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by RunSet 3y ago
> We are figuring out how to build something novel Is it possible to estimate the duration of a process that has never before occurred (e.g. the construction of something novel) with any expectation of accuracy?
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by RunSet 3y ago
> you mostly can't give accurate estimates even if you wanted to. Ah, an optimist. I long for a world where software development estimates and those who expect them are perceived as the unfunny jokes they are. Why do naked emperor
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by RunSet 3y ago
I doubt it, any more than it includes the time it takes procrastinating users to actually update their systems.
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by RunSet 3y ago
> MacOS phones home before running an unverified app. I understand why they do it, but I'd rather they didn't. Considering Apple was brazen enough to name the software that phones home "Gatekeeper" it is all too clear
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by RunSet 3y ago
The "I'm feeling lucky" button gets replaced with one reading "Feel lucky, punk?"
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by RunSet 3y ago
Stacher is a decent frontend for yt-dlp for the command-line averse. https://stacher.io/
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by RunSet 3y ago
Since an effective access control would by definition not be subject to circumvention, there is no conceivable situation where someone might be guilty of circumventing an effective access control. https://www.merriam-webster.co
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by RunSet 3y ago
> I just fail to see how a court decision in the US would have any effect on another country. By way of return, I fail to see how you fail to see precisely that.
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by RunSet 3y ago
> The browser engines are the same after all. I find Firefox and derivatives are overwhelmingly preferred to Chromium and derivatives on older hardware. Chrome has a history of disrespecting users' machines to make itself seem more
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by RunSet 3y ago
Without going into it too much I don't consider incompetence sufficient in this case.
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by RunSet 3y ago
> At what point do battery improvements become completely unnecessary? I find when I can swap in a charged battery I care less about any given battery's life. Similarly when the battery is soldered to the laptop I would rather it ha
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by RunSet 3y ago
The last time I bothered trying to make an Android app the SDK's emulator would not run on AMD CPUs and it seemed to have been deliberately crippled. Intel being the most obvious benefactor there.
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by RunSet 3y ago
Maybe it was using technology similar to magic wormhole. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G3_Xa1GBTs https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole
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by RunSet 3y ago
I propose that perhaps the problem is not top level domains but rather a certain operating system family's tendency to conflate file name extensions with file types, despite its default setting being "hide file extensions for kn
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by RunSet 3y ago
Since the main reason not to use grapheneOS is that it only supports Pixels and you already have one, you might also consider it. Install feels almost suspiciously easy coming from the likes of cyanogenmod. https://grapheneos.o
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by RunSet 3y ago
> our second intuition about proof of identity is better, but the minute you invent a foolproof identity system and it gets widly used (by fiat or even voluntarily), you give a tremendous amount of power to the issuer/manager of it,
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by RunSet 3y ago
Have the Zeroth Nations weighed in or did none of them survive the First Nations' arrival?
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by RunSet 3y ago
A good approach is to teach something like this in public schools. https://www.yourarticlelibrary.com/sociology/propaganda-7-mo... It seems to have vanished from curricula and I wonder why. It's not as though anyo
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by RunSet 3y ago
Just in case your Saturn ever dies the arcade version is well emulated by Final Burn. https://github.com/finalburnneo/FBNeo/releases https://archive.org/download/2020_01_06_fbn/roms/
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by RunSet 3y ago
> How do you do wear-leveling? I seem to be the only one here who has a preventative solution instead of treating the symptoms. https://www.sockclip.com/ Each and every pair of socks is mated for life and wear-leveling i
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by RunSet 3y ago
I understand fake names and phone numbers are included in phone books for the same reason.
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by RunSet 3y ago
Years ago, after I noticed that most adverbs are redundant, I began to write an ebook processor that would strip the adverbs out of ebooks before I read them to save time. It turned out to require rather more semantic parsing than I expecte
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by RunSet 3y ago
My intuition says the notion of property being property had to predate the notion of ideas being property.
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by RunSet 3y ago
I don't feel any contempt for Mozilla but at the same time Firefox was never as enjoyable to use once it began chasing Chrome. I would put the high water mark at Firefox 3.6.n. Generally speaking, FireFox still retains most of the same
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by RunSet 3y ago
> CEO Jack Dorsey has publicly touted how Cash App is mentioned in hundreds of hip hop songs as evidence of its mainstream appeal. A review of those songs show that the artists are not generally rapping about Cash App’s smooth user inter
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by RunSet 3y ago
> Feels like proper legislation might also be a solution to the human problem, rather than just throwing technology at things. Maybe both? Possible compromise: We try the decentralized public ledger. Then, should that fail, we can stil
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by RunSet 3y ago
It seems to me that they may have inadvertently answered your question. Q: "What happened to KISS?" A: "It fell by the wayside when it began to be interpreted as a personal attack."
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by RunSet 3y ago
> All I hear when someone writes "WebAssembly is coming" is "... coming to your insecure browser; not mine." > To disable WASM in Firefox, set "javascript.options.wasm = false" in about:config. Exactly.
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by RunSet 4y ago
Since you mention Thinkpad, here is a personal pet peeve. A company called StarTech makes ExpressCard devices and USB devices. They make: * An ExpressCard HDMI capture device (no longer manufactured) that sits flush with the body of the T
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by RunSet 4y ago
> I don’t think I’ve ever paid attention to a blurb in my life. Dan Simmons writes like a hot-rodding angel and I will be disappointed if his tombstone does not say that verbatim.

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