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by digdigdag 2mo ago
What you're seeing is the distilled (no pun intended) result of realpolitik at play. China's labs aren't as open as they are out of altruism, but rather to capitalize and undercut the monopoly held by U.S. competitors.
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by digdigdag 8mo ago
Depends. Are you a Chinese/Taiwanese national or diplomat who holds a strategic value to the CCP?
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by digdigdag 8mo ago
> We didn't review the entire source code Then it's not fully investigated. That should put any assessments to rest.
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by digdigdag 9mo ago
My local GPS + PPS based NTP server finally pays off.
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by digdigdag 10mo ago
None of my opinions of this manifesto are positive. This is a defeatist position. It dangerously conditions people to be more casual about their privacy and safety. There are still legitimate reasons to clear cookies, to turn off Bluetooth
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by digdigdag 1y ago
Why would (should) they? The tarrif is biggest contributor to the would-be price increase, and they want to offload the blame to the policies that enacted it. Why do you think you get a breakdown of governmental fees in your electric or pho
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by digdigdag 2y ago
- Over 50% of the workers flew in from Taiwan to work on this plant and make these chips. - The chips still need to fly back to Taiwan to be packaged as there are no facilities here with such a capability. Made in america is a hard sell. Bu
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by digdigdag 2y ago
How about we continue using something more convenient like a standalone dryer and focus our energy usage reduction on the largest target -- which is manufacturing by a whopping 76% of the total electricity consumption in the United States (
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by digdigdag 3y ago
Before anyone jumps on a new text editor band wagon, just a note on the license they have you agree to in using it: "Customer Data consisting of User content created while using the Solution is classified as "User Content". U
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by digdigdag 3y ago
You can examine the contents of the shell script yourself -- but how is this any different from running the rest of the application without examining the source? Do you just draw some arbitrary line to say, "running easily readable she
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by digdigdag 3y ago
Why not? There are perfectly legitimate uses for this kind of technology. This would be a godsend for those suffering from paralysis and nervous system disorders, allowing them to communicate with their loved ones. Yes, the CIA, DARPA, et.
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by digdigdag 3y ago
And expensive...and out of reach of most of the people who need it.
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by digdigdag 3y ago
Yep. I have Monaco installed on my Linux and Windows machines as a basic requirement for doing any sort of plain text editing.
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by digdigdag 3y ago
Why anyone would continue to use their service after their amateur hour operation was revealed is beyond me. That's not to say their competitors are guaranteed to be better. Really, you shouldn't depend on any offsite service for
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by digdigdag 3y ago
If Digg is of any indication, it takes a series of negligent and greed-driven actions to scuttle a social media platform, but it is possible. Reddit has been more or less re-inventing itself for their asinine IPO aspirations, and in doing s
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by digdigdag 3y ago
Instead of warning consumers, why not do what regulators do and, well, regulate? Here, you have entities storing unsecured funds and doing god knows what with it. In the interest of the public good, a just government and a conscientious reg
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by digdigdag 3y ago
Disappointing. Sad to see such a wonderful app likely meet its end. This is to be expected when you pin your existence on the good graces of a for-profit company. Reddit wants IPO. Badly. They want to show potential investors that they&#x2
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by digdigdag 3y ago
Providing feedback to large corporate machines is akin to screaming into the void at this point. Sometimes the void hears you and responds with a generous canned message. Other times you unsurprisingly get silence. That's why I became
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by digdigdag 3y ago
1. These jobs are situated in Africa for the precise reason that other usual outsourcing countries have become increasingly expensive and prohibitive for this type of work. These workers are exposed to the most vile things the human mind ca
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by digdigdag 3y ago
Because it's in reference to "honor killings" that still take place in certain cultures.
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by digdigdag 3y ago
Beyond the serious dependability questions Google raises, I feel bad for the millions of units of OnHub, Nest, Stadia, and other hardware that are still perfectly functional, but rendered obsolete because of what amounts to high level, corp
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by digdigdag 3y ago
Ten years in IT, I've been part of roughly 4 acquisitions across a few jobs. Each time the line delivered to the employees is more or less the same: "don't worry, we don't intend to change anything. It's business as
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by digdigdag 3y ago
Do you have any studies that link microplastics to early onset colorectal cancer or you're just making wild claims?
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by digdigdag 4y ago
No, more like X-37B, but perhaps one that can skim the atmosphere, i.e. with scramjet propulsion.
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by digdigdag 4y ago
I don't see how China would willfully continue send these balloons without expecting a symmetrical escalation. Sure, they managed to send a few relatively undetected until the past recent weeks, but continued attempts would surely prod
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by digdigdag 4y ago
1. The federal interest rate is nearly at 5%. Any business operating depending on lines of credit are going to hurt (Source: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h15/ ) 2. Consumer spending is down (Source: htt
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by digdigdag 4y ago
It's not just professionalism. It's intentional and codified down to how you pronounce numbers: https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/aim_html...
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by digdigdag 4y ago
Does Google still use PageRank anymore? The search results are so bad these days, I'm dubious on how many other websites reference the top results they show.
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by digdigdag 4y ago
I think the sense entitlement goes both ways. Sometimes maintainers get the wrong idea that their work is above critique because it's open source. Such that even when presented with reasonable feedback, they balk and snap at the contri
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by digdigdag 4y ago
This is just a symbolic hand-wavy gesture. Nothing Wyoming does in this context is of meaningful consequence to the rest of the nation. Why you ask? It has < 200 registered EVs in the entire state. Per this data they don't even regi

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