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by tinus_hn 4y ago
With Bitcoin there is no need to keep your money at an exchange.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Pushing another player is also teleporting them to somewhere else on the map. And if you think oh I’ll just have some limits they’ll just do the same thing in multiple frames.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Google is the initial assignee and a patent provides exclusionary rights to the inventor of a technology. Great if someone else thought of it earlier but no one published anything using it or thought to get a patent, because otherwise this
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
And now everything is twice as slow and you need enormous server capacity. They chose a different system and not because they couldn’t think of your obvious idea.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Actually Google got a patent for the concept of Pagerank, number US9165040B1.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
A very large amount of people notice the bloat in Teams, how it wastes your memory, cpu and your battery and how it makes your laptop fan spin.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Pagerank (TM) was a Google innovation and the reason Google had much better results than the others and it took many years for the SEO spammers to catch up. That revolution, combined with the philosophy of the speedy, focused homepage and t
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
That happens if you don’t understand real policing is not like a TV show, most cases go unsolved and the ones that are solved typically are not clear cut. Even if there is a guilty plea, it may very well be because the justice system forces
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Microsoft used to deliver Solitaire as a little toy for computers that had 20Mb harddisks.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
How can the game handle another player pushing you if you don’t ‘accept actions from other players’?
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
The normal failure mode for a disk is to return an error or nothing, not random bits. A straight mirror or similar structure can’t defend against that, you need checksums. If you don’t have them the filesystem will mostly break and the file
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Unless you kill all the locals chances are they also would like to carry on with their rituals. So a strategy is to mix your own religion with the local rituals and thus absorb the population into your own culture.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
I don’t need to provide anything. Congress didn’t get their special powers to investigate things for no reason and whether you like it or not, they have that right. If there’s nothing wrong with the vaccines you have nothing to fear.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Then it’s no problem if that safety and effectiveness is checked scientifically, as many times as people want.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Widgets is something everybody thinks they need and is great, but when it’s there it turns out it kind of is a solution with not too many problems. Apple tried it (dashboard), Microsoft tried it, Google tried it, Apple tried again. At least
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
It also happens for backups to a computer over wifi.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Incredible! So the problem is not -- but the problem is that it is checking the wrong thing to begin with. Why even parse the string, sudo already had the list of files when it constructed the string..
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Does this really work? The command is supposed to copy the original file to a temporary file, run the edit command with the privileges of the original user and then copy the edited file over the original. Otherwise what’s stopping an attack
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Technology like VR can, if someone figures out a way to make it useful, take over the world by storm. It’s a sure bet that for any such technology Apple has projects going on, just to make sure they aren’t caught by surprise.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
In other news, Windows never crashes or fails to boot
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
If you plug in a semi recent Samsung phone to a USB-c monitor, not only will it charge, but you will also get some kind of desktop experience on the monitor.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Fortunately you don’t get to dictate what others spend their free time on.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Yeah as long as you don’t mind Excel changing a few values here and there and pretend translation and internationalization doesn’t exist. But hey, that’s ‘good enough’ so the developers don’t need to bother using a format developed in this
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Sounds terrible, however typically you’re checking out code you’re going to compile and run anyway.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Could also be like Freenet where they can say it’s likely someone browsed a bad site, but they can’t actually prove it.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Except when you want to be sure you get what they intended. If it’s just some little throwaway project and you don’t care if the results don’t match up, use csv.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Be careful, because if your version of Windows supports bitlocker Windows will turn it on and store the spare key in the online account.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Yeah, all you risk is a little torture. Small time stuff if it happens to someone else.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
An important distinction is that one is a device you choose to add to the system, and the other is an offer you can’t refuse.
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by tinus_hn 4y ago
Same thing happened with StackExchange and Wikipedia, but they appear to have fixed it.

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