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by bux93 2y ago
The blinky bars were great! Already forgot about those. If I remember correctly, a problem with those were people with displays that had funky refresh rates? I think that in the current era that would be much less of a concern. Conceptually
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by bux93 2y ago
I love this as an expression of peak consumerism. Let those warehouses full of cheap mp3 players rot, don't bother trying to upgrade an old ipod with a new battery and storage (which it wasn't designed to be upgraded with anyway),
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by bux93 2y ago
Music disks used to be a thing in the 90's demo scene. Like this 111 KB rendition of "Axel F" they did not sound like crap. https://modarchive.org/index.php?request=view_by_moduleid&qu...
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by bux93 2y ago
Yes, the Payment Services Directive requires "dynamic linking" to a specific amount and a specific payee in article 97, and the RTS in article 5 go on to say that the payer should be "made aware of the amount of the payment t
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by bux93 2y ago
The general trend is towards customer contact that does not have any agency. At least if you're connected to an AI, you can feel less guilty about hating their guts.
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How would you know inconsistency among websites isn't inhibiting users from using them? There's not a Web A and Web B to do A/B testing on. Roundness of buttons? Buttons shouldn't be round in the first place. Back in the
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by bux93 2y ago
The requirements are not just unrealistic, but, you know, wrong? > It is extremely hard to stylize native Win32 controls. Yes, it should be! I know Microsoft is errant in its ways itself, but controls should not be custom, they should be
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by bux93 2y ago
LinkedIn is badgering me to "verify" my identity using some app I've never heard every time I log on. I won't, because this will inevitably happen, and Microsoft will shrug and blame the outside company.
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"We're worried some benefits might go to people who don't deserve it and/or be paid for by taking money away from other people." often translates to "you know, untrustworthy people from the out-group" and
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Inquiries impact your credit score negatively not because you took on more credit, but because you (most likely) didn't. The correlation is that if you get rejected by lender A, and try a new application at lender B, and again at lende
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by bux93 2y ago
paged.js and weasyprint ingest HTML, as shown in the helloworld example.
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I recently bought a minipc that comes with W11. The manual actually says to install it without access to the internet, apparently to make it fall back to allowing you to create a local account.
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by bux93 2y ago
Reminds me of a cool tool I once used, uudecode.com, which was a DOS binary that only used 7-bit characters and could decode uuencoded (base64 predecessor) files. Was useful for getting attachments through e-mail in the face of all kinds of
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by bux93 2y ago
I had coke that tasted like a swimming pool in Minnesota. I had no reason to suspect it would, so it's not something I was convincing myself of. It came from a machine that used tap water of course, rather than from a bottle or can.
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by bux93 2y ago
And you know, fund lobbyists. Shocking I know, but it's not just corporations who have lobbyists, NGOs too.
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by bux93 2y ago
See my earlier comment. This is simple stuff. Are you guys being disingenuous?
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Nonsense. Chat control is prior constraint of speech. You can't argue that automated content filters are not censorship. You can agree with the ends (or what content is filtered, and even the governance), but the means themselves are t
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by bux93 2y ago
If you're driving along and want to stop for the traffic lights, you start decelerating. The car in front of you slams the brakes and leaves less space then you anticipated. You now need to decelerate faster. That's negative jerk.
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by bux93 2y ago
If you read >The EU (as often) is being used here as a scapegoat for anti-democratic policies desired by national governments. as >The EU (as often) is being used here as a scapegoat for anti-democratic policies desired by democratica
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by bux93 2y ago
Take malware that is part of a botnet. Its initial payload is not necessarily damaging to the host, but is awaiting instructions to e.g. DDOS some future victim. The authors will want the malware to spread as far and wide as it can on e.g.
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by bux93 2y ago
The Supreme Court in this case was also not basing their opinion on fact, since there actually was jurisprudence about gun control [1] Also, it doesn't make sense to say laws should perfectly adhere with jurisprudence. Laws are enacted
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Somehow the transformer architecture does pretty well at this task, and other architectures do not. You could say a transformer has "innate grammar", while other architectures do not. That an LLM does well at grammar doesn't
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by bux93 2y ago
The resiliency against crashes offered by it's SQLite file format is much needed. Because it crashes a lot.
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I wonder if the Intel Management Engine, which famously runs MINIX on just about every Intel motherboard since 2008, uses a database.
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by bux93 2y ago
I thought "founder liquidity" would refer to the supply and fungibility of founders. I've heard that, although ZIRP is over, there is still a large supply of capital, which implies that there's not enough good idead &#x2
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Most can even file for personal bankruptcy and then lounge around in their parent's home for a bit. (Or a house in the name of their spouse-with-a-prenup.) My parents didn't have a garage for me to found a business in. When peopl
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by bux93 2y ago
I dunno, nonce means number-used-once, it should be kinda obvious that it should be used only once?
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Oh but wait, it gets worse. I hear some of these new "artists" these days are using "synthesizers" and artificial "acrylic" paints in stead of banging rocks together and smearing blood on the walls of caves. Ar
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For mag tape, it's different Dolby NR schemes.
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Every synchronous call is, in fact, asynchronous. We just hide it on the stack, in the return address, in the TCP connection etc. No call is really blocking anymore, the OS or the CPU will run some other thread. People who insist that thing

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