cwillu

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by cwillu 4mo ago
Indeed: one of the first things I do on a new android phone is activate developer mode specifically so that I can set the animation timescale to 0×.
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by cwillu 4mo ago
s/better/blurrier/
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by cwillu 4mo ago
SCP-48510055
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by cwillu 4mo ago
Yes: IIRC some large generators work exactly like this, as the energized rotor gives a lot more flexibility in managing frequency and power output.
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by cwillu 4mo ago
Instructions unclear, digitized subject into a mass of fingers.
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by cwillu 4mo ago
A request that typically completes in a second or two being queued for an hour is absolutely a mess in view of the end-user. All such a queue is doing is hiding the user's exposure to the mess from the admin.
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by cwillu 4mo ago
American exceptionalism was always a lie; name an “un-American” practice, and I'll show you a piece of American foreign policy.
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by cwillu 4mo ago
Fuck blind people I guess?
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by cwillu 4mo ago
Huh?
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by cwillu 4mo ago
That's really gross behaviour; users like it because they don't understand it and don't know to blame it for their issues when weird things happen to them, and weird things to them all the time . ‹giant argument breaks out b
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by cwillu 4mo ago
Which is to say: in case of partition, it loses data .
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by cwillu 4mo ago
That's what a background worker is: a local server managed by the browser and only accessible to pages of the origin domain.
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by cwillu 4mo ago
Worth noting that Brother for a decade or more now often ships their printers with the USB port hidden behind a sticker, and _lots_ of other papers and stickers telling you “you need to connect to wifi!”.
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by cwillu 4mo ago
The point is somewhat less that you will do it, as being able to do it implies a certain level of sanity to what you're buying + the ability to use the hardware even if the software goes away in some undefined-yet-predictable fashion.
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by cwillu 4mo ago
It's a simple format easily suitable for accessing resources by byte ranges, that everyone has tooling for, and which _doesn't_ compress things.
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by cwillu 4mo ago
> Users don’t care whether the code was written by AI or by hand, or which framework you used. They care that the product works. Users hate when a bunch of unrelated things break for no reason, and then get fed a pile of slop for months
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by cwillu 4mo ago
I don't think you read my comment correctly, or misunderstood something. The entire experience of fulfilling an instacart batch is a series of self-serve interactions; anybody who struggles with the basics won't be finishing the b
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by cwillu 4mo ago
No, because you don't pronouce that as “the bibs”, you say the letters.
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by cwillu 4mo ago
Except that the same shit happens on ubereats/instacart/doordash driver apps where basically everything is self-serve except for a few critical interactions which basically always require a human. I can assure you no driver want
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by cwillu 4mo ago
I hate how every support tool now has an additional “escape the llm” minigame at the start.
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by cwillu 4mo ago
Have they issued a retraction for the biologically impossible “dog rape” claims yet?
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by cwillu 4mo ago
The NYT is not a baby. At _best_ they're a pail of dirt that occasionally has some flecks of gold mixed in with the mud.
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by cwillu 5mo ago
“This research does not suggest that any individual cited in this report deliberately concealed their commercial affiliations from journalists. Rather, it highlights a recurring failure by news organisations to disclose potentially relevant
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by cwillu 5mo ago
> Steam shuts down tomorrow, guess what? None of your games are working without a third party workaround. Even if you had them installed. That's funny, because most of my steam games will happily run with the network cable unplugged
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by cwillu 5mo ago
> They are either turning off their servers …that are unnecessarily being checked by the local software before the local software will run the local offline functions.
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by cwillu 5mo ago
Alas, they don't view their methods through the lens of the impressions they lose by pressuring people into developing and using adblockers
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by cwillu 5mo ago
Most of the ways of making the “duplicated at each end” thing practical are just figuring out where to hide the stream cipher. Like, if you just use /dev/*random to generate the random bitstream, what you have is a convoluted out
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by cwillu 5mo ago
It's a universe where hypercomputation exists if you're willing to risk visiting the gods.
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by cwillu 5mo ago
Swordfight (which is very stephenson to have in the ending) and nuclear-powered robot dogs showing extreme loyalty to the person who saved one of them from overheating.
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by cwillu 5mo ago
FWIW, vulkan is not a GUI library; if you're reaching for it without a clear understanding of why you're doing so, yeah, it'll seem like a very complicated way of doing things.

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