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ksrm··on Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices
Sounds like something the EU will look at in the future if they aren't already.
ksrm··on What is GPT-3? written in layman's terms
> I think we are on the cusp

Of another hype-induced AI winter, maybe.

ksrm··on Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube
What is an example of some good that you have done from within Google?
ksrm··on OneWeb successfully launches 34 more satellites into orbit
Most of these people already have at least 2G cellular coverage.
ksrm··on The Doctor Who Helped Defeat Smallpox Explains What's Coming
> At first we didn't have enough test, but that ramped up quickly, then we didn't have enough RNA extraction reagent, now we don't have enough swabs, and soon is the collection media that will be missing.

Where are you getting this information from?

ksrm··on All Sonos products will continue to work past May
I know we're a long way off, but a device should not require constant software updates to keep working. I think that just highlights the relative immaturity of the software industry.
ksrm··on What: A terminal tool to check what is taking up your bandwidth
204 depedencies?! Is that normal for a Rust project?
ksrm··on Lilith: x86-64 OS written in Crystal
Is your OS list public?
ksrm··on Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf
Not to be confused with Hugin: http://hugin.sourceforge.net/
ksrm··on Trains are more efficient and less polluting than other transportation modes
Don't know what gave you that idea. Passenger numbers are higher than ever.
ksrm··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2018)
Lockheed Martin.
ksrm··on Raising of Chicago
So you can have an extra floor (basement), with natural light.
ksrm··on Evergreen: a React UI Framework built by Segment
Given how much they push you to use the app, it's possibly intentional.
ksrm··on Air India Express 737 Hits ILS, Damages Wall on Departure, Flies for 4 Hours
No
ksrm··on Don't shoot, I'm disabled
If you actually read the comment, you would see it says "personal safety".
ksrm··on Intel Publishes Microcode Patches, No Benchmarking or Comparison Allowed
I'm curious to know how valid this is in EU countries. Anyone know?
ksrm··on Facial recognition rolled out by London police sparking human rights concerns
>and yet still notorious for violent street crime

Notorious among American right-wingers, perhaps. I haven't heard this or the "no-go areas" guff from anywhere else.

ksrm··on Making Pulled Pork with React Native, Expo, and Express
Why would such a simple app crash?
ksrm··on Airplanes that fly on electricity debut at Fresno’s Chandler Airport
hacker news dot com
ksrm··on Be careful what you copy: Invisibly inserting usernames into text
The advantage of putting the (signed) full username in there is that you can demonstrate to a third party (like a court?) who is to blame. Just encoding a number for each user, or giving each user a different number of Es is deniable to a certain extent.
ksrm··on Show HN: Minimal native MP3 player for Mac
Sorry! I thought you switched to Windows, not from.
ksrm··on Show HN: Minimal native MP3 player for Mac
Try Billy https://www.sheepfriends.com/index-page=billy.html
ksrm··on All of Oculus’s Rift headsets have stopped working due to an expired certificate
"so uhh..."?
ksrm··on A proposal to improve Twitter and perhaps the world
This looks great. How does it work - are you scraping this data or using an API?
ksrm··on Tiny quad-core system-on-module for makers and hardware startups
For mobile devices the standby current is very important. Is any kind of sleep mode implemented? The low cost SoCs always seem to omit this.
ksrm··on European Parliament requests recommendation to end biannual clock change
32 bit signed integer. Unsigned will be fine for a good while yet.
ksrm··on How Google Chrome’s ad blocker works
Unless they block YouTube ads, I think a lot of people are still going to use an ad blocker.
ksrm··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018)
>UK citizens only please.

Sounds illegal.

ksrm··on Ten days in Shenzhen
If you buy a Unicom "Cross-border SIM" in Hong Kong, it will work unfiltered in mainland China.
ksrm··on Man flies over South Africa in a chair tied to helium balloons [video]
Some of Leo Bodnar's balloons have circumnavigated the Earth multiple times. The small foil balloons don't expand like a latex balloon does, so they can hold a stable altitude without bursting.

http://www.leobodnar.com/balloons/

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