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by qball 6y ago
Word has compiler errors, and it even has bugs in its compiler sometimes (Word 2007 has one where it needed a character to show a table cell when that cell contained nothing but a certain kind of image; this was fixed in Word 2010+ but
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by qball 6y ago
>So universal background checks stay dead, despite massive bipartisan support. The trick is that laws like this tend to contain certain types of other things that have nothing to do with the matter at hand. A reasonable universal backgro
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by qball 6y ago
Safari isn't even all that different from Chrome in terms of its rendering engine; after all, Blink is just a further development of WebKit. That said, there is a bright side of a browser engine monoculture: JavaScript will finally mee
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by qball 6y ago
>But I do think one day (might take a while) JS will no longer be the obvious choice for front-end browser development. I think that day might be sooner than anyone thinks- Chromium is dominant enough now that their including Dart as a f
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Tell that to Brendan Eich.
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That impression is correct; the precedent is here ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubby,_Inc._v._CompuServe_Inc .). A lot of people don't really seem to understand that about S. 230- services that exist basically to
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by qball 6y ago
>The Mac Pro 2010 is the exception since you can upgrade its GPU to a Metal compatible one. You can also do this with the 2008 Mac Pro; either by using a recent nVidia GPU (though every time I've done this I've seen a bunch of
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by qball 6y ago
>why wouldn’t HP, Dell, Asus and the rest make ARM laptops? They already do, but they aren't as popular or as capable for two reasons: The first is that only Apple can take advantage of any speed or power management improvements tha
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by qball 6y ago
SIP is a simple toggle (for what it's worth, this is the same thing on Windows to be able to run arbitrary UWP applications). Jailbreaking is very much not, as it requires an actual exploit.
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Payment processing and hosting aren't treated like phone companies; they're allowed to be discriminatory in who they do business with. Is there a valid reason for that? No. Is the end result of there being no law forcing financia
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>What a weird way of looking at the world. I've genuinely never heard this take. That's interesting, and betrays the fact that modern policing has somewhat drifted away from its historic tradition. ( https://www.tech
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>It sounds like a ridiculous idea for sure, but where are we exactly with full body armor and bullet proof visors (full body suit is even better than just a frontal bulletproof shield)? That's usually what SWAT (and the comparable p
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by qball 6y ago
Except, of course, that that's 100% Hollywood. You can't flush a very large quantity of drugs when the police knock on your door. Not only would you have to do a very extensive amount of pre-planning to destroy evidence, but 2 mi
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by qball 6y ago
They can certainly make it illegal to pay any fines, though. Also, >you can't be punished for removing something from your billboard. Sure you can, you can just be treated as a "curator" rather than a "publisher"
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>there are ongoing discussions at the European Union level I suspect that if the EU really does implement this, the US will likely make it against US law to obey media censorship requests from other countries against speech that the Firs
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by qball 7y ago
>To ensure your single digit aged child reaches the bus. For what it's worth, this is a uniquely American problem; schoolchildren in Europe and Asia have no problems taking public transit while being single-digit age. Of course, tho
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by qball 7y ago
>Microsoft has teams doing boring whole-system benchmarking and holistic optimization. Their UX and QA teams, on the other hand, are absolutely nowhere to be found. They've arguably been on a permanent vacation since the release of
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by qball 7y ago
>No, the more insidious goal is to flood the zone with enough dis- and misinformation to overload our ability to filter it. It’s like gaslighting at scale- at some point you just stop being able to process information because it’s so vol
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by qball 7y ago
>It's not really clear to me what the purpose of the program is, but it doesn't appear to even try to challenge the students or introduce them to more interesting/meaningful curriculum. Its purpose is to maintain the decep
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>Can intellectual phase lock apply culturally, and if so, what does it look like? It certainly does. It looks like what appears to be a majority of the population bullying others into accepting their viewpoints. This can be because onl
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by qball 7y ago
Bullying and punching of any kind, by any person or group, is unacceptable and not to be tolerated.
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by qball 7y ago
>This seems pretty doable from a tech standpoint. Is funding really the only reason it's not being done? It's not being done because this already exists. It's called 4chan (though 8chan is a better fit; I don't reca
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by qball 7y ago
There is a Canadian anti-firearms lobbying group that sprung up after a mass shooting occurred in 1989 with a Mini-14. Roughly 10 years later, most historically interesting tactical rifles were banned or heavily restricted. The Mini-14 rema
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by qball 7y ago
>Again: the notion that a weapon is an "assault weapon" due to grips, sights, and flash suppressors is an artifact of a political fight from the 1980s, one the firearms lobby won handily. You might want to check your facts: the
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>Maybe they do know what an assault rifle is and just assume that their voters don’t. They know what their voters think an assault rifle is. And what their voters think assault rifles are is anything painted black and lacking a &quot
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by qball 7y ago
>This is exactly why the tech industry NEEDS to do better. By exchanging clearly visible markers against which action can be easily taken for unaccountable bullying and mob "justice" (which tends to unfairly advantage women in
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>where every misguided thought or utterance is broadcast to everyone on the network, and immediately pseudo evaluated through likes/views/retweets/upvotes etc. You're not thinking maliciously enough. If you give a pop
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by qball 7y ago
Yes. If you recall your history classes, materials science has always been as advanced as it is today. Architects and construction teams in the Middle Ages had easy access to fiberglass insulation, polymer vapor barriers, and modern fabri
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>It’s almost like there’s a hidden agenda somewhere. It's not so much as a hidden agenda as sacrificing their primary product to be advertising for a different product and concept that consumers soundly rejected, and Microsoft'
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Yes. Remember: the purpose, or at least the effect, of an education system like this is population control. In fact, general education isn't even the primary purpose of an education system like this. Everyone knows that hinging future

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