central problem is: how shall the "right way" in "both in the right way" even be defined?
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> That last example is such a mic drop. I can’t tell if I’m impressed beyond belief or appalled. I am appalled, because the code is wrong: consider p=2.
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> Even those who stick it out through Grad School and post docs often lament that they toiled away always believing that the grandiose visions of research presented in pop sci would eventually come true for them. > [...] > We need
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But then I am surprised that considering the many false DCMA claims, there are so few perjury lawsuits against the responsible persons.
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As long as * developers continue to develop apps for the respective app store (they could often create a web app, but they don't) * there is no outcry among users for competition (instead of monopoly) in the provides app store(s) nothi
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I only have shallow knowledge of the US law, but in German law, if you give the analogue of an affidavit (eidesstattliche Versicherung) instead of just a signed statement, you will face harsh legal consequences if the statement in it turns
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> Given there is no requirement to register a copyright, and the US is subject to international treaty commitment that there won't be a requirement to register a copyright, how exactly is this proof provided to a private entity? I&#
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> Can you imagine if other art mediums where this ridiculous? Like you are watching Avengers End game in Netflix and they ask you if you wanna pay 5 dollars more to watch Captain America use his well known outfit instead of regular cloth
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The link for "Myst" on Steam that jrmg gave is to a more modern 3D remake than realMyst. This remake can also be played in VR. Indeed: Cyan created a whole lot of variants/remakes of Myst.
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> Just to clarify, I am okay with paid software existing. "Open source" does not mean "you are not allowed to demand money". For example Fritzing ask the user to pay for the download (see https://fritzing.o
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> Note that others have other interpretations of 'open source' that are even more strict (you may only view the source code, for example, or you may modify but not redistribute the code)! "Open source" means "o
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> Then it would fit the strictest definitions of open-source (you are free to modify and redistribute), but would miss the community aspect completely due to misaligned incentives. I could add a great feature, but my pull request would b
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> I'm very sure they have a list of personas already built for that. At least considering the product policy that Microsoft currently applies to Windows, I tend to doubt that. ;-)
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> When Microsoft tries to make Windows more Mac-like Just a consideration: Aren't nearly all users who love the Apple/Mac experience already in the Apple ecosystem? In other words: Should Microsoft not rather assume that making
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The author writes on this topic in the article: > First of all, the reason I am interested in superdeterminism has nothing whatsoever to do with physicalism or realism (I don’t know what these words mean to begin with). It’s simply that
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An update on the status of superdeterminism with some personal notes(backreaction.blogspot.com)
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> Compared to actual contracts which are human readable. People are just more used to and exposed to texts written in, say, Englisch in comparison to code written in, say, Solidity.
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> This hinges on the contracts actually working as intended, which is something they often do not. Code in general rarely does poorly in that regard. Exactly the same can be said about the legal system. People are just a lot more used to
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This is a problem (if you consider it as such) that smart contracts intend to solve. For example, in the smart contract introduce some authorities that are allowed to block and revoke transactions for some time (if the block chain has no su
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To my moral standard, all of this is manipulative if the intention is to manipulate the Google ranking instead of seeing an improved Google ranking as a result of delivering better service to the visitor. This does of course not imply t
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> Putting effort where demand is, doesn't seem like the stupidest strategy to me. It can indeed be a sensible business strategy, but it will much less likely lead to remarkable innovations.
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> Define the border between SEO and abuse. Perhaps there is no border to be defined since nearly all SEO is abuse?! The only acceptable SEO should be "provide website content that is more relevant/interesting for the viewer&quo
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> However, I've seen no real effort to make groundbreaking innovations in x86 space rather than protecting what they already had. I consider what AVX-512 has to offer to be highly innovative. Unluckily, just when they planned to in

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