Aardwolf

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by Aardwolf 3y ago
In mainland Europe, banks used 2FA devices with a little lcd display since at least the early 2000s. Now they're going more phone based which feels like a step back to me (but more convenient of course... though I hate the kind that ma
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
I think so too. It feels similar to how many specifications from the 90s use big endian 4-byte integers for many things (like png, riff, jpeg, ...) despite little endian CPU's being most common since the 80s already, and those specific
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
Oh I see, so it's for concatenating multiple base64 fragments of the same single piece of data? But where is this used? Never seen that. Javascript's base64 decoder gives an error for ='s in the middle (but I just found out t
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
The = does not appear if the base64 data is a multiple of 4 length. So you wouldn't know if aGVsbG8I is one or two streams. The = is not a separator, only padding to make the base64 stream a multiple of 4 length for some reason. I only
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
A thing I wonder: why is using = padding required in the most common base64 variant? It's redundant since this info can be fully inferred from the length of the stream. Even for concatenations it is not necessary to require it, since y
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
I couldn't reproduce the 5s wait in multiple scenarios in Firefox (various combinations of being logged in / not being logged in / without adblocker / with adblocker) and couldn't reproduce a 5s wait time in any of
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
That's a very neat surprise! Many active multiplayer servers too, today! Now release HL3 ;)
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
Bad color rendering index.
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
Why not support both? Let one communicate from a computer (or phone) with a username+password account, with people who use the service with phone number account. This without the mechanism Whatsapp uses, where you can use it in a web browse
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
> To celebrate this change Is this a change worth celebrating, then? (original link gives 503 error to me so I'm happy with the summary here)
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
And OpenOffice, which then got the LibreOffice spinoff
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
> I find it annoying although I suspect the average movie-goer would be put off if the sound was realistically delayed. At least one might be familiar with the effect when seeing videos of controlled demolitions. Or just fireworks.
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
I hope this won't backfire and cause even more industry to leave Europe
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
> I suspect that there's a special term for people who like pointing that out How about "commixtiophobia". Commixtio = Latin for 'mixing', phobia = Greek for 'fear'
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
I miss tags such as "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" and "suddenoutbreakofcommonsense", there have been articles on HN where these tags could have applied as well
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
I like the first person walkthrough through a supercomputer in a beautiful building
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
So how is it preserved now? By word of mouth?
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
I don't know why, but this all reminds me of when I was in secondary school, and many of us were in IRC channels of local ISP's and sites, and things like being channel operator or admin, or getting kicked, banned or k-lined could
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
If it's that easy for things to ferment, makes me wonder if drunkenness existed (in animals) before humanity
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
If this was for perl I'd have believed it without questioning
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
Maybe due to not enough weekend days? Perhaps fill the gaps between twin primes, otherwise there are almost no multiple-consecutive-day weekends
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
Ideally the beginning of the 2-day and 4-day weekends would be aligned, so both groups can party on a same evening
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
If making such a change, why not make it even simpler: use year + day number in year. e.g. today is 2023 day 309 (or day 308 if more sensible 0-based indexing would be used) And keep the named 7-day week cycle as-is independently of that, t
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
Most interesting parts of this article for me: most of the organisms weight in carbon and other atoms comes from and get recycled into the air, and, most atoms in our body replace every few weeks, we are just "patterns surviving throug
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
How is Linux aware of this, are there CPU id instructions to differentiate the Zen4 from the Zen4c cores? If yes, is there any reason Windows can't receive a patch to be able to do so?
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
Possibly the following? It wouldn't 'sound' enough like a file name extension if it was the full name '.rust' Where the inertia of the history of 3-letter extensions in DOS and the likes is what caused this conventi
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
Well, I think the 16-bit multiplication that takes longer than multiplying in your head, at least must sound very satisfying then! So the 4K memory is on a chip, right? (understandable!)
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
Sounds interesting, got more info on this cpu? Can one buy it or are schematics available? I wonder if optical or solid state relays can speed it up, at least if normally closed ones exist
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
Does anyone know if it's possible to buy thinkpads with a US keyboard layout in Europe? Any thinkpad with a layout that's not the non-qwerty local variant of my country takes more than 6 weeks to deliver, and that is to get UK lay
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by Aardwolf 3y ago
At least it's on Earth, from the title I thought a mission in space that landed on an asteroid was borked for collecting samples

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