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by qubex 6y ago
Unfortunately Facebook has lots of information about you whether you have an account or not. You’re a big black hole with known characteristics inferred from those acquaintances of yours who interact with you in a manner Facebook can track.
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by qubex 6y ago
‘Trust’ is defined as wilful forbearance toward those agencies that we can conceive of as being sources of harm to us. If you “trust Facebook to fuck [you] over” then you’re not trusting Facebook. You’re expecting Facebook to fuck you ove
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by qubex 6y ago
A necessary evil is no less evil merely because it is necessary.
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by qubex 6y ago
When I read that I was also fairly skeptical... or perhaps it’s my BASH script reading and writing skills which are sub-par (which they most definitely are, but in most other programming languages I can at least appreciate the craft of a ma
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by qubex 6y ago
Oh yes, the high level of discourse in the YouTube Comments section. ;)
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by qubex 6y ago
The ‘funniest’ part of all the talk of curvature et al as if they were fundamental aspects of nature is that they’re nothing but a gradient across space, and are (currently, at least) best described as curvature in spacetime, but that’s
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by qubex 6y ago
> There are no double many Noble prizes There are no doubt many Noble prizes?
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by qubex 6y ago
What the OP seems to be saying is that the emergency abort system actually operates on a “lysine deficiency” basis: if the signal is no longer received, the self-destruct system goes BOOM. I suppose this classifies as “fail-safe”, though if
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by qubex 6y ago
RUD: Rapid Unscheduled Dissassembly
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by qubex 6y ago
Coincidentally I just watched a video featuring him on Numberphile ( Amazing Graphs, Part 1 or something like that).
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by qubex 6y ago
This reminds me of anecdotes I’ve heard whereby MacOS’ lack of preemptive multitasking led to the situation whereby if somebody were to open and hold the apple menu on their machine it would receive but not yield the token (because network
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by qubex 6y ago
I also had a 386SX-16MHz with 2MB of RAM, a 40 Megabyte hard-drive, a VGA adapter and a 14” screen. That was in 1992 and it was an abysmally slow system.
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by qubex 6y ago
The Dos & Windows Configuration Manager... if I remember correctly bridged the gap between DOS and Plug ‘n’ Play (or Pray) functionality. If one were not touched by good fortune whilst specifying, assembling, and configuring one’s syste
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by qubex 6y ago
Yes, I agree: Office ‘97, 2000, and XP were the high points of that lineage as far as my experience goes. But I stopped using Office when I switched to Mac in 2003 and have used Word and Excel occasionally since then (preferring the iWork s
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by qubex 6y ago
> Programming was much harder because there was no stack overflow Oh, stack overflow definitely existed, but only the kind that makes programming harder . EDIT: Corrected a typo.
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by qubex 6y ago
Pretty sure they are. They’re leptons, and elemental (within the confines of the Standard Model, at least).
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by qubex 6y ago
“Not wrong” is the best kind of correctness.
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by qubex 6y ago
There’s plenty of counterexamples one who might wish to dismiss the idea that technology can reasonably manage things, but all things considered, given the number of _potential_ instance of mishap that do not regularly occur any the relativ
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by qubex 6y ago
The academic oeuvre of Dr Feynman (Nobel laureate) himself, largely.
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by qubex 6y ago
Or integrate over an interval of surreals.
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by qubex 6y ago
Tangentially related: the first time I got online with a 56k modem way back in mid ‘99, cnn.com was the first website I could think of pointing my browser (Netscape) to.
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by qubex 6y ago
Way back in 1994 or thereabouts I coded a faux PIN-number-cracker inspired by this scene on my Psion Series 3 (128 kB total memory) in the natively available OPA language (which is basically BASIC). It was a fun project for a thirteen/
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by qubex 6y ago
Tangentially related: I must enjoyed Polygen ( https://polygen.org ) that generates text using a BNF template and I have always wanted to construct a template that generated viable templates (BNF of BNF?) but haven’t ever gotten a
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by qubex 6y ago
> as a local Wolfram Alpha It’s called Mathematica , son.
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by qubex 6y ago
The constant ratchet on users to provide ever-increasing amounts of computing resources is a textbook case of an ‘externality’ for the developers so we get the whole usual Tragedy Of The Commons situation yada yada yada. Applying this to th
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by qubex 6y ago
As my fellow responder indicted, iOS14 was indeed released in September and I came here to comment on this extremely odd and incorrect statement myself. As the OP states, Apple merely postponed the IDFA functionality. I cannot prove it, but
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by qubex 6y ago
This is quite a haunting phenomenon, really... the path integral is tossing up these wormhole things because they’re the only way it can express nonlocality sounds a lot to me like “setting up tunnels and sockets”. The idea that by feeding
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by qubex 6y ago
I started using the first Beta of Safari back when I was running OS X 10.2 ‘Jaguar’ and Internet Explorer was the default browser on the Mac. Basically I’ve been using Safari (desktop and mobile) for eighteen years in a row. I usually have
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by qubex 6y ago
If you had omitted the word ‘ process ’ you would have achieved the height of perfection.
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by qubex 6y ago
WAV is to audio as BMP is to images: the fundamental, brutal, unsophisticated, first-effort approach that also, coincidentally, because of its brutality, somehow simultaneously represents an apex of fidelity and impracticality. All other im

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