I think automated robotic self-driving will always need a human-in-the-loop as ironic as that sounds, but for 99.9% of an automated journey, the extra 0.1% needs to be offloaded to humans, for rare edge-cases where the self-driving vehicle has no training data for. For example, random events like road maintenance, wild animals crossing the road, natural events like snow storms, etc.
The people working on this 0.1% metric want to further reduce this percentage and get all the automation to 100%, but you will need humans at some stage. Nature is too random and chaotic for it all to be modeled in a computer system.
I found using Virtualbox has a performance penalty when loading sites in a VM. It seems VM browsers just aren't as snappy as bare-metal versions. If you can live with that, then fine, but I prefer to do development on a bare-metal install.
> that paying money to play might be just a re-invention of the 80's coin-operated arcades
I agree. Game companies don't create games for free, and if they do, then they're siphoning off personal data and selling it to the highest bidder to support themselves. The business model should be clear: if you're getting a game for free, developers need to state how they make money for transparency purposes.
I assume it's legal where you live? Because where I live, you get dragged through the courts and get a criminal record for even small amounts. Also since it's illegal, you have to have contacts in the criminal underworld, and fund criminal enterprises. Not to mention you don't know the quality of what you're getting. It could be laced with contaminants or simply low quality crap. If it's legal where you live, relish that and see it as an enormous privilege.
URL shorteners are mostly used to cloak affiliate links. I'm a Commission Junction affiliate and they deliberately have long complicated URLs like drkqmpo5o9qew9sz.com/?affid=54321 and they rotate these often to get past 'blocker' technology. In terms of the ethics of that: there's nothing wrong with sharing a sale of something you're passionate about. It happens quite a lot.
VMware. I used a pirate copy of VMWare about a decade ago, and they detected it was pirated and I was forced to cough up some coins, lest my VMs all became useless, and I had some important VMs which were mission critical to my startup. I have since switched to QEMU though. The migration was painless enough.
> First, this bill isn’t actually aiming to ban TikTok. It really wants to force ByteDance to sell TikTok to someone else who is not controlled by China
Is the US chinaphobic or something? Because they have a good relationship in terms of trade. I'm always reminded of the irony of 'Boycott China' T-Shirts being manufactured in China. As long as the US is the buyer, there's no beef.
> and included links to a clearnet website for BITCOIN FOG (www.bitcoinfog.com), the Tor onion site (http://foggeddriztrcar2.onion), and a Twitter feed for updates on the site (www.twitter.com/#!/@Bitcoinfog)
This is how many illegal services get decloaked. They have a clearnet domain, but ironically a darknet .onion too which is what they should just have, not a clearnet domain (if what you're doing is illegal or operates in a legal grey area). I am aware it's possible to get a clearnet domain anonymously with services like NJALLA[0], but you have to take extra special care, pay with crypto, do everything over Tor, use XMPP w/OTR etc
What happened to the thing crypto is for: buying stuff with crypto? Cashing out to fiat means you still have to further invest that money to gain suitable assets which will generate passive income, also known as 'putting your money to work for you'. Unless you blow it all down the pub and squander it on luxury goods and don't invest it.
> “some of the company’s source code repositories and internal systems”
Interesting. They only got 'some' which means MS are compartmenting and not putting all their eggs in one basket, one would hope. The best technique of securing intellectual property and business secrets is compartmenting, and although some data gets exfil'd it's not everything. I just hope it doesn't get weaponized for 0days.
Slightly related, I remember reading once of malware that uses a virtual machine running TinyXP[0] to obfuscate itself from the host OS. The footprint of TinyXP is tiny compared to the latest versions of Windows and runs on very little RAM, and gets past reverse engineering ploys which aim to unravel what the malware does.
This is how objective fact is made objective: comparison. When I say 'The Eiffel Tower in in Paris, France', this is an undeniable and objective fact. You can't refute it, unless you compare it to another statement: 'The Eiffel Tower is in Berlin, Germany'. It could be. The tower was probably deconstructed and shipped in parts and re-assembled there. The only way to ascertain this counter fact is to go there and prove it, comparing your facts against each other.
Infinite growth for its own sake is the ideology of the cancer cell, and it's not sustainable either; and all it takes is a solar flare to wipe out all our electronics, satellites, etc bringing us back into the dark ages. Maybe it's what we need. A great reset.
> you should reset the profile once it reaches a certain saturation point. This saturation point varies from platform to platform. Often, it doesn't have a quantified metric. Often, it will be a feeling
Yeah it's nice to have a blank slate now and then. I often get the feeling my profiles have had their moment in the sun, and are no longer serving me well. But then I just take a break from the platform, delete all my posts & comments with Redact and start shitposting again.