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by GuB-42 6mo ago
I don't know about the market manipulation part. But messing with a weather station in an airport, presumably one that is used by pilots and air traffic control for safety critical operations (METAR) is likely to be very illegal, maybe
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by GuB-42 6mo ago
There are only 256 1-byte opcodes or prefixes available, if you take 8 of these to zero registers, they won't be available for other instruction, and unless you consider zeroing to be so important that they really need their 1-byte opc
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by GuB-42 6mo ago
Is is me or the world of finance is going crazy. Or maybe it has always been. SpaceX, a rocket company owned by Elon Musk bought xAI, an AI company also owned by Elon Musk for... reasons. Don't give me the datacenters in space narrativ
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by GuB-42 6mo ago
"Score: 5, Troll" is the ultimate achievement. To put it that into context, some tags count as upvotes, others count as downvotes, "Troll" is a downvote. So to have your post labelled as "Troll" with a positive
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by GuB-42 6mo ago
That must be a specific niche. I enjoy puzzle games and the only sokoban game I can think of is Baba Is You. Though many games, including games that are not primarily puzzle games have a sokoban-like puzzle at some point. The puzzle game th
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by GuB-42 6mo ago
> Theoretically Lions etc, could be milked I hope you are talking about lionesses... As a reader, there are some exercises I would rather not do.
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by GuB-42 6mo ago
Bloomy-Rind Buffalo is actually not rare at all, at least in France and Italy. I can find it in grocery stores. Look for "Camembert di Bufala". It tastes as described in the website. Also, while I can't think of hard goat che
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by GuB-42 6mo ago
SOLID tend to encourage premature abstraction, which is a root of evil that is more relevant today than optimization. SOLID isn't bad, but like the idea of premature optimization, it can easily lead you into the wrong direction. You kn
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by GuB-42 6mo ago
> Premature optimization is the root of all evil. There are few principle of software engineering that I hate more than this one, though SOLID is close. It is important to understand that it is from a 1974 paper, computing was very diffe
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by GuB-42 6mo ago
An interesting piece, but it doesn't tell in how the F-35 is built for the wrong war. In fact, it is a mostly positive take on the F-35. It is more about how it should be used according to the author than a criticism about the plane it
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by GuB-42 6mo ago
The assembly seats in Brussels, so the decision comes from Brussels (geographically). It doesn't imply that people from Brussels are the ones to decide, not everyone has the same idea anyways. Though, as citizens of a EU member state,
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by GuB-42 6mo ago
Except that this kind of age verification is not what "transnational corporations such as Facebook" is pushing for. In fact such a system is probably the worst for them: they can't use the token for tracking, and it can mak
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by GuB-42 6mo ago
It is a good exercise, but in practice, what's the big deal? Even if the app is bulletproof, age verification will get bypassed. Account sharing, file sharing, darknets, etc... It mostly prevents kids from stumbling upon content that i
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by GuB-42 6mo ago
I am not sure people actually care that much about dimensions. Most phones today only look thin on promotional material. With the massive camera bump that is sometimes thicker than the phone itself, and the way most people use cases, in the
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by GuB-42 6mo ago
For what I remember, networkization with DOS was a PITA so set up. You didn't have a convenient system API with sockets. You had to mess with interrupts, registers, etc... Your app had to be programmed for your specific hardware, and n
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by GuB-42 6mo ago
Because the engine is still running, even in a paused state, the game still has to show something and process input. Sometimes there is a menu too, sometimes the game is not completely frozen: flames may flicker for instance. In the article
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by GuB-42 6mo ago
For me, it was basically a catalogue. The ads weren't annoying, they were the whole point, even more so than the articles themselves! That's how you know what the industry was doing, and if you want to buy new hardware, these maga
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by GuB-42 6mo ago
The thing with floating point numbers is they are meant to work with physical quantities: distances, durations, etc... Physical quantities involve imprecision: measurement devices, tools, display devices, ADC/DACs etc... They all have
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by GuB-42 6mo ago
To put it into perspective, we are effectively terraforming Earth today, though maybe not in a good way. We have converted most of the land to agriculture and released maybe trillions of tons of greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, there are 8
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by GuB-42 6mo ago
To me, it is not "conventional wisdom", it is what a vocal group of C++ guys who look at Rust and its memory safety and don't want to be left out. Their way is not wrong, new constructs are indeed safer, more powerful, etc...
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by GuB-42 6mo ago
C++ is like C with extra features, but you don't need to use them. If you want control over your memory, you can do pointers the C way, but you still have features like templates, namespaces, etc... Another advantage of C++ is that it
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by GuB-42 6mo ago
Oh, it is not that family computer https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famicom
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by GuB-42 6mo ago
> Saying that it can make decisions and replace humans is akin of saying that random number generator can make decisions and can replace people. There are many studies concluding that for some tasks, experts make decisions that are no be
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by GuB-42 6mo ago
If it is constraints you are after, you can look at fantasy consoles like TIC-80 and PICO-8. They are designed to emulate the experience of 8 bit consoles: limited storage, memory, display, palette, etc... While at the same time making deve
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by GuB-42 6mo ago
In addition, there are factors that make it more probable. - The sequel came out a bit less than 2 years after the first book, which is fairly typical. It means it is a likely time to think "what about the sequel?" - Doctor appoin
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by GuB-42 6mo ago
My dog doesn't know Rust, but he is fluent in Ruff!
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by GuB-42 6mo ago
Switzerland has a fertility rate of about 1.4 and decreasing, unless they do something, there won't be much of a country left in a few generations. Solutions can involve immigration or natalism, but something has to change. Japan is wo
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by GuB-42 6mo ago
> Match-3 games and microtransactions and season passes and skinner boxes make billions of dollars. Only if they have a cool interface. What make people play a match-3 game over another match-3 game that has the exact same gameplay? It i
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by GuB-42 6mo ago
Recycling is mostly greenwashing. I mean, it is good, but the order is Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Recycle. Recycling is the last option, when everything else has failed and the thing is heading for the landfill (or worse). Every device they tak
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by GuB-42 6mo ago
The thing that kills me every time is how IT treat development machines the same way as the rest of the corporate network. Developers usually need elevated privileges, executing unverified arbitrary code is literally their job. Their machin

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