GuB-42

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by GuB-42 10mo ago
Same for me. However you can still play the original game with ScummVM, available on many platforms, including Android.
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by GuB-42 10mo ago
It will always work if you want 500 mA at 5V and if 480 Mbps is sufficient (assuming everything is USB2 compatible nowadays). But sometimes the extra power or extra data transfer is not an option. For charging a laptop for instance, you typ
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by GuB-42 10mo ago
I always find it ironic when people complain about social media on social media, drawing some arbitrary line on what is social media (implied to be bad) and what is not (implied to be good). I would also add GitHub and StackOverflow to the
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by GuB-42 10mo ago
As a non-American, I think that Americans are special in that they have the right combination of hard work and personal initiative and efficiency. To oversimplify, Europeans are efficient workers, but unlike Americans, they use their effici
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
Counterexample. Even when eggs are clearly labeled "caged" and "free range", many people will buy the "caged" eggs despite the clear implications in terms of animal welfare. Also, while I consider organic food
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
I don't think the timestamped UUIDs are "carrying data", it is just a heuristic to improve lookup performance. If the timestamp is wrong, it will just run as slow as the non-timestamped UUID. If you take the gender example, f
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
We need some more nuance here. Companies are not evil, they are profit driven, and they make profit by responding to demand. If people demand evil, they will make evil, if people demand good, they will make good. I think it is too easy to b
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
To me, a learning needs some kind of gamification and engagement tricks. There is nothing calm about learning, you need the dopamine! Among other things, dopamine is the learning hormone, it is a problem when it makes you learn the wrong th
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
What do you mean by "worry a lot about privacy"? If it is a practical view of privacy, like the "I don't want others to know I have foot fetish" kind, or even typical operational security like not letting others kno
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
To be fair, yes, it is a bit fragile and cumbersome, though it works for me. However, it doesn't makes "git -p" less useful when the idea is to separate what you want to publish and what you want to keep in your work zone, be
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
For me the point of splitting commit is not for documentation (though it can be an added benefit). It is so that you can easily rollback a feature, or cherry pick, it also makes the use of blame and bisect more natural. Anyways, that's
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
From the looks of it, Rust is usable un a tiny embedded system but it is not "great". I think that out of the recent, trendy languages, Zig is the best suited for this task, but in practice C is still king. The big thing is memory
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
I hate the "rewrite it in Rust" mentality, however, I think that in this particular case, Rust is the right tool for the job. The Rust specialty is memory safety and performance in an relatively unconstrained environment (usually
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
While the "required piece of technology" aspect is debatable, there is certainly enough demand for it that it is going to happen in one way or another. So I agree that instead of fighting some change that I think is inevitable, th
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
Hacker News is almost indistinguishable in spirit from a well-run subreddit. Reddit is not centered on user profiles and followers and yet, Reddit is included in the Australia's social media ban. It is clear from the ruling that by inc
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
> How are you supposed to deal with recalcitrant users? Keep the servers running, but make the recalcitrant users pay for the costs and a then some more. It is actually a common strategy. Big, slow companies often have trouble with depre
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
It is something I noticed when talking to LLMs, if they don't get it right the first time, they probably never will, and if you really insist, the quality starts to degrade. It is not unlike people, the difference being that if you ask
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
You have the point of view that having publicly available queer content and abortion information is a good thing, something I generally agree with. But not everyone think that way, some think that by limiting access to abortion information,
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
There is "early exit after the first swap", which actually makes his algorithm closer to insertion sort than bubble sort. If the list couldn't change between each pass, it would be a very inefficient insertion sort in O(n^3)
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
I believe the popularity of diesel car in Europe is actually a tax-related hack. The idea is that diesel is the "work" fuel, for shipping, construction, etc... While gasoline is the "consumer" fuel, for personal use, mot
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
Linus Torvalds greenlit Rust in the kernel, and as a BDFL, he is the one to decide. He has no reason to be upset with any decision because ultimately, all decisions are his own. If he didn't want Rust in the kernel, he would have said
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
Will it be possible until Rust gets full GCC support, with all its platforms?
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
There are still a lot of Toy Story characters to come by, and it doesn't seem the franchise is about to end, as long as they keep a reasonable release cycle, Debian is safe ;)
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
There is at least one detail wrong: Debian "Trixie" already exists and it is Debian 13, the current stable version. Unlikely a human would have made this mistake while getting the other details right, like the fact that considerin
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
More like: "Every time someone stole from my car, that's because I forgot to lock the door, that the lock can be picked is not a problem". Sure, a thief may pick your lock, but unless he knows there is something valuable in t
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
Just because one layer of the security stack is compromised doesn't turn your device into a paperweight. I know many people who use out-of-support and vulnerable devices and I am not aware of a single one getting pwned by a system expl
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
RMS is an extremist, and not the kind of person I tend to agree with, he seems to be a bit of an asshole too... But that's also the kind of people we need. Companies are not going to compromise on their profits, we need someone to bala
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
You can't lay of 3/4 of your workforce without removing indispensable people. And looking at the state of X/Twitter, I would say it shows... It is never obvious who is really important. There are the troubleshooters, as you s
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
Survivorship bias. On a personal level, if you take risks, there is a good chance for you to just fail and be forgotten to history. You can make it big, but is it worth the risk? On a country level, it is different. With millions of people
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by GuB-42 11mo ago
The idea of firing people based on the number of lines of code they wrote makes sense if you think like a psychopath. On average, more productive developers write more lines of code. Of course, writing more lines of code doesn't mean y

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