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by chungy 4y ago
That's still not what the Bitcoin miners are doing. They're manipulating inputs, trillions of times a second, just to match a "magic" target for a SHA256 hash starting with a certain number of bits set to 0. Cracking has
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by chungy 4y ago
Bitcoin has nothing to do with "cracking SHA256 hashes", for what it's worth. The only thing remotely related is how it brute-forces inputs until it generates hashes that begin with a certain number of bits set to 0.
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by chungy 4y ago
Coins appear very seldomly in Mario Galaxy, whereas they are in abundance in Odyssey. I have doubts the Wii would have coped with the Galaxy coin model if so many appeared all at once. :)
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by chungy 4y ago
Why not? The tool may be good, but the output visuals are only as good as the artists that use said tools. They can open source the tools all they want and try to hire all the talent that can use it. :)
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by chungy 4y ago
The README is a bit opaque when I don't know the terminology, but the website seems to clue me in that it's a raytracer: https://openmoonray.org/
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by chungy 4y ago
> Flatpak doesn't require apps to be rebuilt when the runtime changes, whereas Nix would require a rebuild. This is, of course, an intentional selling point for Nix I doubt it's intentional. Guix has solved the problem---update
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by chungy 4y ago
> Honestly I don't think that in 15+ years I ever saw that in the wild in any shell script I've done it in shell scripts, very rarely interactively. In scripts, it sometimes just looks better defining that part first. Wait unti
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by chungy 4y ago
It's a basic shell feature that every terminal user should know from day 1. Hardly a "trick".
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by chungy 4y ago
There are themes you can change (bottom of page), but I don't think any of them significantly improve it. Worse still, everything is stuffed into <div> elements and it also makes Firefox's "No Style" mode basically
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New Update 2 of AmigaOS 3.2 available for download now(hyperion-entertainment.com)
4 points by chungy 4y ago|1 comments
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by chungy 4y ago
That's always been my read. "Hello" "Step back while we take care of things for you" "Just a few minutes longer" I don't know the script verbatim, but it always read as very creepy and "This isn&
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by chungy 4y ago
Doesn't work for me either.
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by chungy 4y ago
> Did you know the underlying archive format was cpio? CPIO! And what's wrong with that? deb's underlying format is ar, which is basically the same class of simple archives that cpio is. It solves the problem with two nice bene
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by chungy 4y ago
Pretty sure ARM has never broken binary compatibility, even across ISA expansions (16→32 bit, 32→64 bit).
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GNU Units(gnu.org)
4 points by chungy 4y ago|0 comments
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by chungy 4y ago
"ton" is overloaded with three units having the same name, although at least the "metric ton" is often spelled tonne (1 tonne = 1000 kg ≈ 2204 lbs), but that still doesn't do enough to disambiguate it in speech. In
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by chungy 4y ago
If you run Linux and have the `units` program installed, you can even do it without reaching for a web page: $ units '1-(11hr+22min)/(11hr+55min)'
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by chungy 4y ago
Mind that the page describes a hypothetical update to X. In practical terms, Wayland is X12.
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by chungy 4y ago
ffmpeg has got to be my favorite media tool ever. :) It has replaced all kinds of various programs I used to use, such as netpbm and imagemagick. It's just better.
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by chungy 4y ago
Impressive, I see one definite problem and a potential one: * I had incorrectly stated the conditions of the Y grouping. The digits must sum up to a multiple of 7, rather than be a multiple of 7 by themselves. 0000007 and 0000016 are valid
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by chungy 4y ago
OEM keys for Windows 95 followed a similar structure to the retail key, albeit with a lot more digits. OEM Windows 95 keys came in the form of XXXXX-OEM-00YYYYY-ZZZZZ. The XXXXX grouping represents when Microsoft issued the key by day-of-ye
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by chungy 4y ago
Unicode's stuck to that principle better than Wikipedia has stuck to its principle.
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by chungy 4y ago
GNOME, KDE, MATE, LXQt, Xfce, etc each have their own design philosophies, benefits, and detriments. None of them are all-around objectively better than the others. GNOME does at least get a lot of corporate development and backing to make
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by chungy 4y ago
I disagree. It attracts interest in the KDE project as a whole.
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by chungy 4y ago
Honestly a thought that didn't occur to me on first reading. Definitely, if I had been suspended and my only transaction was buying, say, a calculator. I'd probably be asking "Why are calculators disallowed?" If I was bu
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by chungy 4y ago
"(c)" as an alternative to "©" predates your 1990s book by many decades. It even predates its common usage on computers (1960s or so), because typewriters have existed since the 19th century and "(c)" has been
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by chungy 4y ago
"(c)" is sufficiently understood as the ASCII equivalent of "©" that I doubt the distinction will ever matter in court.
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by chungy 4y ago
Now name the OS that isn't written in C. Hint: It's not Windows. It's not Linux. It's not Mac OS. It's not FreeBSD. It's not illumos...
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by chungy 4y ago
Never heard of CD-ROMs? Maybe the term was unfamiliar compared to just CD? I have a hard time believing any young person really hasn't heard of CDs, if not handled them.
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by chungy 4y ago
That's the main reason I asked. It took longer than normal just to read a date, and it apparently has no useful benefit (yes I saw the side-comment about the "Long Now").

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