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by byuu 12y ago
What straw man? I've been arguing against forced prison labor this entire time, even before you joined the conversation. I haven't deflected any points you were making to some new topic. And yes, I'm all for taking the TVs ou
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by byuu 12y ago
I'm saying we shouldn't have unjust laws. But since we do, we shouldn't treat them all as slaves. I'm saying we shouldn't have innocent people in prison, but that's impossible to prevent. And since we do, again
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by byuu 12y ago
If we only locked up truly guilty people up for truly bad things, that would be fine. But even ignoring the large number of innocent people in prison; we have a lot of laws that are blatantly unjust. The biggest would be that about half of
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by byuu 12y ago
I'd absolutely choose staring at walls to cleaning toilets for $5 a month. But if it's completely voluntary, and you won't face any direct nor indirect retaliation for refusing, then I have less of a problem with it (it still
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by byuu 12y ago
It's amazing the way prisoners work for $5 a month; and the best possible outcome is $200/mo. Even though slavery was supposedly abolished, it seems like prisons never got that memo. And since most people won't ever step foot
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by byuu 12y ago
Added to Photoshop 8 (CS). It's a good thing it's completely impossible to run Photoshop 7 still, right? ... /s
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by byuu 12y ago
I tried to compare the two to rule that possibility out, but it's possible I'm mistaken. That would be good though, I'd hate to think they were scanning things with all that scratch damage getting on every picture.
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by byuu 12y ago
That's a really cool technique! Though it looks like his scanner glass is scratched to hell and back (I wish they'd make the glass more scratch resistant.) My exact scanner type, too. I would say it's definitely fast at 300dp
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by byuu 12y ago
Oooooh I see now, you took what I said and changed one of the words. Totally missed that before wareya's comment. robots.txt and favicon.ico share nothing in common. Browsers do not automatically request robots.txt every time you load
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by byuu 12y ago
But it wasn't the right thing. That bureaucracy would have saved the world billions upon billions of useless HTTP GET requests that just return 404s. It was relatively minor to him only because he only thought about it on a small scale
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by byuu 12y ago
Unfortunately, even by disabling the logging, browsers like Chrome will keep wasting your server's resources asking for it if you return a 404. I know it's not going to overwhelm anyone's servers alone, but if you ever get a
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by byuu 12y ago
Yes, that would be the perfect solution to this problem. No sarcasm. Unfortunately, I don't see it happening. Probably millions of sites now that don't have the <link> tags, and you'd have a torrent of complaints as a b
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by byuu 12y ago
Oh, definitely. Nationalism is a problem everywhere. I think it stems from sheltered lives and closed-mindedness. The best thing we can do is to tear down the unbelievably fierce restrictions on immigration that exist in literally every fir
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by byuu 12y ago
That's what bothers me. He's happy about it in 2013 (this article's two years old.) He has hindsight now and still thinks it was a good idea to request resources on a web server without being asked. No consideration at all to
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by byuu 12y ago
Fair enough then, sorry. But why did you quote me again in my corrected post? :/ I'm not going to delete it, don't worry. I don't really care about comment scoring, I mean what I say and stand by my words. (but I guess i
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by byuu 12y ago
It's positively galling how happy he is about such a terrible decision. How many billions (trillions?) of wasted favicon.ico requests have been made because they didn't bother to engineer this the right way and make it a <link&
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by byuu 12y ago
There are an inordinate amount of amazing things about Japan and the Japanese; and it's why I've spent over a decade studying the culture and language. But it's not really fair to use only rose-colored glasses. There are seri
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by byuu 12y ago
Doesn't it also have requirements (which may or may not be strongly enforced) that users are not allowed to run their own kernel code? (because you could then undermine most of the point of this whole system.) With possible key revocat
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by byuu 12y ago
Ah, thank you for the links. So the concern is that the virus is installed like any others on Windows; but then it keeps itself installed through the boot process reloading it. Thus it must intentionally damage any internal Windows protecti
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by byuu 12y ago
Motherboards bought in stores might omit the option as well. Not hugely likely, but certainly possible. It would probably be more of an oversight though, since it'd kill ~5-10% of their customer base over a menu option.
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by byuu 12y ago
Serious question: how does Secure Boot make you more secure? How many times has a virus latched onto your computer by executing before your system booted up? I've never heard of this happening to anyone I've ever known. The only s
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by byuu 12y ago
Thankfully the district court judge was the only person in the courtroom besides the defendant capable of distinguishing fantasy from reality. Now if only he could have levied criminal sanctions against the prosecutor in this case. It'
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by byuu 12y ago
It looks more to me like Edison was trying to recruit high school history teachers. But, he was quite successful, so I guess it worked out well for him, eh?
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by byuu 12y ago
No kidding. Reinvented? "Microsoft made yet another folding keyboard." Here I was half-excited, half-terrified about seeing something with no buttons; or one without the standard letter keys. Still, if it's comfortable for ty
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by byuu 12y ago
Sure. Here is the main index: https://gitorious.org/bsnes/bsnes/source/1a7bc6bb8767d6464e3... The platform abstraction layers are wgl.cpp, cgl.cpp and glx.cpp Go inside the opengl/ subfolder to find all
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by byuu 12y ago
The idea that nVidia and AMD are detecting your games, and then replacing shaders, optimizing around bugs, etc should be absolutely terrifying. And vice versa, the idea of having to fix every major game's incredibly broken code is equa
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by byuu 12y ago
I will admit to not having tried it. This is what I read when I was researching why it wasn't enabled by default. Any thoughts on why they leave it off out of the box, then? I know it's not crazy hard to build a kernel (used to ha
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by byuu 12y ago
I'm glad they work for you. If you want to stop by my place and see the fun rendering bugs I get, like corrupted gibberish when menus first spawn, random artifacts being left on the screen, valid OpenGL shaders (that work on Windows&#x
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by byuu 12y ago
I initially went back to it over the way systemd was handled on Linux. Nowadays, I've really grown to appreciate the minimalism and the slower, more thorough pace of advancements. I find that being too cutting edge just tends to lead
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by byuu 12y ago
Don't forget that only FreeBSD has the nVidia binary drivers, too. (Neither have nouveau anymore.) So if you have such a card, OpenBSD defaults to the "nv" driver, which somehow manages to be about 20x slower than the VESA dr

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