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by ataru 2mo ago
I've got a coin that answers questions. You have to give it a heads or tails query, then flip the coin, and it returns an answer. It's incredible. Now, it doesn't get the right answer every single time, but we're all
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by ataru 3mo ago
Pacman can escape more easily now that there's only one ghost.
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by ataru 5mo ago
It's illegal for us to steal from you, so we won't invite you inside.
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by ataru 7mo ago
The problem with anyone using my face to identify me is that it's hard for me to leave home without it.
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by ataru 7mo ago
I've noticed that the apple news ads target sensitive issues. The retirement one is a good example of that. I've seen ads that appear to already know my financial status and health conditions. I tried the option to reset my adv
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by ataru 10mo ago
I did, I don't want the hassle of anything being blocked, and I don't want to upload identity details as they have the potential for misuse. I notice that some tech companies claim they are "trusted" or have "trust
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by ataru 11mo ago
This is a good moment to try to take Microsoft customers, as they're putting a lot of machines out of support.
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by ataru 11mo ago
The interfaces look like they wanted to be graphical, as they have windows and drop down menus, and they wanted to have multi-tasking, as they implemented the overlay tools in Borland Sidekick. They wanted those things but they were limite
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by ataru 1y ago
The world-wide-web is becoming more and more only-your-country-web.
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by ataru 1y ago
I noticed that some of his choices contributed to his problem. I haven't been forced into accepting AI (so far) while I've been using duckduckgo for search, libreoffice, protonmail, and linux.
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by ataru 1y ago
I've always wondered if the burning batteries and electronics in the drones have any significant environmental impact when compared to conventional weapons.
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by ataru 1y ago
Any self respecting alien would send the signal every 42 minutes.
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by ataru 2y ago
I think it worked as defined, it hogged the POST requests?
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by ataru 2y ago
I think I heard that moving from 99.99% unavailability to 99.999% unavailability costs ten times more.
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by ataru 2y ago
Do we lack a captcha here?
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by ataru 2y ago
On the website there is a demo, when you spin the wheel, it scrolls a screen on the right. The demo may be blocked by an adblocker.
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by ataru 4y ago
I tried a similar phone app years ago but it crashed almost every day, which made it impractical. I'm not sure why it should work now as phones aren't designed to run continuously for long periods without attention from a user.
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by ataru 4y ago
I bind mine to virtual desktops, but I have the same applications on each desktop all time, so the workflow is quite similar.
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by ataru 4y ago
That looks really cool. I'd need more help for the next steps - a game loop that runs the game at a consistent speed on different processors, and a sound library.
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by ataru 4y ago
I like gnome: it works, its easy to use, it looks pretty, it's free, and it doesn't feel like it's being run by a corporation that wants to control what I do. Sure there's some design things that aren't right, but
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by ataru 4y ago
It is valuable, you can tell because companies like Google and Facebook have no intention to automatically forget old data, instead they are intent on keeping it forever. I expect they see data=money.
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by ataru 4y ago
One thing to think is that new ways to use data will be created in the future. Some companies (e.g. Google) by default will capture multi-gigabyte decades-long records of information about us. We might let them do it thinking that it is no
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by ataru 4y ago
I don't know the answer, but here's some of my thoughts: Identify the things you can help with, and the things you can't. Reserve your energy for the best opportunities to make a difference. Also, you could do your own perso
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by ataru 4y ago
I get this. We never know when the company is going to forecast that it needs a round of redundancies. When they do so, they would send a meeting request saying something like "important company status update" with no other info
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by ataru 4y ago
The second one looks ergonomically terrible. The chair has no adjustments, the desk is a writing desk and not a computer desk, and there's no proper keyboard or mouse. Surely nobody can work like that for a long time without getting
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by ataru 4y ago
If you don't renew a domain name, someone else can buy it. Is this much different?
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by ataru 4y ago
Democracy should produce an acceptable result in the end, but in the short term allows terrible things to happen. I guess that is worrying, as we can't always wait for things to get better, the terrible thing might kill us before then
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by ataru 4y ago
If I ever feel an urge to try out test cases on banking apps, hopefully I'll think of this story and stop.
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by ataru 4y ago
I think it is market forces. Fanless laptops can be made, but the bulk of the market seeks reasonable performance at the best price. I think it doesn't matter much, as you can take a standard laptop and restrict the clock speed, and t
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by ataru 5y ago
I like to use "software developer" because it's the most straight forward description of what I do. When I need to describe my role to people who don't work in the software industry, it's useful to have a simple ti

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