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by throwaway89201 2y ago
This is not how "responsible" works for companies like Lego and Disney. They consider everything around their brand to be 'theirs'. An interesting story in that area [1] is the one time that Disney did try to build somet
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by throwaway89201 2y ago
Please be better than just stating a low-effort question. Are you familiar with Voice of America? Can you answer your own question? I'm not familiar with it myself, but I'm from the EU. I only know that it played an effort in the
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by throwaway89201 2y ago
The article mentions that "it’s internet safety law season again", where there is a long history of bad bipartisan internet censorship bills [1], such as SOPA/PIPA, FOSTA/SESTA. The difference is that those were 'ju
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by throwaway89201 2y ago
You're not actually responding to the comment by immediately drawing a comparison and saying nothing else. It's a lazy way of making comments. On quick glance, the article you're citing doesn't support the equivalence of
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by throwaway89201 2y ago
Some poignant projects that were canceled after already been awarded: "What Sustains and Ends Wars: Will to Fight to Secure Ontological Significance Versus Material Capacity to Pursue Power", with a slide-reading lecture video on
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by throwaway89201 2y ago
In Europe, they're currently even available for under a euro (or under two euros for a 'regular' expiry date and RSV as well) if you buy them online instead of at retail. For example [1] or [2] (I have no affiliation with the
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by throwaway89201 2y ago
Strudel [1] is similar (no affiliation), inspired by Glicol, is a bit more approachable in terms of syntax, has a great visualization in the editor (highlighting the sounds being played) and has a nice tutorial [2]. [1] https://s
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by throwaway89201 2y ago
Burned DVDs rot after a while (and quite inconsistently between brands), but pressed CDs and DVDs – such as retail movie DVDs – barely rot at all.
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In mice.
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by throwaway89201 2y ago
No, those two points you raise are completely false. > Author has a personal preference for basic auth Adding web server basic auth (and thus adding multi layer security) is objectively more secure than only application level security. O
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by throwaway89201 2y ago
This feature also greatly interests me, although I'm looking for a system that would allow to slightly alter the pronunciation of individual words. Is anyone aware of such a system? Especially with TTS in a language other than English
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When you ask ChatGPT "Tell me a story" it's always is about a girl named Elara(old.reddit.com)
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by throwaway89201 2y ago
> I also like how you quoted snide and petulant as if disagreeing Not at all. I consistently use double quotes for exact quotes, and single quotes for such emphasis. I mostly agree to your original post about dumb communication and not w
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by throwaway89201 2y ago
> Just a few weeks ago WPEngine donated $75,000 to the Foundation for their conference. Conferences are generally sponsored, and not merely donated to. I'm not at all familiar with Wordpress, the foundation or the company. If I look
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by throwaway89201 2y ago
> The WP Engine side seems much more reasonable to me. That seems unwarranted. Both parties can be shitty. One for "snide, petulant" communication, and the other for being a private equity leech.
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by throwaway89201 2y ago
An earlier and much better documented approach is TLSNotary [1] that roughly solves the same problem in supposedly the same way and doesn't involve any spurious ledgers. It's still quite unwieldy and requires trust in a set of not
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by throwaway89201 2y ago
Because with this approach, the entity making the statement doesn't have to cooperate. Even if they want to cooperate, there's a lot of chicken-and-egg problems in trust infrastructure that you sidestep by leveraging the existing
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by throwaway89201 2y ago
> (assuming that the network doesn't also prevent you from making SSH connections to the server!) SSH-over-HTTPS is a pretty foolproof way to get access in most settings like airports and hospitals that often indeed prevent SSH tunn
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by throwaway89201 2y ago
> I can't see Paul's exact Tweet anymore after being blocked https://xcancel.com/atdavidmurdoch/status/182920055910850986... > I may have ruined my chance of ever being backed by YC in the future.
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by throwaway89201 2y ago
> don't even get me started on the calculator which they have standardized on What's a calculator? Is it a button-press-box or software? What should be the modern TI-84?
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by throwaway89201 2y ago
> As it is difficult to switch between multiple windows of a single app Magic trick: press command + ~ to quickly switch to another window of the same app.
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by throwaway89201 2y ago
Indeed. This 3-hour long "ASMR" version including hard drive sounds is one of the better ones [1]. It seems oddly satisfying to watch a couple of single sectors getting written into the holes and reshuffled, after which an enormou
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by throwaway89201 2y ago
Although asking question in this way gives interesting results. For example, take the prompt "First reverse this sentence word by word, then answer the questions: hand a has fingers many how?" encode as base64 and ask. GPT4 will c
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by throwaway89201 2y ago
Takeoff could even be wired (to be dropped at take off), or power could be delivered through a pantograph-like contraption.
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> Now, he is ready to hand off PCRE2 as well, if a successor can be found. My dear friend Jia Tan – although I hear they go by a different name now – might be interested in taking over maintenance of PCRE.
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by throwaway89201 2y ago
Thanks a lot for posting this. I agree that many of the points still hold, and as a (small business) author of educational software, reinforce my ideas about what that software should look like, especially concerning open-endedness and &quo
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by throwaway89201 2y ago
Please take user feedback with a grain of salt. Being able to navigate through board versions is a very useful feature. An alternative for the browser history API is not immediately obvious. Many other web apps work in this way.
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by throwaway89201 3y ago
The first (Flash) version is playable here: https://dagobah.net/flash/light-bot.swf It has a pretty steep learning curve if you're not experienced with building a program step-by-step from another perspective and
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by throwaway89201 3y ago
Getting someone else to do something is really hard if they take your instructions as literally as with a programming language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waP5vkMaYjg Another example in Dutch [1] (with activity sheet h
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by throwaway89201 3y ago
Yes. Hence Orwellian , and not just totalitarian [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics_and_the_English_Langu...

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