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LVFS votes on permitting new hardware vendor imposing EULAs(twitter.com)
1 points by quickben 6y ago|0 comments
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What Does C++ Do That Rust Doesn't?(dev.to)
5 points by quickben 7y ago|0 comments
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by quickben 7y ago
Where can I read more about these hints?
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by quickben 7y ago
"Until the new Terms are accepted access to the web interface and API will be blocked. So, for users who have integrations with our API this will cause a brief pause..." It's not even take it or leave it, one has to agree fir
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The Turing Pi Clusterboard Runs Seven Raspberry Pis at Once(technabob.com)
1 points by quickben 7y ago|0 comments
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by quickben 7y ago
Mill architecture?
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by quickben 7y ago
Interesting. So what do they do with the materials afterwards? Landfill or melting or?
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by quickben 7y ago
It would be interesting if you can evaluate the UI spam lately somehow: - Sign up for newsletter - This website wants to send you notifications and more, like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9bx5a3PMks
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by quickben 7y ago
He writes this paragraph that may explain your observation: "So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electroni
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by quickben 7y ago
Of course, I was just illustrating with an elementary electromagnetism example that the risk isn't zero.
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by quickben 7y ago
>The risk to the supply chain is zero Hypothetically, what would happen to a pcb board , 33x33cm in size, with the ground lines running around the edge of that board, when hit with a high power 900 MHz broadcast?
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by quickben 7y ago
So, why are we not closing stations for scheduled code red days on normal weather? They are lying to the public, but it doesn't seem there are any consequences for them, only for the employees that object to the lying.
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by quickben 7y ago
Fairly enough. Although I want to live in the illusion that Google at least likes money more than anything else, and they weight their options. The alternative is scary.
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by quickben 7y ago
It's not dismal, it's calculated. Monopolies can afford that.
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On the Pleasures and Sorrows of Life Without Screens(calnewport.com)
127 points by quickben 7y ago|84 comments
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by quickben 7y ago
A bit incomplete title then. They are also testing legal boundaries, population reaction, and few other things that are morally objectionable.
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Ask HN: What would be a good Android alternative?
6 points by quickben 7y ago|4 comments
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by quickben 7y ago
Maybe because hundreds of millions are spent to lobby for it: https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/indusclient.php?id=H04&yea...
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by quickben 7y ago
"Error establishing a database connection" Well, maybe most people can't even access what his events are about?
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by quickben 7y ago
Well, say that I want to know if you are interested in golf. Do you prefer me asking if you can fill in a questionnaire, or should I just pop where you live and take pictures from inside your house? You really don't have to play devil&
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by quickben 7y ago
"You’ve got to understand that our commitment to safety is as great as yours," Mr. Sinnett said in the meeting. Which is a blatant lie considering they opted to DLC bunch of saftety features.
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by quickben 7y ago
Having lived through a hyperinflation, I would not have touched Bitcoin with a ten foot pole. You want a rock stable foreign currency when the times are hard, not something that can push you even lower due to loss of even the minimal resour
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by quickben 7y ago
Doesn't have to be. That landlord move was so popular here in Toronto, that they outlawed it. For example, $75k in fines: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2019/02/24/landlord-fined-7...
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by quickben 7y ago
It is not obvious what the competitive advantages are from the webpage. Why should I uninstall Trello and install TodoX?
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Canada's federal privacy watchdog plans to take Facebook to court(ca.news.yahoo.com)
1 points by quickben 7y ago|0 comments
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by quickben 7y ago
That comparison can not be directly made as the 'O' in "FLOPS" is different.
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by quickben 7y ago
AWS lock-in is different from a taxi app. Only a few players so far managed to respond to AWS in scale and offerings. Lots of taxi companies have their own apps at this point.
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by quickben 7y ago
I read this analysis that before the Dotcom bubble burst, unicorns cashed out in a similar fashion. The authors were proposing to watch for the next wave as an indicator, as VCs would be trying to cash at the best time (or at all) before a
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by quickben 7y ago
That gets me every time I read in the media about a 'bug' that enabled some complex data transfer. People, somebody has to decide, plan, code, test and deploy the behaviour, and make sure it works. And yet, people accept the expla
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by quickben 7y ago
Do people prefer this reading experience on mobile? Personally I found it very hard to want to continue reading with all the interruptions.

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