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by ackfoo 8y ago
Swift Playgrounds example doesn't work on 12.1: assert(Bundle(path: "/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/AvatarUI.framework")!.load()) Error: Unexpectedly found nil while unwrapping an Optional value.
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by ackfoo 8y ago
Outline.com
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by ackfoo 8y ago
Really? Then why doesn’t it work?
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by ackfoo 8y ago
I agree with all your points. On the TV issue, put an SDR inside the phone. Let developers use it to decode the many signals around us, like digital broadcast television. The potential for interesting apps is enormous. Are you listening Chi
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by ackfoo 8y ago
Limited in the amount of current it can generate. Doesn’t respond well to changing power requirements. Horrendously toxic if the casing is breached traumatically.
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by ackfoo 8y ago
Assholes and idiots, as usual, fuelled the crypto craze. They ruined a reasonable, although flawed, means of exchange with their greed and stupidity. There’s no value in a currency that is unstable either up or down because it’s not possibl
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by ackfoo 8y ago
“We have incoming... Sound general quarters... Dive, dive, dive!!!” “Sorry, Cap’n, it’s doing updates.” “Can’t you hold down the power button?” “Uhhh... it says not to do that.” “Well do it anyway sailor. Our lives depend on it!” ... “What’
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by ackfoo 8y ago
The thing about search is that it is only useful if it lets you find obscure results. Anyone can find common results; they clog every search engine and suffocate functionality. For example, if I enter “UDP broadcast” into your search, I fin
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by ackfoo 8y ago
That this works is evidence that people are stupid and they suck.
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by ackfoo 8y ago
Next time someone says to me “Tell me about yourself...”, I’m going to say, “I really like Fresh Air with Terry Gross!”
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by ackfoo 8y ago
We’re stuck in a paradigm that doesn’t result in any valid fundamental predictions. The idea that running the expanding universe backward makes everything denser and hotter in the past is just dumb. The universe is not like a loaf expanding
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by ackfoo 8y ago
Just tried NixOS in the VM... the application launcher does not update after installing new packages... even after a log off or reboot. Running kbuildsycoca5 fixes it. See, this is the kind of absolute shit that makes Linux hot garbage. Thi
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by ackfoo 8y ago
I am concerned by the absence of a dose-response until above a threshold concentration for all substances tested. Perhaps osmotic effects, displacement, and chemical competition for receptors, all of which may be in-vitro effects, may expla
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by ackfoo 8y ago
The logical extension of this is to embed a sleeper chip between board layers that can be activated by a radio signal, then try to disperse it widely within the DND. Any serious conflict with China would then look like the first day of the
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by ackfoo 8y ago
Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.
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by ackfoo 8y ago
The web was supposed to be open and free; it was supposed to democratize the exchange of information. We have lost control of it by allowing corporations to subvert that idea. Frightening stupid people by exaggerating threats that they don&
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by ackfoo 8y ago
Also, this was done on cell lines in vitro, only one of which was derived from a non-diseased human retinal epithelium (ARPE-19). Cell lines have undergone genetic change that allows them to replicate indefinitely, so they are fundamentally
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by ackfoo 8y ago
I had more fun with this than I expected to. The only problem is that I got to the Full Adder level, then clicked on "About" and when I went back, my progress was not saved. It would be nice to have a way of saving and a way of sh
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by ackfoo 8y ago
You did not understand the question. OP requested a "hack", which is, by definition, an unverified claim, anecdote, well-meaning tip etc. And anyway, your absolute faith in professionals is unwarranted. Psychiatry and psychology r
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by ackfoo 8y ago
Excellent answer to a sarcastic troll. The best and brightest are obviously not going into science, and those who do must learn to play the idiotic game for survival.
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by ackfoo 8y ago
Don't click that link from IOS. A site more full of bullshit I have never seen.
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by ackfoo 9y ago
Because of the embargo, Cubans are using a lot of stuff that the rest of us got rid of a long time ago. I would guess that the cause is something in the environment to which native Cubans have developed a tolerance or else an avoidance habi
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by ackfoo 9y ago
Martin Rees is very inventive: he postulates limits to scientific understanding and immediately demonstrates them, using himself as the exemplar. Rees states, "Big things need not be complicated either. Despite its vastness, a star is
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by ackfoo 9y ago
"...obsolete, partially unsafe, usually extremely cumbersome IT, leading to lots of wasted time and productivity". That is an excellent short description of Linux. The kernel is fine, but the distros and application software are m
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by ackfoo 9y ago
Silicon Valley laid the foundation for Trump by collecting and selling personal information, and by providing the quants to analyze the data and target the ads. They created the infrastructure for an efficient market of persuadable eyeballs
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by ackfoo 9y ago
This is wonderful! I had never herd of sci-hub, but now I have bookmarked them. Anyone know where I can contribute money to their legal defence fund?
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by ackfoo 9y ago
It has always been a challenge to tell the difference between advanced encryption and doctor's handwriting.
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by ackfoo 9y ago
The only problem with Elon's idea is that general AI does not exist and there is no theoretical framework at present for developing it. Even limited AI is mostly an over-hyped pile of crap. This is comparable to Elon's plan to ret
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by ackfoo 9y ago
Harvey was a hurricane. It could have occurred anywhere on the Gulf Coast. There is no direct relationship between climate change and any particular named storm. To argue otherwise is to destroy one's credibility. The problems that exa
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by ackfoo 9y ago
In the documentary, "A Billion Lives", the former spokesman for Winston says he was told by tobacco executives (who did not smoke) that smoking is for "the poor, the black, the young, and the stupid".

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