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by satori99 7y ago
Ok. So, at that point, you are practically downloading a binary executable, which uses browser API's as it standard lib, per site. You're right I think, it would become very difficult to create client side heuristics to identify t
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>Breaking adblockers is a technically solved problem; just serve web pages as server-rendered blobs. Can you elaborate on this a little? How does this win the ad-block arms race?
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> But I don't think you [...] can make it go away altogether. If we can train neural networks to recognize things, then I don't see why those things can't be ads. Carl Sagan hypothesized a little about this in his 1985 nov
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> Advertising exists. You can't make it go away. That sounds like a challenge. :) FWIW I agree with OP, I block all ads, where ever I can. On web pages, and even when streaming live TV. I have never agreed to view ads in exchange fo
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I think OP is looking at this the other way around -- meaning that it is perfectly possible to create a soft-core CPU on an FPGA, which is a great way to understand what any processor actually does. I know this, because I started learning a
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I have noticed a trend toward this in Sydney, Australia, where grocery stores and quality restaurants are abundant. However it is not local home cooked food. Instead large multi-national petroleum companies seem to be turning their branded
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His administration also prosecuted more whistle-blowers under the Espionage Act, than all of his predecessors combined.
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It has been a plot device in several video games and films over the last few decades. There was an eponymous (and quite bad) movie made in 2005. Also Robert Ludlum used it in his novel The Prometheus Deception So, it is not really that ob
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or - Context Menu->Delete Element
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I am not a parent but I have experience with short sleep cycles when racing yachts in long ocean races. A watch is around 4 or 6 hours on deck, and then 4 or 6 hours to eat and sleep a bit before going on deck again. This can last for a few
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Sure, I can tell them about my github account too, and hopefully I haven't starred anyone who writes subversive code :P
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As someone who has never had a social media account, I have wondered if US customs would believe me if I traveled there and they asked me about it?
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They do exist for military purposes; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_MQ-8_Fire_Sco... https://www.engadget.com/2019/07/09/us-navy-mq-8c-fire-scout...
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There are algorithmic solutions to maintaining some semblance of flight with a damaged quad copter, even down to one remaining prop, however it involves spinning the entire air-frame to stay aloft -- which means it is probably not suitable
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> All of the flying car concepts, which are like drones big enough to hold humans, promise to be better than helicopters. Helicopters are expensive to maintain, noisy to fly and require trained pilots. They forgot to add helicopters can
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"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." -Mahatma Gandhi (Maybe?)
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Interestingly in that movie, it was Robin Wright and Tom Cruise who were the very last actors to hold out on selling their likeness for entirely generated films. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cy2WLpGxGVI
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I have been told that Ice Breakers make for uncomfortable ocean voyages because of the design compromises need to break ice. They don't so much smash ice with the bow of the vessel but instead use their powerful engines to push the shi
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> not your actual mind, or "you" Without spoilers, this is pretty much how his story explains it. Yet, many people choose to be simulated toward the end of their natural life span (scanning is destructive) despite this knowledg
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> The limitation of biological life-form and the evolution of computing technology may lead to the transformation of the civilization through Mind uploading during the transition from Type I to Type II, leading to digitalized civilizatio
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I'm wondering if someone else could have control of the implant. Involuntary implants for behavior control of violent criminals, or just hackers taking control of regular implants, or worse still ... advertisers It is not hard to com
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Australians are notorious syllable droppers in general. Many of us don't even pronounce the name of our own country correctly in our own language. ('Straya)
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Yeah, the wikipedia article addresses this somewhat; The name of the mountain was previously spelt "Mount Kosciusko", an Anglicisation, but the spelling "Mount Kosciuszko" was officially adopted in 1997 by the Geographic
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> ... you probably haven’t heard of Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kosciuszko. Nor can you spell it or pronounce it; join the club, but we’re working on it. The largest mountain in Australia is named after him. So most Australians know, and
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yeah, indeed i was
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> The good news is that machine code and punch cards have no language Aren't most instruction names are English abbreviations? Maybe we can internationalize those too. Just to be consistent of course.
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> “The masses” don’t deploy HTTP servers. In a way they do... Every UPnP device is also a HTTP server (listening for SOAP requests), as are many other IoT devices. I have two light bulbs in my room that are both running HTTP servers. “Th
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The "web" link underneath the post title is there so you can do exactly this to get around paywalls which have exceptions for those who come from a search page.
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This technology (SIGSALY) also features in Cryptonomicon. Lawrence Waterhouse uses it while he stationed in Brisbane to talk chat to Turing on the other other side of the planet. It is not a major plot device, but it is used.
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"But even among its peers, Australia stands out. No other developed democracy holds as tight to its secrets, experts say" Except when a government employee sells used government furniture to a 2nd hand dealer --

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