McGlockenshire

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by McGlockenshire 4y ago
Every time foone gets posted here, there is, in rough order: 1) Misgendering, usually out of ignorance. foone is aggressively agender and goes by they/them. 2) Someone correcting the misgendering. 3) The same circular discussion of wh
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by McGlockenshire 4y ago
A while back I decided to build a homebrew system based on the TMS99105A CPU, thanks both to this article and to Ben Eater's terrific videos. It's a pretty cool platform. It's been my first real exposure to working in assem
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by McGlockenshire 4y ago
I'm currently building a homebrew system built on the TMS99105A CPU, one of the final descendants of the TMS9900. It's a nifty little CPU. There's a lot of hidden little features once you dig in. It can actually address mul
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by McGlockenshire 5y ago
> And people "double vaxxed and boosted" still get it. And still die from it. The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is 91% effective in preventing the COVID-19 virus with symptoms in people age 16 and older. The Moderna COVID-1
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by McGlockenshire 5y ago
> That's patently false. Gamergate started because a dude spread lies about his ex-gf. Not a single one of his accusations regarding her behavior or the behavior of employees of gaming websites was true. It was always, always abo
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by McGlockenshire 5y ago
This entire post sounds like the "MongoDB is web scale" video that is now a decade old. "Internet scale" is meaningless jargon. "Joins are slow" is a meme based on now-ancient MySQL performance. Schemaless &#
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by McGlockenshire 5y ago
Pulling this attack off requires enough access to the machine to either run the unprivileged commands needed to create the exploit condition or to upload a binary/script that runs unprivileged that in turn creates the exploit condition
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by McGlockenshire 5y ago
> I've can't even begin to imagine how insecure that awful combination of insecure by default languages is. Phalcon was at one point moderately well-regarded, though it's fallen out of favor for a wide variety of reasons,
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by McGlockenshire 5y ago
> Said developer adds telemetry to help make more informed decisions. People lose their collective minds. I don't understand the reaction either. It's hard to talk about this stuff here because of the anti-analytics groupthink
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by McGlockenshire 5y ago
> psychological safety is often used as an excuse citation needed
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by McGlockenshire 5y ago
> Server side rendering with progressive enhancement is available in pretty much every major JS framework But then you are forced to use Javascript on the server side instead of whatever language you are already using . That seems to b
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by McGlockenshire 5y ago
> Can I get OpenVMS V9.1? > Yes, if you are a customer or partner of VSI with a valid support contract. So, an announcement that applies to ... almost nobody?
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by McGlockenshire 5y ago
Well, it's a brand new product, so ... no?
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by McGlockenshire 5y ago
Roblox is both a creation/building tool and a minigame building/playing tool. Both of my kids love playing minigames with their friends, but don't build anything. Minecraft scratches their building itch for the most part.
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by McGlockenshire 5y ago
How do you propose they perform the physical swap? The space vehicles we used for this purpose have been retired and we have no replacements.
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by McGlockenshire 5y ago
So according to Wikipedia, the British TV license is currently about 220 USD a year, which works out to a bit over $18 a month. They'd probably get away with charging exactly the same amount for overseas streaming. I wonder if they r
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by McGlockenshire 5y ago
... voluntarily, with intent, by his staff, and all the content was just moved, not deleted. Why is this posted here?
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by McGlockenshire 5y ago
All of the AGPL bits are inside that docker container. You don't need to worry about AGPL contamination unless you're modifying the contents of the container. This type of software distributed this way is one of the ideal use cas
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by McGlockenshire 5y ago
> Above the fold The entirety of the "fold" on my screen is an absurdly giant and seemingly irrelevant image, overlaid with the text "Tune your PID", "It has never been easier", and two buttons. As I scroll
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by McGlockenshire 5y ago
You have lost nothing. The old emoji are not going away.
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by McGlockenshire 5y ago
> upcoming transition away from Read: Not here yet, so still doing the whole energy guzzling proof-of-work thing. NFTs are a dumb fad that's likely to die out before the always-around-the-corner move away from PoW.
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by McGlockenshire 5y ago
> it would be a good idea to let your university know what you think of this. Unless there's something particularly different about University of Minnesota compared to other universities, something tells me that they won't give
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by McGlockenshire 6y ago
My C skills aren't particularly great. I can't identify the syntax of "name##" in the macros and function definitions. Can someone tell me what this is called?
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by McGlockenshire 6y ago
Does this mean we get Groklaw back?
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by McGlockenshire 6y ago
FWIW, it works correctly in the current non-ESR Firefox release.
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by McGlockenshire 6y ago
There is (was?) a feature in MS Word called the Object Browser that let you navigate a document by content types, like footnotes and headings and whatnot. In other Words, it's a joke.
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by McGlockenshire 6y ago
I think you're encountering Poe's Law here - at some point it becomes difficult to tell the difference between a troll and someone genuinely expressing an extremist point of view. Are there trolls on Gab and Parler? For sure. Ar
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by McGlockenshire 6y ago
Never attribute to malice that which can equally be explained by incompetence, or something like that.
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by McGlockenshire 6y ago
As of the current release, the only things left in the old Control Panel are things that seem to be adjusted by external programs. For example, the touchpad driver for my laptop exposes itself through a tab on the old Mouse control panel.
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by McGlockenshire 6y ago
> In the browser you can get access to DOM apis via web-sys. Wow! The last time I looked, doing anything remotely like this was a gigantic pain, in any language. I guess it's finally time for me to get around to learning Rust.

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