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by teddyh 1y ago
We already have lockfile : < https://manpages.debian.org/stable/procmail/lockfile.1.en.ht... >.
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Hackers hides malware inside DNS records(arstechnica.com)
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Frog put the cookies in a box. “There,” he said. “Now we will not any more cookies.” “But we can open the box,” said Toad. “That is true,” said Frog.
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by teddyh 1y ago
I am always baffled by these things. Say there’s a huge company with a monopoly in your area. My first thought is “How did they get that monopoly? What happened to all the other people who must surely have had the idea to compete with
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Em-dash alert.
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by teddyh 1y ago
I believe that dkarl’s point was that what is now called “osteopathy” in the US is functionally the same as modern medicine, since that is what actually works. But they keep the name for its brand recognition. (But even if this is true, t
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by teddyh 1y ago
> That's actually happening though. No, it is not. From < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acupuncture >: “ Acupuncture is a form of alternative medicine and a component of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM)
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by teddyh 1y ago
China is in a bind; for propaganda reasons, they can’t back down from their support of “traditional Chinese *”, just like the USSR with Lysenkoism.
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> you'll see over and over, the police behaving admirably and in the public interest. Where do we see that? The police camera footage? As I explained, those are not reliable. Note that I am not arguing against police in general;
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by teddyh 1y ago
> monopolies that keep their status by being great What I am asking is what incentive those monopolies have to continue being great. Even if Google did not use Chrome to steer people to Google Search, Google Search is an established h
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If you make that conclusion after watching police camera footage, aren’t you making a classic survivorship bias fallacy? Those films are not a randomly-selected representative sample. Those films that you watched were those films that 1. W
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A monopoly could be 10 times as good, but what is their incentive to be 10 times as good?
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by teddyh 1y ago
Contentless article.
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You never played Deus Ex?
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by teddyh 1y ago
Thanks for the clarification! I have adjusted my wording.
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Someday, somebody might use “AI” to simulate the viewing of ads, and since AI might perfectly simulate viewing an ad, but will not spend money as a result, the whole ad economy will collapse.
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Not if they are strings, which is what this article is about.
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TIL that Ruby has mutable strings, and (until the announced change) even had them mutable by default (and the change only affects literal strings; non-literal strings are still mutable). Python has always only ever had immutable string
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by teddyh 1y ago
SNMP sysLocation already existed, with its free-form text content. Presumably, people wanted something both more precise and machine-readable.
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Any customer of, say, Microsoft, expects updates for Windows. If there was no such promise (implicit or explicit), customers would be much more wary of buying and using Windows. The promise of updates is almost the entire thing nowaday
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More about DNS LOC records: < https://www.ckdhr.com/dns-loc/ >
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“One wants to be loved, in lack thereof admired, in lack thereof feared, in lack thereof loathed and despised. One wants to instill some sort of emotion in people. The soul trembles before emptiness and desires contact at any price.” — From
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by teddyh 1y ago
I’m sorry, but in anything you wrote there, I can’t see an argument against anything I wrote. No users are expecting updates for free. But users do expect updates to be available for purchase, which they won’t be if the company has made
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To use any software in these modern times, it’s not enough to simply get a snapshot and use that forever. That time has long gone. Users need updates for whenever the inevitable incompatibilities arise, and since switching to some other
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by teddyh 1y ago
Discounting those customers who buy something and never use it, virtually all “exits” are a massive betrayal of all the customers who believed that the product they bought would be supported. An ”exit” is only profitable because of the ens
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by teddyh 1y ago
This is a discussion forum. Putting things into words is the purpose of commenting. If you can’t, then maybe you shouldn’t.
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by teddyh 1y ago
A bit like writing a fantasy novel. You aren’t paying any Tolkien Estate licensing fees, but people expect the established elves, trolls, dwarves, goblins, dragons, etc. A more historical example of the same phenomenon may be commedia dell
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by teddyh 1y ago
It reminds me of the recurring scene in Real Genius with the lectures and the tape recorders.
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You are assuming that a random mutation will cause all colors to be equally likely. But, AIUI, there is a reason that all your standard chemical powders in a normal chemistrly lab are white ; colors are a rare side effect of certain mol
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Donald Hoffman, The Case Against Reality : < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HFFr0-ybg0 >

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