amiga386

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by amiga386 1y ago
No no no. We should put Asia at the top, Europe bottom left, Africa bottom right. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T_and_O_map
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by amiga386 1y ago
See also the little-known website Booking.com
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by amiga386 1y ago
You could do this today on Windows with NTFS Alternate Data Streams. Windows also supports "resources" (menus, icons, etc.) that can be compiled and linked into the executable. Resource forks died out because users want to easily
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by amiga386 1y ago
Alternatively: do teach coding to kids (which includes logical reasoning and problem solving) You don't want an entire generation of people who can barely operate the devices that enable and control a huge portion of their lives. Kid
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by amiga386 1y ago
I notice you didn't address the other 4 differences. All 5 are about "defence in depth", making things less likely - and conversely, not doing them makes pwning more likely. I'll add a 6th difference: "go get&quot
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by amiga386 1y ago
As far as I remember: "go get" doesn't execute downloaded code automatically; there's no "postinstall" script (there can be a manual "go generate" or "go tool" the user may run) Go doesn&#x2
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by amiga386 1y ago
"No Way To Prevent This" Says Only Package Manager Where This Regularly Happens
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by amiga386 1y ago
You're not hallucinating, she was mentioned in an article on DPaint last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45144129
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by amiga386 1y ago
In the US, it's Signal. In the UK, it was WhatsApp. When researchers dumped 100% of Signal's users in the USA, because its contact discovery API has no rate limiting, they found a huge portion of Signal's US userbase has Wash
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by amiga386 1y ago
OK, great. Can I call poll(2) on a terminal device's file descriptor? Requirement for certification: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799.2024edition... > The poll() and ppoll() functions shall supp
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by amiga386 1y ago
> I dislike TZ selectors that use locations (cities, countries, etc.). Let PDT be PDT(-8) and PST be PST(-7). You can choose that. Set your timezone to Etc/GMT-8. Then, at the exact time your political jurisdiction mandates switch
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by amiga386 1y ago
If that's the case, then apologies, but I did not see the credit the first time, and I thought it odd enough to post about it here a bit later. Then when I looked again, the credit was there, so I thought you'd updated the article
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by amiga386 1y ago
> do you know what I got the one-way IBAN for? Yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=980273295#Proposa... Your fellow Wikipedians had had enough of your and BHG's squabbling, and they decided it was
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by amiga386 1y ago
They wouldn't need to. They'd ask his residential ISP to monitor him instead. If you're using Tor, take it as a base assumption that the exit node is logging your traffic, or even modifying your http traffic. Tor's value
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by amiga386 1y ago
But the article does cover that. German gnomes (Kobolde, especially Hödekin) are usually depicted with pointy hats, or at least ones that curl backwards. The smurf hats are clearly wearing Phrygian caps.
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by amiga386 1y ago
The format itself is an act of sabotage. The format is basically Microsoft's internal formats for Office, with all their bugs and flags and features, for which Microsoft already owned the only working implementation that works correctl
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by amiga386 1y ago
To give credit where it's due, the 32 colour King Tut image that Deluxe Paint's mascot was drawn by Avril Harrison. More of her graphics: https://www.amiga.lychesis.net/artists/AvrilHarrison.html (I see the a
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by amiga386 1y ago
> Why did you get permanently banned. Ta bu shi da yu created the citation needed template: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Citation... (I remember that account name from Kuro5hin. Much respect!)
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by amiga386 1y ago
That's crosswordese for you - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crosswordese - there's also ERNEs, AUKs, TERNs and ORCAs out at sea
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by amiga386 1y ago
In Our Time is meant to be a brief tour of basically every topic in arts, science, philosophy, etc. And yes, Melvyn has been an arts presenter for decades (his The South Bank Show started in 1978), science is not his forte. Perhaps you&#x
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by amiga386 1y ago
Winnipeg, Montreal and Calgary also have pedestrian tunnel networks, as do Edmonton and Halifax, for the same reason as Toronto -- terrible winters. Perhaps Ottawa should get one?
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by amiga386 1y ago
While Toronto does have a lot of traffic, and certainly the suburbs are entirely car-centric... Toronto is ridiculously cold, snowy and icy in winter. Reducing cars on Yonge St (for example) wouldn't make winter go away.
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by amiga386 1y ago
It's clearer than you think. Did Dua Lipa hear an obscure Florida reggae band's tune that isn't available on any major platform to listen to any more? It took some time, but eventually the court agreed she'd never heard
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by amiga386 1y ago
Problem one _is_ about AI. It was a similar problem with cryptocurrencies. Out comes some kind of tech thingy, and a million get-rich-quick scammers pop out of the woodwork and start scamming left, right and center. Suddenly everyone's
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by amiga386 1y ago
> To make your concert analogy actually fit: A scraper is like a company that sends 1000 robots with tape recorders to your "open to the public" concert. The scraper is sending ten million robots to your concert. They're p
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by amiga386 1y ago
On that very topic, do HNers have any case and/or motherboard recommendations for a homebrew NAS? I have my NAS on a shelf in a mini-ITX case, but it only fits two 3.5" HDDs internally (as well as an SSD, but full-size HDDs are wh
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by amiga386 1y ago
Ultimately we didn't need Jon Lech Johansen's work (and Derek Fawcus's, and others') on cracking DVD DRM or cracking Apple's FairPlay DRM, as there have always been alternatives. But their efforts did push the fight
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by amiga386 1y ago
> Lots of people are forced to take psychiatric medication right now, in developed countries including the US. Just as an example, in the UK the verb "to section" is shorthand for "to commit to involuntary confinement in h
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by amiga386 1y ago
So it is. I thought it wwas something else, but it's X-COM / UFO as you said. On https://sounds.spriters-resource.com/ms_dos/xcomufodefensexc... it's ui_message.wav
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by amiga386 1y ago
Strumming the main menu makes pip-boy sounds too. On Firefox, you have to click on the page at least once before mouseover plays audio

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