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by simias 5y ago
VPNs (aka proxies) can also help. I think most ISPs (at least where I live) also use dynamic IPs which reduces the utility if IP for tracking somewhat. I think cookie + browser fingerprinting is a much better way to track people in this sit
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by simias 5y ago
It's a reference to https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-i...
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by simias 5y ago
I don't understand your comment. I feel like you're mocking the parent but at the same time you make it sound very reasonable. You can indeed make a gizmo with a handcrank with a black and white screen in a weekend. I think here w
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by simias 5y ago
Doesn't DuckDuckGo use Bing's results behind the scenes? At any rate right now I see no obvious censorship: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=tank+man&iax=images&ia=imag...
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by simias 5y ago
I worry that this may lead to an embrace/extend/extinguish by Google given that they have a tremendous influence through Chrome. After all what's their angle here? Almost every browser extension under the sun has a Chrome ver
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by simias 5y ago
That doesn't really make sense to me, even in pipelines that deal only with YUV (very common in professional video) you always upsample to 4:4:4 in a linear colorspace and you convert back to 4:2:0 or 4:2:2 at end. How would you do eve
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by simias 5y ago
Ah yes, the "technology". Any day now. Won't know what hit them. Around the corner really, alongside cold fusion and the chewing gum that replaces toothbrushes.
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by simias 5y ago
Indeed but that's also true for RGB (which is typically sRGB on computers) and you can have linear YUV if you want. "RGB" and "YUV" can really mean a whole bunch of things. There are many RGBs and probably twice as
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by simias 5y ago
Imagine if Google Search achieved success not by providing a search engine but by publishing a whitepaper outlining how PageRank would eventually work, then selling $GOOG tokens to let people speculate on the hype (but not actually entitle
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by simias 5y ago
The only thing that really works with cryptocurrencies and adjacent technologies is to use them for pyramid schemes and using them for illegal payments like buying things on the darknet or paying ransomware. The rest is just empty promises
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by simias 5y ago
Oh I see. Yeah the "Swiss" thing is probably more folklore than anything, but admittedly for the client-side encryption you can use their IMAP bridge that's open source and therefore technically auditable and not quite as eas
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by simias 5y ago
Has protonmail's advertising been misleading? I'm a happy user myself, but I don't think I've ever looked into their marketing.
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by simias 5y ago
Isn't Ethereum going to migrate to PoS in the near future anyway? Not that it's the only red flag here, but it seems like this product is going to have a short shelf life lest they migrate to other coins.
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by simias 5y ago
It's interesting because I come from the exact opposite direction. I started with IDEs, then Emacs for almost 15 years, and last year I switched to Vim. Ecosystems change all the time, even if you've been coding in C for decades c
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by simias 5y ago
You can find stacked chips pretty commonly, but it's effectively two chips within a single package.
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by simias 5y ago
Looking at these image comparisons with the sliders I'm both amazed at how far real time rendering tech has come and the ingenuity on display, but also by how relatively little it matters at this point. Like the shadow comparison, it&#
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by simias 5y ago
`√2` works but `√-1` doesn't, which surprised me a bit. I' expect unary `-` to bind tighter, but in this context it considers that it's a binary operator between `√` and `-1`. If you put parens it works of course.
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by simias 5y ago
These activities would certainly be legally incorporated and easy to cross reference. I also suspect that these ovens don't run 24/7. If they use their drones on a Sunday outside of work hours they can probably weed out (ha) many
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by simias 5y ago
It's not so much about accountability in the legal sense, it's in the public perception sense. "Old Uncle Bob forgot his glasses again and ran over a kid" doesn't have any implication regarding my use of a car. &quo
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by simias 5y ago
I agree that it could work. I'm not sure I'd want that because I expect that it would make those roads very hostile to pedestrians since you'd probably want to forbid them from crossing outside of designated areas and only wh
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by simias 5y ago
There's also the very common argument (even here on HN) that it doesn't matter because "humans have plenty of accidents too". I think it's not a good rebuttal because self-driving cars will have to be orders of magn
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by simias 5y ago
In theory, would such such an article even qualify as "fair use" if it reproduced the original work in its entirety in a decent resolution?
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by simias 5y ago
Rich humans will be the ones for whom it'll be most easy to avoid the consequences of climate change for a long time. By the time rich people really start suffering we'll probably be way past the point of no return.
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by simias 5y ago
Oh, that sounds interesting, thanks for the tip!
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by simias 5y ago
Ok I rescind my previous comment then. This is amazing.
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by simias 5y ago
I found that nvim had generally better performance. That was my main draw originally, despite not using many plugins I often found Vim chugging on large files with things like syntax highlighting. FZF is also significantly snappier on nvim
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by simias 5y ago
Vimscript is terrible though. I switched from Emacs to Vim (and later, neovim) last year and the shock of going from elisp to vimscript was intense. I even contributed some small patches to a couple of vim plugins which meant writing and de
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by simias 5y ago
I find it hard to believe as well, although of course if you subscribe to prime for movies and TV you're probably more likely to use it for free deliveries as well. But if the plan is to make Prime more popular there seem to be many, m
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by simias 5y ago
I thought they seemed like trivial changes as well, although not being a user myself I couldn't really form an opinion. Still, it should serve as a wakeup call that the users really aren't in charge and that it can potentially suc
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by simias 5y ago
I wonder if the rise of smartphones will dampen this. Back when PCs were the standard piracy was relatively simple, you downloaded bittorrent or edonkey and sailed the high seas. Nowadays it would be rather difficult to install a piracy app

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