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New comment by nilved in "Ford Pilots New Exoskeleton to Help Lessen Chance of Worker Fatigue, Injury"

nilved — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 01:22:42 +0000

Welcome to late stage capitalism, folks.

New comment by nilved in "Nineteen people a week overdose in Richmond, dozens are dying, hundreds revived"

nilved — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 22:28:20 +0000

We really need to get rid of cops. That experiment is over.

New comment by nilved in "You Will Not Understand This"

nilved — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 18:21:09 +0000

The second line of your post is answered by the first.

New comment by nilved in "You Will Not Understand This"

nilved — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 15:16:43 +0000

> If I search for ruby gems, I probably want code. If someone else does, they may want actual gems.

So they search for "ruby gems" and you search for "ruby gems code." This nails in OP's point:

> Insight: Google does not want you to know or remember. Anything, if at all possible.

New comment by nilved in "You Will Not Understand This"

nilved — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 15:14:06 +0000

This makes so much more sense. People are so lazy to type in their location that Google had to spend millions/billions of dollars on technology to stalk you and figure it out for you? I don't buy it.

New comment by nilved in "WTF? Chromium (2016)"

nilved — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 22:21:54 +0000

You have a very narrow definition of "browser." Try xombrero, vimb, Luakit, uzbl or good old w3m.

New comment by nilved in "Flexbox and Grids: your layout’s best friends"

nilved — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 20:42:57 +0000

> The same site says virtually nobody, aprox 2-3% is using edge.

What? Do you know how many people that is?

New comment by nilved in "How Apple sidestepped a 2013 crackdown on its Irish tax practices"

nilved — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 18:48:50 +0000

Except anarchism, of course.

New comment by nilved in "Chrome breaks the Web"

nilved — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 17:57:01 +0000

Google can break the Web because they own the Web. It's their platform. Maybe handing it to them wasn't such a good idea.

New comment by nilved in "1900s ID Cards That Kept Trans People Safe from Harassment"

nilved — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 22:13:50 +0000

Are you white?

New comment by nilved in "Justin Trudeau explains why Canada really ‘gets’ AI and smart cities"

nilved — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 18:13:09 +0000

Anyone who agrees with this hasn't lived in Canada.

New comment by nilved in "The Ayn Rand Software Engineering Philosophy"

nilved — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 00:04:40 +0000

Use a block quote or something. Nobody wants this wall of text in the comments.

New comment by nilved in "The Ayn Rand Software Engineering Philosophy"

nilved — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 23:08:22 +0000

Does anyone remember why they decided to Digg V4 themselves?

New comment by nilved in "How to write a JavaScript-free todo app using just HTML and CSS"

nilved — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 19:28:56 +0000

I am doing that by downloading, parsing, rendering and evaluating the HTML and CSS. I'm not giving you arbitrary code execution. Do you want to fold proteins too?

I also think this is something Web people overlook. Our phones are _insanely_ powerful, yet almost all Web sites are slow-loading garbage: because of JavaScript.

New comment by nilved in "What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages?"

nilved — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 19:28:02 +0000

I think it goes further than that unless you don't consider the documentation and standard library sufficiently encouraging.

New comment by nilved in "What Are the Most Disliked Programming Languages?"

nilved — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 16:59:50 +0000

ActiveSupport does that because Ruby encourages it.

New comment by nilved in "How the Kodi Box Took Over Piracy"

nilved — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 21:11:41 +0000

Wow, that's seriously ridiculous. What a strange place.

New comment by nilved in "How to write a JavaScript-free todo app using just HTML and CSS"

nilved — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 20:56:46 +0000

The semantic Web is, unfortunately, quite dead. Hopefully a JavaScript-free Web can still happen.

New comment by nilved in "Google, Facebook, and Amazon have fundamentally transformed the web"

nilved — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 13:38:36 +0000

Why do you have a hard time reading that? It's generally better to solve problems before they happen. An dead Web isn't coming back, and we are trending very much in that direction.

New comment by nilved in "Facebook denies 'listening' to conversations"

nilved — Sun, 29 Oct 2017 23:37:05 +0000

I've done all of these things since it's my job. I haven't tried Facebook, because I don't have any confidence in the surveillance hypothesis, but my first guess being inapplicable doesn't change the fact that root access would allow people to prove this is happening, and that hasn't happened.

Furthermore, this could be proven with some fair reliability using correlation only. Is more encrypted data sent when you're speaking? Is more encrypted data sent when the microphone permission is enabled? Does the app access the microphone while sleeping? Nobody has presented anything _close_ to evidence.