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by sjwright 6y ago
If you don't respect Apple's software license terms, you have no moral authority to insist anyone respects the GPL's license terms. I take it you'd have no objection to Google forking the Linux kernel for Android and ref
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by sjwright 6y ago
I’m thinking more about targeted distortions to maximally thwart fingerprinting while minimally dehumanising.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Would it be practical to take a facial recognition algorithm and use it to warp the identifying characteristics of faces in a scene such that the faces lose enough uniqueness to make facial recognition ineffective? My understanding of facia
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by sjwright 6y ago
Regardless, the media’s actions are always irrelevant. There is enough unfiltered information published by and about the current POTUS that it’s possible to form an opinion without the media’s help. Their hyperventilating cannot be scored a
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by sjwright 6y ago
It cannot be an example of any narrative you refer to if beepboopbeep isn’t a member of the media.
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by sjwright 6y ago
If beepboopbeep is the entirety of the US media, then yes. Otherwise no, it’s just yet another comment by a single individual on the internet with no broader meaning, context or consequence.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Is that a realistic concern for typical usage patterns?
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by sjwright 6y ago
In my estimation, legibility is as much a function of familiarity as anything. I think the degree to which serifs aid legibility is overstated. Any studies are likely biased through familiarity of serif fonts by test subjects, since that’s
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by sjwright 6y ago
You imply that as being somehow virtuous. It would be impossible to not be open about that.
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by sjwright 6y ago
He doesn’t have a vendetta against Apple, he makes a living acting like he has a vendetta against Apple on YouTube. Between his computer repair business and video productions, he financially benefits from Apple products being relatively dif
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by sjwright 6y ago
I agree, though with ultra high speed NVMe SSDs, not having enough RAM isn’t the performance penalty it used to be for casual computer use.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Sure, if you don’t avail yourself of freely available disassembly guides before opening your iMac, you’ll probably break it. Bad Apple.
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by sjwright 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantaloupe
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by sjwright 6y ago
Has there been much agitation for (or serious attempts at) forking SQLite? That's probably the real test of the stewardship of an open source project.
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by sjwright 6y ago
https://klappav.com.au/collections/new-arrivals/products/ls-... "AND WHAT ABOUT THE AUDIO QUALITY? Basically, adding conductor material leads to an increase of the controlled currency throu
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by sjwright 6y ago
If anyone in the tech sphere needs convincing that all audiophile claims that claim to defy objective measurement are bullshit, this ought to do it. Anyone with half a clue about computers will understand that SATA cables cannot possibly ma
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by sjwright 6y ago
Cool, I’ve been writing "Isomorphic Javascript" and I didn’t even realise it.
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by sjwright 6y ago
It won’t be Apple branded. More likely a generic brand, or something that’s linked to Apple without using the name. Like how their campus cafe is Caffé Macs. (Best hotel name I can come up with is “Energy Saver” in the style of macOS System
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by sjwright 6y ago
Almost certainly false in practice. It would be shady bordering on illegal to detain a mere employee of a GDPR violator. Unless you are a famous employee of a big company that was egregiously flouting the GDPR but also had no other ties to
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by sjwright 6y ago
Only if there’s a clear link to the EU. Not refusing to sell to EU residents isn’t sufficient to show targeting—but offering Euro pricing or Swedish language options might be. And at the end of the day, all law fits into the cross-section o
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by sjwright 6y ago
> But if you do business in the EU Yes, that’s exactly what I said. I’m confused about what you’re think you’re clarifying.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Are there explosive materials vulnerable to punching?
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by sjwright 6y ago
The GDPR does apply to foreign companies that trade within the EU but does not (because it cannot) apply outside of the EU’s jurisdiction.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Like when you say dead fish, it sounds bad. But consider the alternative—a gift of live salmon would be far more annoying and less convenient for most people.
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by sjwright 6y ago
I didn’t say everything Elon has ever said on this subject is accurate, defensible or even sensical. He is a greatly flawed person who happens to be very competent at a few interesting things. Like many of us. I was only defending the reope
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by sjwright 6y ago
I dispute that Elon "zagged" badly. Yes the manner in which he comports himself on social media is deeply unproductive, but he's not wrong and he wasn't the one who zagged—everyone else did. I'm sorry that most peop
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by sjwright 6y ago
Most password managers don't even let you generate passwords longer than 50-100 characters anyway. So long as you're using a password manager that generates unique passwords for every site you visit, there's no real reason to
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by sjwright 6y ago
Given the fact that Elon has been completely open about the factory status on Twitter, it’s far more plausible than the County is blatantly misrepresenting their interactions with Tesla.
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by sjwright 6y ago
It begs the question what could it possibly be doing to take half a second of wall time. That’s an eternity for a modern computer.
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Q.E.D.

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