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by taneq 5mo ago
I’m not them, but games from GOG don’t (AFAIK) have any DRM. So you can play them forever without having to log on to Steam etc.
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by taneq 5mo ago
Not sure about CF but 5 Eyes is an information sharing agreement to get around laws regarding governments spying on their own citizens. So eg. Australia wants to surveil some guy but legally can’t. Well, they can’t help it if the US spies o
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by taneq 5mo ago
What kind of crazy person would be on the internet on the middle of the night? None of us normal people would ever do that! cough cough
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by taneq 5mo ago
Re. point 2: It is if you own Starlink. :S
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by taneq 5mo ago
You jest, but a couple of years ago I added myself to my company’s workers compensation insurance in case I get injured. If I ever do I’ll have to put in a claim against myself and hope my insurance covers it. :P
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by taneq 5mo ago
I’ve been thinking the same thing about AI artwork (as opposed to “chat pls make me a funny picture” and seeing what comes out, although there’s some increasingly interesting things coming out of that approach). There’s often an insane amou
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by taneq 5mo ago
Where I live, just the call out fee for a plumber would cover the cost of tools and materials with enough left over for beers afterwards. If you’re relatively handy and willing to thing things through, the main obstacle to doing all your ow
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by taneq 5mo ago
Yeah but then I have to deal with my tenant. :P
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by taneq 5mo ago
This debate reminds me of way back in the day when Java first became popular. I excitedly started writing things in Java because it would be portable! I quickly learned, of course, that Java was not portable at all, for values of ‘portable’
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by taneq 5mo ago
There was a Userfriendly comic with Miranda telling some ‘hacker’ “my IP addy is 127.0.0.1, come get some”.
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by taneq 5mo ago
What does it improve, in practice? For myself, I need my phone to make phone calls, take photos/videos, occasionally run apps, and to be a wifi hotspot. My iPhone 6S did all of these well enough that I only upgraded it recently because
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by taneq 5mo ago
Nope, just the usual things a printer mumbles to itself when it thinks it’s alone.
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by taneq 5mo ago
Especially clickthrough license for software on devices that you've already bought. You turn on your new phone and it shows 300 pages of legalese. You cannot use your new phone until you press 'I accept.' If you don't li
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by taneq 5mo ago
I had a setup like this back in 2000 using VNC, it always used to spin people out when they realised one of my monitors was a SPARCstation and the other was a WinME box. :D
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by taneq 5mo ago
Oh, not at all! It will be used to train drone pilot AIs.
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by taneq 5mo ago
How would I tell? ;)
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by taneq 5mo ago
Qualia are a begged question from the start, imo.
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by taneq 5mo ago
Overloaded, I’d say. There are many different definitions, most incompatible with each other, such that the term is almost meaningless without extensive preceding discussion.
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by taneq 5mo ago
The ‘you’ that wakes up tomorrow is a whole separate entity from you right now, unless you want to concede that identity is a path variable and that whether the exact same physical/mental/emotional entity is you or not depends on
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by taneq 5mo ago
That sounds like zero was meant to be treated as a special error value? If so then “bad forecast” is more correct than “everything’s fine here, situation normal”, no? Of course this is far from the best way to do this.
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by taneq 5mo ago
I feel like an inefficient solution is inelegant by definition.
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by taneq 5mo ago
I would hope so. If I can’t use my phone in the car because it distracts me from the road, they shouldn’t be putting an attention-grabbing movie on a truck.
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by taneq 5mo ago
> What an original thought. Novel analysis here by IshKebab. :P
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by taneq 5mo ago
Arguably it’s a crack. A good one, though.
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by taneq 5mo ago
> voluntarily tags Aah, you mean ‘snitches’. :P
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by taneq 5mo ago
I believe there’s some stuff like that for commercial things. One project I worked on used an ‘IoT portal’ for cloud based telemetry (at the customer’s request) and we had to get a special SIM card for it (although I don’t know if this is s
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by taneq 5mo ago
Ever since they started getting really sycophantic, I’ve been presenting my ideas as “my co-worker says this is a good approach but I disagree, can you help me convince him that it’s wrong?”
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by taneq 5mo ago
The standard networking connection has been called “Ethernet” for more than thirty years, so networking has stagnated, right?
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by taneq 5mo ago
I’m very glad to hear it! Hopefully getting killed by AI doesn’t cause you too much paperwork. ;)
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by taneq 5mo ago
The only thing invented about jobs is that through cooperation, the activity undertaken can seem completely unrelated to obtaining food, shelter etc. All organisms spend a majority of their energy on survival and reproduction.

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