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by zimmen 2y ago
This certainly smells like a History Channel "documentary" to me! Right up there with Ancient Aliens and the like. - Analysis that is not shared to review - Data that is not shared for review - Broad assumptions that are quickly n
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by zimmen 3y ago
To be fair, the Dutch government basically banned the use of any kind of intelligence a long time ago.
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by zimmen 4y ago
This printer looks quite ingenious! And the creator, Kralyn 3D, is releasing the plans for free under a Creative Commons licence. The video on how he got there is a nice watch too.
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Positron v3: an upside-down portable 3D printer(youtube.com)
5 points by zimmen 4y ago|1 comments
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by zimmen 6y ago
So after years of profiting from the dark practices cookies allowed they decided to replace them with something new, better, more powerful, and potentially harder to block (when they decide to make it mandatory or burry it so deep that the
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by zimmen 6y ago
We don’t know whether Apple’s apps will ask yet do we? Not until the next iOS update. And when an app doesn’t ask, does that just mean there is no tracking going on or is it some nefarious scheme to achieve who knows what? The nefarious opt
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by zimmen 6y ago
The norm is already getting to be 2 unskippable pre-roll ads, the creator’s sponsor read (not uncommonly > 3 minutes long), several badly timed mid-roll ads, and a post roll ad. The ads themselves are mostly repeats to the point that I’m
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by zimmen 6y ago
Oh well, it’s 2020 so we’ve probably just pissed off some huge space monster by landing on one of its eggs and scratching it.
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by zimmen 6y ago
Well, that doesn’t sound like a well thought out software architecture does it. What did they do to get 2 completely separate applications mashed up together so badly that it “costs billions” to untangle?
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by zimmen 9y ago
If we would always think about “what could go wrong” and decide whether to go forward based on that we still wouldn’t use fire today.... in order to make something safe we need to make it work first. No guts, no glory.
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by zimmen 15y ago
This might look nice but sadly this kind of reasoning by Dutch parlament isn't consistent at all! - For some reason Google is allowed to act like "a postal worker who delivers a letter, looks to see what's in it, and then claims he hasn't r