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by bArray 11mo ago
Imagine them being discovered by a less-advanced alien race, where they find a box full of "impossible" facts. I wonder what a box would look like for us.
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by bArray 11mo ago
> A pop-up, a slide-in, a full-screen overlay demanding you "Accept All," "Manage Preferences," or navigate a labyrinth of toggles designed by a corporate lawyer. It's the dark patterns and lack of consistency th
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by bArray 11mo ago
> That bug has been around for years. I always wondered if that was deliberate. I guess that Microsoft support answer settles the question... I remember years ago there was a browser demo, some kind of game I think, that would only be pl
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by bArray 11mo ago
Far easier than it sounds. Essentially the advice was "copy something else that does what you want, and if you run into issues or want something new, just ask". For the most part they were able to edit and generate large parts of
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by bArray 11mo ago
> * Too few people use Firefox to access Office online, they don't care It's pretty much the majority of their Linux users. Firefox is often the default browser on many distros due to the Chrome/Chromium data sharing conce
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by bArray 11mo ago
Some of it will be about reliability, i.e. the office burns down and Microsoft still hold a copy. Some of it will be about having a third-party that is "trusted" handle the most dangerous part - security. If SharePoint gets compro
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by bArray 11mo ago
Microsoft Word online deletes text in Firefox Linux (maybe others too) for at least two years now [1]. The one thing you want a text editor to do is be able to write text into a document, and somehow this bug goes unfixed. You would think i
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by bArray 11mo ago
> Medium will be back. > Due to a global hosting outage, Medium is currently unavailable. We’re working to get you reading and writing again soon. > — The Medium Team Dang.
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by bArray 11mo ago
> (Image credit: Scott Manley, David Case at the NTSB) Why are they crediting Scott Manley instead of just grabbing the images from the reports themselves? It sounds to me as if they wrote an article based on the video, and not based on
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by bArray 11mo ago
I believe you are correct on the algorithm, for some reason they were called "pivot tables". Thank you for answering!
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by bArray 11mo ago
I believe this is the correct problem being solved, thank you.
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by bArray 11mo ago
I can't find it now (would appreciate a link if somebody has one), but "pivot table" I believe was the name for a process where you would follow the intersecting points on a multi-equation graph that would represent the maxim
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by bArray 11mo ago
> Shall we forget that Steve Jobs conspired with other companies to pay developers less? What could be a more fitting placement than on a dollar coin? He'll be used to pay employees using an inflating dollar currency, where he can c
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by bArray 11mo ago
The commit history doesn't seem to reflect this [1], and the contributors seems to have just a handful of commits outside of two main committers [2]. Seems to be a tonne of trivial commits merged from some code hackathon [3] [4]. [1]
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by bArray 11mo ago
> Just stomp my throat please instead of telling me this year, after two decades, this time you promise to step off because I asked. That's exactly the point, the government want to remove your ability to ask. Every quango, NGO, com
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by bArray 11mo ago
For some reason I missed the reply, apologies. > Source: I watched the campaigns while living in the UK, with open eyes [..] So there is no source then. It's just your opinion, which of course you are free to have, but it's not
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by bArray 11mo ago
Looking forward to being forced to provide my government ID to access Discord [1], when they have only just suffered a major breach. Good stuff. [1] https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/303265656243
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by bArray 1y ago
I didn't realise Nitter was working again [1]. It's a shame that they made is so hostile to interface with Twitter/X. [1] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
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by bArray 1y ago
You can test it quite easily, but base doesn't seem to make a difference. There are some patterns that emerge when considering the primes spatially, though.
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by bArray 1y ago
> Presumably they want to eventually put a human inside it [..] I'm imagining a team just putting the organs of a human into the robot to save on space. Basically a brain plus whatever is absolutely necessary to run the brain.
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by bArray 1y ago
I remember Mastodon [1] was this free, open source social media network for micro blogging, which was against censorship and centralisation. Slowly but surely, the politics of the people developing the system became clear. They actively ban
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by bArray 1y ago
The problem is that "anti-fascist" has been co-opted by Antifa [1] which have been designated as a terrorist organisation [2]. I think if it was "anti-communist"/"anti-marxist" it would be equally not appr
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by bArray 1y ago
> You could say that supporting Open Source is a strong moral, ethical, and perhaps political position. Yes, and positions against encryption or censorship could be considered political. But I don't want my OS to take a stance on wa
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by bArray 1y ago
> Proudly anti-fascist "antiX Magic" in an environment suitable for old and new computers. AntiX looks like a cool project, but the one place I don't want to see any kind of politics is in my OS [1]. I don't want my d
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by bArray 1y ago
Can confirm that UK computer science PhD positions decrease too. This is largely due to departments and grants tightening their belts.
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by bArray 1y ago
I've never seen this data before! I am going to look forward to going through it later, thank you.
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by bArray 1y ago
See the other comment for a MITM large browser server: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45446991 To do everything onboard, maybe, just maybe, you could parse basic HTML/CSS and images. But the majority of pages wou
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by bArray 1y ago
Yeah, exactly. I think this could make browsing feasible for small embedded devices. I even had an idea on how to make Youtube possible too with a similar method.
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by bArray 1y ago
It would help, but the majority of pages out there are completely unusable without Javascript.
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by bArray 1y ago
> Sure but this wasn't fascism, this was entirely democratic. Then people got upset and wanted a do-over because the democracy didn't do the thing they wanted. Voting will continue until the correct result is achieved [1]. >

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