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spiritcat··on 2018 Mac Mini Review
why close it when 'docked'? mouse on right, keyboard in middle, touchpad and touchbar on left
spiritcat··on Supreme Court rejects industry challenge of 2015 net neutrality rules
> and more focus on the fact that Kavanaugh doesn't understand the constitution

no now according to constitution you don't understand constitution!

you know like, after they interpreted the constitution as giving them the sole power to interpret the constitution. or however that worked out.

spiritcat··on RHEL is deprecating KDE
i ran xfce on centos for a while.

we were running centos on the server, so figured i'd use it for my dev vm as well.

spiritcat··on RHEL is deprecating KDE
Make MATE default!!1!
spiritcat··on Available on Google Cloud: Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory
Yes, don't SSD's have DRAM buffers/cache that make the performance gap less important?
spiritcat··on Available on Google Cloud: Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory
How much of a problem is the gap for SSD's? Don't those have buffers with enough battery to write out if they lose power?
spiritcat··on When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Improves
used to be this way, then i got old.
spiritcat··on Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted the app
Turns out people don't always wan't their conversations shared with [ramifications of current privacy settings unknown, assumed to be everyone]
spiritcat··on IBM acquires Red Hat
fork?
spiritcat··on Morocco abruptly drops clock change
eh, good good test for all those systems so it might go smoothly when we finally do it here
spiritcat··on The Era of the Drone Swarm Is Coming
we're so fucked
spiritcat··on Lyft speeds ahead with its autonomous initiatives
"Nobody really knows what company will develop truly practical SDC tech first."

No, bu the ones with all the patents will be Waymo, Uber, GM.. Lyft?

How does this work? Seems like Waymo would have been able to pick up enough of the obvious ones to kill competition for 20 years. Or just MAD between the big players?

spiritcat··on The Many-Worlds Interpretation Has Many Problems
Or it actually creates three worlds, two heads worlds and one tails.
spiritcat··on China May Have $5.8T in Hidden Debt with ‘Titanic’ Risks
alternatively, we may find out that this new techno-totalitarianism is astoundingly effective.
spiritcat··on The Reason We Haven’t Directly Detected Dark Matter
its the only worthwhile thing left to speculate about. well that and i guess like number theory. aka life, universe, everything in it.

and even if someone figures it out i probably won't understand it :/

spiritcat··on Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50% in a year
..except by putting a privacy skin around it
spiritcat··on How solid is Tim’s plan to redecentralize the web?
perhaps gentoo was not a good fit for you?

currently develop on mac but still linux at home

spiritcat··on Microsoft suspends development of touch-friendly UWP Office apps for Windows
for doing mobile development obv
spiritcat··on Vivaldi 2.0 – includes sync, resizable tab tiling, floating web panels and more
Vivaldi just a custom Chromium though.

Still, first post from Vivaldi. Gonna give it a try, mostly for the tab management features included by default. Could never get any of the new tab group extensions to work quite right (or at all) in Firefox after quantum. Also built-in vertical tabs and hibernate background tabs option!

Even though I'll prob end up back at Firefox anyway since FOSS..

spiritcat··on Google Maps won't let you save home address without allowing all Google tracking
If I had a paid click for every time youtube has asked me to switch to their shitty tab-less app..
spiritcat··on Instagram’s Co-Founders Said to Step Down from Company
why just restore from latest backup
spiritcat··on Building your own deep learning computer is 10x cheaper than AWS
Wow, no dual/triple monitor setup is just uncivilized.
spiritcat··on Can the EU become another AI superpower?
> I don't really understand the concept of a 'AI superower' at all. Superpower at what, warfare? Concentration of wealth as AI returns flow to only a handful of people?

Yes and yes?

> Have Americans and the Chinese pondered whether there is some higher goal to the development of AI or just competition for competition's sake?

If they develop AI driven warfare techniques and we don't, they'll beat us. We must close the AI gap! (fwiw this terrifies me)

spiritcat··on Flutter Release Preview 2
But when else are you ever going to use dart?
spiritcat··on Flutter Release Preview 2
Even if the design choice made sense for [reasons], this is imo the biggest thing holding it back.
spiritcat··on An open governance model for the AMP Project
sure ya do, use firefox
spiritcat··on Ask HN: What topics/subjects are worth learning for a new software engineer?
all of teh subjects
spiritcat··on Let’s bring back the Sabbath as an act against ‘total work’
ooh
spiritcat··on Let’s bring back the Sabbath as an act against ‘total work’
Well ya the prohibition is about creating fire, why wouldn't you step on the elevator if it's just going to be going up and down anyway?
spiritcat··on Brave files adtech complaint against Google
Theoretically, could the (server-side) records of which ads the local machine learning decided to serve be reverse engineered to extract most of tracking info?

Local AI keeps sending this guy ads for shoes and cottage cheese == this guys keeps searching for shoes and cottage cheese?

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