boondaburrah

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by boondaburrah 4y ago
Yeah it really sucks that you can't get a normal computer with decent A/V capabilities (or expansion slots to add them) and instead have to opt for a workstation you don't need since "normal" users apparently only u
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
Actually most of the time with companies that still self-host I see take home laptops with VPN since work-from-home is a must. So not only does the risk still exist, the malware doesn't even have to wait for you to go back into the off
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
but is it /consistent/?
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
It doesn't help that different brands of OS used different terms for the same thing. The screen saver mixup makes no sense though. That can only mean one thing.
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
on the desk/in the cabinets has worked as a metaphor for anyone I've had to explain it to.
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
Windows 95/98 labelled HDD space as "Memory" so it's unsurprising that that's common. That's why I always had to make sure to say "RAM" when I meant memory in the 90s.
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
It will be taken down because it's illegal for that content to be posted /at all/. The proposed system is about who has the rights to post something, and a delay while that's figured out. However /nobody/ has t
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
Regardless of whether or not cp is against the tos, or there is a legal process in place for takedowns, the law against cp existing will kick in faster as sharing it is a criminal act regardless of why, who, or what posted/hosted it, s
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
I would like to point out that at some point in this debate the goalposts were moved from a civil case to a criminal one, and the liabilities (and harm) are entirely different.
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
As another datapoint, this is also pretty standard in Japan. However Japan's school-to-salaryman hiring pipeline is built around the idea that you're not changing jobs, and after the 3-month probationary period (though it can vary
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
Right but I can simply choose another Linux and /not lose any functionality from my system/. Unfortunately if I choose anything other than iOS or Android on a consumer computing slab it's effectively a paperweight.
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
Oh that's good to know, especially for games which sometimes must go where JIT cannot (consoles, iOS other than javascript)
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
Is it bad that I find that really easy to read?
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
Yeah this design is pre-mmu and virtual memory, and NeXT/Apple solved it with bundles (store the streams as separate files in a specially named (ends in .app, .bundle, .framework etc) directory that the OS presents as a single file). I
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
I think the only SoC that's close is the one that comes on the Raspberry Pi 1-3, since they even got broadcom to release the docs for the VideoCore IV GPU. It's still not completely documented, but it's better than most &quot
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
Resource Forks were necessary on early Macintosh so that the OS itself could partially load programs into RAM when you only had 512K or so, loading resources as needed. You could argue that your resources instead should be multiple files in
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
for me BGFX has become the API since I'm basically tired of wrassling how fragmented graphics programming seems to be. I just wish the shader language wasn't semi-custom GLSL-with-C-macros so I could use existing tooling for previ
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
They fixed it with an update this month, but CrowdStrike was hooking /every/ single call to NtCreateUserProcess on my work machine last month, and you /know/ how electron-based apps work. VSCode took so long to launch it
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
In which case, I would find myself uttering the phrase "Tokyo has no public transit" which I don't think is the case. Every train in Tokyo is inter-city rail, and I think that seems to work just fine.
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
As someone from the east coast who's done both Seattle to Portland and Boston to New Haven, the difference is nuts. From what I understand, Amtrak owns the tracks on the NY-BOS stretch, but everywhere else has to yield to slow moving f
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
I'm not sure what your definition of public transport is. Regarding Japan, if you mean "publicly owned" then Japan Rail is private. If you mean "available to the public" then I can walk into Tokyo station 10min befo
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
I've literally never found anything better than the NX-based NoMachine (I think version 3 was the last one to support it). I'll never understand why they downgraded themselves to yet another desktop video stream. If you can find a
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
weirdly for me google meet is the only one that works and everything /else/ has problems, especially discord.
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
I still have a moment when I think of all the "hey look we have shaders!" games released in the early xbox 360 era when I hear the phrase "bloom filter"
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
"block fees" or "blocking rights"? You can't just rename "paid exclusives" and make it the new scary. Consoles have had this sort of thing since at least the original Nintendo Entertainment System was rele
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
I thought it was going to be about USB
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
My first 6502 bringup on a breadboard was just a CPU and ROM (no RAM) with A9'H'A9'e'A9'l'A9'l'A9'o' while it was attached to a logic analyser so I could see if it was running. Shortly after
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
I used to serve my pages declared as XHTML from free webhosts (remember those loads of 100-ish MB hosts that kept springing up in the 2000s?) that had the added side-benefit that the injected banner adverts were not valid XHTML and therefor
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
Haxe is wild to me since I recently started learning it and realised it's basically TypeScript but before TypeScript. Since it's statically typed and can hit C#/Java/C++/JS, I really want to try it in line of busine
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by boondaburrah 4y ago
I've noticed this smartphone layout in comics before and I recognise the strengths but find it really less enjoyable to read. I have to be constantly scrolling and it's difficult to ever settle into a scene and feel it since they&

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