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The FDA and FMT regulation (2024)(humanmicrobes.org)
2 points by user234683 9mo ago|0 comments
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by user234683 3y ago
I rarely get focus stolen on Windows 10. They now make it very difficult for applications to do this (see the allowed conditions here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winuser/...
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by user234683 3y ago
I use gnome evolution. It's not great but it gets the job done; much better than Claws.
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by user234683 3y ago
Here's an additional problem with using your own domain: some websites (Discord for example) require you to contact support using the email tied to your account. Many corporate systems will reject emails from "untrusted" doma
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by user234683 3y ago
What is the best approach to dealing with this problem as an individual? Gmail? You might randomly get locked by some AI algorithm (or you might get banned!), or something else goes wrong, and there's no recourse. Yahoo? I recently los
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by user234683 3y ago
My project here is similar: https://github.com/user234683/youtube-local It keeps everything in the browser while still being local to the machine
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by user234683 3y ago
The term you want to search for is "Telematic Control Unit." If there's a fuse for it (or if you can remove it entirely), that should take out most of this stuff. I found this thread[1] where people reported pulling the fuse
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by user234683 5y ago
Somewhat related self-plug: Self-hosted browser client for watching YouTube anonymously (Python): https://github.com/user234683/youtube-local It supports downloading all the raw formats (the video only ones, audio only
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Show HN: YouTube-local - client for privacy and greater page performance(github.com)
4 points by user234683 6y ago|0 comments
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by user234683 6y ago
This is a good time to consult Chesterton's fence [1]. If you go up to something that's existed for thousands of years, and find it tempting to declare it pointless cruft that should be swept away in the march of progress, maybe t
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The Pull Request Hack (2013)(felixge.de)
1 points by user234683 6y ago|0 comments
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by user234683 6y ago
> Toyota couldn't push out a fix. They had to issue a recall and have a technician update the software whenever that car ended up being serviced. This gives all the more incentive to get the software correct in the first place. The
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by user234683 6y ago
> does Youtube actively do anything to prevent such clients from existing? Not really, no. Though they took some kind of legal action against Hooktube I remember. > Will they one day change the service so the video stream urls are gen
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by user234683 6y ago
> "For basically all of history, using reason would get you killed." Relevant to this is the analogy by Phil Goetz of reason as a memetic immune disorder [1]: > The reason I bring this up is that intelligent people sometimes
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Ulysses Prepping for the Siren Future(existentialpervert69.substack.com)
2 points by user234683 6y ago|0 comments
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by user234683 6y ago
> applying a tax to people in Denmark won't result in the externality being internalized in Nigeria What if Denmark imposes a tariff equal to the tax on imported plastic goods from any countries not implementing such a tax?
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by user234683 6y ago
More broadly, even in systems such as Windows, arbitrary programs have way too much access to the system, especially the filesystem. A lot of effort is put into patching exploits that allow for a program to gain root, yet this is largely ir
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by user234683 6y ago
uMatrix can protect against this if you block third party everything by default (which I do).
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by user234683 6y ago
As you demonstrate, there's not always a clear-cut distinction between OOP programs and non-OOP programs. Sure, the Linux kernel uses some OOP concepts, but it couldn't be described as fully OOP in aggregate. In my opinion, the be
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The Paradox of Persistent Vacancies and High Prices (2017)(strongtowns.org)
2 points by user234683 6y ago|0 comments
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by user234683 6y ago
I've had this question in the past and I found this post helpful: > The fundamental answer to all of this is that the profits must be shared with shareholders at some point. This is what terminates the infinite regression. If a co
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by user234683 6y ago
> I really love the idea that pure mathematics and nature are the same thing This might not be what you mean, but there is a philosophical position that holds that all mathematical structures exist, and that our universe is simply one of
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by user234683 7y ago
> Google gives me bad results. It ignores some of the words in my queries This is the problem I've been having with DDG, where it will aggressively rewrite my search into something completely unrelated
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by user234683 7y ago
How much more secure would it be for precincts to phone in the results? Phone numbers are trivial to spoof. Perhaps the party headquarters could call the precincts instead of the precincts calling the headquarters. But that still leaves que
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by user234683 7y ago
>A competent developer will show you a blank page and explain that you need to enable Java Script I completely disagree with this, if I'm understanding you correctly. As someone who disables Javascript, I don't want you to purp
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by user234683 7y ago
The ISPC language by Intel is designed to give enough information to the compiler so as to allow auto SIMD-vectorization of programs [1]. It opts for an explicitly parallel model of programming, unlike C [2]. It also has easier support for
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by user234683 7y ago
Newpipe (app for android): https://newpipe.schabi.org/ mps-youtube (terminal-only): https://github.com/mps-youtube/mps-youtube youtube-viewer: https://github.com/trizen/youtube-vie
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by user234683 7y ago
I always recommend this pair of videos when discussing STAR voting vs other alternative systems. The first video is an easy-to-follow explanation of how spoiler effects can happen in both plurality voting and IRV [1]. In the second [2], the
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by user234683 7y ago
> Gmail was still dog-slow the last time I tried I use the HTML version instead to deal with this issue
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by user234683 7y ago
I've never heard of that rule. Ambiguous pronouns like this are pretty common in English. In fact, figuring out what the ambiguous pronoun refers to is the basis for the Winograd Schema, a challenge for AI especially relevant to transl

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