RiverCrochet

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by RiverCrochet 3y ago
Yes, NAT was a mistake.
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by RiverCrochet 3y ago
> The world probably has never been as peaceful as in the last 50 years or so. True, but we are not talking about the last 50 years, we are talking about the future, for example, the next 5 years. People don't commit suicide if the
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by RiverCrochet 3y ago
Inaccurate. > The fact is, every person occupies unique physical space and thus has unique life experiences and a unique perspective of each “event”. #000000 and #000001 are unique, but most would simply call both colors "black&quot
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by RiverCrochet 3y ago
> This was done (memory is fuzzy here) by preloading the return address onto a register pair and then calling the function. When the function was done, it would do an indirect jump to the location held in that register pair, which would
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by RiverCrochet 3y ago
There is also Rapid Web Application Server in Assembly: https://2ton.com.au/rwasa/
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by RiverCrochet 3y ago
TCP ACKs back up are needed even for downloads and can get crowded if the bandwidth in that direction full or crowded. If those tiny ACKs don't get through downstream may stall. Linux QoS can help, but only if your router is Linux an
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by RiverCrochet 3y ago
> but a return to the dark ages of the internet where most traffic ran through a series of heavily-curated portals operated by a few select companies This statement confuses me. I see how the fact that most people tend to cluster around
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by RiverCrochet 3y ago
Is it the Internet that has ruined society, or various factors that use the Internet to accelerate their effects?
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by RiverCrochet 3y ago
> social media is just LLM bots talking at each other I think it's not going to be too much longer before you can't meaningfully post anything online without ID verification, because of "protect the children" rhetoric
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by RiverCrochet 3y ago
Tikok, YouTube and Facebook give me content I want, but I'm aggressive with telling them I don't like something. Those who don't do this really want the Internet to be a TV, and I'm starting to think they deserve what th
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by RiverCrochet 3y ago
> Capitalist Realism’s early chapters touch on what we we talking about last time: the “alternative” youth subcultures at the turn of the century who romantically imagined they were rejecting a bland and soulless Mainstream by eschewing
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by RiverCrochet 3y ago
It reminded me of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc
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by RiverCrochet 3y ago
> I still entirely don't understand the point of web assembly - at best isn't it a pretend emulation layer? No ... it's a "bytecode." A runtime for an interpreted languages like Javascript can operate directly on
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by RiverCrochet 3y ago
On the PC platform, the floppy is hardwired to DMA channel 2. DMA "channels" were orginally provided by an Intel 8237A DMA controller or compatible, and this is an ISA device. DMA and FDC controller functionality got taken over b
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by RiverCrochet 3y ago
Well, you couldn't plug a cable from a peripheral directly into a PCI port in 1993. It wasn't an external interface at all. PCI was an internal "close to the CPU" communications method mostly routed through a motherboar
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by RiverCrochet 3y ago
If a modern "one-shot" tape drive encounters an error during write, it will write the data again as the tape is moving. You lose a little bit of total capacity, but the data will still get written. This is why you always plan to
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by RiverCrochet 3y ago
True, because you could always ... CREATE TABLE filesystem(inode AS BIGINT UNIQUE NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, is_dir AS BIT(1) NOT NULL, name AS VARCHAR(4096) UNIQUE NOT NULL, in_this_dir_inode AS INT NOT NULL, bloblist_ptr AS INT NOT NULL,
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by RiverCrochet 3y ago
Both of these have a common element: A: "Not giving someone money for an item/produced good" B: "Not giving someone money" B can apply to a near infinite number of cases. A is one case that is "within" B.
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by RiverCrochet 3y ago
It's also possible I might not have bought the work. There's no sale until money changes hands. If you run a store, and a customer shows interest in a product and physically touches it is he/she stealing if she chooses not t
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by RiverCrochet 3y ago
I have $1000. Currently, I am not giving it to you, and am therefore actively depriving you of this money. Is this stealing?
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by RiverCrochet 3y ago
> If someone spent time and money producing something, no matter how small, and they dictate they want $x for you to own/consume it, then you are stealing if you don't give them $x for it. Not quite. It's not stealing unl
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by RiverCrochet 3y ago
> Networking isn't my strength, so I don't know where, or what part of the my local network decides that 192.x.x.x can't be routed, and so doesn't. It's a standard that is "enforced" in two places I thi