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811.
by smolder 3y ago
No, the idea is they're abusing existing APIs for fingerprinting purposes that Firefox privacy settings disallow --canvas font rendering difference detection, detecting your GPU model, and things of that nature. But this new API demons
812.
by smolder 3y ago
You're commenting on the wrong site (or just ignoring the rules & spirit of discussion) if you thought it necessary to tell someone they got "dunked on".
813.
by smolder 3y ago
Meanwhile, I encountered an adult the other day who only drinks from plastic disposable cups so that they don't have to wash dishes.
814.
by smolder 3y ago
That's a bad definition of communism you're working with.
815.
by smolder 3y ago
I think they used SRAM and not DRAM, which is how it was faster than a clock cycle.
816.
by smolder 3y ago
Rule of law is not derived from commerce and is not fascism. We can agree beyond some threshold and make laws. There's nothing fascist about limiting liberties with laws chosen democratically.
817.
by smolder 3y ago
Communism is one model of government among many. Do YOU think that intelligent management of global resources requires communism? Is the United nations a commune because the member countries cooperate in some way? Isn't there an area b
818.
by smolder 3y ago
That sounds like a good reason not to visit Twitter/X/whatever.
819.
by smolder 3y ago
I wouldn't trust Congress to do a good job investigating practically anything. They have their share of crazies and chronic liars.
820.
by smolder 3y ago
It's to distract us from Google destroying the web with attestation! :)
821.
by smolder 3y ago
Until and unless this story gets proven true, it's unknown. We can't reliably predict what materials will have what properties.
822.
by smolder 3y ago
You didn't even establish that they're white before you attacked.
823.
by smolder 3y ago
I think people misunderstood where I was coming from a bit. To be clear, I wasn't commenting in support of communism, or against rewarding merit, or against rewarding merit with money. Status in life and legacy in death are still motiv
824.
by smolder 3y ago
Okay, so are you disputing what I said? Various disparate religions and ideologies have cultivated adherents with notable success across history -- not least among them is free-market capitalism.
825.
by smolder 3y ago
I know it seems crazy on its face. And I'm sure those leftists you refer to didn't have a coherent concept of how such a system would actually work . There's no way we could just replace paychecks today with rations and soci
826.
by smolder 3y ago
There are potentially other carrots aside from material wealth that can motivate people to do unpleasant work. Currently it takes significant pay to get people to do certain important but thankless jobs. We could thank them. A legacy is imp
827.
by smolder 3y ago
These are the sorts of efficiency improvements that would go a long way towards tackling global warming and environmental destruction, particularly the open design to reduce waste. The question is, how can we get from where we are in terms
828.
by smolder 3y ago
Taken from Mayo clinic, for anyone not clear on what isometric exercise refers to: Isometric exercises are tightening (contractions) of a specific muscle or group of muscles. During isometric exercises, the muscle doesn't noticeably ch
829.
by smolder 3y ago
They don't owe you an explanation just because something they probably said innocently could be construed as having racist undertones . While I'm willing to believe that you believe you are doing the right, anti-racist thing by
830.
by smolder 3y ago
Different venues, different cross-sections of the job market.
831.
by smolder 3y ago
IANAD, so someone please correct me, but I think there's some truth that treating a mild fever will just interfere with what the immune system is doing, to its detriment. On the other hand, very high fevers in themselves are quite dang
832.
by smolder 3y ago
> (if that were even possible) Indeed it is. Tylenol, for instance, is marketed as a fever reducer.
833.
by smolder 3y ago
> Before the car and the radical change in individual human movement that came about [...] The lack of privacy in a local town is surely quite different in its effect on society than a centralized and wide reaching dragnet surveillance p
834.
by smolder 3y ago
Or, alternatively, it's Intranet of Things, a clearly better kind of IoT.
835.
by smolder 3y ago
I think, in theory, a society with much less privacy could work, as long as there is information symmetry, not a panopticon controlled by a few. We're not building an open society, though. The asymmetry is the point. If we ignore the o
836.
by smolder 3y ago
> Apple [...] has inarguably the best-performing chips by far in raw performance and power efficiency This is overstated. There are some benchmarks M2 does amazingly at, partly due to a super wide memory bus shared by the GPU. Power ef
837.
by smolder 3y ago
XMP comes with no guarantees. If you are unlucky in terms of CPU silicon, or your motherboard has suboptimal ram signal quality, you will need to turn down from the XMP speed to achieve stability. You can improve your odds of stability at h
838.
by smolder 3y ago
> 6600 XT ITX card What is an ITX card? I assume that should say pcie card?
839.
by smolder 3y ago
Book/nook are not as in boo/goo, but they're also not the same as in buck/Zuck. This is not a Midwestern thing. I can't recall ever meeting a native US english speaker for whom these vowel sounds weren't distin
840.
by smolder 3y ago
Can I recommend you use the actual word "source", and let the pointless "sauce" meme die its overdue death?

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