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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
I have seen stories about the erosion of the Mac experience ever since multi-finder. If all are to be taken at face value, the Mac ceased to exist-- eroded into nothingness, somewhere around 2004. Like how every release of iOS is "less
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
>That aspect that you just mentioned, the unmonitored poll worker: if that's true, it needs to be trumpeted far and wide. If you want to help fix it, be my guest. Elections almost everywhere in the entire nation are “run” by volunte
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
>Paper ballots tabulated by scanning are the only ones immune to these shenanigans. Every single faulty election in history thus known has been a paper ballot election. I have been an election judge for 15 years. I take my civic duty ext
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
Getting from curb-to-gate today is easier and faster than it was pre-9/11. That's just domestic. For international travel it has been a literal exponential decrease in hassle. Of course, this all depends on whether or not the airp
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
I don't know if glasses and contacts have the same accessibility problems. I know people like to rage against the machine and reveal the ancient forbidden knowledge they have "discovered" about the Luxottica monopoly but you
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
Wikipedia is not correct. I have, right now, in my lab, multiple systems with ME disabled. I do not work for the government, military, or any intelligence agency. Dell systems that have ME disabled come with a sticker of the number "3&
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
I'm running NetBSD on a Digital AlphaStation 200 4/233 with no issues. That's a low-end model based on commodity PC hardware, if you have one of the more big-irony ones, there are some PCI and SRM quirks you need to work arou
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
>The only reason I use credit cards is because of the protections and the cash back, not to borrow money. You are extremely fortunate, and in the minority. You only borrow money for big-ticket items like a house and car, which you need.
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
When I purchased my most recent car I was faced with the dilemma of knowing that modern automatic transmissions are superior to manual transmission in almost every way because they are no longer less efficient, no longer slower, and are mor
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
Any individual can purchase a system intel ME disabled. Dell, System76, and Librem all sell at least some systems with ME disabled and those are just the ones I can think of without trying. https://puri.sm/learn/intel-m
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
If what you say is true then Hacker News cannot remove any submission or any comment. Unless some content is more “freedomtastic” than others but then that leads to determining what is acceptable speech and what is not. That is more dangero
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
It is difficult for me to explain because I very rarely deal with in absolutes and have found that most people want online discourse to be in absolute terms. One thing I've done when talking to cryptobros and other privacy extremists i
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
>Batteries degrade too fast What is "too fast"? Much of the fear about battery degradation was from projections and warranty terms at the very beginning of modern EV deployments. Real world observations have shown the battery p
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
You have the right to privacy. Privacy is not, has never been, and will never be, equivalent to full perfect anonymity.
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
Water doesn't mix well with rum. Sure, you can do it, the British Navy did it for centuries, but "can" isn't "should".
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
It can be solved by realizing that private websites ARE NOT public fora. They have never been, are not now, and will never be. HN has, and will again, removed comments that I have made again, particularly if they stray too far from the part
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
As far as I can tell every single penny of the hundreds of millions (billions?) of dollars that have been spent on ML recommendation engines has been wasted and the team of highly-compensated developers who spent years burning through cash
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
For me personally, a persistent scrollbar is as relevant to usability as the {x,y} coordinates that old Unix windowing systems like MWM or CDE used to draw whenever you moved or resized a window. There were many, MANY extremely intelligent
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
Getting a warrant that is accessible for inspection by the public is not big-brother-esque. I see obtaining a warrant to place two objects (a face and a biometric security device) in proximity as more compatible with civil liberties than ta
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
I was very lucky because I stumbled into the care of perhaps the best orthopedic surgeon at one of the best hospitals in the world and after an L5-S1 spinal fusion he all but commanded me to take up strength training after decades of being
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
There seems to be a conspiracy theory when it comes to hemp: that "big-x" is keeping it down and the reason that use of this "miracle" material has not taken off is because of concerted efforts to stop it from taking off
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
Freedom of assembly. You are free to assemble with whoever you please. You are also free to un-assemble, and nobody can force you to assemble if you don't want to. It's the part of the 1st amendment that everyone forgets or willfu
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
I've had FiOS in the mid-atlantic since 2007 and as far as I can tell it only changes IP addresses when there is a power outage and everything reboots, which is rare.
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by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
"Jaywalking" as a term was a PR effort to reduce pedestrian fatalities. The control of pedestrian traffic to clear roads was not a crime invented by the car industry. It was illegal in ancient Rome to walk in the roads. In Pompeii