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by barotalomey 2y ago
> To me it seems obvious that code should be stored in a database rather than a hierarchical, text-based format. So, granted a filesystem does exhibit CRUD, and hierarchical relations, it's already a relational database. I take this
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by barotalomey 2y ago
Win98SE was the final usable Win9x version and the most stable version of them all. There's a crapload of late 90s / early 00s Windows games that isnt compatible with modern Windows, so running or emulating Win9X is really the onl
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by barotalomey 2y ago
potato, potato. And Bob's your uncle
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by barotalomey 2y ago
Okay. Merlin is a medieval work of fiction. He's not a historical figure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin
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by barotalomey 2y ago
> we had these fluoridation sessions in school We had the same in Sweden up until the early 90s, and it's apparently doing sort of a revival in some schools. https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluortant
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by barotalomey 2y ago
It's interesting how the MAGA crowd keep looking for reasons why they dumb. One time it was the covid vaccine, now it's the drinking water. You just dumb, guys.
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by barotalomey 2y ago
Had more look and learned that their privacy claim about no user ID:s is false, as they expose user IP:s: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41381204
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by barotalomey 2y ago
Choke full of XVID cams, I bet
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by barotalomey 2y ago
Great device, if only they could make a decent remote. The older silver one was like a slippery soap in the palm, while the next (black) one was hopeless to figure which side was up or down. My newer 4K controller started acting up recently
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by barotalomey 2y ago
Or.. just don't connect the TV to the frigging internet in the first place.
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by barotalomey 2y ago
It's called eSIM and has been around for a while. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESIM
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by barotalomey 2y ago
> when it turned out they were monitoring your watching habit I think every single smart tv manufacturer does this today. At least I know LG, Samsung, Sony, Amazon, Philips, Sharp and Vizio does. Since your smart TV is on your same dome
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by barotalomey 2y ago
Correct. Parent is misinformed.
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by barotalomey 2y ago
Yea, my first thought was this is a unrelated find because eyeballs since the recent focus.
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by barotalomey 2y ago
Since I never heard of it before, I looked it up. It's some website https://simplex.chat/ with some claims about privacy because they don't use user ID:s (uh). Do explain to me why anyone should trust this sus rus
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by barotalomey 2y ago
I got a reaper license 10 years ago because I too insist on paying for good software, then I never used it.
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by barotalomey 2y ago
I very much feel nostalgic now, thinking about the time when Twitch plays pokemon was something we all enjoyed.
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by barotalomey 2y ago
I think Signal is the only usable option for trusted fully e2e-encrypted messaging today. Even the military is using it in some countries.
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by barotalomey 2y ago
Haha, then my lua code is reaching LLM code quality...
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by barotalomey 2y ago
> It feels all that tangent boils down to "not enough research" and their fault alone? My comment wasnt very focused. I didnt mean to say author missed a google result. Rather, TODAY psd spec is readily available. I don't
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by barotalomey 2y ago
> Earlier, I tried to get a hold of the latest specs for the PSD file format. To do this, > I had to apply to them for permission to apply to them to have them consider sending > me this sacred tome. This would have involved faxing
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by barotalomey 2y ago
1 or 0-based index... I recently picked up Lua for a toy project and I got to say that decades of training with 0-based indexes makes it hard for me to write correct lua code on the first try. I suppose 1-based index is more logical, but de
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by barotalomey 2y ago
Woot, blast from the past! One thing I did early in my career was to set up a issue tracker, and I happened to chose Redmine from what was available back then. While I was at that company I did a bunch of upgrades, had 0 downtime and no iss
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by barotalomey 2y ago
I feel that's assuming a whole lot of unrelated things, such as machines and humans having anything at all in common. I get that your take qualifies as stoner philosophy, so I won't push too far, but really. Do give some concrete
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by barotalomey 2y ago
> Is it surprising that silicon does too? Given that human brains and silicon has nothing in common, then yes, it is surprising. What makes you think otherwise?
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by barotalomey 2y ago
If you're not smart enough to make use of a optimal or even acceptable solution, the quality of the LLM answer doesn't matter.
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by barotalomey 2y ago
When software is feature complete, fast and working correctly, what is it exactly you expect to change?
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by barotalomey 2y ago
> people just shouldn't be browsing the web on mobile While you might be right, it's a pointless advice given most internet users since the last decade or more only owns a single internet capable device, which is their mobile.
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by barotalomey 2y ago
Suggesting we all stay on Chrome forks is indeed advocating for Chrome when options exist.
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by barotalomey 2y ago
> Unfortunately, moving to Firefox may not be a viable option for her, especially given Mozilla’s recent behavior. This is such an unfair comparison, where Google made billions on your user data and Mozilla is barely living off the scrap

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