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by toxik 5y ago
Pose graph optimization
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by toxik 5y ago
People want to consume their content, nowhere does that dictate that they sign away their rights and actual ownership of their devices that they buy with their own money. The already existing DRM is user hostile, it is about control and not
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by toxik 5y ago
The browser is becoming a TV. In the future, computers with keyboards and actual user control will be specialty devices for experts, quite separated from the content you can access today. It is really sad to see what humankind is about to l
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by toxik 5y ago
That would be expensive.
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by toxik 5y ago
"Not as hip as tiktok" and not modern because the page reloads when navigating? It's not suitable for an API because... no real reason given, and the myriad projects doing this left unmentioned. I think there are a lot of goo
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by toxik 5y ago
The channel is about restoration, and the regular viewers are there for the first 42 minutes mostly (including yours truly)
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by toxik 5y ago
Yes, Amazon is rotting from the inside by their own foul tactics. But by then, everybody involved will be heroes of their field and Bezos will literally be flying away on a rocket.
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by toxik 5y ago
I think they work well as long as they're reasonably specific, reposting the famous HN Dropbox comment also works pretty well on HN. Other redditisms don't fare so well, and for that I'm thankful.
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by toxik 5y ago
A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?
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by toxik 5y ago
If we use HK as the model for how Taiwan will be occupied, then it seems that it will be through political process. I’m not sure if the Taiwanese system is as weak as the HK setup was, but if anybody is able to find a hole, it would be the
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by toxik 5y ago
So this should be doable on an Apple TV?
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by toxik 5y ago
> these drones were initially designed as an airborne sentry or surveillance tool. So probably developed in part by people who had no idea they were building weapons.
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by toxik 5y ago
Marginally more readable, but is it performing better?
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by toxik 5y ago
The reason you didn’t like those people is that somewhere deep inside you knew it could be you in ten years. I had the same thoughts, and came to the same insight. It’s a lot like how you dislike the people who remind you of your bad qualit
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by toxik 5y ago
If you went back in time to the sixties and said you spent several months disposable income on an electronic device that you only expect to work for a couple of years with zero ability to repair, they would think you were mad. The current s
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by toxik 5y ago
In Swedish, vik is bay. Gut isn’t Swedish at all*. Kaka isn’t pronounced like caca, it’s the A sound of law in the first syllable. Jerker is just a name, surely not limited to Sweden. *It can be “related to Gotland” I guess but that’s a str
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by toxik 5y ago
But laptop chargers _do_ have transformers, and inductors for that matter -- they're switching power supplies! I actually had a problem with this on my MacBook to the degree that I would simply connect a wire between the protective ear
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by toxik 5y ago
Luckily I didn't say planned obsolescence, I said manufactured - because that's precisely what it is, Apple is well known for this type of behavior. Introduce candy, don't allow old hardware to run it, pretend like it's
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by toxik 5y ago
I have the same laptop, it works pretty decently. However: YOU WILL NOT HAVE MACOS MONTEREY, because Apple decided seven years is enough. Manufactured obsolescence.
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by toxik 5y ago
I had an electrical engineer tell me this was more or less inevitable. I thought that sounded very strange.
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by toxik 5y ago
The entire fucking point in a laptop is to be portable. If you _have_ to shut it down completely before putting it in a bag, it’s not a laptop as any sane person expects it to have that ability. It’s absolutely astonishing that Dell, Micros
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by toxik 5y ago
The two other related projects I know are Numba and Cython. Worth checking them out as well.
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by toxik 5y ago
Hear, and distracting children works beautifully as any parent ought to know. Not always, of course.
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by toxik 5y ago
I tried to open the app and it crashed immediately every time. iOS 15
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by toxik 5y ago
This is a good approach to many things, computers, cars, phones — there is an enormous premium paid to be the “first to open the box”. If you can rid yourself of that particularly successful marketing trick, you cut your costs boatloads.
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by toxik 5y ago
And many times rightly so, living next door to a long construction project is a mistake I will only make once in my life. Utter insanity to be woken up by literal bombs going off in the bedrock.
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by toxik 5y ago
I feel like home router makers could intervene here and let their owners know when they’ve likely been hacked. Maybe even a regulation type deal?
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by toxik 5y ago
I appreciate the argument, and it holds merit, but I also think that the H-bomb is such a key difference. It’s essentially a stalemate, whereas other periods of non-war* have arisen out of absolute conquest. * Non-war, I think, is a less ch
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by toxik 5y ago
You are surely aware that France and the UK have nukes. That seems like a pretty strong deterrent.
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by toxik 5y ago
You are surely aware that there were FAR more wars before this. War was basically just a fact of life for most people in most of our settled past.

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