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FrankyHollywood

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About FrankyHollywood

making open source software for a living

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    There is some effect however. Many kids including mine used to have there first phone around their 10th birthday. Now I see parents around me waiting longer due to the ban. Sure if…

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    Comment #48874041

    Exactly, the article also mentions "Only about 1% of those used in the US are made domestically". It's already being done so it seems more a cost related issue than lack of knowled…

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    Comment #47892133

    For me it's funny to see the discussion is completely black-white, like everyone is hooked. I have 3 kids, 2 use their phones like half an hour at a time, the other is completely h…

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    Comment #46343504

    Interesting how experience can differ. A trauma for you was my most important lesson learned during high school years.

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    Comment #46343091

    Sometimes a good teacher doesn't give the answer straight away, but just enough to let you discover yourself. That's a huge difference.

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    Comment #46339237

    Don't know if TikTok is the problem, a generation ago (some) kids mindlessly watched cartoons for hours a day. I think this is mostly about learning to think and develop grit. As a…

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    My mom doesn't like cat videos anymore

    "What's so funny mom, another cat video?" "No I don't watch those anymore, most of them are AI now... I don't like watching a fake cat." Is this generation bounded, will young peop…

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    Comment #45898035

    Yes piracy is more necessary than ever! In my student years I used DC++ just to watch free movies. With the rise of streaming I kind of forgot about it, until I got annoyed. I don'…

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    Comment #45338163

    $100 billion, what a number. It makes me a bit cynical. The amount of useful developments you could finance in either clean energy, education, nature preservation, medicine, anythi…

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    Comment #45135855

    The article states "When that same data is transformed into a knowledge graph" This is a non-trivial exercise. How does one transform knowledge into a knowledge graph using RDF? RF…

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    Comment #45125230

    For more background on the development read Idea Man from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, a really interesting read (at least the first half of the book, later chapters are descri…

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    Comment #45023305

    Backward compatibility. Intel provides processors for many vendors and many OS. Changing to a new architecture is almost impossible to coordinate. Apple doesn't have this problem. …

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    Comment #44646563

    'Reader view'! I use it on a daily basis. Don't know if this is standard for any browser now, FF is my main browser since I left Opera... https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firef…

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    Comment #44462329

    We are in the early stage :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN-ZktmjIfE

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    Comment #44267919

    Well people differ. Look around at your colleagues, some have dry eyes and lower back pain from working hours without interruption on a boring task. Others, like myself, are easily…

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    Comment #42063332

    Actually it's only 16% https://www.visualcapitalist.com/a-global-breakdown-of-green...

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    Comment #41668239

    I have never read more bullshit in my life than during the corona pandemic, all written by humans. So you should never trust something you read, always question the source and it's…

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    Comment #41320900

    Thx for sharing! For a long time, I was lazy, and took pride in quoting Bill Gates "I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it." …

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    Comment #41307677

    How do you know? :)

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    Comment #41168493

    There is a lot of research done right now, funded by the EU. But uncertainties are huge, and the tipping point for the Amoc could be between 2050 and 8065 [0]. It's a complex probl…