LocalH

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571.
by LocalH 1y ago
Triangulation exists to locate such stations
572.
by LocalH 1y ago
I have to take issue with the usage of the terms "pixel" and "subpixel" with regards to CRT. CRTs do not display discrete pixels . They display discrete scanlines , each one made up of a smoothly varying voltage across
573.
by LocalH 1y ago
Interestingly (and I suppose fairly?) the law doesn't seem to make a distinction between male and female nipples. So an image of a shirtless man violates this just as much as an image of a shirtless woman.
574.
by LocalH 1y ago
Administration of means testing is often more expensive than doing away with the means testing. How about UBI coupled with repealing the minimum wage?
575.
by LocalH 1y ago
> The question: will companies segregate their customers? Everyone gets to click-to-cancel or is there now a dedicated code path just for the lucky few? The answer to that is that companies will use geofencing to restrict click-to-cancel
576.
by LocalH 1y ago
It's not off-topic, it's the intersection of two things that Bill Atkinson was extremely passionate about.
577.
by LocalH 1y ago
They shouldn't use libraries that don't allow them to release a server at the official game's sunset. There's been a lot of rhetoric from the publishers about "developer choice", which is really publisher'
578.
by LocalH 1y ago
The continued death of easter eggs is sad. I get it for certain classes (or scales) of software, but I still think there's a place for easter eggs that are small enough to be vetted as clean and security-conscious. Nothing says securit
579.
by LocalH 1y ago
Never forget, Sagan sued them again over "BHA"
580.
by LocalH 1y ago
Also, part of the issue is the death of private servers. Game publishers have chosen to revert to centralized servers, rather than allowing private servers. Thus they have also taken on the additional cost of running those servers. Older ga
581.
by LocalH 1y ago
The answer to that is simple, and has been used by other media (to the chagrin of fans of course). When it comes time to "kill" the game, make a final update to strip all such licensed material out of the game. The companies that
582.
by LocalH 1y ago
Of course it does. The whole idea of "Stop Killing Games" is that developers should not be able to summarily kill off a game that people have invested time and money into, just because it's not making them enough money goin
583.
by LocalH 1y ago
That's why I said "at least on the C64". This particular bug probably also happens on the VIC-20, but I don't know if PET BASIC 2.0 is the same or not. I'd also imagine the "protection" would break if lo
584.
by LocalH 1y ago
This is one thing that pisses me off about modern computing. This is shit that we mostly already figured out , but people with no context decided that visual design was the most important part of UI design, with no forethought to usage or
585.
by LocalH 1y ago
Not every keyword could be abbreviated with only two characters. The linked article actually discusses this mechanism. Once tokenized, the keywords only took up a single byte.
586.
by LocalH 1y ago
At least on the C64, you could also put a line containing REM shift-L in the program, and the LIST command would crash out when encountering it.
587.
by LocalH 1y ago
Perhaps the answer is a combination of a significant UBI (paid for by general federal spending, I could think of many worse reasons to accrue national debt) coupled with a much lower minimum wage? Incentivize companies not to treat labor
588.
by LocalH 1y ago
23.976fps is only "correct" when telecining to a 59.94Hz format. 24fps round is the "correct" format in terms of actual filmmaking. I don't know of many films specifically shot at 23.976fps.
589.
by LocalH 1y ago
What if the scammer was actually the person who bought the Bitcoin at the ATM? That's a non-zero possibility. Buy $X worth, claim you were scammed, get your $X back but you also control the wallet you sent the coin to.
590.
by LocalH 1y ago
It was also very handy that you could arbitrarily assign names to folders and have them be treated across the system as a volume name. Got some non-copyprotected software that expects to run from the volume name of the floppy? Copy the co
591.
by LocalH 1y ago
Up there in the top five worst legal decisions ever made in the US
592.
by LocalH 1y ago
US-centric view here. There's a whole cottage industry of people who look for micro-accessibility-infractions and milk it for everything they can get. Nobody's too small to be sued, and nobody's too small to file a suit.
593.
by LocalH 1y ago
Do you trust big business and the increasingly authoritarian nature of modern politics not to abuse the law as far as they can? I sure as hell don't.
594.
by LocalH 1y ago
We live under a copyright regime where four notes is enough to be an infringing musical work. Dollars to doughnuts that this law is used against people not misrepresenting themselves, who happen to look like famous people.
595.
by LocalH 1y ago
How do you plan on handling dopplegangers? They looks extremely similar (if not twin-like), yet they should each own the rights to their image and features.
596.
by LocalH 1y ago
That's exactly the reason why they shouldn't be able to control which browser engine an app can use. They should be able to encourage but not require usage of a specific engine
597.
by LocalH 1y ago
Too Android-pilled?
598.
by LocalH 1y ago
It doesn't even take a Mac. Windows iTunes allows restoring to signed versions of iOS
599.
by LocalH 1y ago
I just want to be able to install iOS 8 on my iPhone 6 so I can play Rock Band Reloaded without the bugs that come from trying to play it on iOS 10
600.
by LocalH 1y ago
That's not a reason to dismiss their use case. It's not that uncommon to have a software issue that requires a restore, which in Apple land is almost always an upgrade unless you just did one

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