wmassingham

@wmassingham@lemmy.world
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*protable

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It's not, but it gets clicks.

If anything, vxworks is the secret one. Huge numbers of embedded devices run vxworks, but the only people who work with it are embedded systems developers.

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tl;dr:

The standard model of coin flipping was extended by Persi Diaconis [12] who proposed that when people flip a ordinary coin, they introduce a small degree of ‘precession’ or wobble—a change in the direction of the axis of rotation throughout the coin’s trajectory. According to the Diaconis model, precession causes the coin to spend more time in the air with the initial side facing up. Consequently, the coin has a higher chance of landing on the same side as it started (i.e., ‘same-side bias’).

"Higher chance" being 50.77% to land on the same side it started from. But this varies by person; apparently some people introduce more precession than others. But even if you could figure out how to do it reliably, I wouldn't bet the farm on it.

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Everything else is just a sparkling memory error?

It's not clickbait, it's just intentionally misleading at best, and factually wrong at worst. It's not ditching the minimal option, it's making it the default.

"Funding: my mom gave me the coins out of her car cupholder"

sites will have to verify the age of visitors, either by asking for government-issued documents or using biometric data, such as face scans, to estimate their age

Yeah, most sites are just going to block UK users. Dealing with personal data like that is a nightmare.

It's in the article:

New York-based WeWork is considering filing a Chapter 11 petition in New Jersey

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No, patent trolling is when you patent a bunch of stuff and make money by suing people instead of actually producing that product.

Filing complaints on behalf of someone you don't legally represent is fraud.

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Desktop window manager, miles per velociraptor, Ninal Santansy 14

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Usage data is important for developers to know how people use their software, so I'm okay with it. But given Red Hat's recent direction, I'm not sure I trust them to slowly increase the data being collected.

But I don't use Fedora and I've already moved off Red Hat/CentOS, so I don't have a horse in this race ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Yeah. Just because a tech company does something, that doesn't make it technology news. Call me when there's actual technologic development coming out.

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Yeah I think so, but they've stopped providing security updates for it.

You posting on Lemmy by mail?

Is anyone actually running modern Linux on Itanium? I have never in my life even heard of anyone using those chips. I find it hard to imagine anyone still using them that isn't running something legacy.

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They don't have to do it well, just enough to satisfy the lawyers.

If electric bikes were the only thing allowed on back roads, you'd never be able to make enough grocery/dump/Tractor Supply runs to have time for anything else in your life.

I missed the word "server" every time and thought it was a client, and spent far too long trying to figure out how you'd play Minecraft in Bash. Text based? ASCII graphics?

No. They're literally a meme for how bad they are on tech content: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/the-verges-gaming-pc-build-video

No, but it's a hell of a lot easier to put huge language datasets into the machine learning blender and get a model out, instead of manually programming every conceivable linguistic construction.

It wasn't running on the pregnancy test then, and it's not running on a keycap now. Both this and the pregnancy test are someone putting their own hardware into a random enclosure and saying "I'm running Doom on X!"

No, you're not really. Would you say that I'm running Doom on a banana if I put the same hardware inside a banana peel? No, because it's just a case for something else.

If he was running it on the keyboard's existing processor and it had a screen in the key, like Doom on a Mac touchbar, then I would agree.

So do I. You're telling me you've never had someone try to describe a cable or read an error code over the phone and completely mangle it?

A video would let them say "yeah, that looks like a stroke" or heart attack or whatever. Or notice things the caller didn't describe, like they're calling for someone they found unconscious, but they didn't notice the live power line right next to them.

It depends. I've used a chargeback where I sent a product back for a warranty repair, and the seller stopped responding. The bank just wanted documentation, and they put it through. I imagine you could argue for a chargeback in this case, if you used a credit card.

Why is the author suggesting government regulation should be involved here? Spamming and scamming is nothing new, at all. This is on the platforms to actually do a substantial job of moderating.

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Literally in the article:

One internal study cited 13.5% of teen girls saying Instagram makes thoughts of suicide worse and 17% of teen girls saying it makes eating disorders worse.

Effortlessly? No hiccups? The Apollo program alone cost $178 billion 2022 dollars between 1961 and 1972. And I'm pretty sure that they had at least one hiccup. And that doesn't even count the other programs like Mercury or Gemini.

It's not, but the top mod also runs a bot that automatically posts content from various news sites, probably based on keywords. And I'd bet that some of those keywords are Twitter and Facebook. So don't expect them to follow their own rules.

tech·nol·o·gy
/tekˈnäləjē/
noun

  • the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry. "advances in computer technology"

  • machinery and equipment developed from the application of scientific knowledge. "it will reduce the industry's ability to spend money on new technology"

  • the branch of knowledge dealing with engineering or applied sciences.

Some bozo changing the rules on his social media site is not scientific knowledge.

Video doesn’t add anything that you can’t describe by voice.

Have you never tried to talk someone through doing something over the phone? It's incredibly slow if you can't see what they're doing, and you can't see if they're doing it right or not.

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As long as we're nitpicking, in English, we only use the upper quotation marks, e.g. "you're".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Summary_table

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Sure, if you boot a Windows recovery image, you can do that: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/use-bootrec-exe-in-the-windows-re-to-troubleshoot-startup-issues-902ebb04-daa3-4f90-579f-0fbf51f7dd5d

Similarly, in Linux, I've seen issues like a chown/chmod gone wild that fucked the system file permissions enough that reinstalling is the easiest course of action.

It never was.

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No, but Windows is so entrenched that they don't need to actually be competitive in order to keep making profit. Instead, the Windows team has to invent things nobody ever wanted or needed that they can advertise to make it look like they're still useful. Software UX polish-passes don't make good marketing. You can't seriously put "you know that one weird thing that only happened to a fraction of users sporadically? we fixed it" on a marketing campaign.

Are current laws against harassment insufficient?

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A reminder about your dentist appointment.

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Yes, different drivers mean that could be possible. Run the same benchmark under both Windows and Linux if you want comparable data.

Are you trying to enshittify "enshittification"?

Same thing they're doing right now: ignoring the license.

The old HTML and new fancy interfaces both depend on a backend, presumably the same one. But if they want to change anything on the backend, they risk breaking any interface that uses it. So if they ignore it, it'll probably end up broken.

Is there an option to turn them off?