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by acuozzo 5y ago
Have you tried to message that guy? I'd love to read his response.
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by acuozzo 5y ago
Not OP, but my parents tried that back in 1997 when I was nine. My solution? I'd fake being asleep, wait for them to go to bed, and then sneak over to the computer room and turn it on. I did this nearly every night for a long, long tim
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by acuozzo 5y ago
The cosmos (God & angels) in the opening takes time to prep George's guardian angel, Clarence, with George's backstory. Flashbacks are used to establish George as wanting to do nothing more than travel the world and seek adven
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by acuozzo 5y ago
> Beyond that, if you couldn't find a way, then it's just not your priority, ya know? The opening of "It's A Wonderful Life" addresses this directly. It was undeniably George Bailey's priority, but even the
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by acuozzo 5y ago
> To think you only deserve a couple Life Changing, two or three week trips, even as a high earning tech worker… Such poverty of spirit makes me depressed just thinking it. How does one live this lifestyle with children and/or other
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by acuozzo 5y ago
> Out of all the health problems one might have, improving sleep is the easiest to fix … when the sleep problem is internal. Dependents with their own sleep problems are not often dealt with easily.
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by acuozzo 5y ago
> Real tech people don't blather. The issue is that some people confuse being polite with blathering. https://www.mit.edu/~jcb/tact.html
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by acuozzo 5y ago
If you think this is horrifying, then I'd suggest reading the origin story of Sucralose.
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by acuozzo 5y ago
> You can't buy a dumb TV any more. FWIW, you can. New dumb TVs are marketed as "digital signage" and sold to businesses at a much higher price point.
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by acuozzo 5y ago
I've observed "smart" TVs connect to every open WiFi network in range until successfully dialing home.
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by acuozzo 5y ago
FWIW, the following is the best code I've come across in my career. https://github.com/bilibili/vlc/blob/master/modules/video_fi... https://github.com/bilibili/vlc/blo
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by acuozzo 5y ago
The issue is that, in many cases, corporations create the problems that their products solve. Stroads, for instance, only came about after a ton of corporate spending on propaganda and lobbying to increase demand for automobiles. If you con
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by acuozzo 5y ago
> everybody wants a fully detached house so the air between the houses may help isolate you from the neighbor's noises … and their fires. I don't want my property burned because Aunt Sally went to sleep with a lit cigarette han
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by acuozzo 5y ago
> People putting their phones on the table to make sure they never miss notifications is just so fucking disrespectful to the people you're actually with. FWIW, I don't use my phone while out to eat with another person, but I d
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by acuozzo 5y ago
> what is the consumer harm Fires from bootleg phone chargers and the like. (Google for "phone charger fire" to see how often this happens.) Explosions from bootleg batteries. Sickness from bootleg water filters and food. What
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by acuozzo 5y ago
High dynamic range sound mixes have been with us for a long time. Have you ever watched Lawrence of Arabia in a movie theater? If you do the mixdown to stereo poorly and/or refuse to compress the DR and then play the result from built-
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by acuozzo 5y ago
> Not at all. https://github.com/IAIK/rowhammerjs This has existed for years and its use has been observed in the wild. RowHammer isn't new.
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by acuozzo 5y ago
> If it comes to that you'll hear about it on HN first. If folks start to explot it you'll hear about it. It did come to that, years ago: https://github.com/IAIK/rowhammerjs
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by acuozzo 5y ago
> What are the realistic attacks that this vulnerability allows? https://github.com/IAIK/rowhammerjs
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by acuozzo 5y ago
Once upon a time I suffered from severe OCD. I fully justified all of my code comments in C to 80 columns by word choice. No extra spaces. No random hyphenation. You feel pain while you're doing it, but you can't stop. I'm gl
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by acuozzo 5y ago
> I'm happy if they just provide the source code I agree with you, but I figure it's worth mentioning that—OSS license aside—it's often possible to get source code from the original programmers many years after EOL. I got
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by acuozzo 5y ago
> so that prospective candidates don’t avoid applying I'm not looking for a job at the moment, but FWIW, I would have to be under duress to take a job with "unlimited" PTO.
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by acuozzo 5y ago
> my fix would be to remove the "dick face" art. Funny. My interpretation of this was—and still is—that it is reference to Pinocchio.
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by acuozzo 5y ago
How does competition fix this? https://www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/how-dupont-may-avoid-p...
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by acuozzo 5y ago
> smart money says there is a vulnerability we'll find shocking in one or more JavaScript implementations, right now, waiting to screw us. https://www.vusec.net/projects/smash/
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by acuozzo 5y ago
> we've made trade-offs with regards to performance and UX among others Security too! https://www.vusec.net/projects/smash/
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by acuozzo 5y ago
> it's checking for hashes that match known bad images Many of the hashes provided by the NCMEC are MD5. There are going to be false positives left and right.
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by acuozzo 5y ago
Does anyone have numbers on how the backend compares to CC65 for performance on the 6502?
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by acuozzo 5y ago
> Where is Richard Stallman when you need him? He was canceled, but he still regularly updates his personal website: https://stallman.org/
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by acuozzo 5y ago
> What would be the cheapest way to have an emergency internet access? How close do you live to the border?

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