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by orbat 2y ago
Huh, this is interesting. Great idea for a project. Is there much out there with similar aims? I absolutely don't know the field well enough to say. I think this could really benefit from documentation, and maybe a sort of tutorial tha
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by orbat 2y ago
It's not that new; nearly 10 years old now I think. Go's adoption was faster
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by orbat 2y ago
Honestly I find it baffling that a competent adult could find the caps annoying or hard to use
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by orbat 2y ago
"Big words, phrases and memes"? You got this distressed about an article using industry standard terminology for its target audience and assuming that you'd read (or would read) the post it linked to on Conway's law?
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by orbat 2y ago
So the EU is bad because you can't learn to screw on a bottle cap that's different than before?
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by orbat 2y ago
Real names were absolutely used on Usenet especially in the early days, ditto for mailing lists (and still are for that matter), even though technically they are pseudonymous. In any case pseudonymity doesn't seem like it's releva
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by orbat 2y ago
Usenet, BBSs, mailing lists etc. are social media
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by orbat 2y ago
Right, and which particular "fact" was it? Somehow I doubt it's an actual biological "fact" but rather a conservative "alternative fact", which ignores actual biology
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by orbat 2y ago
You generally need line-of-sight for microwave links and the longest known link is something like 350km, and even using tropospheric scatter you can't go over ~500km, so you'd need multiple relay stations with microwaves. Using a
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by orbat 2y ago
> If one would like to interconnect various meshes, I can't think of a way to avoid using the Internet to trunk traffic across the Atlantic let's say. Radio links with a regular 'ol dipole antenna? Although I think most
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by orbat 2y ago
Google used to have superior translation but that hasn't been the case for years now. Based on my experience DeepL ( https://www.deepl.com/ ) is vastly superior, especially for even slightly more niche languages. I&#x2
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by orbat 2y ago
How are GA144's nodes / "computers" not real cores? They're fully independent, each has its own memory (RAM and ROM), stacks, and registers, its own I/O ports and GPIO pins (some of them), and so on. https:&#x
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by orbat 2y ago
I think they were more meant to minimize power use than be very performant. Honestly no clue how widely the GA144 is used in real-world applications, but I guess that since the company still exists they have to be getting money from somewh
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by orbat 2y ago
Have you run into Viable https://eclecticlight.co/virtualisation-on-apple-silicon/ or VirtualBuddy https://github.com/insidegui/VirtualBuddy ? I think at least Viable has some limitations though E
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by orbat 2y ago
That description reminds me of GreenArrays' ( https://www.greenarraychips.com ) Forth chips that have 144 cores – although they call them "computers" because they're more independent than regular CPU cores, and
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by orbat 2y ago
Maybe if one more painfully unfunny person repeats this tired joke that we see every time lupus is mentioned, it'll finally be funny. Let's find out!
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by orbat 2y ago
> Every one agrees that the Turner Prize is much more than just a display of virtue signalling by the cultural elite, and I have decided to enter the Valve.Computer for the prize. Uh, what? Where did this sudden "virtue signaling&qu
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by orbat 2y ago
Shit, how do I protect myself from evolving AI-based scams? I'm middle-aged and not in the IT industry anymore, and scams like the Booking.com (I think it was?) one where the scammers were able to send valid emails almost got me alre
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by orbat 2y ago
"It may be slow, but it's hard to use!"
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by orbat 3y ago
Persisting login cookies if the user didn't explicitly consent to data collection is specifically _not_ exempted by ePrivacy. To quote a EU Working Group's opinion on this: 'Persistent login cookies which store an authenticat
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by orbat 4y ago
Interesting! Sounds somewhat like what the Cairo programming language & VM does https://www.cairo-lang.org ; Turing-complete provable computation using a fairly funky "arithmetic" CPU architecture.
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by orbat 7y ago
"strong healthy black man rescues white woman from a bumbling and pathetic white male." Yeah, that… really doesn't sound as common a theme as you imply
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by orbat 7y ago
Complaining about strawmen is pretty rich coming from someone who said that the person you're arguing with had the attitude that "the only people who can take credit for any kind of accomplishment are those born in awful circumsta
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by orbat 7y ago
My entire point was that "personal data" as defined in Article 4 is any data related to you, not just names, photos and so on
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by orbat 7y ago
I'm not convinced your interpretation is correct. GDPR Article 4[1] states that "personal data" means "any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’)", so it covers anythin
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by orbat 7y ago
Doesn't mean she's personally responsible for that choice, though. More likely than not the requirement was handed down by suits with MBAs
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by orbat 8y ago
Unity or Unreal aren't 3D rendering APIs, they're game engines
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by orbat 8y ago
> What are these mysterious enquiries? Why not follow up on those? I know this is a rhetorical question, but the answer is that the whole "THINK OF THE CHILDREN!" angle is a façade. The real reason to implement any of this is
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by orbat 8y ago
Of course they neglect to mention it. It's not like they're arguing in good faith
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by orbat 9y ago
They're not reporting on it, because it was done by the Good People™. They try to paint this activity as something that only Bad People™ do.

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