terminus

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by terminus 3y ago
> That said, Remarkable the company has been fairly shitty. They removed the links to the dev tools, and don't really respond to requests for source that they are obligated to release under the GPL in any reasonable time. Which proj
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by terminus 3y ago
You could come up with a scenario, sure. Bad in law though. [1] Another scenario you could come up with is a future climate catastrophe, where millions die and/or are displaced because of this global boiling era. Incidentally, which i
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by terminus 8y ago
Are you seriously saying that there are two sides to the whether women are chattel or not? What's funny is that your specious analogies try to equate this argument -- for more freedom for the Saudi women -- to others where people'
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by terminus 8y ago
> If we enforce some morals and not others in our app stores, who exactly do we choose as the arbiters of morality? U.S. public opinion? Chinese public opinion? Maybe the U.N? I agree that not every situation is this easy to decide but t
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by terminus 8y ago
Has anybody done any work on mapping die shots onto the microarchitecture features? The only thing I've found is work by this guy (about a decade old now): http://chip-architect.com/news/2003_09_21_Detailed_Archite
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by terminus 9y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. You are right of course.
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by terminus 9y ago
I'd say, speech leading to violence is like pornography; you know it when you see it. And I would refer you to the examples I have in the comment. Given the subjective nature of the test there will be cases when it's less clear cu
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by terminus 9y ago
Yes, and as I said above: good for Twitter. However, I notice that you don't have much to say about my argument against speech leading to violence. What do you think about that.
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by terminus 9y ago
I see a lot of people arguing about free speech and censorship here. I'm not sure how anybody is being censored here -- given that we are only debating verification. People are not deprived off their speech. Second, for instance in the
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by terminus 9y ago
> But punitive action against people you disagree with is simply unacceptable! Where your argument falls down is in just reducing this to "people you disagree with." Nazis (even lately) have been responsible for more than just
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by terminus 9y ago
How is it black box? The OP posted a link to an article; in the discussion, I talk about how the tone of the article sounds reasonable to me. And, then I even give examples from the article describing how they seem reasonable. Look you cl
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by terminus 9y ago
> As an Oklahoman, I think it's a little strange when someone at a Canadian university writes an article funded by the Rockefeller Foundation about "failing" Oklahoma, and has written a book called You Dumb [Epithet that a
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by terminus 9y ago
Ignoring the gratuitous insult, here's the NCA 2014 report (the report itself is about the impact of climate change; Chapter 2 lays out the case for climate change caused by humans. Citations are at the end of the chapter.): http:&#x2
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by terminus 9y ago
> I don't see anything constructive about his tone, nor do I find any new ideas in his writing. Umm... the article is making the case for how Oklahoma is failing it's people. A case accompanied with publicly available data. The
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by terminus 9y ago
The argument was right below the line you replied to. Perhaps try reading? A google search for "case for climate change" would also give you meaningful results. But, you already knew that.
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by terminus 9y ago
Well said. I'd add Soylent to that list -- they started with sustainable food and now they are pushing Soylent Drink which is basically a throwaway bottle for every 400 calories.
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by terminus 10y ago
Probably this one: https://www.gwern.net/Story%20Of%20Your%20Life
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by terminus 10y ago
> How is the original sentence meaningless? "We think you will like this" (rephrasing) definitely has a meaning. The original sentence is meaningless because it's marketing drivel. In a sales context, this is literally the
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by terminus 11y ago
Microsoft's strategies haven't changed much since (or at all) since these, circa 1999, Halloween documents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents
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by terminus 11y ago
I'd posit this is: https://www.google.com/trends/explore?hl=en-GB&q=Reddit+alte...
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by terminus 11y ago
> We believe the customer should be in control of their own information. You might like these so-called free services, but we don’t think they’re worth having your email, your search history and now even your family photos data mined and
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by terminus 11y ago
You are right about Android and Xerox's GUI. (There were others who were thinking in a similar direction (Openmoko for one), and I would argue that both of these things would have happened anyway. But Apple definitely moved the state o
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by terminus 11y ago
This is not about Android or iPhone. Or Google or whoever. I'll happily acknowledge that Apple sells well thought out products. I stand by what I said earlier. There's too much of a cult of personality associated with Apple. Why d
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by terminus 11y ago
> Apple is one of the most important and influential tech companies in the world right now. No. You are confusing admired with influential.
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by terminus 11y ago
Ye, Gods. Yet another Apple story. They are a for profit (and quite a lot of it) corporation that makes shiny gadgets. Why do we keep talking about them incessantly? If we are not talking about what Apple is doing now, then we are talking a
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by terminus 11y ago
Ringworld by Larry Niven to start with. Rest of the works in Known Space as follow ons.
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by terminus 11y ago
Maybe. But the real question is: is a few percentage points in difference in aesthetics and usability worth it? It is hardly curing cancer.
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by terminus 12y ago
> because it is MY PIE! Not always. Most "pie" bakers either inherit their "pie" directly in terms of wealth or education or healthy upbringing from parents. The ones you call incapable of baking their own, probably d
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by terminus 12y ago
Well put. However, I'd add that what sucks even more is that this is not just a kernel issue. Every single application needs to worry about this. In this particular instance, the vulnerability is caused by git not handling aliased name
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by terminus 12y ago
Speaking from imperfect knowledge, I'd guess: case insensitivity implies allowing for aliasing (case aliasing for case insensitive and god-knows-what for Unicode insensitivity.) Which means that anywhere you handles names, you explicit

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