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Something I've never understood about DRM is, if the content is ultimately played on my device, what stops me from reverse engineering their code to make an alternative client or d…

For what its worth, all of my local banking and e-government apps work flawlessly on GrapheneOS. The only unsupported feature or app I've found so far is Google Pay. (I'm from Ital…

> Just intuitively, in such a high dimensional space, two random vectors are basically orthogonal. Which, incidentally, is the main reason why deep learning and LLM are effective i…

Came here to say the same thing. Uiua is my favorite language by far. BQN is also a cool "Nu-APL" but Uiua is just a full generation ahead.

> I have a good understanding of the problem, but I do not have a solution REALLY Just don't call background services, unless the user explicitly requested a remote service! My Lin…

I'm very puzzled by this language. Why put the verbs at the end of the sentence, for instance? Was this shell inspired by Japanese or German?

Even after perusing jq's manual multiple times and having written several complex incantations, I still have no idea how to properly combine `|` and `.[]` except by trial and error…

They should all be either allowed or denied. Why are UR-MOM or F-YOU considered offensive, while newer memes and slang that may be even more offensive can probably pass through the…

IIRC a spinning space station would only be beneficial if it was very large and thus far from Earth and expensive. Otherwise the difference in gravity acting on different sides of …

Have you considered Nim? Much better type system than C, syntax is very similar to Python, compile times are excellent and speed analogous to C++.

Yes, it will complain and for good reason: it has no way of knowing whether the kid next door is spoofing your router's IP or Mac address and presenting their own self-signed certi…

> Futurama was right: nuclear winter cancels global warming I'm not sure it does (I'd love to read an accurate model of it) but I get your point. It's a very compelling point. I wi…

It was definitely not. It was in the food we interested. Trees and other plants take carbon from air, energy from the sub, and use it to build themselves. We take carbon from them …

Does European privacy law have the same provision? They are removing non-US accounts first, after all.

That's exactly the taboo aspect of it.

I agree. It probably got fixed into our instincts and our culture a long time ago.

To play devil's advocate, such a thing as transcribing Western names phonetically using Chinese characters does exist, both in contemporary Chinese and in other historical or minor…

I recommend the Linear Algebra series of YouTube videos by 3blue1brown.

By "older kids" you mean "moronic young adults," I agree: https://youtu.be/JA7jc4rpTns

With the second party (Gitlab in this case) I have a contact, give them money regularly, and have other such leverage in case they screw up. Third parties generally could not case …

I'm not young by any stretch of the imagination, but I also consume content on my phone whenever I'm doing mundane tasks that allow for it, such as walking or riding public transpo…

I second a ThinkPad with XFCE (such as Xubuntu) as the best combination. A few things which, although obvious in retrospect, I had to learn the hard way: • Get a ThinkPad with phys…

If you plot them as XY it's even more obvious which one is perfect consonance and which one dissonance: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%7B+x+%3D+sin%28t%29%3... https://www.…

I've been using the Slimblade for years. I even contributed a small change to Xorg evdev input driver (the Emulate3Button option) to work around the weird internal numbering of the…