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by thfuran 8mo ago
That seems close enough to fraudulent that it might run afoul of some jurisdiction’s laws pertaining to advertising.
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by thfuran 8mo ago
As I understand it (which probably isn’t well), expectation of privacy on private spaces in the US gets pretty wonky. Like being in plain view on a front lawn wouldn’t have expectation of privacy but being behind a fence would even if the f
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by thfuran 8mo ago
I don't want to see any more landmark cases from the current supreme court.
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by thfuran 8mo ago
PBS and BBC are both pretty well regarded and receive public funding.
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by thfuran 8mo ago
>I think the free w/advertising model is not fundamentally evil I think it's fundamentally anti-competitive.
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by thfuran 8mo ago
Not just the internet. Ban third-party advertising everywhere.
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by thfuran 8mo ago
You have to define what n is.
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by thfuran 8mo ago
>But the context this type of an alias should exist in is one where a string isn't turned into a PhoneNumber until you've validated it. Even if you don't do any validation as part of the construction (and yeah, having a se
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by thfuran 9mo ago
Physical goods would work the same way if they could be retroactively re-manufactured to different specs in situ for free.
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by thfuran 9mo ago
If ten people make focused tools covering different 20% subsets of the giant ones, there's a good chance of having a choice that matches what any given customer wants. And for most customers, that's going to be a better match than
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by thfuran 9mo ago
I think it's crazy that we still use non-ECC RAM.
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by thfuran 9mo ago
>I don't think of base 10 being meaningful in binary computers. Okay, but what do you mean by “10”?
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by thfuran 9mo ago
Those have a power budget of about 1 rack. I would expect a datacenter satellite to need more cooling if it has more compute.
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by thfuran 9mo ago
How people still believe his bullshit is unfathomable.
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by thfuran 9mo ago
Sure, there's a lot of process that is entirely justified, but there's also a whole lot of process that exists for reasons that are no longer relevant or simply because there are a lot more people whose job it is to make process t
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by thfuran 9mo ago
Given that we have written record going at least as far back as Socrates bitching about the kids these days, I think it's pretty consistent. But it's different this time, I'm sure of it.
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by thfuran 9mo ago
Logarithms are high school.
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by thfuran 9mo ago
And a long line for shuttles to the hotel and a long line to check in at the hotel. Last time I got that dubious compensation, I gave up waiting and walked across the street to another hotel. I saw other people from my flight do the same, s
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by thfuran 9mo ago
Yeah, and "I found one paper that says X" is very weak evidence even if you're correctly interpreting X and the specific context in which the paper says it.
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by thfuran 9mo ago
As I understand it, they’re only legally required to offer it in the US if the delay is caused by mechanical, staffing, or other issues in their control, but not if e.g. outgoing fights flights are grounded due to weather. They do tend to g
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by thfuran 9mo ago
25 mph is typical non-school-zone residential around here, with school zones always slower.
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by thfuran 9mo ago
My driving test was so thorough that I had to parallel park between two entirely fictional cars. There was certainly no consideration of eccentric signage.
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by thfuran 9mo ago
What they should get is customers for their phones and computers.
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by thfuran 9mo ago
Also, they've been trained on common practices more than they've been trained on best practices. And best practice is heavily context dependent anyways.
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by thfuran 9mo ago
Because Intel/AMD regularly contribute kernel changes to maintain support for their own hardware, whereas Apple keeps making undocumented changes that Asahi has to reverse engineer.
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by thfuran 9mo ago
>but anything coming from him os just random bullshit and nothing he says can be believed because the next day he can be 180* on the same topic Not to mention that threatening to go to war with an ally as a negotiating tactic is crazy re
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by thfuran 9mo ago
A huge portion of the students in CS do intend the study precisely for writing code and the CS itself is more of a side effect.
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by thfuran 9mo ago
Why would regenerative braking emit more particulates? It’s no harder on tires than braking mechanically but doesn’t abrade the pads or rotors.
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by thfuran 9mo ago
>Are governments doing something so that incomes commensurate with quality tech work aren't taxed at 60%? Why should they do that?
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by thfuran 9mo ago
Why would that make a difference unless some sectors have higher/lower error rates than others?

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