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4 years ago
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on: Jeff Bezos: Work-Life Balance Is 'Debilitating Phrase'
Apparently Bezos is worried that someone out there might not know he's a dickhead yet.
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4 years ago
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on: Apple and Google investigated by UK competition body
This will go nowhere and everyone involved will be working for Apple and Google in a few years' time.
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4 years ago
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on: Manifest v3 Update
>DNR as currently implemented by Chrome does not yet meet the needs of extension developers.
"Yet"?
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4 years ago
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on: Instagram lets users hide likes to reduce social media pressure
I thought I'd seen bad analogies before, but I had no idea what was possible.
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4 years ago
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on: What's going on here, with this human?
I read the description of a "self-authoring" mind. Can someone ELI5 how it differs from the description of a "psychopath"?
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4 years ago
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on: Nuclear fusion plan at former Aberthaw Power Station
I wonder who's spouse, in-law or sibling will get most of that £222m.
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4 years ago
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on: Neighbour manages to pollute the 2.4 ghz spectrum with his 120 IoT devices
I feel like I wasn't supposed to see that.
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4 years ago
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on: Dear Matt Mullenweg: An Open Letter from Wix’s CEO
This is written in the style of someone who spends 20 straight hours at a time edit-warring on a wiki.
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5 years ago
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on: What Is the “Mffam” Policy?
It means, "offensive or repugnant to NFSN," which is a reasonable definition for them to be using imho.
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5 years ago
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on: My experience as a Gazan girl getting into Silicon Valley companies
>At Google there were interviews exactly like what Manara prepared us for: data structures & algorithms problem-solving.
I'm surprised this hasn't become the main point of discussion here yet.
Edit: I mean Google's interview technique, and how people prepare for it
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5 years ago
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on: WhatsApp to move ahead with privacy update despite backlash
Someone should paste Zuckerberg's face in the middle of the logo whenever they see one of those.
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5 years ago
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on: Bangui magnetic anomaly
It's probably that vibranium deposit. I saw a film about it.
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5 years ago
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on: Huawei patent mentions use of Uighur-spotting tech
Facial recognition software to count board members? Would that be applauded?
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5 years ago
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on: Octopuses Like to Punch Fish
>Certainly I think ... covids and some other groups, show that intelligence is rather easy to come by
Oh shit I hope not!
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5 years ago
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on: Sustained, high-fidelity quantum teleportation
I don't think you would need exact duplication for these situations to arise.
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5 years ago
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on: YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud
Youtube is the problem. Anyone can put whatever shit they want online, which is fine in itself, but put your snake oil on Youtube and Google's Skynet will expertly find rubes to sell for you and show it to them.
But on a few occasions, like this one, advertisers get nervous.
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5 years ago
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on: With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux
Maybe! The real problem is to help people avoid people they want to avoid, not banning clients on technical grounds. A genuine attempt at solving the problem wouldn't be based on universal bans. There could be groups who have their own blacklists. Find the groups you agree with and tick boxes to subscribe to their ideas of who should be banned.
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5 years ago
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on: AirPods Max
Is cancelling your nose really a price worth paying?
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5 years ago
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on: With Proton and Steam Play, many Windows games now work on Linux
It doesn't even matter whether someone is cheating. All that matters is whether they're ruining the game. You don't need a rootkit to determine that.
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5 years ago
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on: Microsoft's Creepy New 'Productivity Score' Gamifies Workplace Surveillance
You forgot to use cowsay.