Dalewyn

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721.
by Dalewyn 2y ago
Win32 slays yet another would-be challenger. Again. Like every single challenger that has come before. Perhaps it is prudent to not challenge Win32.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Boat owner: "We have a new boat and we need a name, let's have the internet vote! It can be the people's boat!" Internet: "Boaty McBoatface." Boat owner: "Democracy is a mistake."
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
The point is you aren't bending the light , no the light is travelling straight. You are bending the dimension , the light travels straight through a bent dimension thus coming out curved. I think that's mindblowing.
724.
by Dalewyn 2y ago
There are no nerves in a neural processing unit, so yes: It's 300% bullshit marketing.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>to make it a bit more clear, the gravitational lens does not quite behave like a normal lens. Instead, you see the light from _behind_ the object. Or to put it another way: A gravity lens bends space so that the light from behind an o
726.
by Dalewyn 2y ago
This is the internet, Boaty McBoatface is peak humanity here.
727.
by Dalewyn 2y ago
ARM should be more worried about getting usurped by China!RISC-V than x86 getting usurped by, well, anything. x86 still powers most of how we actually get stuff done.
728.
by Dalewyn 2y ago
>The use of space is denser That is precisely why land in cities is more expensive. There are more people wanting land in a given area but the given area doesn't scale to the population, so people start paying more to have more of t
729.
by Dalewyn 2y ago
It's people wanting to live in the city without paying the price, essentially wanting their cake and eating it too. Affordable homes can be had out in more rural areas (and I don't mean Bumfuckistan, I mean smaller cities and town
730.
by Dalewyn 2y ago
UPnP is just automating the process of forwarding ports, CGNAT will still screw you sideways because you're behind a router you can't access or order around.
731.
by Dalewyn 2y ago
There's a galactic difference between just reading about it and actually experiencing it even just once. Essentially the difference between being book smart vs. street wise.
732.
by Dalewyn 2y ago
>am I still a resident of California? (the last state I lived in) Obligatory IANAL. My layman understanding is that that generally is the case; you are a resident of the last State you resided in prior to becoming an expat. Most people g
733.
by Dalewyn 2y ago
There is nothing more permanent than a temporary solution, and nothing more temporary than a permanent solution.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
"Aging" in the context of "defeating aging" refers to the phenomena of declining metabolism and deteriorating genetic data. Wrinkling skin, graying hair, loss of muscle mass and bone density, loss of mental acuity, decli
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Why is the bezel so thick? So you have somewhere to actually hold the bloody thing. Bezelless gadgets look great in photos but are impractical as fuck to handle.
736.
by Dalewyn 2y ago
Most of the US already has sales tax (it varies by State, county, and city; some have no sales tax).
737.
by Dalewyn 2y ago
>For example, what if corporate income tax were tied to the logarithm of the number of employees+contractors? Unemployment would increase. >What if the corporate income tax increased with the market share in markets served? More compa
738.
by Dalewyn 2y ago
>He tried to get me interested in ham radio but at the time I was exploring the internet and ham seemed... boring? Might wanna be careful, you might get your turns tabled and become that grandfather one day. :V
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Plus I'm more and more worried of accidentally using the wrong URL (through a misspelling or a wrong TLD or whatever) for fear of ending up on some scam site instead of the real thing. I also Google for websites I really should kno
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>When did people 'care'? Back when using a computer required having some idea of what was going on. Even if all you really cared about was playing Doom, you still needed to make sense of all those levers with nonsensical labels
741.
by Dalewyn 2y ago
>because webpages are dead. I think it's more accurate to say that the internet and perhaps personal computing in general is dead. Practically everything about what makes a computer tick has been abstracted away, because rightfully
742.
by Dalewyn 2y ago
I think it's very wise to market your product on something people might actually care about. Free/Libre is a fine philosophy, but as a selling point it has had a very disappointing history.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>That's pretty obviously not going to be viable with any existing technology. Counterpoint, new technology needs a bleeding edge product necessitating and thus incentivizing its birth and existence. When you need to create a chicken
744.
by Dalewyn 2y ago
Unless you can point to where I was attacking ("denouncing", "flaming") some one , you're shouting hot air. I agree it's an ideological conversation, though. EDIT: There is a literal ideological battle over her
745.
by Dalewyn 2y ago
A flame war involves flaming some one which I wasn't doing, but you do you.
746.
by Dalewyn 2y ago
We are going out of our way to repaint history in the worst way possible using standards that should not be applied. No wonder people are so miserable and divided these days when we are led to be miserable in everything.
747.
by Dalewyn 2y ago
You will take my Winamp and mIRC from my cold dead hands.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Call me when you can emulate that 30 year old solder smell, among other things.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>why does it matter Because you aren't a cat whose owner is called Schroedinger.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I didn't even notice that. lmao

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