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This wasn't just restricted to COM port based I/O either.
Back then I had a Logitech bus mouse. The mouse was connected directly to an ISA card, and didn't use the COM ports as most mice did back then. (I needed the extra COM port/IRQ for my modems.)

I too witnessed the 'windows is running slow when installing' bug. I often would use the mouse cursor to 'mark' the position of the loading bar (we really are spoiled for speed these days). That way when I would walk-away from an install I could see if the progress meter moved while I was away. More often then not the progress bar would still be where it was when I had left. By moving the mouse activity would return and the installation would continue.

I always assumed it was the graphics that were not being updated. A small bug with the install would keep running but the lack of input interrupts caused the display to get 'stuck'. (That would explain the sudden 'jump' in progress bar movement as soon as I wiggled the mouse.)
It is possible: Buy an Android if that's what you need from your phone.
Because they're more honest about the "move fast and drive into a concrete barrier" problems?

IMO's autopilot'ss scariest incident is where it drove into a barrier between the exit lane and the highway. https://gizmodo.com/tesla-autopilot-malfunction-caused-crash...

Other drivers were able to reproduce the same behavior, in which the car appears to think that the space between the exit and the highway is a traffic lane that it should follow. This will dump you straight into a wall at highway speeds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVJSjeHDvfY&feature=youtu.be...

Tesla fixed it. Then six months later the same behavior is back: https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/b36x27/its_bac...

How do you trust a system like this when any software update could turn the car suicidal with you in it? Yeah, it's also incidents where it saved drivers from a collision with faster than human reflexes, which is great. But you still need hands on the wheel and constant attentiveness or it might kill you in a situation that would be obvious to a human driver. The full self driving dream is further off than Musk will admit.
I don't believe they were making a case that it has merit, only that it a long history and is a specific writing conceit for its audience...which I suppose gives it merit as being appropriate for its audience.
Great great point, especially with the current computing/internet-native generation. UX can be important in a crowded or competitive field, but otherwise, mehhh
> Why would any paying customer use ReactOS over windows? [...] Windows 10 is evergreen and new feature appear quite often.

Yes, exactly. Windows likes to update. Some of us want a simple system to run Windows programs/drivers that just works and doesn't demand you upgrade constantly to the latest version with all-new features that you don't have any use for. Granted, *nix+WINE is usually better for this, but there may be times when ReactOS is the better option.
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> In contrast to pacifism, it does not forbid forceful defense.

Has there been ANY war a modern nation state has ever waged that hasn't been framed as self defense?
> Eyes correction is as much reality as deepfakes.

I think you're making 2 mistakes:

- first, thinking that the line is between what we think of as normal camera usage, and eye correction & deep fakes. But the image that we see now is already a result of image correction—white balance, exposure, lens adjustments, and and more secret processing that we don't even get told about.

- second, that it's a hard line. The possibilities aren't "no adjustment whatsoever" and "deepfakes". It's a gradient; there are minor adjustments (like white balance), moderate adjustments (like eye correction), and even greater adjustments (like deep fakes). It's not a hard line line at all. Eye correction is much closer to reality than deep fakes, and a lack of eye correction is closer to reality still.
Are you telling me that's not the correct way to find out?

All these years I've been wrong!
https://www.amazon.ca/alexaprivacysettings for those in Canada!
Why wouldn't you reply to ReactOS devs here pointing that what you are saying is clearly wrong?
Having children should impact men as much as women, professionally and academically. The fact that it doesn't is a cultural decision, not a biological one.

Why aren't men with children staying home with the kids and having the same thing happen to them? Sexism.
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I guess animals often grow to enjoy their cages; had a pal who kinda freaked out when he got out of the pokey too.

Oh yeah: no body cavity searches getting past the gate, we had legroom, free food on the plane, free baggage, and they didn't blare CNN in the airports like some Orwell dystopia, or ads for the airline on the airplane telescreen. The planes were better too; 747 was super common and comfy (now you need to fly the Luftwaffe or British Airways, and the seats aint what they used to be), and if you were loaded, you could take the Concorde across the pond for a price which seems comically cheap these days.
> I just wish we can all come to our senses and realize that the TSA doesn't really make us safer and that it just makes everyone mad. Unfortunately, people just seem to put up with it.

Because people don't feel like they can make any real impact, and for those who can (our representatives), it's political suicide. The TSA is a giant waste of money but turning the front line of security back to airports would extremely easy to attack as weak on crime, inviting in terrorists, etc. (But who knows, maybe the sight of the TSA line makes terrorists give up in frustration because they're too busy to wait an hour or more just to hijack a plane.)
FWIW, the original quote in context means something different than most people realize:

https://www.npr.org/2015/03/02/390245038/ben-franklins-famou...
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From the answer on Stack Exchange:

> The effect was quite pronounced; large applications that could take an hour to install could be reduced to 15 minutes with suitable mouse input.
That is not how color/lighting correction works. Also video compression will affect different pixels differently.
Literally just “what a slippery slope!”
I'm going to violate hacker news's regulations for substantial comments by just saying "what the actual fuck"
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I assume the sociologists do actually ask a lot more questions and they simply don't filter through to tech boards, but the really interesting ones seem to me to be:

* Are average women making a more rational decisions than average men in avoiding these fields?

* Is there a difference in how much pain average men and women will tolerate before they leave? Ie, is the average man desperate to achieve a certain type of success, leading to increased competitiveness?

I think we all know that leadership positions in STEM companies and academia (and beyond) tend to skew male, the entry level incentives skew female and that females are the target of lots of unwanted male attention.

This obviously implies a bias, because half the apt are going to be female. However the efforts to correct this bias don't seem to have done their due diligence to figure out what the cause is; because at the moment the entry level incentives are clearly unfair in and of themselves. Two wrongs don't make Right, they make Very Wrong - it is a bad idea to correct bias by introducing more biases. Also, my experience in the mining industry makes me think that these incentives aren't likely to work because the cause of the bias is not concern about monetary compensation. I'll spare the crowd my personal theories.
This is a project I've been working on for enhancing the accessibility features of phones to aid the visually impaired. I was exploring a bit with Tensorflow and decided to deploy it in an iOS app and train some models for identification features.
I can highly recommend it. It might be punishing at first, but that is part of the fun :)

Watching a few better players helped me getting started.
Of course they delivered more cars! Probably because TM3 is light years ahead of anything else on the market, EV or otherwise.

One thing I love about Tesla is their plan was always all about the Model 3 (and eventually Y). They didn’t relegate their best technology into S/X and hobble the 3. They put everything they had into TM3 to make it the pinnacle of what they could accomplish and as forward thinking as possible. It’s an absolute generational leap which I think will sell very strongly for a decade. All the while they will continue to work on cost efficiency, margins, and scale, while delivering a constant stream of software and hardware updates to the growing fleet.

The next big refresh of S/X will drive them forward with their newest battery tech, powered by their Maxwell acquisition, and motor, suspension, and most notably I would assume materials improvements which will re-differentiate S/X from the 3 and pull more buyers up to that level.

But TM3P is just so incredibly compelling I’m not at all surprised a Tesla buyers at the $60k+ price point would go with that over the S.

I think we will see in Q3/Q4 that Tesla does not need a $60k ASP in order to be profitable. Part of that of course will be buoyed by credits and rebates which is an important part of their overall strategy. Legacy carmakers will pay Tesla billions to cover their ICE pollution cost.
> As long as they don't allow user ratings or user comments they should be fine.

I will however pay extra for blocklists. If they let me block an artist, oh man. That would be the best money spent.
You scan your passport, lean in for a picture of your face, and hand a receipt to a person on your way out.
I literally cannot imagine supporting monopolies/oligopolies over healthy competition.

There really is more than just an ocean between America and Europe, the culture is so dramatically different.

How can one honestly believe that a Google data monopoly is better for privacy and innovation? It seems to fly in the face of every lesson learned by every monopoly in history.
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Honest question is there really a correct way to deal with it?

When you have a service that that 40% of traffic is coming from underage how would you keep the weirdos out?

After what happened YouTube I’m glad my kids still need some years before using social media, I hope these problems are solved by them.
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I installed Kubuntu on an old PC and am currently using it as a remote dev environment & FTP server. Any other cool use-cases for a spare Linux box?
The advantage is likely mainly an eugenetic one, but also one of sortation: Decision about power should be based on competence. A means of removing incompetent people is bullying them out. This is unlikely to be very effective though because mostly it's not the most competent who bully the most, but it selects for criteria like resilience, disagreeableness. Though conversely, means of avoiding bullying could also result in poorer sortation as people can strategically pull the bullying card to get ahead. For this reason such measures should be treated with caution, I think. Especially when it is about jobs concerning critical infrastructure.
New mafia is merging with the old mafia... "Wonderful" end to dreams about technology enabling better world...
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* I didnt say ad business was good or bad, but from the perspective of a European I would want European firms competing against American firms and keeping money and talent in my borders to boost my communities.

* I didn't say that imploding ad business means privacy regulation is bad for small business, but I did demonstrate that big regulation chokes out small business and strongly correlates with big business success
Kids Activity Trackers are what I believe is the solution to this problem. If kids are made to wear fitness or activity trackers it's much easier to trace their location and the environment they are in.

This might help here : https://www.operaincinema.com/best-fitbit-for-kids/
Idunno TikTok seems fun. I grew up looking at muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch worse (only being 22 now), and I can tell you that the wacky and horrible things I've seen on the internet are 0% of my problems as an adult.

If anything, exposure to terrorist beheadings, creepy pedos, ironic (and less ironic) naziposting, and the rest have made me a more resilient person, with no physical risk.
Results may vary, but I'm not sure I would sequester the worst of the internet from kids older than 12 (or the individual kid's mental equivalent), personally.
If the EULA is a valid contract, and if you can prove someone involved accepted it before participating, you might have an action for breach of contract against that person, but if what they did wouldn't have been a violation of copyright on its own, the EULA won't change that.
It's unclear how successful hardware hacking on a modern, updated iPhone can be at this point, isn't it?
Same - I can't help but wonder how many of these respondents are just confusing the vicissitudes of life with bullying.
Sure, if one can be lazy about doing recreational activities.
Funny... It must need to synthesize the obscured portion of the eye highlight. I wonder if it grabs it from the back-facing camera, or if it's using stock images/texture synthesis?
Ah, ok. I have 2 3TB and a 4TB running on a Proxmox v3 system. Was wanting to upgrade to Proxmox v5 and try ZFS.

The 4TB is a different make than the 2 3TB drives, though.
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It's been a while, but if I recall, wasn't Bioshock's plot a rather on the nose critique of these ideas? Particularly objectivism?

Since the city was eventually destroyed by research/monsters created by these scientists "not bound by petty morality" and their exploitation by the wealthy class?
But the force and worth of Vance's take would be ZERO if he was an outsider.

JD Vance was born and raised in Middletown OH. This is far SW Ohio, on the border with Indiana. (It was something of a surprise to me that any part of Ohio is considered Appalachian, but then I've spent most of my Ohio time in Toledo. [0]) There are hills, but those hills are not the Appalachians. JD Vance is from the Midwest. Has he actually claimed to be Appalachian? As far as I can tell he has claimed to be a "hillbilly", which is fine but hardly limited to Ohio or the Appalachians. My neighbors and I in the Ozarks have at least as strong a claim to the term, but we don't seem to get as uptight about this stuff as the folks back East get.

[0] https://lookingatappalachia.org/region
>The tone at the top of a company absolutely filters down into their product approach and adherence to an ethical framework.

You can say that again. Sergey Brin's mistress Amanda Rosenberg was the marketing manager for Google Glass, and that sure had a douchey entitled nepotistic oleaginous product approach and ethical framework.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2538874/Google-Glas...

http://notokglass.com/creepy/ok-glass-impress-teenage-girls/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tarunwadhwa/2014/04/24/the-goog...
From a comment:
Try opening a large file with Notepad on a contemporary machine. The window must not be full screen. When loaded, mark all text using the mouse (the keyboard works as well, it just needs more manual skill). While still holding the button down (and marking) move the mouse down, so the text gets marked and scrolled. Now compare the scroll speed while holding the mouse still versus wiggling it. Depending on your machine the speed up can be several times faster.

It's not just Notepad :-) I do this often, when I have to mark a lot of things.
the washington one is incorrect. it should read "it belongs to corporations and 'job creators'"
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What do you mean?

Women are presently becoming presidents, vice-presidents, etc and forming women advocacy committees inside of corporations and other organizations to use their influence to create special programs for women which advantage them in the same way we’ve seen from the educational system.

And women have become prevalent in all of those fields, over the same time period.

The reason you don’t see them storming the ranks of business leadership is twofold:

1. It simply takes time. A woman who was 22 in 1978 is 63 now, so the very beginning of that group is only now reaching senior leadership — exactly in line with the timing of female advantage programs in the workplace. If my theory is right (and people don’t do anything — which is unlikely), then we’d see the same sexist programs from colleges rolled out into the workplace over the next twenty years. (I think pointing it out is part of pushing back on excess in democracy — hence me calling it out here.)

2. Biology is a thing, and we see that in equitable societies — where women are free to pursue passions rather than coerced to amass power — they tend to choose a different distribution of lifestyles than men. There’s two cohorts in women that are smaller in men, the ones who want to stay home as caretakers and the ones who want to work part time and be part time caretakers. It’s not clear that women try to lead major corporations at the same rate as men — and as anecdata, around half the small business owners, and majority of crafters or service contracting company owners, I meet are women. We may actually be seeing a more fair outcome than first blush would lead you to believe — and desires simply aren’t evenly distributed.

I’m not saying there isn’t sexism anywhere. I’m just saying there’s systemic sexism against men in education — and women who are accustomed to that are trying to bring it into the workplace.
Its like rage shake for mouse! If you are angry and shake your mouse in rage it moves things faster. I imagine this would be a very satisfying thing to be able to do.
Gotta love the uber-intellectual reply that any valid criticism of European regulation brings: "but WHATABOUT <this other unrelated case>"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
Laws where the government requires some business intermediary to “police” for compliance are the most worrisome to me. The bar for these sorts of regulations should be very high. Unless life or limb is at risk regulatory compliance should be left to the regulators.
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I have the same hope, which is why I posted this. Moreover, I emailed the first author so they would be aware of the discussion here.
Oh, it's "not very novel"? So it's completely unimportant then. That Western so-called civilization is sliding into a totalitarian dystopia while proclaiming it is protecting "freedom" is not an interesting topic of discussion, because... it has been discussed before!
Most airports have moved to millimeter wave instead of x-ray: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millimeter_wave_scanner
There are Blackberry phones. There are feature phones. It’s your choice to feel you must own a phone from one of the two main ecosystems because “everyone” else does. I know a number of people who either don’t own smartphones or only carry one provided by their company (and use only for work purposes).
I agree, I think phone industrial design peaked with the iPhone 5S/SE, Nexus 5, and Pixel 1. I'd like that design forever please.
Much better title. At least is not focused in the feelings of "scientists say, scientists did".
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> Other bugs and “features” would drain the battery so aggressively that several phones caught on fire, some injuring customers. We found ways to hide our actual power usage and circumvent protections that would have prevented rapid battery discharge.

Was it FIX Health? Their flagship app, The Outbreak[1] is literally the worst app I've ever installed on my phone.

I had to install it as a part of a company health incentive so I could get my HSA bonus, but that app is seriously so bad. If I opened it on my Nexus 5X with 30% battery remaining, the OS would immediately start shutting down. Sometimes it froze my phone at full battery such that I couldn't use it or even reach the lock screen again until I did a hard reset.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.FIX.TheOut...
"Very few people" used it because it was a beta service that was only ever available to a small number of artists.

Opening it up to everyone would have transformed the industry. Spotify could absolutely own the small artist space in the same way that Amazon owns the self-publishing space for unsigned authors, but it chooses not to for political reasons.

This has nothing to do with copyright issues. Spotify already has a copyright claim process and the major labels have their own copyright monitoring systems.
I don't recall accusations of Linux using Windows code, but these accusations (especially the "one has only to eyeball the code to see it was stolen") are reminiscent of the SCO troll-case, which was (indirectly but very likely intentionally) financially backed by Microsoft.

Without specific proof demonstrating that there is no way one could have come to write that code from publicly available information they are just FUD.
Ah, the operant conditioning of software.

To this day, when waiting for some long or compute-intensive operation, I tend to instinctively move the mouse around. I guess this may be why.

Ironically, even though I grew up on Windows, I don't remember any actual case of "moving the mouse speeds thing up" on this OS - I only remember the infamous Linux cases (mouse move regenerates entropy, unblocking processes that got stuck when generating a random number call). But there must have been something, and I must have experienced it early enough in my childhood.
I don't understand what you are saying.
Also Discord. They brag about it a bit. [1] Don't say or type anything you don't want archived forever. Loose lips sink ships.

[1] - https://blog.discordapp.com/how-discord-stores-billions-of-m...
The most obvious explanation is that there really are inherent differences between men and women such that (some) men drive themselves harder to attain these high level positions. Sadly, this is an area that's more or less forbidden to investigate and discuss due to politics.
Well, they're facts about news reports. Always good to remember that what we know about what's going on in some other part of the world is what people tell us.
I can't see a way to "trust nobody" beyond abstaining entirely from phones, computers, etc.

Imagine a Free Software utopia with open hardware running an open source OSes and apps. Someone is writing that code. Someone is manufacturing that device. Someone is compiling and packaging that distribution for you. Someone is running the network.

Having access to the (alleged) source code for everything, and being able to compile it all yourself, would surely be worth something. But it'd be way too much code for you to audit alone. So you're going to have to trust Someone (security researchers, open source contributors) to be doing this for you...
I'm in your situation, I'm so impressed!
They claim to specialize in copyleft content, so almost certainly not. The cynic in me thinks that in practice it'll be a fancy frontend for everybody's BitTorrent downloads folder... with an archive.org downloader script for some plausible deniability.