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by ashleyn 5y ago
One of my earliest memories is my grandmother giving me a musical christmas card that played a medley of Jingle Bells and Santa Claus is Coming to Town. I thought it was the cutest thing ever. This had to have been it. Thank you so much for
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This bodes very poorly for Facebook. The money may still come in but forward-thinking younger talent can be the crucial difference between a trendy company like Facebook and a corporate monolith like Oracle.
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Tooling in general has massively improved. I compare Cargo or NPM to what was available 15-20 years ago and it's leaps and bounds above anything that was (or is still) available for languages like C or C++. It was exceedingly common
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Point 1, exposing a potential denial of service attack via expensive queries, was always a point of contention I had with GraphQL. I'd love to explore using GraphQL in a project but security is typically a high priority. What is the ge
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There's no free lunch. Cloud services trade performance woes for budget surprises. This may be preferable in some cases but the tradeoff should be recognised.
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The long term risks for either is not knowable. Hospitalisation is an acute scenario that can lead to death, negating any concerns about the long-term in the first place. The short term risk of hospitalisation in the unvaccinated versus t
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Growing up in the mountains, I remember seeing a curious kind of antenna up on a mountain nearby. It didn't look like the others; from one angle it looked like a three-petal flower and across town, it looked like a giant robot with two
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There were reports of brain anomalies on MRI scan in "Havana Syndrome" victims. What would we make of those?
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DK64's use of the word "Hell" is notorious among American gamers of the N64 era, especially those with strict upbringings. I remember being mildly shocked by it as well. Years later I learned that in the UK, where Rare was ba
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No, because as long as scarcity exists, there's going to be winners and losers - and losers will not be happy being selected as the losers. Whether it's by a bureau or by machine.
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-core suffix, at its most brief, indicates an aesthetic of some type. In this case, "cottagecore" is a rural, traditional, "Little House on the Prarie" aesthetic. There's an entire wiki of -cores: https:/&#x2F
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Censorship with little justification, all on top of sneering mockery of everything you may believe in, doesn't exactly strike me as the best way to promote trust.
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This ignores the aspect of personal responsibility. Nobody is forcing these people to refuse the free and widely-available vaccine - they do so by choice and an adult consciousness, and it follows that you bear the consequences for your per
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See many comments suggesting irreversible fat-finger transactions are why Ethereum is flawed by design. I would argue immutability is not something inherently flawed - rather, the design of the client software should take more responsibilit
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+1 for FreeBASIC, very underrated language with many expected modern trimmings.
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This is all my guess. American institutions have completely lost the trust of the lesser-educated demographic, are oblivious to this phenomenon, and sneer at those who distrust them instead of trying to be conscious of it and correct it. So
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I recall reading that Windows historically built its hardware abstraction layer at install time and that's why you couldn't simply move a disk from like hardware to unlike hardware without a reinstall. You may want to try a fresh
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I'm noticing a theme here. Sears owned Prodigy in the eighties, only to face certain bankruptcy because they were unable to adapt to the subsequent Internet.
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Upon reviewing TFA it appears this is intended for iCloud users as a privacy-focused alternative to CSAM-scanning the images you upload to iCloud on-server. Rather than leaving images unencrypted on-server so thay they can be checked, the i
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> It's from the lack of heavy metals - lead is necessary for transporting glucose to the axon, and its deficiency leads to massive synapse loss and resulting mental illness. I'm going to need a reference for this because I was
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They may have underestimated the community surrounding gaming. "It's something my kid plays, who pays attention to this stuff?"
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I was wondering how on earth anything like this could've been developed - now it's making more sense. BANCstar probably was intended to be something like Visual Basic or Hypercard, where the bulk of the development was done using
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> https://roboticsbiz.com/top-seven-companion-and-social-robot... In the context of the "loneliness epidemic" there's something very Black Mirror about this phenomenon.
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Some food for thought, the younger segment of the online neurodivergent community has come up with a solution to this problem: "tone indicators"[1]. They are semifrequently seen in the art spaces I hang out in. If you've seen
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by ashleyn 5y ago
Alpine Linux. Not just for Docker images. I run it text-only on some crap Dell Dimension in my basement workshop. 15-21 megabytes of memory used on a default install. Has networking, framebuffer, usb, and otherwise all the modern trimmings.
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The real clever kids will eventually realise you can just tape a post-it note to your head with "ADULT" written in sharpie.
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The writing was on the wall as early as the beginning of the Pentium 4 era. There was this assumption that clock speed would just continue to grow at the insane rates it did in the 80s and 90s, and then reality caught up when the Netburst a
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The elevator call boxes are surprisingly easy to "hack" considering they have virtually no security whatsoever and the industry doesn't appear to have practices that combat social engineering. https://hackaday.com&
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The "unknown machine" sounds like dtmf tones + pulse tones. It's anyone's guess what the actual meaning of the numbers are, but the tone+pulse encoding suggests a super legacy, perhaps proprietary automated system that y
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> At the lowest extreme in age, there are lots of kids and teenagers who are simply puzzled by the whole notion of gender roles, or the prospective changes of puberty, and will happily tell you that they kinda-sorta don't feel like

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