I totally understand. Scroll behavior is uniform in all windows on my desktop but some websites think they are so special that they should change that just for them. I personally hate smooth scrolling and have it disabled, I can't understand why people like waiting for a useless animation when the operation could be done instantly. I feel like the computer is wasting my time! So when a website re-enables it with its own buggy JS implementation, well it's disturbing. (Thanks for giving me an excuse for my own rant!)
At what point should we just throw out IP out of the window and figure out something new ? OK maybe not IP since all hardware infrastructure is based on it, but the whole idea of associating services to publicly open ports on the target machine. I'm thinking connections should be encrypted at the operating system level and then services would plug in at some higher level in a way that cannot be detected by outside observers.
Should have been titled "How to escape the Titanic using your seer git to know everything that's going to happen down to the minute (in which case you probably wouldn't have boarded the ship at all)". But interesting anyway.
I understand that, fundamentally, anti-cheat involves taking some form of control away from the player. But when the solution involves deeply embedded hardware modules that take that control away globally, introducing their own host of problems, I think that goes too far, and the cure might be worse than the disease. As a player, I wish there was a way to make sure that the anti-cheat only runs when the game runs, and only checks stuff related to the game and nothing else.
The law mentions that it is forbidden to do so "sous réserve" (not sure how to translate that, "without prejudice" ?) of international treaties. I'd be surprised if there were no such treaty between France and the UK, or if it wasn't part of the EU treaty.
That "gaseous pollution" is mostly CO2, a gas responsible for global warming and perhaps the biggest environmental threat we are facing right now. You can't limit yourself to comparing the amount released of both pollutants and not consider the scale of things. CO2 spreads all over the planet and remains in the atmosphere basically forever, until it is taken away, and particulate pollution is local and does not remain in the air for very long. Both should be addressed but they are not interchangeable.
Unfortunately Firefox is guilty of that Unpardonable Sin. Often I will open a new window to search for something and start typing my request right away, since the address/search bar should be focused on new windows. If the window takes a little bit of time to appear for some reason, the first few characters will be dropped. Frustrating. Chrome on the other hand does not exhibit this defect, even if I start typing before the window actually appears, my input is preserved.
A similar behavior happens in the game ROM dumping community, owners of very rare or sometimes unique arcade boards often refuse to release ROM dumps, or do so only in a small group of individuals. They would lose nothing if they released it but I guess they take pleasure in knowing they have the exclusivity of a specific thing in the World.
I don't know why you're being downvoted. Libraries scanning old books and applying a new copyright on them (which shouldn't be possible, scans are not a creative act) is a common issue.
Then he would not have had access to the body of knowledge accrued by others to build upon his theory of infection. He would probably have made some scientific progress - provided the circumstances did not make him a brick layer instead - but not the same as what he did 900 years in the future.
I'd have thought the opposite : run the CPU at full power so you can terminate short tasks quickly and go back to sleep. Then if the task takes longer, throttle down as needed to regulate heat dissipation. Since there are a lot of small tasks when using a computer that would be also better for responsiveness. It's not like a car that takes a lot of energy to accelerate, you can just change the CPU clock speed as you want. What I'd like to see is a benchmark of the actual amount of energy used to perform tasks in various conditions.
This is pretty cool, since there is no word size you can chose to compute numbers of any size you want when you write the program. It's pretty fitting for a calculator application.
I'm pretty sure I've been having the same few (dozen or so) pictures in a loop. Maybe the differences are too subtle to notice to the non-professional eye. Also I feel the resolution is a bit too low to really tell, the scars are barely visible in the images, not sure if that would also be the case in real life.
Some computer magazines of the 80's actually included so called "Floppy ROMs", actually thin vinyl records, in the magazine pages ! : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface_Age
Yes it's really stupid. All the poor people who barely get by are on the brink of becoming rich if only they shared an apartment with others and started to eat peanut butter sandwiches every meal ? What if you barely have enough to live already, starve yourself ? A guy who got rich at 22 by selling some unspecified company telling others that they could get rich too if only they spent less is frankly very offensive to read.
That's not how it works, Amdahl's law is about the execution speedup you get by splitting a task across multiple cores, it is not about how many tasks you can run simultaneously on those cores, usually when we're talking about horizontal scaling what is meant is multiple servers executing tasks independently, not parallelizing the execution of individual tasks, which is a much harder problem with the issues you describe.
Very interesting. I'm wondering if this has implications in physics ? Since "the book of nature is written in mathematical language", does this mean that attempts to find a unified theory of everything are doomed ? I'm thinking not necessarily, since we wouldn't need to prove all possible physical phenomena, only those that actually happen, but how do we know if they are among the one that can be proven ?
A cult classic. This whole thing looks like something out of a cartoon. I especially love the shot of the cart with boxes of dynamite haphazardly thrown together and someone's leg resting on top of it.
The SB card uses a number of old sound ICs that are simply not manufactured any more, and can't be bought from Mouser. Chinese shops are now the only source for these, and in my experience buying a few, they do work. No idea where they got them from however, maybe all that electronic junk that was shipped to China did get in part recycled.
Don't know about the actual cookies, but I'm pretty sure the "click a simple button to accept all but go through a long and slow process to reject"-pattern is not compliant with GDPR.
The case you describe for Wikipedia would be a functional cookie, not subject to a banner, while Facebook would use a tracking cookie, subject to a banner.
I think that the fact that a lot of websites nag you with endless lists of cookie consent checkboxes, even for functional cookies, is not entirely innocent, and contributes to the idea that cookie notices are terribly annoying and pointless.
Interesting idea. I wonder how much height difference you would need so that gravity gives you enough energy to power the regenerator at the bottom? The actual energy would come from ... the gravity field of the Earth?
Not really, neurons are one of the few types of cells that don't undergo a cycle of death/creation of new cells. The neurons you had when you were born are the same you have now. They probably encode a lot of information that would be lost if they died and were replaced by fresh cells.
The "transfer of conscious processes" does not seem more feasible to me at all. We have absolutely no way to do that right now, we don't even know what consciousness is. I don't know of any research avenues on the subject either, if you know of some some I'd be interested to read about it.
In some distant future maybe making a copy of your brain in a simulator would be possible, but the copy would live on, you'd still die.