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by Figs 11mo ago
Depends if your code has horrors like this lurking in it: m = importlib.import_module(requests.get("http://localhost:8000/package_name").content.strip().decode("ASCII"))
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by Figs 11mo ago
The demo makes some nice spirals on the ends. They look like galaxies with the rendering. It reminded me of one of my (cranky) musings from back in college about galaxy formation and whether they were more like tossed pizzas (i.e. spreading
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by Figs 11mo ago
If this continues for much longer, local/state governments can, should, and eventually will commandeer the taxes that currently go to the federal government. There is no point in paying federal tax if the federal government is no lon
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by Figs 11mo ago
CloudFlare != CloudFront
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by Figs 1y ago
Something weird I've noticed in Firefox lately -- and been wondering if it's related to these sorts of features -- is that if I leave Firefox open for a relatively long time (e.g. a few hours) NoScript will show whatever my search
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by Figs 1y ago
Celery powder / extract / etc. are nitrites.
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by Figs 1y ago
In computer graphics, 4x4 matrices let you do a rotation and a translation together (among other things). There's the 3x3 rotation block you found later as well as a translation vector embedded in it. Multiplying a sequence of 4x4 matr
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by Figs 1y ago
Linux Mint is a very nice, easy to use distro for people who are sick of this shit and want to try getting off Windows...
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by Figs 1y ago
AACS. Blu-Ray DRM sucks and the discs don't play half the time.
40.
by Figs 1y ago
> SMEGMA companies Microsoft, Google, Meta, Amazon, I'm guessing... but, what are the other two?
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by Figs 1y ago
> I'd assume most adblock users on web would disable it to continue watching. This is not a safe assumption. Personally, I've stopped using YouTube entirely for entertainment; the level of annoyance dealing with it vs the value
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by Figs 1y ago
I suspect it may be possible using neutrino-antineutrino annihilation if there's a good way to produce streams of both types of particles, but... physics isn't my field.
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by Figs 1y ago
Someday, someone is finally going to work out how to do comms with neutrinos (which can pass directly through the Earth and come out the other side) and make so much money...
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by Figs 1y ago
> The White House is yet to say how much a rebrand would cost, but US media expect a billion-dollar price tag for the overhaul of hundreds of agencies, emblems, email addresses and uniforms. --BBC: https://www.bbc.co.uk/n
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by Figs 1y ago
Had no issues getting it on GOG: https://www.gog.com/en/game/hollow_knight_silksong
46.
by Figs 1y ago
> requires a lot of hacks to not have it sync with their cloud offering if you want privacy That killed my interest in their previous devices.
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by Figs 1y ago
> The site recently lost a significant income stream when Patreon rugpulled their account. The community rallied in response to that and support poured in. Their funding needs are currently met by the community. What matters is that peop
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by Figs 1y ago
A good alternative is catbox.moe It fills the niche imgur originally did (i.e. no bullshit image host) but uses a community funding model instead. I'm pitching in $20 every month to keep it from turning into imgur. If you were thinki
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by Figs 1y ago
The only time I can recall needing to use will-change is to workaround this Leaflet/WebKit issue: https://github.com/Leaflet/Leaflet/issues/8068
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by Figs 1y ago
Meanwhile, China is making EVs in the $5~$10K (USD) range like Lingbox, BAIC’s Arcfox, etc...
51.
by Figs 1y ago
How do we know it hasn't? If some clever species of dinosaur ~100M years ago had a few thousand years of rapid progress like we've had -- before blowing themselves up... would we even be able to tell?
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by Figs 1y ago
If I've learned anything from the last decade of politics, the proper solution to that nonsense is to give them the middle finger and do it anyway.
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by Figs 1y ago
> Aren't all the non-bankruptible tuition fees providing plenty of funding already? No. Having worked in academia for years, most of my funding came from the NSF. Sometimes it was from the state government, or private organizations
54.
by Figs 1y ago
Mistakes when setting a timer. My current microwave will complain if the door hasn't been opened recently, but my old one would just turn on if I fucked up the time entry and tried to set a timer while I already had a timer going...
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by Figs 2y ago
Hmm. Instead of requiring JS on the client, why don't you add a delay on the server side (e.g. 1 second default, adjustable by server admin) for requests that don't have a session cookie? For each session keep a counter and a time
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by Figs 2y ago
Eris is slightly smaller than Pluto in volume -- but more massive; it might also be worth considering in that same class.
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by Figs 2y ago
> Mozilla is seemingly on its way to certain bankruptcy. Mozilla has hundreds of millions of dollars in cash and over a billion in investments according to their last financial statement -- so, no, they are not.
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by Figs 2y ago
They are removing all the text about how they do not sell personal data as well. My suspicion is that this is somehow related to Mozilla Anonym: https://www.anonymco.com/ If you haven't already configured "Firefox
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by Figs 2y ago
The competitor already exists and at least some people are already using it: PeerTube. Run it yourself, and you can save whatever videos your community cares about for as long as you fucking feel like because YOU OWN IT. None of YouTu
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by Figs 2y ago
Hmm. Are those situations more likely than forgetting to put the gear down? (Serious question -- I don't know the answer, and I'm curious.)

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