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by c256 1y ago
> Fair use is the same doctrine that allows a school to play a movie for educational purposes without acquiring a license for the public performance of that movie. This is a pretty bad example, since fair use has been ruled to NOT allow
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by c256 2y ago
There have been several recreations of Emacs in Common Lisp over the years, including Hemlock, CEDAR, and Climacs. They never catch on, because they’re not compatible enough with the existing base of emacs lisp software. This also applies t
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by c256 4y ago
NGL, I came here to get the link to make a _The Core_ joke to several friends…
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by c256 4y ago
It turns out that most fast food burgers are made from heavily processed meat that includes various preservatives and whatnot that make it noticeably less healthy than plain hamburger, unfortunately.
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by c256 4y ago
> …but you won’t pay $12/month for it? But it’s $24/month, isn’t it? Double that if they invited the kids, in-laws, or neighbors but they don’t use it regularly because those people don’t use Slack for business — which is the w
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by c256 5y ago
This copy is hosted in (one of) the old homedir of Karl Ramm, who passed away not so long ago. I believe that he would be tickled and mildly but pleasantly surprised to find the link on HN. To whomever posted it: thank you for reminding me
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by c256 6y ago
“TikTok is unique...” might be true, but then why is TikTok not the only company targeted by this royal edict? When 17 year olds can “own Twitter” and Facebook just budgets 9 figures for data collection compliance fines, are you sure there’
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by c256 6y ago
FWIW, a common thing to do with a chromebook that has gone out of update service is to install either a non-Google ChromeOS like Cloudready, or just install Linux directly. Both approaches are usually easy and effective.
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by c256 6y ago
It doesn’t stop working at all. It stops getting free OS updates, presumably because there are many dozens of hardware configuration to manage, and having fallen into that trap once with Android devices, they didn’t want to immediately jump
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by c256 7y ago
I don’t know what things are like in other parts of the world, but the US market has shown a preference for renting large-library access over buying individual works. There are exceptions, when the costs got skewed too far and the perceptio
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by c256 7y ago
True. Now, compare the number of music albums produced per studio to the number of movies. We’re explicitly talking about paying per time rather than per work here; one movie versus one album is misleading and/or irrelevant.
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by c256 7y ago
I clicked on the link thinking that this was about the card game “Lunch Money”. Disappointed.
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by c256 7y ago
> As someone who watches the financial news, it almost feels more like baseball statistics... If you hear a loud banging noise, don’t buy?
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by c256 7y ago
There are a couple of these MDS vulnerabilities that also exist on AMD, but the vast majority are Intel-specific. Thanks not to say that people won’t find some on AMD, but a) they haven’t yet, b) there are at least some that are much less l
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by c256 7y ago
I don’t have any experience with NordVPN, but off the top of my head, it’s not hard to imagine someone looking at an internet backbone map, doing some math, and just paying for a couple hundred residential broadband packages. (Napkin specul
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by c256 7y ago
Technically possible, practically unlikely (you iOS phone would be a terrible router, giving the people who made the calculator app a slow, unreliable output node that would identify to the desired source as a lower-quality (mobile) client.
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by c256 7y ago
(This part of) Akamaiks value prop rests on two things: they have servers all over the world, and they can figure out which of those are both functioning well and (network-wise) close to you. The former comes from infrastructure investment
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by c256 7y ago
Nobody claims that NordVPN customer connections are being used for this; the claim is that they are probably using Oxylab, which is probably using Oxylab customer’s connections, which they are probably using via malware of some unspecified
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by c256 7y ago
At least in the past, Apple has had significant contributions to LLVM. These days, that might be limited to the Swift stack.
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by c256 7y ago
I would argue that the stronger reason is that Windows typically doesn’t enforce, allow, or contains any distinction between kernel code and user-space code. This happens because there is a gigantic gravity well of pre-existing code that pr
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by c256 7y ago
Thinkpads are nice, but that device has a much worse screen, worse processor (significantly older, but... Intel), lower max ram, lower max storage, and (for most people) worse trackpad.
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by c256 7y ago
Offhand, I’d say “too much theoretical math in the starting and middle stages of mastering the language.” Syntax that is based around/descended from APL. Lambda calculus prominently featured in the learning process. Things like that. I
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by c256 7y ago
There are Chromebooks that you can buy today that give you best-in-class battery life with good suspend/resume, and run android apps as well as containerized Linux. Multiple/hidpi displays are handled, but I don’t know how good it
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by c256 7y ago
“Just don’t think about it” is actually a rational approach to the earthquake in WA issue, because if the subduction zone goes, the tsunami will wash everything away.
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by c256 7y ago
> From far away, Windows and Fuchsia are very similar, but Windows have to contend with decades of code compatibility needs even if they want to start shoving everything into a locked down app) DOS and such were designed around everythin
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by c256 7y ago
There are “wall into a store” devices at far less than MacBook/XPS/X1 prices that have good performance, stellar battery life, good displays, and run the web’s default browser alongside Android apps and almost all Linux apps (dire
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by c256 7y ago
Apple makes high-quality phones and tablets. Which is kind of the point.
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by c256 7y ago
The article mentions that the author tried Lightroom, twice, in case the newer version was a better fit.
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by c256 7y ago
It is absolutely one prime motivation. “The purpose” is essentially non-verifiable.
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by c256 7y ago
My workhorse early 2011 15” mbp finally died earlier this year. For its final 12-15 months I had been looking for a good replacement, as the various mbp issues (primarily the keyboard) had prevented me from replacing it with a new mbp. Even

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