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by Delk 8mo ago
> biwepe(?) Probably beweep; lament, weep over. > pinunge(?) This is explained later on the page. "Where a modern writer would say he underwent torture, a 1200-era writer must say that he suffered pinunge instead." I also co
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by Delk 8mo ago
I think Transport Fever is of a slightly but significantly different genre. Railroad Tycoon is a strategy game with competition whereas Transport Fever is pretty much a building and optimization sandbox. Even Transport Tycoon falls more in
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by Delk 8mo ago
It actually says "hacking on one of our programs", which makes it even more obvious that it's using the word closer to the positive traditional hacker culture sense. I'm sure that still looks unprofessional to some peo
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by Delk 9mo ago
If humans are considered apex(-ish) predators, it's because there's mostly nothing "above" us in the food chain. We aren't typical prey for any other animal, so we are at the top-ish. It doesn't mean the diets
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by Delk 9mo ago
Games that require kernel-level anticheat will probably try to detect VMs and refuse to run.
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by Delk 9mo ago
I remember not getting Close Combat 2 (from 1997) running on Windows 10 some years ago but I did getting it running under Wine, albeit with some tweaks. Whether that was a Windows compatibility issue or potentially some display driver thing
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by Delk 9mo ago
> Im pretty sure I read in the past GoG still sells you a license to a game in perpetuity, rather than ownership Just about every commercial software license says the software is licensed, not sold. Of course the practical difference is
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by Delk 10mo ago
I'm guessing that was a 286. I think Intel parts topped out at 12.5 MHz but AMD and Harris eventually reached 20 or even 25 MHz. I still have my original PC with a 12.5 MHz one. The difference with the 386, I think, is that AFAIK the s
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by Delk 10mo ago
Probably the Underhanded C Contest ( https://www.underhanded-c.org/_page_id_17.html ) but yeah. Obfuscated C Contest entries usually aren't underhanded, just intentionally obscure about what they do or how they do it.
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by Delk 10mo ago
That replaces number two and is the correct alternative in most cases. There are cases where a password manager may not solve the problem, though. It doesn't help if I forget my disk encryption or work AD password and I need to be able
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by Delk 10mo ago
For what it's worth, my computer science degree also had courses and projects that included requirements analysis, breaking down the problem, and elements of software engineering methodology and project management. (I believe we had a
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by Delk 10mo ago
I haven't looked at leetcode in a long time but if the problems require e.g. rebalancing a tree, I honestly don't remember how to do it and might not be able to reason it out on the spot either. I have no problems with concepts li
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by Delk 10mo ago
I can't think of any official documents I'd be getting in Office file formats. Forms are mostly web ones or in some cases PDF, read-only documents are PDF. Maybe you can submit some documents or attachments in the Word format as
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by Delk 10mo ago
There are lots of ways of "just not working" but IME the problem with corporate Windows laptops is often the enterprise software crap on them rather than the hardware, necessarily. My work laptop with a high(ish)-end AMD laptop CP
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by Delk 10mo ago
I think the difference is that if an autistic person learns to mask, that's probably useful as a coping mechanism but doesn't remove the autism in the sense of making the fundamental neurological difference go away. Anxiety (even
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by Delk 10mo ago
Obesity may increase the risk of Alzheimer's but it's far from a requirement for the disease. I can't find a link between Alzheimer's and being overweight except in case of obesity. https://www.alzheimers.org.
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by Delk 11mo ago
I'm pretty sure they aren't. I invested in what was obviously Facebook under a different name.
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by Delk 11mo ago
Lots of organizations have a blanket ban on any third-party software that wasn't specifically approved by IT. Being free might help it get cleared but that's nowhere sufficient. Since Notepad comes with Windows, it's probably
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by Delk 11mo ago
Now that we're ranting, I wonder what's up with the right-click context menu in Windows 11 on my machines. It literally takes a noticeable fraction of a second (in the order of several hundred ms) for the menu with fewer than ten
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by Delk 11mo ago
It would be pretty high for a resting heart rate.
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by Delk 11mo ago
> An average software dev today is expected to do the work and have the skillset that used to take a half dozen people or more. I think that depended (and still depends) a lot on the organization and the nature of the product. I distinct
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by Delk 11mo ago
IMO it's not even quite right in its description. The first picture that describes virtual memory shows all processes as occupying the same "logical" address space with the page table just mapping pages in the "logical&q
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by Delk 1y ago
> Why do you think xz was targeted? Possibly for any number of reasons. A sole maintainer with a bit too little capacity to keep up the development. A central role as a dependency for crucial packages in a couple of key distros. What wou
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by Delk 1y ago
The question of whether the xz format is a good choice for long-term archival is entirely unrelated to backdoors or open source supply chain security.
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by Delk 1y ago
> thank you, that reinforces the idea that selling a "freeware" is how you harvest bad karma from your customers Well, you should, because doing so generally requires exploitation of the ignorant or an outright scam. But the ad
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by Delk 1y ago
I suspect failing to report significant income to the tax authorities would be considered tax fraud in just about any legislation. If there weren't any kind of a potential penalty for failing to report or for significantly under-report
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by Delk 1y ago
It's hard to tell if there's much of a difference or not since I don't really know the US system (and I'm, in all likelihood, from yet another country different than GP). The simplest cases, however, don't really re
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by Delk 1y ago
You may find it morally objectionable to sell distributions of free software for a fee but for F/OSS licensing in no way forbids that. GPL version 3 explicitly says "you may charge any price or no price for each copy that you conv
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by Delk 1y ago
On their own devices, lots of non-power users probably just accept whatever Windows suggests. Enterprise versions of Windows either don't have a lot of the crap or they allow it to be disabled by company IT. Techie users might just fin
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by Delk 1y ago
Well, not really to the OpenGL spec itself. It's about a new OpenGL extension being added to the extension registry. Vendors may implement it if they wish. AFAIK the core OpenGL spec hasn't been updated in years, so even though ne

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