Crespyl

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by Crespyl 1y ago
Alignment and margin are different concepts. You can be left-aligned and still have a comfortable margin.
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by Crespyl 1y ago
If it was trivial for me to spend 5 cents for a one off article that someone recommended me, I probably wouldn't mind it at all. Payment processor fees make that essentially impossible, requiring more thought and investment in systems
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by Crespyl 1y ago
> DIYing a KVM switch by just having the PC tell the monitor to switch to a different input! I made a tiny contribution to the ddcutil-db database when I did exactly that. My monitor wasn't supported initially, but it wasn't h
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by Crespyl 1y ago
Thank you for the rundown, that was very informative. I love learning about these sorts of internals.
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by Crespyl 1y ago
Can you elaborate on this? I don't know much about allocators. How would the allocator know that some block is unused, short of `free` being called? Does glibc not return all memory after a `free`? Do other allocators do something c
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by Crespyl 2y ago
I think the idea is that you're reading out the color of the printed word, not the word itself (despite the fact that the word is the name of a different color). So you might have, in a red font, the word "blue", followed b
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by Crespyl 2y ago
Pretty sure they sort of did this with their prior game, the name of which escapes me at the moment. You'd basically draw giant triangles by visiting the vertices (or coordinating with remote team members) to control territory. It&#x27
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by Crespyl 2y ago
DisplayPort->HDMI was the only way I could get my PC to control the TV it was attached to over CEC, since (apparently) the CEC pins aren't enabled on most consumer GPUs, but the DisplayPort aux pin can be used as an alternative. So
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by Crespyl 2y ago
quux is my go-to after baz, sometimes I'll throw in a frob for good measure...
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by Crespyl 2y ago
Surely none of that requires a touchscreen though? Just basic generic navigation and selection buttons will work fine.
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by Crespyl 2y ago
Time and effort are usually considered to be worth some amount of money.
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by Crespyl 2y ago
Does Stripe need to IPO? Are they just privately held, or do they have VCs or others that need to be paid back?
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by Crespyl 2y ago
Specifically, IIRC, the character used the "Scroll Lock" LED to blink out some coordinates in Morse, to avoid the location being displayed on-screen and thus captured by Van Eck phreaking[0]. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.
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by Crespyl 2y ago
Other discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40791829
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by Crespyl 3y ago
Fortunately this one happens to be in April.
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by Crespyl 3y ago
You may be thinking of https://www.amiunique.org/fingerprint
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by Crespyl 3y ago
A hard disk firmware module isn't connected to the internet and reporting on you (yet).
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by Crespyl 3y ago
MongoDB only pawn in game of life.
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by Crespyl 3y ago
And MariaDB is named after her sister.
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by Crespyl 3y ago
It's funny that even in 2013 people were already complaining that articles sounded like AI.
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by Crespyl 3y ago
In the one with the cat waking up its owner, the owners shoulder turns into a blanket corner when she rolls over.
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by Crespyl 3y ago
It's Djinns all the way down, that's why you've got to turn to GOD (GOD over Djinns)...
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by Crespyl 3y ago
I'm sure if someone opened a commercial scale operation, at least in the US, they'd be able to sue, but you're right that as soon as it goes worldwide there's no practical way to prevent "piracy". It'll be
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by Crespyl 3y ago
Personally, I always expect every "conversation" to be starting from a blank slate, and I'm not sure I'd want it any other way unless I can self-host the whole thing. Starting clean also has the benefit of knowing the pr
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by Crespyl 3y ago
Re wording: perhaps "costs 60s" might be sufficiently unambiguous?
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by Crespyl 3y ago
Firefox on Android has recently started to hide the URL entirely when using the search-from-addressbar feature. Instead of the URL of the search page, it shows the search terms, which is redundant since the terms are already shown by the p
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by Crespyl 3y ago
Are we sure it's not "SLIM: Lander for Investigating Moon"
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by Crespyl 3y ago
It's a "text fragment"; started as a Chrome thing, other browsers are slowly adding support. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Text_fragments
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by Crespyl 3y ago
I always heard: There are two hard problems: naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors.
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by Crespyl 3y ago
> 2. You need to walk over to wake it up. A controller can't wake it up if it's sleeping. If you have a Steam Controller you can do this, as long as you use the USB dongle and not Bluetooth to connect. I have the official dock

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