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14일 전discuss

I've got a coin that answers questions. You have to give it a heads or tails query, then flip the coin, and it returns an answer. It's incredible. Now, it doesn't get the right answer every single time, but we're all learning how to use the new coin technology, and this is only the first generation of coin. The next model of coin is going to be even better. Soon we're not going to need humans any more, for any question we have, we'll be able to use the coin.

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Pacman can escape more easily now that there's only one ghost.

3개월 전discuss

It's illegal for us to steal from you, so we won't invite you inside.

5개월 전discuss

The problem with anyone using my face to identify me is that it's hard for me to leave home without it.

6개월 전discuss

I've noticed that the apple news ads target sensitive issues. The retirement one is a good example of that. I've seen ads that appear to already know my financial status and health conditions. I tried the option to reset my advertising identifier, it doesn't seem to make much impact.

8개월 전discuss

I did, I don't want the hassle of anything being blocked, and I don't want to upload identity details as they have the potential for misuse.

I notice that some tech companies claim they are "trusted" or have "trusted third parties", I don't trust them at all, I'm not sure why they think I do.

9개월 전discuss

This is a good moment to try to take Microsoft customers, as they're putting a lot of machines out of support.

9개월 전discuss

The interfaces look like they wanted to be graphical, as they have windows and drop down menus, and they wanted to have multi-tasking, as they implemented the overlay tools in Borland Sidekick. They wanted those things but they were limited to staying in text mode because widespread adoption of any real graphical interface was slow.

It seems a little humorous now that professionals were stuck for several years doing their day to day word processing, spreadsheets and databases in text mode, where getting different sized text or different fonts was almost impossible. This also wasn't just in the 80s, it was still somewhat true in the early 90s, not very long before the beginning of the internet as we know it.

Still, I wonder if things are really any better now, as we're all using software interfaces built on something else that's not really appropriate for the job. HTML.

12개월 전discuss

The world-wide-web is becoming more and more only-your-country-web.

I noticed that some of his choices contributed to his problem. I haven't been forced into accepting AI (so far) while I've been using duckduckgo for search, libreoffice, protonmail, and linux.

I've always wondered if the burning batteries and electronics in the drones have any significant environmental impact when compared to conventional weapons.

Any self respecting alien would send the signal every 42 minutes.

2년 전discuss

I think it worked as defined, it hogged the POST requests?

2년 전discuss

I think I heard that moving from 99.99% unavailability to 99.999% unavailability costs ten times more.

2년 전discuss

Do we lack a captcha here?

2년 전discuss

On the website there is a demo, when you spin the wheel, it scrolls a screen on the right. The demo may be blocked by an adblocker.

4년 전discuss

I tried a similar phone app years ago but it crashed almost every day, which made it impractical. I'm not sure why it should work now as phones aren't designed to run continuously for long periods without attention from a user.

4년 전discuss

I bind mine to virtual desktops, but I have the same applications on each desktop all time, so the workflow is quite similar.

4년 전discuss

That looks really cool. I'd need more help for the next steps - a game loop that runs the game at a consistent speed on different processors, and a sound library.

4년 전discuss

I like gnome: it works, its easy to use, it looks pretty, it's free, and it doesn't feel like it's being run by a corporation that wants to control what I do. Sure there's some design things that aren't right, but I don't feel that it matters a lot, a certain other OS is popular while having a zillion design things that aren't right.