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by yyyk 3y ago
Hmm.. Reading about this, you're right definition-wise (Glass is not bio degradable), but in practice Glass is degradable to safe materials - and this happens naturally - which is what we really want.
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by yyyk 3y ago
>>Imagine instead using it in a classroom to ensure the kids pay attention. >Imagine being a parent and being ok with this? I'm sure there are many tiger-style parents which would be perfectly ok, nay, thrilled!, with this. --
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by yyyk 3y ago
I suspect the real moneymakers for such startups have very little to do with ALS. ALS demand is fortunately small, and can't lead to VC desired growth curve. Imagine instead using it in a classroom to ensure the kids pay attention. Or
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by yyyk 3y ago
I'm not so sure this is the case regarding paper straws/cups. At least regarding paper cups, they do not involve paper alone but some addition of plastics (extra hardness and plasticity, avoiding water soaking). I suspect it'
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by yyyk 3y ago
Glass is biodegradable. Metal is so easily recycled. I'll note though that biodegradability is not the only consideration, and there are other important advantages to plastic straws.
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by yyyk 3y ago
>/dev/shm is a tmpfs mount. It's not synthetic. It's basically "/tmp but it uses your RAM so it's not essentially-unbounded /dev/shm is for the shared-memory facility. It's not used as a
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by yyyk 3y ago
Are you suggesting they can't hack phones, and just fake entire address book/location history/all messages? That's obviously false. Is the suggestion that there was some sort of massive conspiracy planting evidence*? I s
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by yyyk 3y ago
It's a defence often used in CP cases - 'my computer was hacked! I had no idea the computer had CSAM!' - and it always fails. Because hacking is atypical, courts place the burden on the defendant to prove hacking, and there
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by yyyk 3y ago
There's a nerd law idea where everything needs to be 100% scientifically proven and reproducible for a criminal conviction. That's not how the law works at all. The law works probabilistically, and when the doubts are low enough t
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by yyyk 3y ago
It's way dumber than a PR stunt. Plenty of Signal users live in totalitarian dictatorships, where the law doesn't care if you're actually guilty. Even in democracies you can't always rely on the courts. " We're
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by yyyk 3y ago
>I really hope we start to see phones and tablets which have >1 USB port We're much more likely to get phones with 0 USB ports (justified by 'security', 'water proofness' or 'simplicity') where the o
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by yyyk 3y ago
Yes, there's still a useless 1.85MB. One day we'll find out how to economically shove it all in Javascript/WebASM, and than the website will be perfect .
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by yyyk 3y ago
Big clouds have the exact same incentive issue - if a customer is really paranoid, the customer can pay the cloud extra and ensure their own exclusive infra. For regular users, the clouds can mitigate a bit at scale (but not care much about
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by yyyk 3y ago
The chipmakers don't have an incentive to look too hard for speculation security issues beyond a bit of PR. If they succeed, they lose money and marketshare, while their 'insecure' opponents gain and at most patches later. An
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by yyyk 3y ago
* Building requires some mild patching, especially the SDL1 build, which one may want because... * Sound only works under the SDL1 build - but getting it to work requires passing in the --nosound switch. * Crashes far more than the original
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by yyyk 3y ago
>The only thing I can imagine to go wrong here, is when a user has their browser set in US-en but when they are not aware of that. Which seems... weird; Legacy Edge used to look at keyboard locale and ignore the actual region settings. I
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by yyyk 3y ago
>Take the [HTML] datepicker * Lets you enter nonexistent dates like 31/2 * Can and often does accidentally place the user in American-style MM/DD format where it should be European-style DD/MM (I have a replicable case now
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by yyyk 3y ago
>3. Microsoft heavily botched their ARM rollout (again. Hello, Windows RT). The translation layer on W10/11 is just bad, not because of bad coding but just the technical limits of what they were trying to do. It's not bad at al
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by yyyk 3y ago
>But not since >No one writes new win16 or DOS or batch files. More than you'd think (CMD files are still supported). Fortunately the syntax is too basic for it to be used too much. However, EXCEL+VBScript runs the financial worl
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by yyyk 3y ago
Linux with other shells is fine. It's just that Bourne is a poor scripting language with way too many footguns. Unfortunately there's plenty of bash shell scripts we are likely running because some people don't know there are
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by yyyk 3y ago
I wonder how well this would have run with Ardi. I used to run a few older Mac games on it without serious issues some years ago.
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by yyyk 3y ago
>Again, four decades outweighs any amount of pontification in a blog post. Many more people used MS-DOS/Windows during that time. >And it sucks, which is why we all continue to use the Bourne shell after four decades to solve the
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by yyyk 3y ago
* No meaningful regulation of banks and definitely no attempt to charge bankers for fraud. Dodd-Frank was emptied of most meaning rather quickly, and no other steps were taken to prevent 'too big to fail'. Only very recently has A
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Fan outcry pushes Pathfinder dev to delete new data-sucking tool(pcgamer.com)
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by yyyk 3y ago
Yes, but Google has a strong existing relationship, the D party owes them for that one and some other favours. Can you find a link for any recent FTC action against Google (not against Google's competitors or some tiny subsidiary o
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by yyyk 3y ago
Apple long understood that the best way to sell a product is not as a product but as a cult.
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by yyyk 3y ago
>The FTC has been more active on anti-trust issues in the past two years than at any time in the past 30.... That's a direct result of the 2020 election. Active against Google though? Remember, Google can help a certain political pa
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by yyyk 3y ago
I thought these were mostly fixed conversion losses, but checking this again you're right, it's 3% per 1000km (not including the conversion loss at the stations).
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by yyyk 3y ago
>In the most idealistic scenario, you could imagine a belt of solar power plants around the globe connected by superconducting power lines There's no technical impairment for doing this with current tech, and it's not clear t
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by yyyk 3y ago
Often the BIOS will allow reading the update file from EFI partition, so there's no need for the USB drive.

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