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by saulrh 7y ago
So... The functionality exists and is currently in testing, it's only just become stable enough that we're hearing about it, and they're notifying developers targeting the current service as far ahead of time as possible? I m
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by saulrh 7y ago
On the one hand, I understand the point you're trying to make. On the other hand, I'm going to be honest, I have trouble reading your post without thinking things like "If you are literally trusting your life to FoxyProxy, yo
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by saulrh 7y ago
> Doesn't Mozilla have a mechanism for blasting out a message to all Firefox browsers? The cynical side of me says that it must not have this feature because if it did I'd have seen someone complaining about the browser "p
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by saulrh 7y ago
From someone else's post up-thread: "In general models trained on individual users' data get rebuilt when the underlying data changes so as to properly reflect the current state of the source data." https://ne
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by saulrh 7y ago
I don't think that I'd expect those interfaces would exist yet, nor are they going to be coming up relatively soon. You mostly see interfaces that have a ton of work put into them either when someone is smoothing off every possibl
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by saulrh 7y ago
Pixel 2 XL, since I also had to stop using a Nexus 7 at the same time and I didn't want to have to deal with not having a large screen to read on. It's been good so far. I haven't had any issues with the lack of a headphone j
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by saulrh 7y ago
? I used a Nexus 5 up until last year. Ended up upgrading last year, not because it had issues or because lineage stopped releasing for it, but because IT at my new job refused to let six-year-old devices on the network. Meanwhile, my paren
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by saulrh 8y ago
> not that I know if half density is a feasible figure 1/15th - .08 kg/m^3 at 20km, 1.2 kg/m^3 at sea level. 20km is way the heck up there. And yes, it does make it difficult to build something buoyant enough, which is w
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by saulrh 8y ago
Go higher. If you search for "high altitude wind" you'll get info from 20,000 feet , which is not at all the same as 20,000 meters . Past a point, the thinning atmosphere actually means less coupling and wind speed de crea
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by saulrh 8y ago
Not really possible to do with a simple delay, and if it was that easy it'd have already been done. However, the math you do need is a close relative of the panorama mode you have on your phone, and I feel like it's about the ri
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by saulrh 8y ago
> The "Original M2" as most people know it Hmm, you're right, I think that I lost my train of thought here. Let me start over. I understand that the M2 that we all think about is an excellent design, but claiming that it w
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> It's more a trade-off between mobility and ability to sustain fire, If the design were really the ideal of the perfect tool that only cares about exactly one simple task, these trade-offs wouldn't exist. These items haven&#x2
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by saulrh 8y ago
"A few hiccups" and "never compromised"? It took fifteen years of refinement to make it deployable, then a war popped up and it turned out to be totally useless even in the role they'd intended for it. A gun's
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by saulrh 8y ago
> original M2 ...Er. Going and looking at the wiki page... Do you mean the M1921, which was a water-cooled fixed-barrel machine gun that had originally been designed to fire .30-06 and was repeatedly trialed by the military between 1921
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by saulrh 8y ago
Might make sense, yeah. How many computers would get blown up during such a test, and how much productivity would be lost and how much money would it cost? What is the expected cost of a major breach or malware infection? How much less like
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by saulrh 8y ago
Strongly agreed. The "what if they wake me up to torture me" scenarios seem like wild catastrophizing to me - if someone has the political power and resources to develop special brain-torture gear, rez me, and keep me alive so the
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by saulrh 8y ago
It'd actually be fantastic. If I've donated my brain to anything like the modern research apparatus, I can be relatively sure of one of two possibilities: Either my brain was chosen as a test, in which case the project is on the n
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by saulrh 8y ago
Yes, I wouldn't expect to find much rigor at Cousin Ricky's house of email. This is Hotmail. They don't have any excuses. They handle a ton of email for a lot of people, people depend on them, and they are a big target. If th
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by saulrh 8y ago
Let me get this straight: They were able to use a single helpdesk account password for six months to read arbitrary emails from arbitrary user accounts. There was no 2fa. There was no auditing. There was no integration with any sort of tick
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by saulrh 8y ago
Can you post a link to an example? This sounds like something I could use for my all-too-common convenience hacks, but I can't quite envision it just from the description.
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by saulrh 8y ago
My options are: * Email. High latency, low bandwidth due to long turnaround time, sometimes my emails get lost. * Phone. Useless - no records, I always forget something or miss some detail because I'm trying to talk and think at the
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by saulrh 8y ago
What do you mean by style? Whitespace and casing in names, chunks of the standard to use or not (unique_ptr, mutable refs as function arguments, auto), interface design paradigms (RAII, exceptions vs error codes, composition vs. inheritance
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by saulrh 8y ago
as for Lyft, you choose to get into thst car, I can choose to get into a car or not as well How far do you want to take this? I accepted the risk of idiot drivers not checking before turning right when I chose to walk to work. I accepted
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by saulrh 8y ago
"Are you willing to risk your life to improve this" is a leading question. What I think you meant to ask is something more like "are you willing to improve safety with your daily risk or not". I am already risking my lif
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by saulrh 8y ago
I think that we actually already have something much like the alternate world you describe - linux distros. The posix shell language is amazing at what it does. There is no language in existence in which it is as easy to fork and exec two
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by saulrh 8y ago
Not hard to understand when the other discussion HN had about this today was all worrying about censorship. (Standard disclaimer: nowhere near that stuff, my views are unrelated and uninformed, etc)
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by saulrh 8y ago
I spent my time learning how to mend my computer and the pile of arcane technologies that make it up. Out in the real world, as opposed to here on HN, that is the mending that does not exist. It wasn't even forgotten; it's still s
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by saulrh 8y ago
The only guaranteed way to avoid regulatory attention is to shut down everything and stop operations. There is fundamentally no decision you can make other than "comply with the law while continuing to operate as effectively as pos
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by saulrh 8y ago
The problem here isn't the interaction with the nvidia devs. Like you said, flatly refusing to work with their binary drivers is WAI. The problem here is the interaction with wayland's users and potential users . It is perfectly
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by saulrh 8y ago
Yes. Even if the analysis is exactly correct, this is not an acceptable way to think about or communicate the results. It leads thought in anti-user directions and shuts down communication. Compare to something like this: "We need to p

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