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by sjwright 7y ago
Still looks like a great way to aerosolize the content of people's insufficiently washed hands. Yeesh.
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by sjwright 7y ago
Terrible machines before the pandemic; an order of magnitude more terrible during it.
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by sjwright 7y ago
Or at least useful in limited situations, e.g. at-home care where the carer has already been infected. Situations like that might not be common now, but give it a few months.
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by sjwright 7y ago
More broadly, containers solve the problem of reproducibility. No longer does software get to vomit crap all over your file system in ways that make reproducing a functioning environment frustrating and troublesome. They have the effect of
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by sjwright 7y ago
Presumably they'd be using aircraft with unit load devices rather than something like the 737 where the luggage compartment is arranged by hand.
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by sjwright 7y ago
Oh, I didn't realise you're just spinning conspiracy theories. If any of that were true, we'd know about it. There would be leaks from employees of the companies who are receiving this data from Apple.
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by sjwright 7y ago
I imagine they could pack dense/heavy cargo in passenger planes and leave the lighter stuff for proper cargo planes. Presumably there’s no serious flight issue with planes being bottom heavy.
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by sjwright 7y ago
> Apple also sells you. By that logic, a shopping mall “sells you” to retail stores. A cinema “sells you” to movie studios. Etc.
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by sjwright 7y ago
Pretty much, yes. It’s not so much that Microsoft or Apple’s business model is harmless—I certainly wouldn’t describe them that way—but their business models and their forms of influence are comprehended by most people.
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by sjwright 7y ago
Wow, I was totally not being hyperbolic and I really did think Microsoft only made spreadsheets. Thanks for that.
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by sjwright 7y ago
It seems you can’t say anything on the internet without someone interpreting it with rigid binary thinking. Fine then. Microsoft isn’t great either. Google does some good things. News at eleven.
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by sjwright 7y ago
> You forgot to say why Google would be a bigger threat than Microsoft Microsoft wants you to use their spreadsheet software. Google is a significant gatekeeper to information which influences what we know and the opinions we form. And t
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by sjwright 7y ago
You probably spend less than a few percent of your driving time navigating a touchscreen. And most of the time drivers will allot those tasks to reduced risk moments such as when stationary at a traffic light. When you’re drunk, you’re drun
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by sjwright 7y ago
And a car is a glorified tricycle.
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by sjwright 7y ago
I know many people for whom an iPad is the first and only computer they’ve ever owned. Most of them are in their 70s, or older. With a SIM card for internet connectivity, it’s hard to beat for keeping grandparents connected with their grand
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by sjwright 7y ago
The lesson is that when it comes to personal pursuits, there are no bright lines between doing something “properly” or “cheating”. It truly is all in the eye of the beholder.
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by sjwright 7y ago
The challenge is to ensure that what you say is the truth. It’s often difficult to talk about science casually without erroneously confusing factual evidence with our best, tentative conclusions.
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by sjwright 7y ago
Indeed. BeOS would have made Macintosh as successful as the Amiga.
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by sjwright 7y ago
Be was a tech demo at best. It looked finished on the surface but had less than 10% of what a complete operating system needs in terms of feature depth, libraries and extensive real word testing. Steve Jobs was utterly critical, but NeXT te
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by sjwright 7y ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=Sonarr https://www.google.com/search?q=Radarr
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by sjwright 7y ago
Unlike streaming services, there is a vibrant competitive landscape in the piracy scene with strong competition incentives on technical quality, with reputation being the commodity.
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by sjwright 7y ago
If you don’t like dongles, just buy the right cable.
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by sjwright 7y ago
There’s plenty of reason to criticise Tesla without relying on false narratives. With a couple of rare historical exceptions Tesla do reliably distinguish AP and FSD. (Also, the generic term for what AP does is lane centering, not lane assi
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by sjwright 7y ago
For most people, regular hand washing and not touching your face is orders of magnitude more effective than wearing a mask. But as a society we've become addicted to off-the-shelf solutions rather than boring good habits. Basic masks
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by sjwright 7y ago
Everyone's idea of free is different. Even if they didn't force you to register, someone would complain that it's not free unless they license it as Creative Commons CC0 and pay to host high speed direct download links for al
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by sjwright 7y ago
Yeah, and they should wash my dishes as well. I mean is it really free if I still have to do domestic chores afterwards?
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by sjwright 7y ago
Sounds to me like that manufacturer needs to contact the operators of that stockpile.
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by sjwright 7y ago
Assuming that tax isn’t a failure of capitalism, how is a negative tax a failure of capitalism?
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by sjwright 7y ago
> Any "limit in practice" is not a prescribed limit. I don't understand the point of stating the blindingly obvious as though it could serve as a useful retort. Obviously there isn't a prescribed limit. That doesn&#
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by sjwright 7y ago
Let's look at the basic facts: Apple is a governing member of AOM (Alliance for Open Media). A patent-free implementation of a hardware AV1 decoder is available right now. Apple makes its own chips with significant revisions every year

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