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by renaudg 9y ago
It doesn't leave your phone. Google "secure enclave"...I mean, search for "secure enclave" :)
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by renaudg 9y ago
Obligatory XKCD : https://xkcd.com/927/
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by renaudg 9y ago
I was an early desktop Linux user 1996-2004, before switching to the Mac. I think I've heard "you should give it another shot" every single year since. Kiosks or super locked down experiences like ChromeOS have a decent chanc
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by renaudg 9y ago
Yes, I failed to mention the roaming exception was for calls only. Since this summer, roaming charges are also banned altogether within the EU.
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by renaudg 9y ago
I don't know of many countries outside the US where you had to pay for receiving texts or calls. Most everywhere the cost was always borne by the sender (except when roaming)
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You're right, the only technical wow factor left is in size-limited demos.
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by renaudg 9y ago
You're right, but I kinda miss the days when the main drivers of the demoscene were purely technical prowess and overcoming limitations : "wow, how did they do THAT ? This machine isn't supposed to be able to, it can only dis
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Wasn't every 8-bit home computer marketed as such though?
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by renaudg 9y ago
> Even toy Amstrad computers in the 80s came with Basic manuals You're likely talking about the Amstrad CPC, I'm not sure why "toy" should apply to it : it was the best selling 8-bit in several European countries, and
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by renaudg 9y ago
> documented gender bias in academia > women coming in from academia are likely to have faced gender bias Did you mean bias in their favor ? "Women have substantial advantage in STEM faculty hiring, except when competing against
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by renaudg 9y ago
France for sure, and I suppose Germany.
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by renaudg 9y ago
Are you insisting that you're not qualified for the position on the basis of that Linux / Unix distinction alone ? If so, that's really really sad. Even more so if you thought "Unix-like" genuinely disqualifies you
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by renaudg 9y ago
Small bug on your site : the "years of experience" field doesn't work on non-US keyboard layouts that don't have numbers on the top keyboard row. It's a quite common (and annoying) issue on US sites for us europeans
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by renaudg 9y ago
Whereas I'm sure whatever you worked on had 1.32 billion active users everyday. Facebook is "7th most valuable company in the world" important.
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The memo didn't claim anything about efficacy in engineering, period. It claimed some contribution of biology to career preference on average, which is absolutely supported by research : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F
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In the same way that Snowden is a moron for not seeing exile coming then ?
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And in more than one way too : 1) he didn't discuss "performance" but "affinity" 2) there was supporting evidence linked, before Gizmodo conveniently stripped it away.
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by renaudg 9y ago
Exactly. In the extreme case of attempting to put ideology before reality, you end up with the appalling story of this activist kindergarten teacher : so desperate to see girls interested in LEGOs (she sees them flocking towards dolls and c
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by renaudg 9y ago
Gender differences in toy preferences have been observed as early as two days after birth, arguably before any supposed conditioning has been able to take place. From : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC
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by renaudg 9y ago
I love mynoise though, when I'm fed up with ACRN this generator does a pretty good job too : https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/windchimesGenerator.php
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by renaudg 9y ago
Yeah, except that the frequency pattern for ACRN needs to be centered around each person's particular tinnitus frequency, which the mynoise generator doesn't allow.
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by renaudg 9y ago
Even better, this free implementation of Acoustic Neuromodulation which seems to work on most people with tonal tinnitus : http://generalfuzz.net/acrn/ I don't want to draw too much attention to it though : it&#x2
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by renaudg 9y ago
> The memo uses the word "preference" without ever establishing whether it's talking about free choice or choice after discouragement, and so is flagrantly begging the question. Of course it's talking about free choic
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> massive leap to go from biological gender differences to differences in aptitude for engineering For the n million-th time : the memo said nothing about aptitude for engineering, just preference .
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>the argument against gender bias in computer science has to confront another damning fact, which is that gender disparity in the field isn't global. Unless women in Asia are somehow biologically different than those of the US, her
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by renaudg 9y ago
> The study is biased from the outset because it's designed to 'prove' that women aren't interested in IT. No, the study was designed to investigate a potential link between prenatal androgen exposure and a preference
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by renaudg 9y ago
Strawman. Nobody and especially not the memo made a claim about capacity. It was all about interest on average, which is absolutely backed by research : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3166361/ A
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by renaudg 9y ago
Wow, this has got to be the mother of all strawman arguments in this thread (and there have been many) ! Nobody said anything about discouraging or discriminating the many women who are interested in STEM fields. In fact, if anybody seems s
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by renaudg 9y ago
Different skin color, unlike gender, has nothing to do with the level of testosterone one is exposed to in the womb : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3166361/ Abstract : "There is considerab
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by renaudg 9y ago
Please tell us the name of the dude who "stole" all of your girlfriends' neatly-prepared CS college applications and forced them into psychology, sociology and art history instead. Sounds like some kind of dark patriarchy sup

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