witrak

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by witrak 4d ago
> Brains do much more than output language. Hmm, what do you think about? Unconscious control of the body's processes? REM-phase dreaming? Reaction to hallucinogenic substances? Automatic actions of trained fighters (soldiers or mar
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by witrak 2mo ago
Russian bot detected?
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by witrak 2mo ago
Lol! Does it matter? Using an unclear acronym in the first reference to an object, besides adding energy waste (for the execution of unnecessary searches by users unfamiliar with the subject), may only give the author of the comment the thr
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by witrak 2mo ago
[citation needed]
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by witrak 2mo ago
You dare to compare a Wikipedia article (even a short one) to an SE "article," which is, according to SE's own rules, narrowly and up-to-the-point concentrated on an equally narrow formulated question?
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by witrak 2mo ago
Exactly. It allows for a consistent pattern: cmd1 | cmd2 | cmd3 | ... | cmdn
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by witrak 6mo ago
>A product can be both LOL... A tent is a single product. What about a car? Do you expect to pay separately for the aluminum in the motor and gearbox, as well as for the entire car?
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by witrak 8mo ago
Is the described method good for Enterprise and IoT Windows versions?
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by witrak 9mo ago
>They just want you to log in. This costs nothing. You pay with your data...
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by witrak 1y ago
>> What matters is domain age, IP, and compliance with DKIM/DMARC. >Maybe it was my IP, but I cycled a few with my hosting provider and none of them made a difference. If I am unable to reliable obtain a 'trusted' IP
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by witrak 1y ago
Perhaps, but if you set your browser language to US English you have dates displayed as MM.DD.YYYY and there's no way to change it neither to European nor ISO (YYYY-MM-DD) format.
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by witrak 1y ago
Your concept appears to have coherence until you consider that numbers are not necessarily expressed in decimal notation. What about hexadecimal numbers in filenames? Should they be sorted your way? And what about very long strings of digit
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by witrak 1y ago
It seems nobody remembers the reason for the F-key assignment in the original i.e. Norton Commander... The assignment was very logical and easy to remember (and use) on the original PC keyboard, where F-keys were located in two columns on t
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by witrak 1y ago
Until there are no unified, standard solutions this is too difficult to be achieved in practice.
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by witrak 1y ago
What the hell is gpf? I don't like to be forced to search the web to find each locally used unit. And when will Americans finally learn that instead of the imperial system of units, the rest of the world uses SI?
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by witrak 1y ago
Hmm... In all the cases I saw the prices were mentioned in EUR not USD as the unit. I consider it a clear indication that the discussion participants are mainly non-Americans ;-)
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by witrak 1y ago
>most car manufacturers have 3-10% gross margins. I remember some analysis saying that it is true for classic versions like sedan. But on SUVs it is a couple of times bigger...
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by witrak 1y ago
It is used in all European countries (I don't know any European country that doesn't use it). I know the long scale under the name "European" and the short scale as "American".
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by witrak 1y ago
If you substitute subliminal messaging with any other technique allowing: - to influence human behavior, - to prevent an effective countermeasure, - to be controlled by a single issuer, you - use in a selective or mass scale mode agai
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by witrak 1y ago
As a result there always be a company accepting messages with false sender identity so scammers can operate easily...
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by witrak 1y ago
Because to check email your active participation is needed so you must start an application while to accept texting no such action is needed. Thus for short information (read-and-forget) short messaging (SMS or RCS) is more convenient. Of c
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by witrak 1y ago
>You are categorically mistaken and lack a true understanding of these things. >If you lack the expertise and context, you have no business dictating how things ought to be, and rabble rousing is vile. Your response seems to be typica
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by witrak 1y ago
>The literature is a way of adding cost to those that would send spam, it also adds cost in other ways. It is an oversimplified way of evaluating of consequences of overwhelming control the two monopolists have over access of small provi
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by witrak 2y ago
Taking into account how thoroughly you explain all the intricate details of memory handling it's strange that in the example you haven't clearly commented on the fact of oversimplification of handling unsuccessful allocation (lead
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by witrak 2y ago
This scenario is a solution only in simplest cases. It doesn't work when someone routinely uses a VPN on the phone (when often uses free public wi-fi in airports, railway stations, markets etc) because of possible MITM attacks.
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by witrak 2y ago
>Its really hard to say just how clever AI is getting IMO (as a non-expert in the field). >But then when you give a LLM a completely new problem, not similar to anything they have been trained on - For example, give it a snippet of co
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by witrak 2y ago
>When I publish code I don't pick any license. It's just free for anyone to use for whatever. That's not good in all cases as in some jurisdictions it means that any use is forbidden...
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by witrak 2y ago
>ZFS's major failing is that it offers no way to address inevitable filesystem data and free space fragmentation, and while you can remove devices from a ZFS pool, it incurs a permanent performance penalty, because they work around
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by witrak 2y ago
I agree with one exception: > [...] and audience [...] If you take into account small market share of Firefox and even smaller percentage of Firefox user needing uBOL then "audience" isn't anything important in this case.
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by witrak 2y ago
>uBOL is not an important extension on Firefox. Perhaps you should read some earlier comments then you wouldn't say such things? Hints: Firefox mobile; range of privileges required.

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