bellyfullofbac

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by bellyfullofbac 5y ago
Nah it didn't have a hard disk, and booting up without any floppies inserted resutled in an error message...
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by bellyfullofbac 5y ago
> I have started assuming that most of the people here have some kind of side project that makes them money. I haven't paid attention to it, but probably the people who mention "my side projects" aren't regulars, and
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by bellyfullofbac 5y ago
My PC XT didn't boot into BASIC, I wonder why. It's long gone now so I can't investigate what hardware it actually had. This boots X11/Wayland and then an SDL app on top of it, I wonder what it would take to write a shel
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by bellyfullofbac 5y ago
Matt Damon was pranking people, one of them was a young Black man. He looked very worried: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzVHqSpO8Ko Also a very interesting (long) read from a Black British journalist, who even had an epi
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by bellyfullofbac 5y ago
Yeah, seems like so. Issue: "Black people get less confirmations than white people, we have the data." AirBnB Solution: "No pictures, initials only." Data after a few months: "Black people have comparably equal acce
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by bellyfullofbac 5y ago
> This thread will be locked if people cannot grow up and rein in their pseudo hysteria. Hah, welcome to the Internet, A.D. 2022. The amount of forum posts that are either "This happened to me too!" or that plus "I can&#x2
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by bellyfullofbac 5y ago
I've thought of QR-encoding the URL to the Rick Roll video and "pranking" people trying to scan ads. Here come the righteous downvotes; to defend myself, I never went through with it, and they were ads to promote the city&#x2
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by bellyfullofbac 5y ago
Of course there's the "follow the money" issue, I wonder if it's doable using a payment provider in a dubious country, or if Visa/Mastercard would just chargeback, leaving the payment provider to be mad at you (but
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by bellyfullofbac 5y ago
Even if it's green, wouldn't it be better if that produced energy goes somewhere to replace non-green energy, rather than to calculate hashes that are mostly thrown away? Obviously it's all stupidly chaotic, there might be a
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by bellyfullofbac 5y ago
The 3d Tokyo website linked here the other day ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21188767 ) also shows you buildings when you zoom in, I'm guessing the guy didn't gather this data himself for such a hobby proje
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by bellyfullofbac 5y ago
I've read about the Indian "this is IRS, you need to buy gift cards to pay us" telephone scammers, and they justify what they do by saying Westerners are filthy rich anyway, and they got rich by abusing the poorer nations, so
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by bellyfullofbac 5y ago
Feels like the cast-iron pot calling the aluminium kettle black...
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by bellyfullofbac 5y ago
Netlify has a Forms functionality, that can be used to trigger serverless functions, I was thinking it'd be possible to add the comment to a file, git push it and trigger a rebuild. Hah, rebuilding a whole site on every submitted comme
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by bellyfullofbac 5y ago
An interesting feature of some Asian languages (e.g. Japanese, Thai, Indonesian) is that in general they use 1 word (I'll write it as "s/he") to refer to third persons. I wonder how that's influenced kids growing up
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by bellyfullofbac 5y ago
Iirc with Fyre Festival the dude got convicted of wire fraud for defrauding an investor, not for selling tickets to a sham festival. The joke was, screw the small people, that's fine, screw a rich investor, that's when you go to j
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by bellyfullofbac 5y ago
I'm pretty sure OP means SWE is "software engineering" and not Sweden... In places where the employer directly deducts taxes/social security and transfers them to the authorities, they might ask one of the employers if t
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by bellyfullofbac 5y ago
To nitpick, the YouTuber's name is Linus Sebastian and Linus Tech Tips is his channel...
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by bellyfullofbac 5y ago
It was odd how it just went (sunglasses on[1]) viral. But I guess Zoom didn't ask you to register with your email and make an account, and click the link on the email we just sent you, etc, so that's why someone who needed a quick
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by bellyfullofbac 5y ago
Damn, it just blew my mind that video calls are now commonplace, keyword: Zoom... (Yes it was a thing even before Zoom or the pandemic, but I wonder what percentage of the population did their first video call in Q2 2020...)
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by bellyfullofbac 5y ago
I don't get your question, do you want to craete art, or do you want to be recognized in the art world? Those 2 goals aren't equivalent... Do you want to be an artist? Just start making art! If I were a cynic, I'd be wonderin
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by bellyfullofbac 5y ago
Their propaganda^W PR fluff about the weight of gold recycled from iPhones has a line that triggered my bullshit alarm: "2204 lbs of gold" [1]. This has been regurgitated by news media[2] as "more than 2204 lbs of gold"
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by bellyfullofbac 5y ago
I'm going to start calling it googlevista...
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by bellyfullofbac 5y ago
Ah, every time I read about vanity TLDs (are they called that? Can I call them that?) I sigh at the brokenness of attaching structure/constraints to domains and TLDs... At least the country TLDs made sense, plus things like .org for no
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by bellyfullofbac 5y ago
Hah, make it give out cryptocoins, and take the idea of peasants waiting for royalty to make it rain money to the 21st century, where it all happens digitally/using a smartphone. Did kings and emperors even do that in the old times?
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by bellyfullofbac 5y ago
This was a thing: https://piratebox.cc/start : open WiFi network that's not connected to the Internet, but it had a forum software. I even bought a simple router and got it installed, but I sadly never set it up in pub
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by bellyfullofbac 5y ago
Hah, nice "Skyfall" mode (presumably inspired by one "tactical" screen in that James Bond movie)
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by bellyfullofbac 5y ago
Having the subways be the appropriate depth under the surface would be amazing, it's probably surprising how deep some subway stations go under ground...
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by bellyfullofbac 5y ago
My hunch is that if you compare education levels and health/mortality causes you'll also get a correlation, and there's also one between education and voting preferences. Sadly a lot of pro/anti-vaccination is political-
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by bellyfullofbac 5y ago
I remember typing up a paint/simple sprite animation program from a book in BASIC when I was 12 or so. I had no idea what anything meant, but I managed to add color support to it. Geez, this brings up memories of me sitting there on th
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by bellyfullofbac 5y ago
Maybe it's because the chunk should be human-readable, according to the specs? http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/spec/1.2/PNG-Chunks.html

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