mitxela

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by mitxela 7h ago
Twitter now flashes your screen different colors while watching the camera pointed at your face when you sign up, you know, to "make sure you're a real person"
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by mitxela 2d ago
What if the post is like "we discovered AGI (for real this time, not clickbait)" - will you pretend AGI wasn't discovered?
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by mitxela 3d ago
There is no reason that has to be a power of 2.
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by mitxela 3d ago
And in Germany if you somehow cause more damage than that, you have to pay the remainder out of pocket, and Germany is much better at enforcing payment than any other country. That's right, if you crash into a billionaire's 2 mill
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by mitxela 3d ago
What does that even mean? The insurance is for the person who gets a hand cut off in an industrial accident. It's not for the employer.
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by mitxela 3d ago
Everyone benefits from a universal accident coverage scheme.
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by mitxela 3d ago
If people want to die in a ditch they should not be driving. Americans have to drive to get money and have to get money to eat.
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by mitxela 3d ago
Countries hack each other much more than that. When it becomes publicly noticed it gets stern words. Otherwise nothing.
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by mitxela 3d ago
No you don't. Studies always show that you don't. You think you do, but you don't. Before the ad, you didn't even know the product existed. Now you know it exists, making you infinitely more likely to buy it.
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by mitxela 3d ago
Using a real browser is also easy.
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by mitxela 3d ago
Doorway effect, once you click on it you forget you're not sure it's the real Chase Bank.
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by mitxela 3d ago
Threads were traditionally cooperatively scheduled, too. Expensive context switch is an artifact of implementation.
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by mitxela 3d ago
Well this discussion about getting YouTube premium is clearly aimed at people who use YouTube but without premium, not people who don't use YouTube at all.
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by mitxela 3d ago
And either the runtime enforces it or it doesn't and just notifies you, but I think whether it notifies you once or continually is not a relevant dimension.
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by mitxela 3d ago
You can't. The admins can.
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by mitxela 3d ago
Aaron Swartz's sentence was death FYI.
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by mitxela 3d ago
The more disturbing thing to me was the talk about "LG households".
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by mitxela 3d ago
This is such a programmer view. No lawyer would think that a graphic equaliser records audio.
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by mitxela 4d ago
No phone has ever been caught doing that. But TVs and phones have been caught collaborating. What brand is your TV?
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by mitxela 4d ago
That's probably the program that uploads everything you say then. Nobody thought the ACR was doing that.
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by mitxela 4d ago
They deny ACR uses the microphones. Big difference. Nobody thought ACR used the microphones.
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by mitxela 4d ago
They're not denying anything about programs other than ACR. That's telling. They didn't say "your TV doesn't listen" or "your TV doesn't collect"
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by mitxela 4d ago
They're almost certainly being pedantic about what it means to "collect a recording".
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by mitxela 4d ago
Also, they didn't claim that.
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by mitxela 4d ago
> So they are claiming that ACR is done entirely through audio processing, and no visual data from the screen itself is used? That...doesn't seem plausible. Wrong. They claim it doesn't record video. Recording means saving pe
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by mitxela 4d ago
What if you're wrong?
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by mitxela 4d ago
If they're not offering something of value why are you using the thing that you say doesn't have value?
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by mitxela 4d ago
The US government knows everything though.
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by mitxela 4d ago
Nope.
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by mitxela 4d ago
It's a fundamental architecture change only if we assume async == slow (or potentially slow) which isn't always true. Otherwise you might want to run something inline that the language designer made async - such as writing a file

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