Timwi

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by Timwi 10mo ago
“Easy Cancellation” My Ass
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by Timwi 10mo ago
I would prefer a mode without a timer. Especially on the explanation page after a question. There are a couple questions I encountered with wrong answers. One question asked me to solve x/4=3 and then insisted that the answer was 24,
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by Timwi 10mo ago
> You probably can take an ox to Oxford ... but you can't make him drink, is what I thought you were going to say.
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by Timwi 11mo ago
I would properly separate data and code so that I can easily change the dialogue and its timing without having to rewrite all of the numbers in all of the code.
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by Timwi 11mo ago
It got sidetracked by the submitter themselves by mislabeling it as “Google Maps of Roman Roads”.
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by Timwi 11mo ago
Microsoft does have a reputation for ungodly levels of backwards compatibility. You can still run the oldest Windows 95 programs today, still open the oldest Word documents, etc. The issue with “quality” is that it's really subjective.
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by Timwi 11mo ago
What does being adopted have to do with anything?
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by Timwi 11mo ago
Translation: “It was so moving that I cried.”
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by Timwi 11mo ago
The article focuses on games that were never released or never even completed. It could be argued that those (unlike Pac-Man) did not contribute to cultural heritage. This is obviously not to say that their preservation is unimportant; I ju
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by Timwi 11mo ago
It only requires an email address.
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by Timwi 11mo ago
Can you provide a link about the “Scots Gaelic Wikipedia drama” you reference? I've heard of drama related to the Scots Wikipedia but that has nothing to do with Gaelic.
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by Timwi 11mo ago
As another commenter noted, it was loaned from Yiddish rather than German, although the two languages are very closely related. There are many Yiddish words in English that have come from the Jewish diaspora. Common ones I can think of are
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by Timwi 11mo ago
It sounds like you didn't read the article. The vulnerability occurs precisely because a request parser tried to be lenient.
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by Timwi 11mo ago
You're contradicting yourself. Raw, fully optimized executables for production would mean machine code for the target platform, not an intermediate bytecode that still requires a VM.
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by Timwi 1y ago
I can absolutely argue about what measure of success to apply. If you're only focused on what makes you money, then you're successful according to this one metric, but you're a psychopath and you're hurting your users. A
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by Timwi 1y ago
It doesn't matter whether they realize it. Even if they do, they just don't care. Most corporate leaders have high degrees of psychopathy. They are exclusively focused on their profits and nothing else. If gagging their users make
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by Timwi 1y ago
> I have asked other people how they manage to follow updates in threads in order to see updates, and the answer seems to be that they don't. How do you do it in IRC? The only way you can guarantee that you see all messages is if yo
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by Timwi 1y ago
It won't get anywhere unless it addresses the issue of spam, scammers, phishing etc. The whole purpose of Google Safe Browsing is to make life harder for scammers.
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by Timwi 1y ago
I disagree, I think we get that impression because the Internet used to have only tech-savvy people on it but now we hear from everybody and their dog
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by Timwi 1y ago
We have moved from IRC “to the various chats”? ... IRC is a chat. What makes IRC special or different in your view apart from being old? I know that in the old days IRC chats were sometimes “made public” in the sense that a bot would scrape
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by Timwi 1y ago
> It's trivial to generate a full mapping of all base64 4-byte sequences which map to all 3-byte 8-bit sequences (there is only 8^3 of different "tokens", or 2048) How did you get this number? The correct number is 64^4 =
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by Timwi 1y ago
> I encourage everyone to create the most absurd, implausible, and impractical languages. Been there, done that: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Ziim
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by Timwi 1y ago
I've been working on and off on JigGen, a command-line tool I wrote that generates jigsaw puzzles for Tabletop Simulator. https://codeberg.org/Timwi/JigGen The newest addition is a hexagonal piece cut, bringing th
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by Timwi 1y ago
It's right there in the post: > I built this so kids of expats can easily stay in touch with family on other continents. Just think of families fleeing from war or persecution. This isn't rare by any measure, unfortunately.
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by Timwi 1y ago
Okay, I guess I got a fair bit of the details wrong. However, there's one detail I want to push back on: > In addition, [XHTML1] defines a profile of use of XHTML which is compatible with HTML 4.01 and which may also be labeled as t
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by Timwi 1y ago
Yes, I covered that; everyone assumed that you only needed to specify the doctype, but in practice browsers only accepted it for local files or HTTP responses with Content-Type: application/xml+xhtml. I've edited the comment to
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by Timwi 1y ago
The reason XHTML failed is because the spec required it to be sent with a new MIME type (application/xml+xhtml I believe) which no webserver did out of the box. Everything defaulted to text/html, which all browsers would interpret
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by Timwi 1y ago
People who already have a habit of solving a problem a specific way are generally unlikely to switch when a new solution appears unless it is considerably easier. If it's not immediately easier, it will feel easier to continue the in
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by Timwi 1y ago
A math professor at my uni said that a statement in mathematics is “obvious” if and only if a proof springs directly to mind. If that is indeed the standard, then it's easy to see how something that is vaguely plausible to an outsider
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by Timwi 1y ago
> “wish we could have kept you” > “you were such a great performer, I don’t know why they laid you off” Can someone explain the legal (?!) problems with these sentences? I'm very confused.

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