Macha

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by Macha 11mo ago
Worldwide economic growth means more people are able to afford tourism more often, and more access to media and the internet means people are more aware of places and events to travel to
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by Macha 11mo ago
Does China need something competitive to an a320neo^2 or is something competitive with a 737ng enough given they can pressure domestic airlines into buying it and undercut their way into more sticker price sensitive markets? That’s already
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by Macha 11mo ago
I’d actually just figured out the compose binding to type it on Linux just before chatgpt got popular
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by Macha 11mo ago
> What’s so fascinating is you mentioned Knights of the Old Republic, and I think anyone who knows about that game thinks about it as one of the great successes in gaming, and it’s like that whole first period where it’s a total failure
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by Macha 11mo ago
Must irc clients do not automatically download or show images which means joining a room and spamming a bunch of them is less impactful on recipients and so less appealing to trolls, so it doesn’t happen.
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by Macha 11mo ago
From the complaint, the claim seems to be that he used to use different names on IRC 10 years ago, which they claimed showed he used suckpuppets regularly, that once a netsplit disconnected him and a sockpuppet, and that a harasser had a si
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by Macha 11mo ago
Was the dog ever the default? There were like 10 or so appearances you could change clippy to and the dog was one of them but clippy was the default so is the one people remember
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by Macha 11mo ago
The investors want AI because they believe it will replace all intellectual work, and so the company with the best AI will get all the money from several other sectors. The execs want AI to show to the investors to improve their job securit
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by Macha 11mo ago
The business has no contract with Monotype, has conducted no business with Monotype, and has also (as they double checked) committed no infringement against Monotype. In short, the Monotype sales rep has no entitlement to any of the busines
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by Macha 11mo ago
Even many non tech people have begun to associate Internet wide outages with “aws must be down” so I imagine many of them searching “is aws down” and for down detector, a hit is a down report, so it will report aws impacts even when the cul
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by Macha 11mo ago
That sounds like the village in which I spent my teens. Population of ~500, and for <18s there was myself, my sibling, and there was a "new" housing estate had a handful of kids around 5. We didn't have nice paths, there w
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by Macha 11mo ago
The root DNS servers basically only tell you where the registry servers are, they don't contain records themselves. If someone censored a domain at the registry level then the root servers would be no help
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by Macha 1y ago
The problem it really solved was your sysadmins were still operating by SSHing into the physical servers and running commands meticulously typed out in a releaae doc or stored on a local mediawiki instance, and acquiring new compute resourc
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by Macha 1y ago
Rust came first, so people who didn't like Rust flocked to Zig as an alternative, and were keen to promote it as an alternative to Rust by criticising Rust, as wider usage would provide them more of an ecosystem to use in their own Zig
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by Macha 1y ago
I would expect edge AI requires much more RAM at a global level due to less efficient utilisation.
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by Macha 1y ago
This is often my pain as a senior dev. If the more junior members of my team propose something, and it's perfectly acceptable, if I just rubber stamp it then it looks like I didn't read it or do anything. So with some of the past
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by Macha 1y ago
I don't think Brett was on the other side of the sleep(1) debate, just that he'd previously had disagreements with the author of this post.
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by Macha 1y ago
If your amortised fixed costs plus your variable costs are greater than your revenue, that’s called making a loss. It’s like a shipping company saying the cost of delivery covers the cost of their staff and fuel, so they’d be profitable if
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by Macha 1y ago
And in common with other first wave chat products had entirely client side chat logs anyway.
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by Macha 1y ago
As for the atm: to use the ATM I need a bank card, to use the bank card I need a PIN. What do you think all the local banks have chosen as their secure channel for communicating that pin to users in the last few years?
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by Macha 1y ago
AOL mail and Verizon mail had both been migrated to the yahoo mail backend when I left the company. This one kind of feels like a weird acquisition to me as that’s the story for a lot of AOL properties these days - a differently branded fro
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by Macha 1y ago
A lot of mod tooling was built around the obfuscated or community names for those APIs.
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by Macha 1y ago
Honestly I abandoned acme.sh as it was largely not simple (it’s a giant ball of shell) and that has led to it not being reliable (e.g. silently changing the way you configure acme dns instance URLs, the vendor building their compatibility a
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by Macha 1y ago
The 2FA is not TOTP, it’s push notifications to the bank’s proprietary app
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by Macha 1y ago
I've stopped even checking protondb before getting a game these days. Pretty much unless they've gone out of their way to make it not work (which is mostly competitive games, so you can tell beforehand), it works. I realize by pos
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by Macha 1y ago
Sure, but probably your pre-copilot IDE was autocompleting 7-8 of those lines anyway, just by playing type tetris, and typing the code out was never the slow part?
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by Macha 1y ago
> like a school or gym locker room for example We broke into our own lockers the whole time with metal rulers back when I was in school because of forgotten keys or just because it was quicker opening them that way than actually unlockin
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by Macha 1y ago
The legal implications of torrenting giant ebook collections didn't seem to stop them, not sure why this would
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by Macha 1y ago
I think gambling came in more in later waves. The first wave of popularity (mostly StarCraft, LoL and fighting games) tended more towards funding from sponsors, and not gambling ones (red bull, monster energy, gaming peripheral makers, the
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by Macha 1y ago
I will say I expected Ryanair to be more awkward about it but apart from a few discouraging messages on the claim form (“are you sure you’re entitled to compensation?” and “most claims aren’t successful” type stuff), once I did fill out the

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