amiga386

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by amiga386 5d ago
LucasArts then made the same mistake with Escape From Monkey Island, because they were targetting the PlayStation 2
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by amiga386 5d ago
He likely did do what he was accused of, with two well-meaning (and now presumably former) fans of his ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assange_v_Swedish_Prosecution_... ), though it's his right to argue against that
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by amiga386 5d ago
The Norwegian model works because: - Norway had and still has a lot more oil in their part of the North Sea than the UK does - Norway has a vastly smaller population than the UK; more than ten times smaller (5.6m versus 69m). Each Norwegian
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by amiga386 5d ago
When I initially saw the game characters, I thought "this is janky". But by the end of the game, their personalities had won over my heart. Tim Schafer is really good at this. Psychonauts has a large cast of deformed-looking chara
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by amiga386 6d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_cruelty_is_the_point
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by amiga386 7d ago
The usage note that says "dated" and "proscribed". Do you know what either of those words mean? If you want to be seen as an idiot, use the word "England" to refer to a group of four nations of which only one h
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by amiga386 7d ago
You seem unaware that the ordinary name for the United Kingdom is "Britain". Imagine standing in New York City and proclaiming to the locals how lovely California is and how much you like it here in California. Now imagine standin
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by amiga386 9d ago
It really shouldn't surprise you to learn this, but the ordinary name for the "United States" is "California"
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by amiga386 10d ago
So the theory is now that Disney named one of their most successful films "Frozen", not because it's a good name for a story inspired by "The Snow Queen", but it's actually to stop people finding out the rumour
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by amiga386 10d ago
There is no King of England. Charles III is King of the United Kingdom, and all places within. The UK does not have a King of England any more than they have a King of Scunthorpe or a King of North Piddle. The last King of England was Willi
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by amiga386 10d ago
Also it's a geninue game with goals to complete, mainly cribbing from games like the Tony Hawk's series. Two separate categories: Meme games[*] don't have to be vibecoded, not all vibecoded things become meme games. [*] A &qu
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by amiga386 10d ago
Let me introduce you to the Commonwealth of Nations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations These countries choose voluntarily to hold ties with the UK, and each other, and some accept the UK's monar
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by amiga386 10d ago
Of course, that's why they used the generic word "frozen" with a lot of meanings, as opposed to the specific word "cryogenic" that people would actually search for.
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by amiga386 11d ago
In the 1980s and 1990s, there were a number of commercial Unices (SunOS, HP-UX, AIX, IRIX, etc.) Every one of them was incompatible with each other, sometimes subtly, sometimes blatantly. They were all competing against each other and all s
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by amiga386 12d ago
We've balkanized Linux but you're free to use the original (which we are deliberately incompatible with, as is rival #2, rival #3, rival #4, etc. and we're all mutually incompatible with each other)
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by amiga386 12d ago
I does. The OP says "Linux" but means "Linux distros", which are made of thousands of "commingled" pieces (i.e. the licence of one piece does not affect the other). Each piece that becomes MIT means less pres
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by amiga386 12d ago
GPL -> MIT
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by amiga386 12d ago
It's not about "how things actually work", the law is there to regulate human activity. The law tends to call these copies on the wire, in RAM, in caches, etc. "transient copies", which is fine until a human starts
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by amiga386 12d ago
Well that's the thing, you just don't know what happens once you let Signal send notifications via Apple/Google - clearly they get them plaintext, and who knows if they're retained and subpoena-able directly from Apple&#
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by amiga386 12d ago
Sure, let's say shitter 's authors: https://codeberg.org/mv12star/shitter/wiki/Creating-session-...
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by amiga386 12d ago
https://www.wired.com/story/phone-notifications-reveal-more-... Apple, at least, maintained a historical database of your phone's notifications, that it did not clean up after they expired. That includes all notif
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by amiga386 12d ago
Indeed, the shitter authors recommended you buy a bundle of Twitter accounts with 2FA details when setting up your own instance, to avoid getting rate-limited. There are millions of accounts for sale, roughly $0.10 per account. https:&#x
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by amiga386 12d ago
> X DMCA'd the repo. No they didn't, or you'd see the text "Repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown." and wouldn't have access to the repo at all. Instead you have full access to it, its author having me
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by amiga386 12d ago
Fun fact, you're browsing the web as fetched for you, and rendered in a way you find acceptable, by your user agent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_agent
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by amiga386 15d ago
You can't sum like that, though. Connections between regions and countries have capacity limits, so it would matter where in Finland you placed a data-center, if you wanted to take into account the electricity coming from Sweden and
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by amiga386 15d ago
> officer-involved incident Ah, the past exonerative tense. https://archive.is/wPVdy Read McSweeney's guide to ambiguous grammar, where they lead you step by step from the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
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by amiga386 15d ago
I wrote the first comment, thinking it's bignums, but no, it is hash collisions. It's quadratic because that's what hash collisions mean for a closed hash. The worst cast scenario is that every item has the same hash value,
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by amiga386 15d ago
https://archive.is/5ROzC
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by amiga386 15d ago
His inputs are large numbers that don't fit in a standard integer. Bigints. The set inclusion test not only has a hash lookup but an equality test, which will be a bigint comparision rather than integer comparison, and bitint compariso
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by amiga386 15d ago
I call shenanigans on this. import timeit def test(M,n): values = [i * M for i in range(1, n + 1)] s = set(values) sum(v in s for v in values) M = (1 << 61) - 1 for n in [1000, 2000, 4000, 800

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