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by vurpo 10y ago
He was talking about HAL9000, not Google's AI.
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by vurpo 10y ago
Is there any reason at all to go with anything other than Let's Encrypt if you're getting a cert for your personal blog?
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by vurpo 10y ago
Debian's reproducible builds would allow allow anyone to grab the source to a package and build it the same way as Debian does, and get matching builds. This would allow a Debian mirror to host self-built but binary matching packages.
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by vurpo 10y ago
I can imagine a government that would enforce that ISPs block adult sites by default (a specfic government comes to mind), and as those sites would both use HTTPS (as websites do), the design agency's website would be blocked by defaul
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by vurpo 10y ago
I wonder how much memory this translation via an intermediate representation of a sentence takes. It seems like representing the semantic meaning of a sentence in a language-independent way would take a huge amount of data.
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by vurpo 10y ago
You can just disable Google Now in the Google settings, and install a different launcher like Nova Launcher, if you want to get rid of Google Now entirely. Modding your phone is not necessary for this.
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by vurpo 10y ago
It would need a more complex solution than that. For example, this is the website of a local bus company where I live: http://åbus.fi The characters are from the Latin character set, but non-ASCII. Highlighting the Å in red woul
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by vurpo 10y ago
> Letters in in two languages that are otherwise the same, but one has an accent. Is the accent part of the letter? Separate? Are they really the same letter? It gets worse than this. Example: the letters Ä and Ö exist in both Swedish an
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by vurpo 10y ago
Emojis are characters in the Unicode specification, which have glyphs in the macOS default font, and are rendered by default in native macOS apps that display text. Why should Emacs make the decision that most characters are okay to display
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by vurpo 10y ago
If I understand correctly, this is not even a compatibility layer like Wine. This is literally a part of the Windows kernel and userspace, running entirely inside Linux userspace.
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by vurpo 10y ago
This is a common method of payment in Finland as well, but , the store always asks you to choose your bank, then redirects you to the online bank where you then authenticate and authorize the transfer on the bank's website . It then
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by vurpo 10y ago
This effect is also extremely noticeable in the Finnish language. The rules of Finnish grammar are followed much more strictly when writing any kind of text, than they are when speaking. There are rules of grammar that are always followed w
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by vurpo 10y ago
CQ has been used for over a century as a call by radio operators (mostly in Morse code, where it's encoded as -.-. --.-). It's a general call that invites any operators that receive it to respond to you. It actually originated fro
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by vurpo 10y ago
Chromium never uses Finch except if you specify it in the command line flags.
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by vurpo 10y ago
The download is not over HTTPS, so you also have to trust the network. Also, the package you're downloading is not signed (which it would be if it came from a software repository, which almost all major operating systems have) so you h
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by vurpo 10y ago
How could they? They can't just disable autoplay but make an exception for YouTube, that would be wrong in so many ways. You can't make that into a web standard, so it would promote browser fragmentation, for example. So how about
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by vurpo 10y ago
It would be more like "Dear Apple: Please End Monopolized Browsers for our devices" Google's and MS's operating systems don't monopolize the browser. I'm not sure if Mozilla is even making an OS anymore. The on
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by vurpo 10y ago
Compiling your kernel hasn't been necessary for like a decade by now. Configuring X is becoming a thing of the past, partially because of working automatic config, and partially because of the move away from X to Wayland-based desktops
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by vurpo 10y ago
There was originally a company called Smart Projects SRL. They manufacture boards. Arduino LLC was the company originally founded for the Arduino project, and Smart Projects SRL manufactured the actual boards for them, because it's own
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by vurpo 10y ago
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could that they didn't stop to think if they should." --Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jurassic Park)
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by vurpo 10y ago
> "That's a good essay isn't it?" "Yeah, Yeah." That's sarcasm, which is not a grammatical construct but a cultural(?) one. "Yeah, yeah" is a positive statement (grammatically, a double positi