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by genera1 3y ago
They used to make BD-Rs using this technology, but switched to a cheaper (supposedly not as long lasting) method without any change in branding. It was a minor scandal among datahoarders
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by genera1 3y ago
You don't drive in the Eurotunnel
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by genera1 4y ago
Neither athletic nor scholastic performance are objective measures. Sports are contests of arbitrary skills, that on the highest level require time intensive and expensive commitment since basically childhood, and whatever method you choose
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by genera1 4y ago
Kasparov also believes this to be true, but the last example I can recall of top level player teaming up with a computer was in 2014, when Nakamura played exhibition match with engine against Stockfish and lost 1.5/0.5, since then comp
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by genera1 4y ago
Europe has more both land area and population than the US, in what way is it "a small place compared to the US"?
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by genera1 4y ago
Am I taking food off other people's plate when I manually skip ads in podcasts I'm listening to? Do people who change channels on TV when ads start steal? Is it theft to toss ad inserts from a newspaper straight into trash?
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by genera1 4y ago
For many devices it wouldn't be "pain in the ass", it would be straight up impossible. There are millions of devices, like smart TVs, that are out of support and don't receive updates, substantially changing API would br
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by genera1 5y ago
I have a gut feeling, that person responsible for those hacks might be working for or at least informing US gov about his actions in advance. Him talking so openly to a major news outlet and warm response of us gov officials point towards
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by genera1 5y ago
Anyone who knows how to setup that RPi to do anything meaningful knows how to spoof mac
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by genera1 5y ago
Well, update process taking couple of days is it's own kind of nightmare. And it wasn't my personal machine so it would've been unreasonable for me to do so.
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by genera1 5y ago
I did 16.04 to 20.04 through 18.04 and it was a nightmare, it would've been faster to do fresh install.
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by genera1 5y ago
I feel like there might be something different or subtler at play here. I do not get spooked by scary tales, and I have never enjoyed them. But I have perfectly good visualization skills, I can "see" with my minds eye, both recall
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by genera1 5y ago
Rue La Fayette in Paris is quite an important street, next to Gare du Nord, and is a part of Haussmann's renovation
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by genera1 5y ago
Arguably, the short scale, not the long scale used in Ireland is obtuse. 12 zeroes for billion and 18 zeroes for trillion, 24 for quadrillion etc is 6 n where n is numerical value of Latin prefix, with short scale you've got 3 n+3
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by genera1 5y ago
Ah yes, COVID-19, technical name for a respiratory disease, totally in the same category as Gestapo
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by genera1 5y ago
Because there's no serious competitor, and many (most?) creators rely on other revenue streams than YouTube ads
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by genera1 5y ago
Allied bombings of Germany began in 1939, the information is even present in the Wikipedia link you provided. V-2 launches against Allies started in September 1944, well after commencement of large scale strategic bombing of German cities,
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by genera1 5y ago
It's still a good read, not only as a historical artifact, but also because many of the criticisms still apply to the spiritual descendant of Unix, Linux. It's funny to see that 20 years ago people were already complaining about X
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by genera1 5y ago
He doesn't speak, read or write Chinese and has been caught manipulating, confabulating and straight up lying multiple times. He is a Christian fundamentalist, and has described other belief systems to Christianity as “ultimately inspi
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by genera1 5y ago
Oh come on, it's another piece of Adrian Zenz disinformation
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by genera1 6y ago
There are even manual deployments https://youtu.be/-hutA7In7GA
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by genera1 6y ago
It's not that far off from the truth
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by genera1 6y ago
AWS is nowhere near big enough to be treated as utility, there are heaps of alternatives, big cloud providers (Azure, GCP, Oracle), hundreds of smaller cloud hosts, then there is self-hosting. What should be treated as utility is tier 1 net
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by genera1 6y ago
I'd wager that DDG results are skewed towards tech, since it's mostly tech people who use it.
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by genera1 6y ago
> The small piles would have 1000 notes in them, which is easy to check in a day. By the time you could even buy an 8-bit home computer for couple hundred dollars, store all the serial numbers on a floppy and simply search through them o
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by genera1 6y ago
I think Twitter might be throttling anonymous/not logged in users. On desktop, where I'm logged in I've never had an issue with retrieving content, on mobile, where I'm not, no matter the browser, it's hit or miss (
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by genera1 6y ago
Real men outsource fabs
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by genera1 6y ago
I'd be much more interested in more obscure examples. While those billion dollar businesses origins are fascinating as trivia, more down to earth examples, of smaller, but successful companies would be great
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by genera1 6y ago
> Apple sells desktop versions of the touchpad IMO the best way to control Apple devices is KB + mouse + magic trackpad. Mouse is of course superior for precise movement such as highlighting text, but the trackpad itself is worth it just
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by genera1 6y ago
I can highly recommend a book Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage , which has more information on this specific incident as well as other spy submarine stories from the Cold War

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