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by an_ko 4y ago
I am aware that the anime's official English title is "The Perfect Insider". I think that title sucks, hence this direct translation of the original title, which whole point was to reference hexadecimal.
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Everything Becomes F – ending credits [video](youtube.com)
1 points by an_ko 4y ago|1 comments
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by an_ko 4y ago
If you or others wish for more of this type of optimistic slow mini-documentary, NHK's "Document 72 Hours" is a show which camera crew stay in 1 ordinary public place continuously for the titular 72 hours, at all hours of the
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by an_ko 4y ago
First impression harsh feedback: It takes too many seconds between opening your landing page and understanding what your product is. The first thing I should see is your product doing something I want. By the time I scrolled to the cute
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by an_ko 5y ago
Wouldn't being required to release hardware specs support that healthy competition though? I'm sure the market will eventually settle on the better product either way, but it will happen faster if systems are documented and intero
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by an_ko 5y ago
I think you're getting emulation and piracy a little bit muddled, which to be fair is a common reaction. An emulator is just an API-compatible device. It is legal to make and sell an emulator. It can be used for playing legit and pirat
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by an_ko 5y ago
That's what every Our Incredible Journey post says though... In my experience it has no effect on reality, it's just a form letter.
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by an_ko 5y ago
What counts as "truly" off grid to you? Start nude with a rock? Even primitive people were born into a world with pre-existing humans who have some form of technology. It's not electricity, but there is a "grid" of
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by an_ko 5y ago
I wonder if this means self-driving vehicles' detection of important traffic features will be at the level of an irritated and disinterested web user who is trying to just do the minimum work to please an algorithm.
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by an_ko 5y ago
Don't trust the client with that, or everybody is getting goatse'd.
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by an_ko 5y ago
In industrial settings, sniffing unidentified mystery fluids may lead to a very bad time.
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by an_ko 5y ago
I think the reason they removed dislike counts may be exactly because people (like you) tended to click away immediately on seeing a high ratio of dislikes. It's game theory. If people do that, it means their recommendation algorithm&#
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by an_ko 5y ago
Huh. In Finland, fire code requires that external doors swing outward. It's intended to make it faster to exit the building since you can just walk forward, and to prevent people getting trapped indoors if a panicked crowd tries to p
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by an_ko 5y ago
As a free software maintainer, I have high standards for quality because (a) I like it that way, and liking it is why I do it for free, and (b) if your PR sucks, chances are I'm the one who has to write the docs, fix the bugs, and deal
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by an_ko 5y ago
I recommend ignoring everything on the front page of Reddit or at most treating it strictly as entertainment. Stuff only gets up there if a large group of people understand it and like it, which means almost all "discussion" that
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by an_ko 5y ago
You'd leave calculator physics for later, and focus on the practical physics of steering your 2-tonne cyclist crushing machine, I would hope.
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by an_ko 5y ago
Depends on whether you trust your ISP's DNS more than Cloudflare's. According to https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/learning/dns/what-is-1.1.1.... : > Unlike most DNS resolvers, 1.1.1.1 does not se
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by an_ko 5y ago
He also has a whole playlist with lectures specifically about Toki Pona: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjOmpMyMxd8T9lZjF36c4mn4Y... Great channel; I second the recommendation.
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by an_ko 5y ago
I think civil disobedience is a form of protest. As you say, it helps drive the point home. If "illegal" video game tournaments are widely attended and accepted as societal good, or Nintendo lawyers anger enough people, the activi
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by an_ko 5y ago
I agree. My complaint was that the title is clickbait. It promises a solution ("and what can turn it around"), which the content doesn't deliver.
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by an_ko 5y ago
Saving you a click: No solutions are presented; it's just a list of obvious problems, and "maybe it will sort itself out somehow". Followed and preceded by a pitch for the interviewee's new book, of course.
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by an_ko 5y ago
Last names in many places evolved from that same need to disambiguate between people though. Attach some marker of connection to a place (common in Finland, e.g. Joensuu meaning "mouth of river"), profession (common in Germany and
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by an_ko 5y ago
Security-critical software is best when it's obvious how to use it, and how not to, which is easier with a focused tool. I feel like GPG has so many features that it's hard to look things up in a manual, or to make use of shell ta
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by an_ko 5y ago
The difference I see is whether the suffering they cause is avoidable. To my understanding, the argument made by autistic rights advocates is that people with the condition could usually live like anyone else, if society open-mindedly accom
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by an_ko 5y ago
I'd you mean "question that sounds basic, but which many professional programmers wouldn't be able to answer at gunpoint": How do prefix and suffix increment operators (++x vs x++) differ in functionality?
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by an_ko 5y ago
Saving you a click: The title is bait. "Dick pics" here does not refer to penis-photos, but to humorous penis-themed pixel art.
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by an_ko 5y ago
The effect a natural deterrent causes in species that it didn't evolve to deter is pretty random. Even if the effect is positive sometimes, as long as its presence yields an overall fitness advantage (or at least no particular disadvan
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by an_ko 5y ago
With that scheme, I imagine the server would need to maintain a per-client timestamp of when a token was last generated for them, so as not to generate them too often. But at that point, why not use that timestamp directly, to rate-limit ea
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by an_ko 5y ago
> But apparently not enough time to become even a half-decent player, since I never broke through the 3800 MMR ceiling in Dota 2. Eh? 3.6k is Legend[5] which is 83rd percentile. https://www.opendota.com/distributions&#x2F
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by an_ko 5y ago
In Germany, vehicles have emissions ratings, with a corresponding windshield sticker. https://www.germanemissionssticker.com/ Vehicles below a certain threshold are banned from "low emission zones" defined by loca

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