McGlockenshire

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by McGlockenshire 8mo ago
A real problem. We know at least one of the actors made a concerted effort to hit the same buttons each time for a given action (Wesley at the helm). Hell, Doctor Crusher is often seen using a stylus on her PADDs... as a choice, by her
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by McGlockenshire 8mo ago
> AGPL (Affero General Pickle License): Same as GPL, but if you serve the sandwich over a network (delivery apps), you must also publish the recipe. This is why most restaurants avoid AGPL pickles. I love a good APGL joke, and this one e
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by McGlockenshire 8mo ago
Ah, the Second System Effect, and the lesson learned from it.
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by McGlockenshire 9mo ago
The creator of the TMS9918 would go on to build the TMS9995 and TMS99100 CPUs and later the graphics processors behind TIGA.
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by McGlockenshire 9mo ago
Sorry I'm going to have to softly call bullshit on the TI 99/4 section. > Texas Instruments intended to have total control over the software for its computers, and to reap all of the profits from selling ROM cartridges. Grown a
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by McGlockenshire 9mo ago
> WWVB has no audio range I got my WWVB and WWVH confused! There's a reasonable emulator here: https://wwv.mcodes.org/ Unfortunately it doesn't let you play both at the same time, which is what you need for the
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by McGlockenshire 9mo ago
This is pretty darn cool, but I have to say I was somewhat let down by the WWVB signal. I was expecting the entire audible range instead of simply the extracted data. That being said, that's also really darn cool. I find the WWV/W
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by McGlockenshire 9mo ago
We just have to post more. That's all.
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by McGlockenshire 10mo ago
This is the same attitude that results in modern developers ignoring low end consumer hardware, locking out a customer base because they aren't rich enough. Get some perspective. Some of us have to live on 500kbit/s. The modern
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by McGlockenshire 10mo ago
Just as server side rendering was reinvented from first principles by the current generation, now they have rediscovered progressive enhancement! There might be hope for us yet!
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by McGlockenshire 10mo ago
> And we're all just supposed to act like this isn't absolutely insane. This is insane to you only if you didn't experience the emergence of this technique 20-25 years ago. Almost all server-side templates were already pa
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by McGlockenshire 10mo ago
> no one could ever say conclusively that the pedal issue was real or not You should ask a mechanic's opinion.
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by McGlockenshire 1y ago
Well, as it happened, when I was part of a company that released software, we prioritized high-visibility bugs that users complained about often. This is a high-visibility bug that users complain about often.
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by McGlockenshire 1y ago
Not wanting to use the works of / a project lead by someone that holds beliefs that are repulsive to you is a perfectly valid reason.
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by McGlockenshire 1y ago
> made a political comment someone didn't like It should be noted that this specific framing ("it's just a disagreement," "someone didn't like it," "it's nothing big") is used by the peop
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by McGlockenshire 1y ago
There was a time when a previous employer looked like we were going to go down in flames -- 2008. I wrote such a love letter in the main include file (yay PHP) that told them how to figure out how the application worked and gave a credit b
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by McGlockenshire 1y ago
AFAIK that warning is "scripts on this page will capture image data from the window viewport, which in turn can be used to fingerprint you because of how rendering works" Some people will care about this.
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by McGlockenshire 1y ago
bsky recently changed (proposed changing?) their policies on how adult stuff is presented. the wording they've chosen has a specific focus on explicit consent, resulting in having to do ... that.
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by McGlockenshire 1y ago
The "debate" ended up doing nothing but spreading misinformation. Society as a whole has a responsibility to not do that kind of shit. We shouldn't be encouraging the spread of lies.
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by McGlockenshire 1y ago
> because a global entity was pulling the strings at the WHO' excuse me I'm sorry what?
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by McGlockenshire 1y ago
Wow! When that one DHH blog went around the other day, I didn't actually pay attention to who the author was. All I saw was yet another bigoted rant and just skimmed it and rolled my eyes. (e: here it is to save people the effort: h
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by McGlockenshire 1y ago
I know you're already getting piled on here but > less emotional, Expressing emotions is good, actually.
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by McGlockenshire 1y ago
Well, you see, once a Cloudflare site violated the TOS so badly that they had to get their C-levels involved to decide if the TOS violation was bad enough to not want them on their platform. That one site was kicked off and this site * HOW
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by McGlockenshire 1y ago
Yes, actually, if continuing to run the service is going to exceed my available budget then I do want the service turned off! If I can't pay for it, and I know I can't pay for it, what other possible choice do I have? Do any of y
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by McGlockenshire 1y ago
> but it doesn’t natively support shutting down services [...] of course AWS doesn’t check each S3 request or Lambda invocation against your budget, instead, it consolidates periodically via background reporting processes So, in other wo
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by McGlockenshire 1y ago
You seem to be describing this as a bad thing instead of the objectively good thing that it is.
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by McGlockenshire 1y ago
> every single one sounds like a complete amateur making a cloud configuration mistake Golly if only the configuration wasn't made this way on purpose exactly to cause this exact problem.
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by McGlockenshire 1y ago
blaming the victim? stay classy. intentionally allowing huge billing by default is scummy, period.
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by McGlockenshire 1y ago
> How would it be easier than putting it at the front? Have you ever wondered why `tar` is the Tape Archive? Tape. Magnetic recording tape. You stream data to it, and rewinding is Hard, so you put the list of files you just dealt with
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by McGlockenshire 1y ago
This is only possible for a minority of android hardware. Non-flagship and low-end devices will never get support.

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