Hobadee

I never once said that there can't or shouldn't be any restrictions in place. By all means, put laws in place where recording video in a locker room is a felony, for example. I'm just saying that a blanket ban because it could be bad is extremely short-sighted.

That works the first 10 times or so I meet someone, but it starts getting awkward after that. (Wish I was exaggerating)

Flat out banning a category of product because it is possible to use it for bad things is stupid. Thousands of people are killed by cars every year - should we ban them? (Being killed is far worse than being recorded naked in a locker room. Not saying the latter is great, but it's better than being dead)

There are also potential good uses for this tech. As someone who can't remember anyone's name worth crap, I can't wait for smart glasses with facial recognition and a name tag that hovers over everyone. I'm sure there will be great benefit in industry, giving workers heads up displays of all manner of important information.

Just like any new technology, there is equal potential for good and bad.

I'm not seeing any shout-outs to MSWLogo! I loved being able to create dialog boxes and UIs!

Also, The Great Logo Adventure is a great book for kids learning Logo. It's what I learned with, and it's available as a free PDF now!

Cloudflare is simply following the time-honored trajectory:

1. Good company starts, with good service and mission

2. Because company has good service and mission, company grows to control a majority of the market

3. Company realizes they can leverage their market for other means and sells their soul to the devil

4. People realize company is no longer good

5a. People leave company

-or-

5b. Company is now a monopoly and people can't leave

Sources: - Microsoft - Google - Others

It was instituted after Tenerife where hundreds died because of this exact same problem.

I'm pretty sure it's FAA policy, but not 100% on that.

Last time a custom Android distro (CyanogenMod) made a deal with a manufacturer, everything went belly-up. I have little faith that the same won't happen again. :-(

> You assert this without evidence.

I mean, there are plenty of instances if you are willing to look... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cases_of_electoral_fra...

Hackers rather trivially were able to hack optical scan machines back in the 90s or early 2000s. Defcon famously has its voting village, where hackers hack voting machines via numerous means. If you think this isn't happening (or at least being attempted) in reality (by either party, and/or outside countries) you are naive.

> That's not how rights work. Would you say that there should be a "barrier to entry" for freedom of speech or gun rights?

Yes, there is a barrier of entry for freedom of speech and gun rights; it's called holding on to freedom itself, and it is a VERY difficult and bloody ordeal that can be lost extremely quickly if not protected. (See all non-free countries, or even parts of Europe where you can now be jailed for making certain comments online.)

I never said the barrier for entry should be a test, like the "literacy tests" we implemented during Jim Crow, but if you aren't willing to give up something for your freedom, you probably don't deserve it. (Not saying you must necessarily give something up, just that you must be willing to give something up.)

> Also for every skid you get on a coaster brake I'll raise you a nose Endo with the front disc brake!

I can slam on my front disc brakes and not endo. Step 1: shift your weight all the way to the back. (hang off the back of the seat). Step 2: have front suspension.

Weight shift is mostly enough on its own, but front suspension eats up whatever endo tendency is left.

We can't do any of that because it is forward-thinking and doesn't involve clear-cutting a rainforest to make the stacks of paperwork that are otherwise required to fill out forms in triplicate, run everything through 17 different departments, and ensure an army of bereaucrats have something to do with their day.

Where is all this love for coaster brakes coming from?! They are, IMHO, one of the worst brakes ever. They have caused me numerous spills and scraped knees (due to the rear wheel locking up and skidding out from under me) and have done the same to my kids. There is virtually no control over them, and they don't allow you to shift your weight around when standing on the pedals to go around sharp corners or off-road. (Nevermind trying to shift your weight backwards when stopping quickly)

I have hydraulic disc brakes on my bike, and they are the greatest thing ever! Yeah, they require maintenance, but totally worth it.

Easy solution; design a system with backdoors, implement it in some banking or other system the people at the top use, compromise said backdoor and release all the private info of those arguing for the backdoors.

Things will very quickly turn around.

(That, or narrow exceptions will be carved out for those in power.)

I love it. A couple notes: - This is about 10x a real defrag speed - WAAAY too fast - IIRC the "Data that will not be moved" was typically lumped at the beginning of the drive, not spread out all over.

That's how virtually all industries work though. The computer you are typing on right now probably costs a different amount depending on which retailer you bought it from, even though it's the same manufacturer.

And here I am, thinking I discovered "glueballs" in elementary school when we were given rubber cement to use.

Not sure if you are being sarcastic or not here, but sitting next to each other in the same room isn't the same as spending time together.

I can sit with my butt touching someone else's on the subway for an hour, but would hardly call that "spending time together", or presume to know anything about them other than their smell.

TBF, a solid 50% of regulation is probably government overreach. The problem is that it's intrinsically tangled with the other 50% (crossing various specializations/laws/departments) that isn't; you can't undo one without undoing both.

15s is enough to book it to a close stairwell in some cases. I used to work in a dodgy building in the city. Any time one of those shake alerts hit, I would sprint to the stairwell and everyone would look at me funny. Jokes on them when the big one hits!

> A new report shows Windows 11's built-in Weather app can consume more than 1 GB of RAM. By comparison, Apple's native Weather app on macOS uses roughly five times less memory under similar conditions.

Can we also be talking about how the Mac version uses 200MB apparently!? Why is a weather app using any more than like 10-20MB or so of RAM!? Load a couple icons into memory, maybe some background image or pattern, and a tiny bit of text. Why does it need to be so big!? (I'll cut it some slack while it's syncing/downloading, but for a weather app that should be like 30s once an hour max)

Kodi isn't a media server. Plex isn't FLOSS. Emby is what Jellyfin was forked from, and barely classifies as FLOSS anymore, and isn't as popular as Jellyfin from what I can tell. There isn't really anything else that I am aware of. Jellyfin being the #1 FLOSS media server makes sense to me, although I don't think there are really any viable #2s.

Also an important note is that they are leaving on good terms. Headline made me terrified that some bad drama was going down, but they are just ready to move on and committed to clean handoffs to whoever owns it going forward.

> A flat-flavored pancake is a vehicle for maple syrup.

Isn't this the point of a pancake? To get as much maple syrup into your body as possible?

You couldn't until this release. :-P

A user-agent spoofer will help with most of those "Chrome required" websites.

I love the way Kagi does AI - it defaults to a regular search, but if you add a question mark to the end, it will give you an AI answer. Additionally there is a small "quick answer" button at the top of all results that will give an AI answer if clicked.

I'm from California... What is this "cold" you speak of?

> I will not pay for the same game twice.

I firmly disagree with that point. If the game is well-made and enjoyable, the developer probably deserves some extra cash thrown their way. Games remain one of the best bang-for-your-buck when it comes to entertainment anyways. ($50 can get you DAYS of enjoyment, compared to going to a movie theater, theme park, or other paid attractions)

So yes, go ahead and purchase an enjoyable game multiple times if it's a good game. I certainly have!

I'm pretty sure the phone number was just printed on the manual back then... Many games back then had a phone number printed in the manual.

If you are really concerned with that, you should take a first stab at it, then ask AI to proofread it for you and change the tone if necessary. I have no problem with that; thinking was still done by a human, you just needed help proofreading, which has always been something that's valid to outsource.

The AI note taker we use at work records the meeting as well, and each note it takes about the meeting has a timestamp link that takes you directly there in the recording so you can check it yourself. While I'm sure a solution like this is more complicated in a HIPPAA environment, something like this is critical for things as important as healthcare.