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by yborg 4y ago
I'm old enough to remember when recombinant DNA technology was first developed and the same kinds of concern that it would surely wipe out humanity. That was 50 years ago.
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by yborg 4y ago
After reading a lot of ChatGPT-like marketing cruft, once concludes that they deny nothing here. If you take a photo with the image of the unobscured Moon in it on a Samsung camera, the Moon will be replaced by a generated image of the Moon
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Because FIFA is IOC-level corrupt? Any governing body of a high-value competition structure becomes corrupt to one level or another, a very small number of individuals can be bribed to obtain a desired outcome, and when the desired outcome
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by yborg 4y ago
I don't understand what you find confusing about this. If a court can order that all camera footage from a citizen be provided to law enforcement at any time for any reason (in the case cited the individual wasn't a suspect, he ju
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by yborg 4y ago
My biggest problem with Mastodon, although Twitter has the same issue, the quoting convention creates context if the reply poster adds it, but tweets with lots of replies are similarly a morass. Someone is building a threaded Mastodon clien
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by yborg 4y ago
There was a quote I read somewhere about giant impact extinctions to the effect that "They'll keep happening until a species evolves that can do something about it."
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by yborg 4y ago
Give it a year or two. Did you read the article? Bain and all the other consulting companies are gearing up to "transform business architectures" with this prize pony. This is the going to be even bigger than outsourcing/offs
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by yborg 4y ago
Harlan Ellison already wrote this story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Sc...
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by yborg 4y ago
Maybe T-Mo should consider using hardwired terminals again if they can't figure out how to geofence their POS tablets. This also might help with employee job satisfaction since they are less likely to be assaulted at work.
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I believe you can remove SMS fallback now on Vanguard.
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by yborg 4y ago
This wouldn't work on Keyzer Soze.
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by yborg 4y ago
If you install the Firefox Relay extension it does exactly the same thing, which is what I want it to do.
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by yborg 4y ago
And another Youtube video is born...
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by yborg 4y ago
And it was originally a 3rd party product that Apple acquihired, Casady & Greene's SoundJam.
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It's all different now that Satya is in charge. /s
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I thought it was all the people reading the domain as "Expert Sex Change" and being infuriated when they discovered it had nothing to do with gender reassignment.
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by yborg 4y ago
Because you hold a different view of an event doesn't make all other views part of some Illuminatus conspiracy.
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by yborg 4y ago
uBlock doesn't do anything without a rules list. It has a set of filters it ships with, but if gorhill didn't load those by default, the extension isn't in violation of anything.
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by yborg 4y ago
It looks like a Mac app on macOS instead of a relic of Windows XP. (I use qbittorrent as well, it performs well and would work with some trackers that didn't play nice with Transmission 3).
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by yborg 4y ago
FTA: "He shamelessly stole ideas from talented students too: Fuller claimed for decades that he invented the principles of “tensegrity,” which was another specialized term he coined to describe structural systems of isolated components
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by yborg 4y ago
I've seen this happen now 3 times, and each time the waterline moves up some more. The numbers usually quoted are also for the "public Fediverse" and don't include platforms like Gab or Truth.social that use ActivityPub
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by yborg 4y ago
I guess that it finds people "near" to you in the sense that you visit their site. An actual mobile app that worked like StreetPass that broadcast your Fediverse address via Bluetooth would be fun, except that it would hardly ever
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by yborg 4y ago
I believe it ended up as her highest charting performance ever.
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I used a string trimmer one summer to clear groundcover in the backyard without realizing that poison ivy had colonized the area among other weeds and English ivy growing there. I will never do any yardwork involving cutting without long pa
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by yborg 4y ago
The debt is Twitter's, not Musk's personally.
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Laughably bad for "Here's Where The Story Ends" by The Sundays, I can't even begin to see how some of these recommendations relate. Did discover that Finnish rockabilly is a thing, though.
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Worked on early auto navigation systems at Motorola in the early-90s, using differential wheel sensor data from the ABS system for dead-reckoning interpolation between fixes from the original SA-active GPS before the full constellation was
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by yborg 4y ago
It would be interesting to have a "Top-50" page of topics ranked by how many times they have been posted on HN.
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The book is fairly well known generally, I think. But speaking only for myself, I've been involved with amateur typesetting for some time, and at this point find myself something of a font geek, and as someone who owned the Putnam pape
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by yborg 4y ago
Alternative title: "We casually decided to run a social media site for a starched-collar pillar of the financial reporting community, and all we got out of it was some clever snark."

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