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by sangnoir 2y ago
Oh no, not the British influencing the English language! I can't be arsed* about which vs. that when "on accident" has become semi-accepted (as the opposite of "on purpose"). Yuck.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> RSS is not an archive of the entire website Whole-article feeds end up become exactly that - a local archive of a blog.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Imagine if this becomes a specialized, remote job where one tele-operates the brain and blood scrubbing robot all workday long, accident, after accident after accident. I am sure they'd get PTSD too, airey, sometime it's just oil
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by sangnoir 2y ago
As other sibling comments noted: most other jobs don't have the same frequent exposure to disturbing content. The closest are perhaps combat medics in an active warzone, but even they usually get some respite by being rotated.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
I respectfully disagree that it's rude. I will also point out that you had no idea what my age is when you assumed I was judging you.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> It's not unthinkable that they also have the (internal) ability to push a specific update to a specific user. So the lack of evidence is itself evidence of another layer of nefarious activity? Are Apple in on it too (since they ap
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> ...well, it's rather hard to explain the draw of genealogy. I've noticed people becoming more interested in genealogy when they - let me phrase this delicately - reach a certain age. My speculation is that it is a component o
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Why hasn't any evidence of such client-side interception ever been surfaced? Reversing apps and software has been done since forever, and has been used to discover things the app-makers don't want made public - such as unannounced
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by sangnoir 2y ago
With end-user-device-controlled e2ee, the only information available to law enforcement is metadata. With a warrant, they could seize your device (or the backups, if unencrypted)
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> I doubt I'm the only person here who has ever made an alternative client for something before. I've been on both sides of the issue by authoring unofficial clients, and battling abusive unofficial clients to services I run. T
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Maybe it takes living alone to issue voice commands and feel some privacy Perhaps your definition of "private" is more stringent than most people's. Collective privacy exists, for example "The family would appreciat
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Well, I suppose the magic is in crossing your t's and dotting your i's when drafting legal contracts pertaining to said IP. Arm failed to do that.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Where I come from, everyone is “a guy”. Gen Alpha (and younger Zoomers) are working hard to make "bro", "bruh" and "dude" gender-neutral[1] everywhere - and they are succeeding. In decade, those complain
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Sure, but we should be clear that it's speculation on future behavior (sound as it may be). That has not happened (yet). Some MNC's succeed in not killing the goose that lays the golden eggs (I'm also speculating)
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> If in the past safety conscious swedish engineers cared about it, they surely have very little say right now Subsidiaries can have a different culture from their parent organizations. Volvo still has engineers and designers in Sweden,
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Counterpoint: safety can be a market differentiator. Volvo had seatbelts as standards before regulators mandated them. To this day, and leans heavily into safety. I can confidently say Volvo cares more about safety than Vinfast.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
The Oxford dictionary defines "mass media" thusly The main means of mass communication, such as broadcasting, publishing, and the internet, considered collectively. The reason Vinfast investigated his account was because he was
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Reddit is the Media.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> I'm not sure how mandating matrix headlights be not used is the solution here. That's not what I'm suggesting at all - matrix headlights absolutely should he used - clearly some drivers "need" them, I'm ju
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> In the US, we have thousands of different rates and they change multiple times per year. Yet at any given moment, every proprietor is miraculously able calculate the taxes due at the point of sale. The variety of tax regimes, and the f
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> How is getting all of the advantages of high beams without the blinding factor of other drivers a kludge? Because it's not just other drivers inconvenienced by super bright lights - people in their homes, pedestrians out if sensor
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by sangnoir 2y ago
A technical kludge around drivers who refuse to dip their hi-beams by creating a dynamic mask around other vehicles - matrix LED headlights act as a bright, low-resolution projector that keeps other vehicles unlit, but lights up everything
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> Borrowing from the future is exactly what a VC-funded startup is supposed to do That's too broad, the hope is you're borrowing from a point in the future when you're able to pay the debt. If you borrow too much, or from
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by sangnoir 2y ago
> AMD has inexplicably decided not to invest in software Perhaps they were distracted by dismantling Intel's CPU hegemony? I wouldn't fault them for that, fighting 2 Goliaths simultaneously isn't a sound strategy.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Got it! I had misunderstood your earlier comment.
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by sangnoir 2y ago
It is important to note the context: he it was in a private email to an investor with vested interests in those fields, and someone who is also prone to giving over-optimistic timelines ("Tobo-taxis will be here next year, for sure&quo
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by sangnoir 2y ago
X hosted a white-label Flux model for a while, and freely admitted so .
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Those AI experts are a played a critical role in Meta getting that $70B in the first place
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by sangnoir 2y ago
The service won't care what you do, as long as you keep paying the subscription for your porn-bot, otherwise it will get deleted - or so it will tell when you try to start the subscription cancellation process - begging to not let it d
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by sangnoir 2y ago
Game recognizes game.

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