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dingo_bat
·6 years ago·discuss
> 4. No business conflicts

Isn't Firefox funded almost entirely by Google?
dingo_bat
·6 years ago·discuss
> Games can and do write to ROM memory, which must be detected and ignored!

I don't understand why? If it was ROM, it couldn't be changed. So why write to it? Were these bugs?
dingo_bat
·7 years ago·discuss
You should mark it spam, because that's what it is.
dingo_bat
·7 years ago·discuss
So Linux cannot handle low memory situation if you disable the low memory management feature (swap). Who knew?
dingo_bat
·7 years ago·discuss
I had a very jarring experience a few months ago with pocket casts. I had bought the app on play store a long time ago to listen to podcasts in my car. I had it set up to auto download my podcasts and certain other automations.

I get into my car in the morning, put my phone into a clamp, open the app and it plays through my car Bluetooth.

One morning I was in a hurry to leave because I was running a bit late. I open the app and it's like a completely new app! Nothing was left unchanged. My download and automation settings were either reset or those features had been removed. The app now looked like some design interns over-zealous first attempt.

I gave up and turned on the radio. Until this day I haven't been able to set it back up exactly like I had it before. And this is an app I paid for. It was very cheap, sure, but still.
dingo_bat
·8 years ago·discuss
What's the advantage over just using ublock everywhere? Why go to all this effort and include another point of failure in your network when you can just install an extension?
dingo_bat
·8 years ago·discuss
I've been using a Samsung TV for the last 3 years and never seen an ad on YouTube. Which model are you using?
dingo_bat
·8 years ago·discuss
I like the one-click URLs though. It irritates me to no end to click unsub, then wait for a page to load then repeat my intention.
dingo_bat
·8 years ago·discuss
Most distant != 6
dingo_bat
·8 years ago·discuss
Meg Whitman -> Consumption of Tide Pods

https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/?source=Meg%20Whitman&...

ಠ_ಠ
dingo_bat
·8 years ago·discuss
Pretty cool!
dingo_bat
·8 years ago·discuss
This is probably the best showHN I have ever seen. Efforts like this inspire me to not be lazy.
dingo_bat
·8 years ago·discuss
India. We're not known for the thoroughness of our driving schools :)
dingo_bat
·8 years ago·discuss
What if I want to experience racing in formula 1 and I'm not a billionaire?
dingo_bat
·8 years ago·discuss
Except looking inside a neural network is almost impossible. For example, google photos still turns mum if you search "gorilla". They could not figure out wtf was wrong with the recognition networks and had to just blacklist the keywords.

https://www.wired.com/story/when-it-comes-to-gorillas-google...
dingo_bat
·8 years ago·discuss
I don't think regular driving schools teach you to countersteer when you turn.
dingo_bat
·9 years ago·discuss
Guest OS shouldn't be an issue, from what I understand. As long as the hypervisor memory is separated, you're good.
dingo_bat
·9 years ago·discuss
It is possible Microsoft has mitigated the issue in a way that has much lesser performance impact. Maybe they had a highly tuned feature to enable kernel page separation already coded but disabled. I won't be surprised if even the Linux implementation is tuned to the absolute limit in the coming months.
dingo_bat
·9 years ago·discuss
Maybe it's just me but that name is just too general. Is there no other conceivable way an x86 CPU can ever be "insecure"? Why'd they use something so vague? Is this part of the redaction?
dingo_bat
·9 years ago·discuss
> Otherwise it sounds like a vague claim that every religious institution would make.

Yeah it's like when people defend hazing. "Oh it builds character!" No thanks please.