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by amiga386 7mo ago
The article has a screenshot of the Stanley Parable, but misses an opportunity to reference Control (2019) which is much more directly influenced by the "liminal space" concept, and imagines a non-euclidian space called The Old
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by amiga386 7mo ago
Most people haven't been in an abandoned mansion, abandoned mental asylum or abandoned mall either, but they've seen enough from people who have to get the idea. Never mind the urbexers bringing them footage of hidden infrastructu
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by amiga386 7mo ago
Handy tip: all two-letter TLDs are country code TLDs. Doesn't matter if they're trendy in website names (.nu, .cc, .io, .co, .it, .at, .cx, youtu.be and so on) In fact, here we have the ma.tt website, where the ".tt" i
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by amiga386 7mo ago
It falls between the two. It is, effectively, a subscription. But it is partnered with statute law which makes it an offence to receive TV broadcast signals without paying this subscription (and now also an offence to watch iPlayer, etc.)..
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by amiga386 7mo ago
It probably will, along with mobile phone contracts and other such things. Crapita already do remind you ahead of time that they're going to start collecting the money for next year's TV license if you already have one, and there&
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by amiga386 7mo ago
> While EmDash aims to be compatible with WordPress functionality, no WordPress code was used to create EmDash. That allows us to license the open source project under the more permissive MIT license. Ha ha, that's really funny timi
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by amiga386 7mo ago
I presume what that actually means is that the Java programmer needs to learn the now-Java APIs of what PeopleCode did, and the now-Java APIs of what eScript did, and they're all probably JavaBeans... But I suppose that does help a com
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by amiga386 7mo ago
Isn't SS7 going away? It's not used in 4G/5G; Diameter is used instead. Most cellular telcos are ending or planning to end their 2G/3G networks (3G moreso than 2G). In the US, the FCC continues to push for IP-only networ
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by amiga386 7mo ago
> Enlighten me on what I would use Oracle Oracle buys smaller enterprise companies with rich customers that were already using Oracle DB, or makes them rely on it, then cashes in on licensing. So for example, they bought Micros (most EFT
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by amiga386 7mo ago
There are probably millions of corporate projects written in Java. One of the reasons Oracle bought Sun Microsystems (who invented Java) was because Oracle itself had written so much middleware crap in Java. Both Java and C#/.NET are s
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by amiga386 7mo ago
It's rigged; Consolas isn't even a contender in this game, and the example text has no lowercase italic 'k's, which are its best glyph.
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by amiga386 7mo ago
> That wouldn't be trivial. INSTALL DF0: Just type that and your disk is bootable. What I find mind-boggling is the handwave over the rest. "Loads the network driver" - ok, which one? There's no standard network drive
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by amiga386 7mo ago
We left side 2 blank so you can help
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by amiga386 7mo ago
Yes. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications,_Inc._v._Ru... . - "sweat of the brow" does not confer copyright, only creativity does. More to the point: the reason you find so many people advocatin
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by amiga386 7mo ago
Then use an accurate legal term for it, "copyright infringement", or a pejorative that both supporters and detractors agree on, e.g. "piracy"
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by amiga386 7mo ago
How your go.mod should look: go 1.24.0 toolchain go1.25.7 "This module compiles with the language and runtime of go 1.24 and later, but I recommend you use at least go release 1.25.7" go get can manage this for you
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by amiga386 7mo ago
The perfect wake up call before this perfect wake up call was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Potomac_River_mid-air_col... Imagine how good the next wake up call will be! See also Preemptive Memorial Honors Future
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by amiga386 7mo ago
Agreed. There are a whole bucketload of problems, each one contributing to the staff shortage. The US has problems that other countries don't have (or have less of). It's a long-term organisational issue. None of it is insurmounta
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by amiga386 7mo ago
I use "grep" to search files (it should never skip any unless I tell it to do otherwise) and "git grep" to be a programmer searching a codebase (where it should only look at code files unless I tell it to do otherwise).
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by amiga386 7mo ago
As far as I knew, Netherlands pubs typically sold: - 200ml "fluitje" (little flute) - 250ml "pintje" (little pint), often sold in a "vaasje" (vase, a tapered beer glass). This is the typical beer measure: http
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by amiga386 7mo ago
A $10 plastic container doesn't have nearly enough space for sustenance farming. Neither does a typical city home's garden. And for health reasons they're not going to let you raise animals (there are pretty funky diseases yo
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by amiga386 7mo ago
However, had we not tried optimising, Malthus would be right and we'd all be dead. So let's hear it for optimisation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Agricultural_Revolutio...
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by amiga386 7mo ago
Yes, as far as I know, there are no stake limits on real games in real-life casinos. The stake limits are for slot machines (online and offline) to stop gamblers rapidly losing their life savings. The nearest regulations for real casinos ar
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by amiga386 7mo ago
They're implying "An establishment calling itself a 'newspaper of record' can be expected to have high standards, such as correctly reporting dates, and I'll hold them to that" If you can spot a typo in the fir
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by amiga386 8mo ago
My favourite ice-cream is rum and raisin, by the way... I guess I'd say the thing to do is to measure harms with direct evidence (e.g. this many people get addicted to lootboxes, they spend this much of their money, etc.) rather than s
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by amiga386 8mo ago
A fixed-odds betting terminal is a type of slot machine. But unlike other categories of slot machine, it was (at one time) allowed a maximum bet of £100 and a maximum payout of £500. The RTP was around 95%, but allowing such a large maxim
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by amiga386 8mo ago
Yes, it does. Only Sith deal in absolutes. You can say the same about, let's say alcohol. For most it's an entertaining social lubricant. For a much smaller number, it leads them to wreck and ruin. Is it therefore a wicked evil si
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by amiga386 8mo ago
Absolutely, I don't think CCGs are innocent. But I do think they're a level of indirection away from straight-up gambling. Being sold a pig in a poke is not the same thing as being offered betting odds.
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by amiga386 8mo ago
Yes, I am very sure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_odds_betting_terminal Buying Pokemon cards in the hope of getting a specific rare one is a pretty niche form of addiction. Compared to walking into a shop, putti
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by amiga386 8mo ago
Needing a secondary market to cash out is not the same as the vendor providing both the game of chance and the winnings. You can sell/trade MTG and Pokemon cards, but that doesn't make them "casinos"

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