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by amiga386 4mo ago
So Odin is a proprietary language used by a startup company that makes graphical effect tools, one of which is popular with vfx artists? I can see why Wikipedia's washing its hands of it. > If building a world-class (almost revoluti
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by amiga386 4mo ago
That a company exists at all can be verified in business registries (e.g. Companies House in the UK). But clearly having a wikipedia page at all is a big positive signal for a company, it means that they are "known", the GP admi
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by amiga386 4mo ago
I am a terminally-online person, and I do program. I am not interested in neolanguages. This article is literally the first time I've heard of Odin (the language), and I only clicked it because I thought it was about the Norse god, not
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by amiga386 4mo ago
The worst archery bollocks I've ever seen in a film is in Timeline (2003) The French are defending their castle at night from an English siege. They simultaneously exchange volleys of arrows with their tips set on fire. Very cinemati
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by amiga386 4mo ago
That's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinship_terminology and yes, you can categorise languages by the extent of their kinship terminology. You could postulate that a language developed specific words for family an
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by amiga386 4mo ago
Remember the scene in Hot Fuzz where the accents are so thick they need 3 layers of translation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs-rgvkRfwc
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by amiga386 4mo ago
We don't live in a country with "natural justice" (nasty, brutish and short?), we live in the UK. And in the UK, Parliament is sovereign. It can make, and has made, ex post facto laws. It's independent of the court'
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by amiga386 4mo ago
If anything, the courts did them a solid. "We're not going to mention that the government thinks you're terrorists. We're not even here to determine that. Don't try justifying your actions in terms of being a irrede
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by amiga386 4mo ago
It doesn't fix privacy but it does work around censorship. Has a court or the government ordered your ISP to usurp its enemies' DNS records? If so, you need to talk to a different resolver, not constrained by your government or co
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by amiga386 4mo ago
The advert is 30s long or thereabouts. Its ReplayGain value would be accurate, if fairly computed. The streaming service decides where the ad breaks are. For video on demand, which is most streaming, they can precompute the ReplayGain for t
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by amiga386 4mo ago
Option 3: Streaming platforms add to their contracts with ad delivery networks that they must faithfully represent a ReplayGain value in the metadata of every advert before delivery. The streaming platform can then have its clients adjust t
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by amiga386 4mo ago
> Law as a tool to punish those who have committed a prohibited act You're thinking of criminal law. And it's not just some group's rules and norms - there already exists familial or social group punishment for that. Crimi
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by amiga386 4mo ago
That's the end of the world, then. The British nuclear deterrent will launch when Radio 4 on long wave stops. https://www.forcesnews.com/services/navy/nuclear-promise-let... > The process by which a Triden
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by amiga386 4mo ago
That's the rub, though. The Filton 24 are actual terrorists and their abettors. Smashing up a company to further your political cause is terrorism. "I don't care if you use these weapons to murder and rape j.. Zionists
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by amiga386 4mo ago
The four words you're referring to are "I support Palestine Action", and there's nobody in prison "for a long stretch" just for saying that. There have been over 3000 people arrested for showing support for t
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by amiga386 4mo ago
It's all things at once. It's good that the world has thrown enormous resources into finding curl bugs, and found not very much. Most of the CVEs are low priority and in the more esoteric parts of curl. Some (like CVE-2026-9080) s
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by amiga386 4mo ago
You got good data centres, and their construction and operation were likely regulated. The problem is that apparently you can just ignore that by building in poor places that won't hold you accountable and perhaps don't even have
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by amiga386 4mo ago
For a limited company in the UK, you need a number of pieces of legal paperwork which I think you can technically write yourself but may prefer a solicitor to draft them correctly for you, and then you pay £100 to register the company, and
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by amiga386 4mo ago
I picked 1985 specifically because of the Amiga/Atari 68000 machines, to show that it's not about price. Had Sun wanted to target the games-machine market, they could've designed for, built and sold a $600 machine based on a
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by amiga386 4mo ago
If you spot it in Wikipedia, point it out, it does get removed. Leaving a comment on the talk page  gets editors on-board to patrol for accidental attempts to add the incorrect information back in. Wikipedia
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by amiga386 4mo ago
That was just Sun's market segment. Also from a casual Google, an IBM PC launched in 1985 (picking the XT 5160-078 as an example) was around $4,995 at launch. Compare that to two 68000-based computers also launched in 1985: the Amiga 1
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by amiga386 4mo ago
Agreed, but you also have to look at it from a packager's point of view. Here is the actual patch: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/openssl/-/commit/8f27a7dc022... Notice how clean and small a patch
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by amiga386 4mo ago
There have been some very nice OSes in the past (e.g. AmigaOS, BeOS, QNX, Plan 9) that all failed to the Wintel juggernaut. MacOS only just made it out alive. I wouldn't say Unix itself is the best. It suffered a war between competing
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by amiga386 4mo ago
While Admins do have a lot of power, at the same time their power is checked by ArbCom. Admins are held to a higher standard than general users and are kicked out of the role and banned from reapplying if they're found to have abus
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by amiga386 4mo ago
I haven't ever seen "a campaign" get through Debian's release process, besides xz-utils. The only major blemish in Debian's record was in 2006 when one of its developers patched OpenSSL to avoid using uninitialised
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by amiga386 4mo ago
> It's not all that different from the memory pages we have today An MMU gives you a flat addressing model. There is no comparison. 8086 segments are rigidly locked to a 64KB window that goes forward in memory 16 bytes for every seg
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by amiga386 4mo ago
Let's not forget, in the majority of cases in Debian, the packager is not the software author. It's an independent volunteer, vetted by a community of such volunteers. This is an incredibly useful, I'd say essential, firewall
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by amiga386 4mo ago
They should find some other way to peacock in front of their fellow upper-class friends, because it annoys the fuck out of normal people that Tarquin and Cecily come from money and thus have the free time to throw soup on paintings or whate
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by amiga386 4mo ago
Pretty much all service discovery should work this way: 1. User enters hostname (or comes in from a QR code or TXT record or whatevs) 2. Client requests GET https://<hostname>/.well-known/<servicename> 3. Thi
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by amiga386 4mo ago
The problem attempting to be solved here: 1. There are some asylum seekers who lie about how old they are. [0] Quite a lot of them. [1] 2. The onus is on the government to show they are lying. If the government still doubts their claim but

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