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by bsdetector 3mo ago
Anyone that wants to see real examples can turn on showdead in preferences.
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by bsdetector 4mo ago
It implies that this list is the entirety of the cancelled NSF grants instead of a cherrypicked woke subset.
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by bsdetector 4mo ago
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/show-award/?AWD_ID=1231319&a... Appears it didn't receive any funds since 2022 after being extended for years (so your "daddy" is Biden) and wouldn't get any
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by bsdetector 4mo ago
The cost to the content provider can be reduced to zero by the parents, by allowing it in parental controls. So the maximum cost to a provider is capped at convincing parents to disable blocking of the content. That could be an unfathomabl
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by bsdetector 4mo ago
If the default wasn't "almost nothing" then you'd be sanctioning exposing some kids to content their parents didn't want them to see. If there's no economic incentive to tag content then it's not valuable
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by bsdetector 4mo ago
You're already responsible for everything you would be on a private server (one user). If you go to 8chan and see illegal content then good luck telling the authorities you're not responsible because it's 'just' in
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by bsdetector 4mo ago
Some people run their own Mastodon servers, where they share and participate in social media, so there's a proof by example that your fears are unfounded.
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by bsdetector 4mo ago
You host your own content, and non-230 telecom rules protect a pure cache so bandwidth and always-on internet needn't be an issue. It shouldn't be baffling to you; it's not even a hard problem to solve, and the only reason wh
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by bsdetector 4mo ago
Without section 230 you'd get a few large publishing outlets moderating all content and you'd also get distributed media where the aggregation is done by each individual. There just wouldn't be that middle area where social m
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by bsdetector 7mo ago
Wouldn't just good screen sharing solve your coffee table problem? Just have the coffee table iPad be a display for your own iPad. You could even have a virtual iPad on your mac that you show on the coffee one if you don't have y
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by bsdetector 11mo ago
Wikipedia Wow! article says it is equivalent of hydrogen line plus 10 km/s blue shift. Even if this was a scanning beam I think we can assume it would take a lot of energy and so may be based on a simple scalable physical process. Usi
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by bsdetector 11mo ago
A ship approaching a sun will see the objects on the far side illuminated fully, but objects on the near side will be illuminated only on a thin edge, like a crescent moon, because they're looking at the 'back' side of the ob
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by bsdetector 1y ago
Seems reasonable that an alien craft travelling between stars might want to illuminate the whole star system to detect dark objects and plot a safe or more perfect course. Apparently Wow! came from the same area and seemingly was blue-shift
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by bsdetector 1y ago
Would this be far enough out to use the sun's gravitational lensing to image distant planets? It seems like the idea was to send a bunch of instruments way out and then take pictures in the brief time they were at a useful distance, bu
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by bsdetector 1y ago
In October when Windows 10 support ends it'll finally be the year of desktop linux.
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by bsdetector 2y ago
You're thinking about energy and not cost. For example, when solar plus direct air capture can remove a ton of CO2 for cheaper than it costs a container ship not to emit that CO2 then it's reduced cost for the same CO2 outcome eve
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by bsdetector 2y ago
The 1..125 loop stores 8000 bytes of string and they need to clear 8000 bytes. There may be a fast path for adding one character, but in any case bytes of program are a valuable resource with only 64k ram so having a second loop from neares
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by bsdetector 2y ago
> But none of those are simple key=value formats either. What is the difference between: { object: { name: value }} { object: "{ name: value }"} object="name=value" There's zero difference betwee
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by bsdetector 2y ago
> The nature of being nested, and also containing structures like lists, maps, etc. All of which makes it more complicated than key=value. These are javascript objects, which are key-value. A list array is just keyed by a number instead
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by bsdetector 2y ago
> That's not your original request though, to use line-based data. It wasn't my request and OP (not me) said "line-based data" is best. The comment I replied to said "Newline-delimited JSON ... a line-based form
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by bsdetector 2y ago
JSON is literally key=value, just nested. Which you can do with shell variables. The question was "What's not to like [about JSON output from cmdline tools]?" and the answer is that it's cumbersome to read in a shell an
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by bsdetector 2y ago
JSON is not immediately usable by and is cumbersome to parse correctly in a shell. A simple line-based shell variable name=value format works unreasonably well. For example: # ls --shell-var ./thefile dir="/home&#x
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by bsdetector 3y ago
SPDY's header compression allowed cookies to be easily leaked. This vulnerability was well known at the time so had they even asked an intern at Google Zero to look at it they would have been immediately schooled. https://b
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by bsdetector 3y ago
> there’s no way to measure time directly. It clearly exists, yet all you can measure is change of things besides time. If it can't be measured then it can't be said to clearly exist. Imagine a cellular automata where particles
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by bsdetector 3y ago
> if running without swap and there exists any ram which is accessed less commonly than the next-most-commonly-accessed area of disk currently not in cache, the memory utilization is suboptimal. Memory that is swapped out is a small writ
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by bsdetector 3y ago
The tweet's 17 Mb/s is UDP down from satellite, so no ack replies from the phone, and 15% packet loss. So it really doesn't say anything about upload speed.
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by bsdetector 3y ago
> because of how competition over mining rewards works, [bitcoin] has the characteristic of consuming more and more energy the more it succeeds. New bitcoin from mining is halved every ~4 years, so every four years miners can afford to s
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by bsdetector 3y ago
There's probably a checksum in the URL so that typos can be detected without actually trying to access the video. If you don't know how the checksum is created you can still try all values of it for one sample of the actual ID spa
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by bsdetector 3y ago
Could be that dividing by zero is every number so it's 2 and it's also 3. Or in the blog terms, the inverse of multiplying by nothing is dividing by everything.
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by bsdetector 3y ago
The point is that it's not so easy to narrowly construct a legal contract that covers the manufacturers from liability. Don't you think Mozilla's message would be much stronger if their privacy guide had an example of what th

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