Aardwolf

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by Aardwolf 2y ago
Your comment says "msephton 20 hours ago", while the post your comment links to says "14 points by msephton 5 hours ago" How can the post have a time 15 hours after this comment?
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
What I wonder is why some youtube embeds don't allow full screen (while being very small in the website so hard to watch), if you press full screen it then says something like "this website doesn't allow you to watch this vid
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
I thought it'd be a generative AI specialized in pixel art :)
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
I have a blu-ray writer, and blu-ray disks, from Verbatim. The article implies Sony is ending humanity's ability to do archiving on blu-ray Is Sony affecting Verbatim's ability to produce these?
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
> If you had a team of really detail oriented developers capable of getting this done for Android and desktop platforms, wouldn't you rather they work on something else? If you can improve the world (mass storage device is really wi
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
Regarding accessing files on a live filesystem being a solved problem: One question I have is the following: If I take two linux PC's, why can't I just plug a USB cable between the two and communicate files to each other? Instead
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
Other chosen conventions are less great, like not having the circle constant be 6.283185... so that we don't need to deal with factors or divisors of 2 all the time when using radians or almost anything else involving pi 90 degrees is
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
Couldn't they emulate it then? If multiple apps can access the filesystem at the same time, why couldn't also some app (background system process) read from / write to the filesystem in an android multi access compatible way,
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
What do you mean, usb mass storage was much better for the core use case of getting pictures of your phone than the flaky mtp now is
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
It would be great to make this feature relevant again but use decimal unicode codes, and have it work in linux too this way; it can be really useful now and then (as an alternative to looking up the unicode character on the internet and cop
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
Since this is (at least approximately) invariant under continuous shifts, continuous rotations, and time, should there be some kind of conservation of momentum and energy be visible? At least the amount of white/black shade in cells is
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
Where can you see this dependency list? Tried to look everywhere in the jsfiddle UI but don't find it My best attempt was setting numeric=" https://unpkg.com/numeric " in the "Framework <script> attr
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
Ouch, I first thought this was the example of how to do these things _before_ reflection is introduced to C++ The for loop required to do enum to string really makes it
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
I had never heard of either so thought the title was a metaphor for "how to get root access to your brain to improve sleep quality" I sure hope these beds have tactile controls you can feel and use in the dark, and don't requ
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
> Bookmarks show up ON the homepage How? For me the closest thing I can get is "recent" bookmarks, but if you didn't bookmark a page recently it shows nothing at all, not even a link to all bookmarks, on the new tab page
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
I thought firefox on ios was just safari with a reskin because apple doesn't allow other browser engines on their phone? Firefox on android is amazing with its plugin support, though I still prefer their pre-2021 UI
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
While I'd love to try out cybernetic enhancements in a decade or two, as far as I know we're not even close to anything now, it's possible with an expensive MRI to see some brain activity, and cochlear implants do exist so th
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
Does the torus one apply to a wrap-around 2D map then? So if the edges don't wrap, the max amount of colors needed is 4, but if the edges do wrap, you could make a map requiring 7 colors? EDIT: yep looks like it, the leftmost picture u
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
When I read the zero knowledge proof part the first time, my thought was: The person can just always give two different colors (and never two same colors) when you reveal two post it notes, so you could never proof them false. Only after re
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
I once implemented factorial in a for-fun from-scratch BigNum library (with techniques to speed it up such as collecting prime factors together and multiplying in the order from smallest to largest), and I noticed that computing the factori
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
If 500,000 years ago a hominid sits by the fire they lit and is working on sharpening a stone tool, would you say: "someone / a person is sharpening a tool" or "it / a hominid is sharpening a tool"?
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
I liked it a lot back when it was named wikia. It was really awesome for niche communities as well as for the most detailed info imaginable on any game I was playing at the time (a use case gamefaqs used to solve). I also really liked the n
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
Sounds like they got various brittle sensors and electronics that make the thing break earlier than it should, while in theory the motor should just work if you apply high enough voltage to it. I don't think the main coils of the actua
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
So what's the verb for the "X" platform then? Just "to X"?
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
While I can't know what the parent-parent post meant, POV Ray is around for over 30 years and was popular in the early 2000's on the internet as well, and is fun to play around with, I remember people posting renderings on forums
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
I don't understand this: Would they rather someone buy a Thinkpad and run Linux on it, than someone buy an iPad and run Linux on it? What's there to be scared of someone buying their own hardware?
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
Because updating to become conformant might come with the risk of making it a "modern" overhaul :/
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
Yet its pages load much faster than most websites, no cookie popups, no "subscribe to our newsletter" slide-ins, no phenomenon where the content loads but then a second later the page resets and re-loads the content again (probabl
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
> A nuclear war is scarier, but none of the fallout is going to reach the South Pole The South Pole is within easy reach though, why wouldn't a colony on it get targeted as well?
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by Aardwolf 2y ago
> The Boltzmann brain thought experiment suggests that it might be more likely for a single brain to spontaneously form in space, complete with a memory of having existed in our universe, rather than for the entire universe to come about

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