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New comment by charlesism in "[dead]"

charlesism — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 03:31:52 +0000

It's the same article, published on multiple sites. Is there a reason (eg: only one site has the rights) to prefer Huffpo? My inclination would be the other way.

New comment by charlesism in "Doctors turn to social media to develop Covid-19 treatments in real time"

charlesism — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 03:26:17 +0000

This would be easier if the internet were optimized around enlightenment values (for lack of a better phrase) instead of the values of a tabloid newspaper.

New comment by charlesism in "Jon Rubinstein on the development of the iPod [video]"

charlesism — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 14:25:35 +0000

The Rio had slow transfer speed (USB), hardly any storage (less than one CD), big ugly form factor... and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t rechargeable. My buddy at the time bought one. It did not impress.

The tech for the first iPod (Firewire and a 5GB hdd) made it essentially a different category of device.

New comment by charlesism in "Jon Rubinstein on the development of the iPod [video]"

charlesism — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 13:44:57 +0000

I can’t remember any portable MP3 playing device before iPod that wasn’t a joke. Are you thinking of a particular product that was comparable? I’m curious.

New comment by charlesism in "Locked-down lawyers warned Alexa is hearing confidential calls"

charlesism — Sat, 21 Mar 2020 16:34:03 +0000

We seem to agree about the level of risk. It's no more my place to tell you how comfortable you should feel with that risk, than it would be for me to tell you what genre of music should be your favorite. That's just personal preference.

New comment by charlesism in "Locked-down lawyers warned Alexa is hearing confidential calls"

charlesism — Sat, 21 Mar 2020 16:01:06 +0000

Well then. Carry on :)

New comment by charlesism in "Locked-down lawyers warned Alexa is hearing confidential calls"

charlesism — Sat, 21 Mar 2020 15:56:59 +0000

   >  it won't be a good business decision

You don't think it might be better to assume all this data will leak or be hacked? You most likely have decades of life ahead of you, and once a file is free on the net, it's there forever.

New comment by charlesism in "Today Is International Day of Happiness"

charlesism — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 13:58:17 +0000

Good one :(

New comment by charlesism in "Cyberpunk: Then and Now"

charlesism — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 08:52:22 +0000

Underrated comment. The Blade Runner esthetic started with Moebius. Hard to imagine what the movie would look like had he never existed.

New comment by charlesism in "How woke illiberalism is killing the academy"

charlesism — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 16:55:31 +0000

If you post "go ahead and downvote me", whether justified or not, readers feel manipulated, and do.

Command enables Startup Chime on new Macs: sudo nvram StartupMute=%00

charlesism — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 15:00:02 +0000

Article URL: https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/02/22/how-to-turn-your-mac-startup-chime-back-on

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22413680

Points: 2

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New comment by charlesism in "Every Google result now looks like an ad"

charlesism — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 10:38:19 +0000

Google has done away with most of its original competitive advantages. Its biggest advantages now are its name recognition and its size. If Google had started off with paid search results and what-you-search-for-is-not-what-you-get we'd probably all still be using Altavista.

New comment by charlesism in "Boeing Can’t Fly its 737 Max, but it’s Willing to Sell its Safety"

charlesism — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 21:08:10 +0000

I’m guessing once “customer education” fails Boeing, they’ll make a few minor alterations and sell the thing under a different name. Hello “Boeing SFTY9000” or something.

New comment by charlesism in "New books mount aggressive but ultimately unpersuasive defenses of multiverses"

charlesism — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 01:30:43 +0000

Why isn’t the Schrödinger's cat thing sufficient? I don’t know much about quantum physics, but if we find situations where matter has odds of behaving a certain way, that seems like evidence. How do we explain events not always having a predictable outcome unless all possible outcomes occur somewhere?

New comment by charlesism in "New books mount aggressive but ultimately unpersuasive defenses of multiverses"

charlesism — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 23:25:07 +0000

  > what you're describing sounds more like a multi-dimensional (above the ones we're aware of) universe rather than a multiverse.

We’re aware of the possibility that we might do something, or could have done something. Does that count as an awareness of higher dimensions?

I don’t know enough about physics to understand how a multi-dimensional (above 4D) universe is different than a multiverse. I assumed they were one and the same concept.

New comment by charlesism in "New books mount aggressive but ultimately unpersuasive defenses of multiverses"

charlesism — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 21:55:44 +0000

Shouldn’t the default position be that a multiverse exist? A multiverse is what logic suggests (starting with “a point in motion is a line” and moving up to higher dimensions)

New comment by charlesism in "Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore principles of design (2015)"

charlesism — Sun, 22 Dec 2019 19:59:47 +0000

Everything past Snow Leopard. Lion was a disaster, and there is literally no feature I use that I prefer in any Mac OS created since then. What's more, the OS has become uglier and buggier.

Edit: actually, I like the addition of Finder > Cut, and Finder > Rename. So, hey, there is something!

New comment by charlesism in "The best teacher I never had (2016)"

charlesism — Sun, 22 Dec 2019 13:58:50 +0000

Many of Feynman's capers and eccentricities are covered in the book "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" It's a collection of his essays. I've actually noticed the title pop up a few times before in the comments here in HN. It's a fun read.

New comment by charlesism in "267M Facebook users IDs and phone numbers exposed online"

charlesism — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 08:53:16 +0000

It hasn’t gone far enough; not by a looooong shot.

Billions of compromising documents, photos and personal details are now sitting around on the servers of a half dozen for-profit companies.

Only Equifax has given us a taste of what is in store.

Is the world prepared for the day when a trillion Gmail messages leak? Billions of personal camera-roll photos? Trillions of search history entries?

We needs to start taking these issues seriously.

New comment by charlesism in "This isn't fun anymore (2017)"

charlesism — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 10:19:30 +0000

I think of the Internet today as being in the “gathering” stage. All our data is just being slurped up, hanging around on the servers of a few dozen companies. It’s alarming, to be sure, but just you wait! A few years from now - when computers are faster and storage is cheaper - we’ll enter the “disseminating” stage.

That’s the stage we’ll enter as soon as an entire internet’s worth of content becomes easily transferable.

That’s when all your private information from 2019 (your medical history, gmail messages, bank details, your search and browsing and shopping history, your private photos, etc) will leak to the public.

It’s just a question of time because any morsel of data only needs to leak once to be henceforth online forever. It will be a complete nightmare.