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by Figs 9y ago
I buy DVDs. My data cap is too low to stream, and I can't get a higher one. (I've tried.) Netflix and whoever licensing shows for streaming only really pisses me off because then there's no way for me to watch those shows.
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by Figs 9y ago
> I wonder if the commercial forces in the rest of the music world seem to prevent this kind of community building. SoundCloud has (for whatever reason) prohibited archivists like archive.org and ArchiveTeam from backing it up. https:&#
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by Figs 9y ago
Eh. I'm not sure if Japanese<->Chinese is that good of an example either; Chinese is sort of the Latin of Japanese. Even though it's grammar is different, China had a huge cultural influence on Japan, and both its writing
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by Figs 9y ago
No, I just made it for fun. Someone else in the thread said they'd be impressed by a proper implementation in Make, so I took a stab at it. I do wonder what the response would be like if I actually wrote something like this in a real j
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by Figs 9y ago
I once implemented FizzBuzz in Make: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/412kqz/a_criti... Even though Make does not have built-in support for arithmetic (as far as I know), it's possible
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by Figs 9y ago
A few years ago, there was a bot automatically submitting all links to archive.is and adding the archive links to Wikipedia. It got blocked and the site banned for spam. There was another discussion about it last year, and the consensus was
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by Figs 9y ago
> IMO y'all should've stuck with some good old fashion HTML and CSS, especially since there's nothing dynamic about Reddit's content. Agreed. I use mobile tethering as my home internet. Currently reddit loads in under
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by Figs 9y ago
Wikipedia's current events page is not bad for the big news stories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events Not sure what to substitute for local news though.
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by Figs 9y ago
I don't know what the reason actually is, but I assumed it was slow by design to make it harder to compromise, similar to bcrypt.
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by Figs 9y ago
This story reminded me of the adage: "They say that to err is human, but to really fuck up, you need a computer..."
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by Figs 9y ago
I'm not familiar with the Edioso specifically, but I have run into another branded tomato produced by Syngenta called the "Kumato". (They're pretty good, actually, though I'm not a huge fan of the concept of patente
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by Figs 10y ago
> (like, my bank: usaa.com - why would I bookmark that?) So that you are certain you never accidentally typo the url and end up giving your banking credentials to an impostor... That's why I do it, anyway.
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by Figs 10y ago
It doesn't have to be so big. Modern GUI toolkits are just really bad about keeping their sizes down for some reason. I wrote my own personal GUI toolkit on top of OpenGL/GLFW for developing special purpose editors (for gamedev)
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by Figs 10y ago
More like ~100MB. At least it was the last time I tried it about 6 months ago. Might have gotten better since then.
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by Figs 10y ago
I was against the project back when it was a ballot measure, but since then my opinion on it has changed -- I don't care if trains ever run on the damned thing, what really matters in this project is getting the right of way to the lan
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by Figs 10y ago
> Just "feeling sure" isn't enough to certain of something. Back when I was a teenager, I got interested in the idea of lucid dreaming. One of the suggested ways I'd read of gaining awareness that you are in a dream i
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by Figs 10y ago
I use T-Mobile as my ISP because the only landline choice in my apartment building is AT&T and I absolutely refuse to do business with them. I regularly hit the monthly bandwidth cap on my plan and get booted down to 2G. I live in Cal
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by Figs 10y ago
Thanks for the link. Just found this one from NASA as well: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/nasa-scientist-sug... So, it seems like it's still an open possibility, and even better, it might be
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by Figs 10y ago
Have we already ruled out the possibility of dark matter just being huge numbers of black holes without notable accretion disks?
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by Figs 10y ago
No, it's a Trojan horse. Users installed what they thought was a legit app, but it came bundled with malware that stole their auth token.
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by Figs 10y ago
> Should auth tokens be ip-address-tied? Won't fix the problem when there's malware on the same device that the auth token was stolen from...
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by Figs 10y ago
I think you're probably right for the most part, but a few other thoughts occurred to me for energy sources not mentioned in the article: 1) Cryovulcanism is suspected to be present on Titan. Maybe it would be possible to tap into geot
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by Figs 10y ago
That seems like a really poor reason for doing it seeing as Cassini carried Huygens with it -- which already landed on Titan over 10 years ago.
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by Figs 10y ago
You can show top/bottom or side-by-side stereo on a 3D TV as well.
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by Figs 10y ago
Actually, it was the anti-flamewar filter that pushed it off, as dang explained later in the thread.
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by Figs 10y ago
Sure, I'll check in a week or so and remind you if needed. > Except wait, are you saying anyone reads the FAQ? Fair point :) The 'vouch' idea is interesting, but I'm not sure if you really need another click mechanism
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by Figs 10y ago
I've been here fairly regularly for 8 years and didn't know about it, so I'm not sure I agree that it's "well known". It definitely isn't in the FAQ's section about how stories are ranked: https:&#
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by Figs 10y ago
> You can say "go somewhere else" but selecting a different store isn't even a realistic option for many people in the US - there are no alternatives. You can order online and it will kill off the brick-and-mortar stores e
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by Figs 10y ago
So, is this the version of Firefox that kills all existing add-ons?
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by Figs 10y ago
Is anyone backing up Homestuck? Once webcomics end they tend to vanish from the internet after a few years...

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