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China says AI CEOs' call for a slowdown is 'fear mongering'(cnbc.com)
3 points by Shank 3d ago|0 comments
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by Shank 4d ago
I own 3 JetKVMs, of which two of them stopped working, one of which doesn't boot at all and the other that never connects to network. The third I took out of service because the keyboard wouldn't send input when it was connected f
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by Shank 4d ago
> The US and other democratic governments attempt to coordinate with authoritarian governments, to the extent this is possible, while taking seriously the challenges of verifying compliance. It's clear that this refers to China. Wit
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by Shank 5d ago
> While ZDR is available, it's not available to all types of customers and is priced at a higher tier. This doesn’t match my experience with their API, they turned it on with some paperwork but it wasn’t fundamentally an issue of pr
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by Shank 5d ago
> If Moonshot is buying accounts and using those rather than the API, wouldn't they set the "no training on my data" flag in the settings so as to go undetected for longer? If so, we get back to the question of why would A
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by Shank 7d ago
> “And the biggest news: I won't be able to make the ELT tomorrow,” Matt wrote in an Announcement Slack. He continued, writing that Mark Davies, current Automattic Chief Financial Officer, has “conspired” with Automattic Board of Di
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by Shank 7d ago
Xerox is incidentally a really good example, because precisely nobody ended up using the desktop experience Xerox made. They ended up using the desktop experience that Microsoft and Apple made and shipped while Xerox the actual company fade
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by Shank 9d ago
The domain is suboptimal. The group is great!
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by Shank 12d ago
A lot of small businesses actually have a free address for legacy purposes. Send as, even for paid users, won’t support third-party providers.
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by Shank 14d ago
All of the posted limits around my area are 30 or lower on this type of street. It seems like the real change is if the limit is unposted the assumed default is now 30 instead of 60, which is probably fair.
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by Shank 15d ago
No, uBOL blocks more ads and isn’t affected by Firefox’s insistence to not block Google Ads or their own. > Sponsored shortcuts and other sponsored content shown by Firefox when you open a new tab are separate from ads on the web pages y
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by Shank 17d ago
Apple dynamically disables JIT based on website trust?
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by Shank 20d ago
That’s the red “Welcome Suica”. Green or any other IC card at any other location like ICOCA don’t expire functionally ever. The stated time on some cards is 10 years since last use, but they’re practically infinite in that they can be used
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by Shank 20d ago
The penguin isn't owned by JR East, which is the problem. It's owned by a specific artist and licensed by Dentsu, who has to approve all usage. The other transit networks actually fully own their mascots, but Suica's Penguin
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by Shank 20d ago
It doesn't make it less fast! The same model is implemented on the mobile side, which uses the same technology.
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by Shank 24d ago
Mechanistically, when the door is closed, the frameless window sits inside the body. I'm not sure how the design works with respect to other cars, but in Tesla, you "have" to lower the window mechanically before the door can
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by Shank 24d ago
That's correct but the interior door handles are electronic buttons. When you pull the exterior handle, during the time when you pull the handle the car also lowers the windows so the door can open.
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by Shank 25d ago
Is it also not greedy to demand virtually unlimited support from companies? Why should Apple spend money on this random utility that virtually nobody uses?
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by Shank 26d ago
Well, if we apply this to every mortal, the optimal amount of felonies...is non-zero? That doesn't seem quite right.
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by Shank 26d ago
> Don’t Bloomberg & FT have a number of well-written, informative articles every month? They do! And I did test a subscription to Bloomberg, and subscriptions to various other sites, but I have never found it compelling enough to vis
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by Shank 26d ago
> Do people want actual journalism to go out of business? Former Google Contributor user reporting in! I absolutely do not want normal journalism going out of business, but I’m not going to subscribe to Bloomberg or FT or any of those si
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by Shank 27d ago
Apple believes SwiftUI is the future, not AppKit and UIKit/Cocoa.
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by Shank 27d ago
The Japanese government (more specifically the Tokyo Metropolitan Government) actually runs a lot of these for flood monitoring and prevention. You can find a feed for essentially all rivers so that during rain storms, each can be monitored
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by Shank 28d ago
While Japanese convenience stores are certainly fun, they aren’t grocery stories. Try Maruetsu, Olympic, LIFE, AEON, My Basket, etc. There are also the fancy grocery stores on the basement of malls. Convenience stores do sell groceries and
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by Shank 1mo ago
Incredibly, WeChat Pay in China is now easy for foreigners: submit a copy of passport, link a debit account, and you can use WeChat Pay with no problems. No physical presence in China required, and the only restriction is that you can'
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by Shank 1mo ago
> Ads shown on search engine results pages, including Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo and other search providers There are many subpar adblockers available both built into browsers on iOS and as extensions. uBlock Origin Lite for Safari remains
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by Shank 1mo ago
> But if I were Brazillian, I'd be immediately following all ~700 accounts (and probably unfollowing all 700 after the election). I wonder how many normal people actually follow political accounts like this. I follow my local govern
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by Shank 1mo ago
My experience using uBlock Origin Lite on iOS is that some particularly intrusive ads will figure out a way to load, like local news sites from the US, and many sites will be fully broken (missing entire content portions, content doesn’t sc
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by Shank 1mo ago
Back when I first moved off of Firefox the answer was performance. A lot of users mass-migrated to Chrome because it supported a very similar set of extensions and was significantly more stable and performant. People like me evangelized swi
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by Shank 1mo ago
Yes, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is widely criticised for making almost any act a violation ( https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030 ) including many things that many people do on a routine basis,

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