antonf

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by antonf 4mo ago
The problem with Apple laptop is few years into the future - it's what will happen when Apple drop support for this hardware in OS X. Even if Asahi Linux or similar will be in a good enough state, you will still have to go through pain
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by antonf 7mo ago
Maybe you should check your memory? I recently started to get quite a lot of Firefox crashes, and definitely contributed to this statistic. In the end, the problem was indeed memory - crashes stopped after I tuned down some of the timings.
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by antonf 1y ago
> You wouldn’t trust a 30-year-old car to drive cross-country. The main difference between software and physical objects like cars is that they degrade with the passage of time (due to wear, corrosion, etc...). If we would magically be a
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by antonf 1y ago
> The granted orders would stay in place for a year with the option to extend if necessary. If blocked sites switch to new locations, the court can also amend blocking orders to include new IP addresses and domain names. What if the &quo
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by antonf 2y ago
Did you miss definition of G, or I didn’t have enough caffeine yet?
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by antonf 2y ago
> Historians describe that Russian peasants pre-1917 were basically living in Medieval conditions FWIW, communism actually forced Russian peasants back into Medieval conditions: first by punishing former peasants who became landowners (s
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by antonf 3y ago
I already had cheaper HD Netflix subscription, and didn't notice difference between it and UHD Prime/Apple TV/Hulu. I only noticed that I didn't have UHD when I was cancelling it, to be honest. Maybe my TV is not big eno
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by antonf 3y ago
Personally, I cancelled all my subscriptions (Netflix, Prime, Apple TV+, Hulu, HIDIVE, AMC+) this christmas and reverted to piracy. Modern piracy (the so called *ARR stack) provide UX that is pretty close to what you get from streaming ser
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by antonf 3y ago
> For example, if a user deleted their* content, Facebook can still use it and show to their friends. That's why it's "kinda". I don't think it is correct. If you asked Facebook to remove your data from platform,
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by antonf 3y ago
> You’re right . That’s why scraping must be unlimited and legal for all. Unlimited scraping makes some of privacy regulations moot. Such as right to erasure (ability to delete personal data from a platform).
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by antonf 3y ago
I would like an option for those of us who don’t care and click whatever button have brighter color. Like a default consent to sharing all data. This don’t have to be on by default. This would improve my browsing experience tremendously.
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by antonf 4y ago
> you can do pretty much the same with Google Pixel and more. Can you? According to apple website, “AirTag is designed to keep going more than a year on a standard battery you can easily replace”. Pixel probably wouldn’t last even a week
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by antonf 4y ago
Isn’t it what economists would call a 4x increase in productivity? Isn’t fall in productivity mean that you now need more people to do same job?
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by antonf 4y ago
> clearly these people just wanted an automated way to access their own data GDPR and CCPA (and probably many other national/state privacy laws) forces facebook/instagram/etc to let you download and/or delete your dat
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by antonf 4y ago
I bet you can stop anytime you want, right?
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by antonf 5y ago
With cloned profiles (or any data obtained and shared without your consent) it will be harder for you to exercise your right to be forgotten, for example.
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by antonf 5y ago
> much more violent society at its roots than the Old World I am originally from Russia, but live in US. I actually feel safer in US than in Russia. It is far easier to get assaulted as result of road rage or because somebody don't
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by antonf 6y ago
Or PnP machine didn't place the resistor or misplaced the resistor because coordinates were wrong in PnP program, it was found by AOI machine, and then wrong resistor could be placed by rework technician.
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by antonf 6y ago
Yeah, by "In 1.47" I mean that as of 1.47 it was already implemented, didn't check since which version.
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by antonf 6y ago
TryInto is already implemented for slices in 1.47, so `let foo = u16::from_be_bytes(some_slice.try_into().unwrap());` would work before 1.48. This trait wasn't implemented for vectors though, so you would have to write `let foo = u16::
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by antonf 6y ago
I think this is just engineer that works at Facebook created project with same name in their free time, not Facebook the company made such a naming decision. Here's why I think so: commits coming from Facebook in facebook and facebook-
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by antonf 6y ago
> While providing comparable development experience / ease of use. I would argue with that. Part of my job is writing a lot of PHP currently (Hack actually, but they are very similar). Sometimes it's OK, but sometimes early PHP
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by antonf 6y ago
> All other markets have failed miserably. In Russia Yandex (search engine) and VKontakte (social network) were and still are quite successful (Google and Facebook were never banned, unlike China). And they were not created to control an
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by antonf 6y ago
Just ordered my Oculus Quest from Costco a week ago, and it's scheduled for delivery today. And I have no problem using Facebook account. Yeah, my data will be used for ads, so what? How is that such a big deal for some people to sell
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by antonf 6y ago
> Consciousness comes indirectly into quantum mechanics through the measurement postulate. You have to assume something special about measurement which breaks unitarity. Not all physicist are convinced, but it is the traditional way quan
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by antonf 6y ago
I really like The Food Lab book by one of Serious Eats authors, Kenji López-Alt. It helped me to understand the purpose of different steps in recipes and what is important about them. For example when recipe asked me to saute something for
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by antonf 6y ago
I was delivering food via DoorDash before COVID-19 (using $5k 300cc motorcycle, so my gas expenses and depreciation were low), and it wasn't hard to hit $40/h during lunch or dinner delivering food in San Mateo, CA. Sometimes, whe
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by antonf 7y ago
Did Mark Zuckerberg need PR cleanup in 2012?
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by antonf 7y ago
Can filtering out robocallers be solved through technology? Similarly to how Spam folder in your email app works. I have zero knowledge about how telecom works, but it seems not too complex. Also, it seems that iOS have support for third pa