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Re:Google Chromium, sans integration with Google on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @03:55AM (#29390253)
Brave even in the discussion is atleast a big improvement in affairs. I couldn't name a single chromium privacy fork from 5 years ago or whenever they started.

It's also like a few clicks to turn off brave settings. It's less setup for brave than I go through on any new video game settings lol

I think this tech is still only for faces mostly. Aren't any cgi'd actor have someone else playing the role and their face edited?
Re:Google Chromium, sans integration with Google on Monday November 29, 2021 @06:40PM (#29386855)
Pretty easy to turn off the crypto stuff
Re:Google Chromium, sans integration with Google on Monday November 29, 2021 @06:39PM (#29386845)
Just use brave. I don't get why people are still trying to split off a new no-Google pro privacy chromium when there is a Very good option already. If people pushed to help brave even better we would be in a very good world
Re:Is watching the 1984 Ghostbusters movie killing people? on Monday November 29, 2021 @05:34PM (#29386171)
The BS filter is only obvious because we all agree that scientifically, watching a movie can't change your medical risk.

Try swapping the graph labels with: Took vitamin D pills, Excercised 30mins a week, Got the vaccine.

Most would agree that all three points probably have some level of health benefit. Suddenly the cause vs correlation can be much more difficult for the average person to determine.

Do all three reduce the death risk? Do some of them just also trend with more health conscious individuals? Are any of the three just completely bogus?

If you are using a random password generator, don't be doing 12 character lol. Do 20+
Probably just doesn't conflict with each other often
Reminds me of the xkcd: https://xkcd.com/810/
Re:PHP 8.1.0 on Thursday November 25, 2021 @09:01PM (#29346876)
I think most people outside php have no idea what Laravel is, while anyone working in php is using Laravel so basically our viewpoint is Laravel = php. I don't know what it is about the normal personality that anyone using something you don't understand just be "doing it wrong"
Re:PHP 8.1.0 on Thursday November 25, 2021 @08:57PM (#29346861)
Well php has strong typing built in now and they have been iterating on it every release. It's well ahead of native js. I can't imagine having any real complaints on using 8.x php for a back end these days.
Re:Fingerprints can be hacked on Monday November 22, 2021 @09:19PM (#29313932)
Yeah I always wonder when you hear like "99% DNA match!!". So like you confirmed the DNA is probably from a human?
The most insane part of streaming is all services are capped at 720p on desktop. This is the biggest thing everyone should be yelling at lol. To watch anything on desktop I have to pirate it just to have watchable quality
Re:IRCv3 Spec round-up on Thursday November 18, 2021 @10:52AM (#29266820)
Damn, this makes me drool over an alternate universe where discord, slack, and teams are just competing irc clients. Unfortunately I can't imagine anything like that ever happening
Re:PHP is worth learning and using on Thursday November 18, 2021 @09:38AM (#29265862)
Having a ci/cd pipeline is much different than having to setup and maintain local environment build pipelines.
Re:PHP is worth learning and using on Thursday November 18, 2021 @09:36AM (#29265847)
I've used php extensively in the past decade. You could kinda of say your argument about any modern web language. If I'm already comfortable in php, .net, node, ruby, or heck even java, for making a web app, do I really "need" to learn another? Not really. Every one has a different way of doing things, sure, not every different thing is better, but it is different. I think just people like to learn about multiple, but sure, you can always be stubborn and stick with your single hammer.

The two things I can think of quickly, that I like about php, over another, is the ease of code->browser. You have to manage 0 build configurations or pipelines to get what you want working. Just download the files and open a browser. The second, is 100% transparency with third party libraries. Because of the lack of ability to compile, when I download a third party library, I'm getting their actual true source, and can much easier, navigate and understand the library right through the ide, without having to read a bunch of docs online and that it's true to source. Being able to control click into third party libraries is quite liberating.

Re:PHP is worth learning and using on Thursday November 18, 2021 @09:23AM (#29265687)
Have you used a version of php from the past decade? Or are you conflating a bad framework or codebase with a bad language?
Re:10 years of whatever this has been on Thursday November 18, 2021 @01:44AM (#29262693)
That seems to be the consensus of what people say, but I think that all of those things are false or atleast assuming functional parts that aren't actually guaranteed.

No anonymity, means sure you are free to transfer, but the gov is free to track you down, and if you live in an anti crypto gov, that means entering or exiting the crypto universe is very difficult.

You say $100 or $100 million, but this is a large failure of Bitcoin. You are tying it's value to fiat. That compounds on my previous point, if all governments crack down on crypto, would it actually have any value? If tomorrow, all exchanges were shut down, the truth is, Bitcoin would be dead.

Lastly, the largest flaw of Bitcoin is it's failures to scale. That means that in the golden crypto universe that every follower dreams of, every text, transaction, breath, thought, all exists on the blockchain, Bitcoin inevitably collapses. You have the problem of both the blockchain size has grown to such a size that the barrier to entry for nodes becomes too large, as well as the failure for Bitcoin to handle any rate of transactions/seconds to handle the real world.

Re:A terrible schema from a clueless programmer on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @03:39AM (#29172457)
Sometimes I've had a pr merged. Sometimes I've had stubborn maintainers that think that their project should not follow common domain standards for /shrug reasons.

And then many other times I honestly don't have the knowledge to be able to contribute into large third party systems and it seems very rare to get an issue resolved without submitting a pr.

And lastly sometimes it's hard to judge if unexpected behavior is really a 'bug'. Similar to the last point, it can honestly be hard to tell the difference sometimes.

Re:California is Planning to 'De-Mathematize Math' on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @03:08AM (#29172270)
You could also try to skim some of the original material instead of taking an article obviously written with a propaganda level of bias hook line and sinker.

Stop blindly trusting people because they use some of the same political buzzwords you like.

They aren't proposing any reduction in math education, it's actually a proposal to try to teach more students, more math.

Most schools in the us start in b early middle school a set "advanced" math course. And if for some reason you weren't accepted in 6th grade, it is totally very difficult to get into the advanced math tract as it is taught and assumed that you need every year of math perfectly in order or you will be "lost".

No other subject is taught like this. I had many people move in and out of honors classes from 6-12th grade. But very rarely people move into the honors math classes from non honors. Kinda a big sign the current system is stifling

Re:California is Planning to 'De-Mathematize Math' on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @02:47AM (#29172142)
I hope this works out, the number of people who are always like "lol I suck at math" is insane in the US. People are 30yo+ and using it as an excuse to not learn how to move a period to figure out how to get 10%. Smart people who were either discouraged as kids or had poor teachers run around math illiterate.

Luckily it's not very debilitating since we do all walk around with calculators in our pockets, but I feel like it's an important part of people's brain, closed off our underdeveloped simply because no one took the time to teach them math.

Re:A photo on Wikipedia can ruin your life on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @01:51AM (#29158541)
Problem is moderators can straight up ban you from posting anymore comments in a sub, and most do if they delete one of your comments. Try to talk about politics in any political tangent subreddit long enough and you will eventually get the boot because no sane person lines up with 100% perfect match to a certain political viewpoint
Dang the byond engine takes me back. That was an interesting concept that I'm surprised doesn't have a modern version.
Re:A terrible schema from a clueless programmer on Sunday November 07, 2021 @03:26PM (#29143184)
Can't imagine the pain to even discover this problem. It normally takes me a long time to be like, "maybe I didn't make a mistake, and I have a third party bug?". Third party bugs are always the most annoying to me, usually the longest to diagnose and then ultimately I have to just tell my boss I can't do anything to fix it, but hopefully I can find a way to avoid it.
Except time has shown that companies aren't taking on their real cost to their communities.

How are people chuckling about this video when this is clear signs this will have real environmental effects and costs that if we are,"lucky" might be a taking point to politicians/CEOs in a couple of decades after irreversible damage is done

Do you have YouTube premium? If not consider at some point, someone has to give the channel revenue stream or the channel will die
Bug evolves a pattern that rewrites zapper into ai sentient human zapper
What do you mean? You can Google php parameterize query and get atleast 2 different methods of doing this. You shouldn't ever touch string concat in any language when doing queries
Re:Open Insulin Foundation on Sunday July 18, 2021 @10:33PM (#27878683)
More than just electrical dependency. The output vs size/weight would be a very big revolution in engineering.
A police department can't gain budget to not buy things though
Re:$100M xPrize for Carbon Removal on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @04:00PM (#27825562)
Bamboo is also incredibly invasive which is great for self propitiating the carbon solution, but terrible if we ruin all of our eco systems for

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