amiga386

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by amiga386 4mo ago
> I can manage Chrome using the config infrastructure provided by Google https://mozilla.github.io/policy-templates/
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by amiga386 4mo ago
> expertise claimed by the author The author is on record as trying to remove HTTP 418 "I'm a teapot" support from NodeJS, which resulted in backlash and Python adding support for it. https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by amiga386 4mo ago
If it wasn't clear, I was talking about high-speed rail. Of course the other lines are very welcome! You can throw in the electrification projects too, all good. HS1 was meant to start in 1996, only began in earnest in 2001, and was co
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by amiga386 4mo ago
That's somewhat unfair. In rail, it's more like is that there's nothing for 20 years, then the government announces one project. Everyone piles onto that one project and gold-plates everything because they already know
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by amiga386 4mo ago
1. Download Tor Browser from https://www.torproject.org/download/ 2. Visit the site in Tor Browser 3. Tell everyone you know about 1 and 2, and remind them that if they ever actually "verify their age" or any
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by amiga386 5mo ago
Fascinating Aida: Cheap Flights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAg0lUYHHFc After studying the website we decided it was best to pay priority boarding so we'd sit three abreast (three abreast, that&#x27
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by amiga386 5mo ago
Yes, more weird than that. x86 PCs have fairly standardised boot and autoconfiguration (UEFI and ACPI). ARM based systems, including the Apple M series, don't. You just have to know what's there (device trees), and Apple isn'
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by amiga386 5mo ago
No, you need the original mix to remaster it yourself. If you just amplify the whole track until its max amplitude reaches the medium's maximum, yes you could undo that. But the loudness war aims to make the whole track even louder th
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by amiga386 5mo ago
MITM where attacker needs to install their own CA certs on the victim's device -- sure, out of scope. MITM because you used http instead of https and you don't have any other verified cryptographic signature on your data -- get ta
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by amiga386 5mo ago
See this is the value of Wikipedia. Sure, the Smithsonian has a nice article with a flowing narrative. But we want facts. Let's look up this Sequoyah chap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoyah > In 1821, Sequ
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by amiga386 5mo ago
Are you unaware of how vapid celebrities and rich people can be, especially in puff-piece interviews?
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by amiga386 5mo ago
Unreal gives the player their choice of protagonist. The default choice is not canonical. https://unreal.fandom.com/wiki/Prisoner_849 > The character of Prisoner 849 is commonly speculated to be Gina, as her model (
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by amiga386 5mo ago
Add the lie "emails are delivered instantly, so the user can click a link I email them within 1 minute" And the lie "users always read emails on the same device they're logging into a website with" And the lie &quot
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by amiga386 5mo ago
??? Mirror's Edge has a female protagonist, but it's not an FPS (First Person Shooter). It's a parkour simulator which technically lets you shoot a gun in limited sections of the game, but the protagonist is a pacifist and yo
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by amiga386 5mo ago
For the gory details, see 1. Donald Trump's Ego Trip - lessons for the new Scotland (2011) https://andywightman.scot/docs/trumpreport_v1a.pdf 2. You've Been Trumped (2011) https://www.youtube.c
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by amiga386 5mo ago
We have always had slop. There have always been people trying to push low-effort, low-value things as high-value things by copying the superficial aspects of high-value things. People literally do "judge a book by its cover", and
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by amiga386 5mo ago
I beg to differ, here's Scotty using one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkqiDu1BQXY
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by amiga386 5mo ago
Yeah, this is why it's obnoxious and this is why scummy marketers do it. If you don't aggressively turn it off, they leech an implicit endorsement out of you. - Sent from my iPhone
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by amiga386 5mo ago
I'm suggesting the problem is not limited to Berkeley. They both show the same underlying issue, there's a growing number of students attending university without the prerequisite maths skills they need to succeed. It seems they&#
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by amiga386 5mo ago
https://senate.ucsd.edu/media/740347/sawg-report-on-admissio... Please see the graph "Growth of the Math 2 Population by Major (2019-2024)". UCSD's Math 2 class is remedial high-school level maths.
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by amiga386 5mo ago
What you're seeing there is churnalism; journalists just want to get a piece printed and move on. Sometimes the whole piece comes from a source that benefits from the piece being printed, not just the expert. https://en.wiki
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by amiga386 5mo ago
You wouldn't vibecode a car. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPEeaxI0OPU
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by amiga386 5mo ago
hell no
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by amiga386 5mo ago
> you can give them a task to do, but if they do something illegal instead said human would take on the liability If an employer says "don't break the law" but nonetheless incentivises their employees to break the law, it
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by amiga386 5mo ago
Quite the opposite. Humans get up to barbaric, heinous shit whenever they have new layers of indirection and force multipliers at their disposal. If you then add randomness as an essential premise, you get The Dice Man
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by amiga386 5mo ago
> an AI tried to blackmail This did not happen. A human set up a software system allowing spicy autocomplete to make blog posts if the appropriate keyword appears in its output. People are crossing the line every day because AI investo
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by amiga386 5mo ago
> I can understand the safety concern - and I think the decision to turn around was ultimately the right call. I don't, and I think it fits what Bruce Schneier called "Cover Your Ass" security (he was referring to the equa
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* But nobody came.
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Modern video services perform multiple encodings with different codecs, bitrates and screen dimensions, and serve up the most appropriate format that the client device can decode. Youtube has hundreds of format variants: https://
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by amiga386 5mo ago
So what? So is every automatic variable, including size_t i on the next line, unless it fits in a register. So are the platform-specific preserved registers across function calls, so are the function parameters if the platform declares they

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