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by tinus_hn 3y ago
The thing that really surprised me is how this whole revolution happened and patents haven’t turned the field into a minefield yet.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
So Microsoft gets to use their monopoly powers to play the standards judge, jury and executioner?
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
> the kernel team has to hack around it like they do for other popular misbehaving apps. Like Google Chrome? Or is that not a popular app? If you think the Office team doesn’t have access to the source code of the rest of Windows and doe
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
It is Google allowing the user to set the default browser using its own interface, using the API Edge uses to allow the user to set the default browser using its own interface. Microsoft loves to complain about applications doing things it
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
It’s not possible to ‘unlawfully do lobbying’ if by definition lobbying is ‘the act of lawfully …’. You are describing the second option, it’s just a practice that does not agree with your personal preference. You appear to have strong idea
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Sorry, if you start making up giant arguments against claims I have not made there really is no response. But clearly you don’t see that.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Also the accuracy of GPS is quite a bit higher than that of the accidental locating functionality of triangulating cell phone towers.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Sorry, all I can do is suggest you come back tomorrow and reread the comment you wrote.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
The big deal is hurr durr Musk bad. Apart from that it’s a giant nothingburger.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
The hardware is not that dated, they specifically target then modern hardware that has the fast multiplication everyone is on about. And while multiplication has gotten faster, of course the size of the l1 cache has also grown. It is per-co
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
It’s a very important distinction, if lobbying is not lawful lobbyists are crooks. If it is lawful it’s just a practice that does not agree with your personal preference. The idea that lobbyists are ‘the man’ corruptly influencing bent poli
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
It’s the third option, the publicized issues have been solved. The claim that this class of issues is the reason for Microsoft’s hardware requirements for Windows 11 is not mine.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
So here’s a paper where the author has run the experiment: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1011.5200.pdf And the answer is that the speed is comparable to other functions that however produce worse results.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
So it’s just some unfounded handwaving? You can just dismiss one of the greatest minds in computing science by just blathering in a comment, because then it’s ‘unfair to assume rigor’? If it is all so clear and all the armchair experts here
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Tweeting you ‘plan to leave’ is not the same as actually quitting.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
If things really go wrong, you can just bury it under a media blitz about ‘anti science’ ‘fake news’ ‘disinformation’. Why would you take any responsibility at all?
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
The replies to this command are top HackerNews: every commenter is a bigger expert than Donald Knuth but nobody quotes any actual benchmark results to go with their theories.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Specter and meltdown are part of a class of problems that exists in all processors Intel and AMD have in their lineup and the fixes are just papering over the published exploits. These problems can’t be fixed without large sacrifices in per
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Selectively forgot this part: > is the act of lawfully
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Dropbox is in a rut because Microsoft used their monopoly power to move a lot of people to OneDrive. Which as a Microsoft product of course is all telemetry, no end to end encryption and a poor syncing experience. But the software comes wit
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
I don’t quite see the problem with this. Japan requires innovative solutions because they don’t have space for all their people. In the future they’ll have less people.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
WhatsApp is a closed source app talking to a closed source server. Telegram is an open source app compiled by someone else, talking to their closed source server. There is no way to know anything.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Of course, you can just have a way to transfer the code to other phones from the phone that has it. Using QR codes or something, shouldn’t be too hard. But with Telegram, if you prove to the servers satisfaction that you control the associa
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Telegram is holding all of your messages forever, encrypted with a key they have. WhatsApp doesn’t keep your messages and while they are on their servers, they are encrypted with a key only you have. Security vs. Convenience
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Apple is such a monopoly that people are leaving it for the competition! Nobody goes to that place anymore, it’s always far too busy!
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
So because things are hard, you just reduce 2fa to 2 of the same factors. And make it worthless. It’s typically not a disaster if you lose the 2fa keys and if it is, you should carefully save the recovery codes. But the keys get lost all th
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
I suppose it’s a matter of perspective, if you love the lockdown these pieces are just confirming your own beliefs, otherwise it’s making excuses for some pretty ridiculous policy. You are correct that these excuse pieces are not justifying
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
You say it wasn’t a bad idea, which it was, and articles like this are people trying to find an excuse why it wasn’t so bad they forced their bad idea on everyone else. And the next trick is ‘oh my god are we still debating the lockdown?’ Y
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
I don’t know if they actually changed this but the Windows 10 Start Menu is a fragile bricolage of applets and plugins that breaks all the time which is just not suitable for such an important part. I’d throw it out and rebuild it to make i
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
I’m seeing a resurgence of these lockdown excuse pieces. “I actually shouldn’t admit this (wink wink) but I really quite enjoyed lockdown life” so I don’t mind forcing everyone to give up their freedom so I can enjoy my lockdown life! Becau

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