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Comment · 2 years ago
All software and copyright licenses are ideological documents. You don't see the ideology in BSD and MIT because it is your preferred ideology.
Comment · 2 years ago
They don't want to comply with the GDPR or other EU laws.
Comment · 2 years ago
Over a two year period in the US, there were over 600 cases where police officers and civilians with access to law enforcement databases violated internal policies and safeguards to access private data about "romantic partners, business associates, neighbors, journalists and others for reasons that have nothing to do with daily police work". This is certainly an undercount, as this is just who got caught and the department didn't cover it up. These are the cases they admitted to doing it and were charged, so the records are public.
"Among those punished: an Ohio officer who pleaded guilty to stalking an ex-girlfriend and who looked up information on her; a Michigan officer who looked up home addresses of women he found attractive; and two Miami-Dade officers who ran checks on a journalist after he aired unflattering stories about the department."
https://apnews.com/general-news-699236946e3140659fff8a2362e1...
Comment · 2 years ago
I'm an American and the best I could answer for that is "on the baseball field." I know it is a baseball position. Many other countries play baseball too. (Looked it up, oh I remember now, but wouldn't have been able to answer on demand.)
Wikipedia tells me "baseball is considered the most popular sport in parts of Central and South America, the Caribbean, and East Asia, particularly in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. "
I don't think there is such a shibboleth with both good precision and recall. American culture is exported around the world, but also is no longer a monoculture with only 3 broadcast networks. Any shibboleth that is ubiquitous enough in the US will be exported globally. Any part of US culture that is not global probably isn't as universal in the US.
Even basic US civics (which would be known by more educated people globally) is far from universal: Only 77% of Americans can link the first amendment to freedom of speech and only 83% can name even one of the three branches of the federal government. And that's of the population of Americans who agree to take a university run political knowledge survey (https://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/political-commun...)
Comment · 2 years ago
The Kia Soul and other Kia models can be hotwired in 30 seconds by popping off a plastic panel housing the ignition, inserting something with the dimensions of a USB A male plug, and turning it like a key. It is a huge trend on TikTok for the "Kia Boys" to steal Kias and go joyriding. My insurance company stopped insuring Kias in my area and cities and states are suing Kia over the rampant theft problem caused by bad design.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2023/01/30/kia-hyu...
Comment · 3 years ago
The pi4 is powerful enough to drive multiple 4k displays while doing face detection from a camera.
Comment · 3 years ago
Mostly agreed, but "sitting idle most of the time" isn't quite the right metric. The question is if it can handle the peak loads. And a pi zero can run pihole and a rain gauge.
I don't plan to upgrade my rpi4 running homeassistant, a Plex video streaming server, a tailscale VPN exit node, and a few other minor services.
Plex on the rpi4 can't keep up transcoding 4k video to 1080p, maybe the rpi5 can, but I don't personally need that. Many Plex users do need 4k transcoding though.
Also, I have tried to use the pi4 as a desktop replacement, and I just found it too slow for the modern bloated world of webapps. All the little things just added up to too much and I gave up. The pi5 might be good enough though, but with all the peripherals and pains of arm64, a used old laptop is still probably better on the price/performance ratio.
Comment · 3 years ago
Let's get the actual numbers in this discussion:
> Someone making $85,000 a year would pay an extra $170. A worker making $200,000 would see an increase of roughly $822 next year.
Comment · 3 years ago
> But who wants to listen to a computer copy of someone else's voice? No one.
I think you underestimate the cultural desire and pressure for a perfect presentation of one's self. It started out with mass marketing, where every advertisement and authorized photos of celebrities published in the last 50 years are in some way retouched, cleaned up, photoshopped. This cancer spread to social media and metastisized it with filters. Now Zoom by default smooths my patchy face. The next logical step is basically VTube but with your own face instead of an avatar. Conventionally attractive people have huge advantages, after all. If it starts to be normal, then those who don't will be disadvantaged. Maybe family calls are different, but in professional settings where you're trying to influence others, it's an advantage.
Comment · 3 years ago
> Salesforce uses the same lean product development concepts that we espouse here. They test messages and products and then make R&D investment based on real customer demand.
The crucial difference is being honest to your customers that this is your process, versus trying to hide it so that only your most savvy long-term customers know it's a mirage.
Comment · 3 years ago
Everything in archives pre-2021 is still untainted. All major social media, Q&A, code repos, and archive.org are timestamped. It taints future collection of training data, but not existing collection of training data.
Comment · 3 years ago
If you're not interested in random and creative acts of programming, I think you're on the wrong discussion site.
This is for fun. It takes todays headlines and rewrites them. Like I could tell that the "The Mars State Fair Sees Many Galactic Party Candidates but Only One Zorgon" was a rewrite of "The Iowa State Fair Sees Many Republican Party Candidates but Only One Trump".
It retells the present in a future context. I enjoyed it.
Comment · 3 years ago
Can you please explain why? I care about privacy and security, and this trend seems like we're going backwards. If something needs network access, web apps make sense. But I liked offline tools better when we called them "programs". Web apps to me seem like they turn the web browser into an operating system. I already have an OS.