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yaps8

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    Comment #37402491

    Firefox actually also does it, maybe limited based on location. For instance here they announce it for UK, France, Germany (in 2022) and say it was available in the US/Canada since…

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    Comment #30570881

    I love it, thanks for sharing. Is the confidence a percentage? How is it determined?

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    Comment #21701298

    Author here. If you're curious about MACB updates of your OS or tools, code is on the repo along with a profiling utility for shell commands: https://github.com/quoscient/os_timest…

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    Comment #20865315

    Same here, glad to know I'm not the only one.

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    Comment #19316677

    Hex-Rays is in Belgium.

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    Comment #18997286

    Not sure but I think in the video they say the AI does not see cloaked units.

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    Comment #18706699

    This will not happen. Mind you, they have the right to privacy!

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    Comment #18441815

    Some stats on Wikipedia may fuel this discussion [1] and conclude than planes are safer by km and by time, not by journey though this is an anecdotical thing (not relevant to compa…

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    Comment #18112054

    > without having to beg and wait for the whole world to stop burning fossil fuels, eating meat etc You don't have to beg and wait for YOU to stop burning fossil fuels, eating meat …

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    Comment #18111365

    It think it's also hard because at this point you don't want to make new friends beside smalltalk (which he does). Imagine having been with your spouse for 60 years, your friends 4…

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    Comment #18111033

    Being old and lonely / alone is really terrifying. > Jack still misses his late wife desperately. [...] "The weekend is a dismal time," says Jack. "The time can drag. I don't have …

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    Comment #18111025

    It is really not the tone of the article: > There is a common stereotype that loneliness mainly strikes older, isolated people - and of course it can, and does. But the BBC survey …

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    Comment #16788048

    This is all anecdotes but I've had some (non tech) family members ask about the facebook privacy scandal and they wanted to review their privacy settings.

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    Comment #16698012

    > top of that Uber disabled the cars built in safety system that likely would have also worked. What safety system? I haven't read anything saying this, so any source would be appr…

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    Comment #16647968

    This. Many people comment that the lighting is poor and that a human might understand what's happening too late. This is debatable and misses the point: if visibility is bad, you (…

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    Comment #16621484

    Yeah I missed that but it doesn't look good [1] (december 2016). [1] - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/19/uber-self...

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    Comment #16478566

    Yes there is not "one" definition of capitalism, but yours (private property + freedom to trade) misses some characteristics (for instance: capital accumulation). > Capitalism real…

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    Comment #16478216

    > Capitalism is what you get when a) you have private property, b) freedom to trade property, goods, and services (labor) I disagree. We (sort-of) have your a) and b) and capitalis…

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    Comment #15391730

    Well, if you compare the situation where an adversary has access to source code with a situation where they don't - everyting else being the same - , they have higher chance of fin…

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    Comment #13227900

    The whole point of ethics is to report ‘I think we broke the law’ or ‘I think we violated this contract.’ to your manager (maybe more, depending on the case) and for your own good …

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    Comment #12918414

    Yes, I didn't use or recommand WOT because it didn't seem useful but I never suspected anything shady. How did you know ?

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    Comment #12304260

    I would agree with the general statement that mathematics has not been the most inclusive field (though it's getting better) and has been reserved to "elites", but I don't understa…

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    Comment #11985536

    I wonder how they are trained to differentiate between someone who is hiding something and someone who is uncomfortable because they have been in a 10 hours flight, barely slept, h…