scalio

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by scalio 6y ago
As I said below, and without knowing if this is applicable to all models, mic and camera can be physically disconnected from the mainboard.
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by scalio 6y ago
You can open the macbook and unplug the camera and mic connectors from the mainboard.
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by scalio 7y ago
You're not alone, I feel you. The pendulum will swing back. Let's hope it does so quickly.
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by scalio 7y ago
It drives me up the walls when some kind of list or collection touch UI doesn't offer any kind of batching, and most don't. Some kind of data-selection mode where I can drag across all the elements I want to select would be awesom
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by scalio 7y ago
Thank you. We need to stop thinking of growth as a reasonable metric for wellbeing or relevance of products. When a new product is introduced, certainly, looking how the market reacts is interesting. But many years down the line, things sh
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by scalio 7y ago
And there's the problem.
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by scalio 7y ago
What do you do with the waste? Blow it into the sun?
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by scalio 7y ago
The solution to a problem is never to ignore it, lock it away, out of sight where it will just fester. The people who produce bullshit (maybe for a living, maybe as a hobby) don't just disappear. Aggressive filtering of what people see
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by scalio 7y ago
What civilization are you talking about? The US, western Europe, capitalism, formally educated people? Who is 'they'? There's enough people who just want to watch the world burn, and they're very much part of society, pa
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by scalio 7y ago
You should check out what happened less than a century ago. Among other things, it started this whole digital conundrum. It's naive to think that concentrating so much power over so many people in the hands of so few people can go any
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by scalio 7y ago
Now here's a reason why I disable js.
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by scalio 8y ago
The problem is that the same crops are grown globally, so once a disease grabs hold, it can spread very quickly, eradicating yields globally.
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by scalio 8y ago
I recently read Biodiversos by Stefano Mancuso and Carlo Petrini, the founder of the slow food movement. It's basically a discussion between the two where they lay out the big problems with our production and consumption of food. For i
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by scalio 8y ago
Fascinating how the analysis gets wrong what becomes possible or doesn't (online shopping,...), but hits the nail on the head concerning the psychological and social aspects. > The Usenet, a worldwide bulletin board, allows anyone t
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by scalio 9y ago
How so?
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by scalio 9y ago
Found here: https://aeon.co/essays/the-quantum-view-of-reality-might-not... Zurek and his colleague Jess Riedel have been able to calculate how fast and extensive this proliferation of quantum copies is for a few simp
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Quantum darwinism(arxiv.org)
3 points by scalio 9y ago|1 comments
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by scalio 9y ago
House of Cards made me realize something very self-evident: the baddies in "realistic" entertainment media do not reflect the baddies in real life (ditto for the good guys, for that matter). I saw one day that I was conflating rea
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by scalio 9y ago
True, but I think this problem can only be solved sustainably through education. At some point, we may just have to accept that one has to deal with some number of idiots a day and get over it. Discovery suffers dramatically, sadly.
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by scalio 9y ago
Pretty thought provoking. It ties into my view that a free internet is a major democratizing force (like the next stepping stone after printing): anyone may speak up, anyone may distribute knowledge, it spreads at near light speed. And poss
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by scalio 9y ago
I guess we're going to find out soon enough what Apple thinks of that demographic considering their WWDC announcements.
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by scalio 9y ago
Helping the power user is the whole point imo: let those who know what they're doing see and run the code themselves. As such, it doesn't matter whether Apple is in some business or not, it's simply a security measure.
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by scalio 9y ago
I believe ecology has to be turned into a strong economic factor if we want anything to happen in its favor. Assuming political cooperation, the easiest way I see is to just slap a tax on any and all polluting emissions. That's very mu
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by scalio 9y ago
Does that work only on US cars or internationally?
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by scalio 9y ago
Check out ipfs.io
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by scalio 9y ago
You can only prevent entire java script files from reaching your browser by blocking domains, which is not helpful when js is required for functionality. I use umatrix and noscript. Both are set to block by default and tediously kept update
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by scalio 9y ago
The thing that stood out to me was the 'Disable all' button. I don't know how that compares to other platforms, but it's a good feature to have.
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by scalio 10y ago
I guess I'm not the only one who's noticed the steady stream of "Do x with google" on the frontpage. This is what's unsettling me, they seem to want to seep into every last crack of our lives, starting with all thin
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by scalio 10y ago
You're right, we've come this far because intelligence is a competitive advantage. However, we do not fully understand the mechanisms of evolution, and I thus find it hard to categorically deny all other beings' ability to th
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by scalio 10y ago
Have you created great works of art, literature, architecture and poetry or built complex machines? That's precisely the kind of arrogance the author is arguing against. Yes, as a species we create art and complex machinery, and we wri

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