dTal

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by dTal 2y ago
> My Moto phone always blanks the screen when you are talking, I don't know exactly what model of phone you have, but most smartphones have a proximity sensor which is used to intelligently blank the screen only when it is at your h
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by dTal 2y ago
> What about a pan sensor created by taking an RGB sensor and removing the filter so it's producing an image with 3x the resolution but in pan? This got me thinking about how subtle and slippery the concept of "resolution"
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by dTal 2y ago
I tend to agree that you shouldn't be "aligning" things with spaces anyway. If nothing else, it causes diff pollution when the length of a line changes and you have to add or delete spaces to adjacent lines to keep things eve
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by dTal 2y ago
Your justification for a single syntax is "I don't want to have to look at python and have to parse spaces, curly braces, square braces, etc." But the comment you just replied to said: >Maybe we'd have editors and vie
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by dTal 2y ago
I've heard of uC/OS and always wondered - is it pronounced "mucous"?
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by dTal 2y ago
>If that were true then defendants would waive their right to a jury trial. They don't. They do, overwhelmingly. Plea bargaining accounts for almost 98 percent of federal convictions and 95 percent of state convictions in the United
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by dTal 2y ago
It's all documented here: https://www.xyte.ch/mods/t25-frankenpad/ Aside from sourcing the parts, the screen part was actually harder: this combination of screen, lid, and webcam is not officially supported,
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by dTal 2y ago
A bed doesn't have to be complicated. Why in my day, we got shit done on beds with only a Z80 and 32K of RAM. I remember when I bought my first bed with cooperative multitasking - a red letter day! And double density duvets were a game
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by dTal 2y ago
Everything's relative. Sure, the BIOS whitelist is a serious mark in the "bad" column. In the "good" column, my daily driver is a Frankenpad made from a T480 with the 7-row keyboard from a T25, the 500 nit screen an
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by dTal 2y ago
This seems fallacious to me. Energy scales linearly with mass, so an object that is twice as big, is twice as bad. It probably isn't even twice the area, unless it's a flat sheet hitting broadside on - but even if it were, that&#x
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by dTal 2y ago
POV-Ray does exactly this, and warns you if you do not include a #version statement in your source file.
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by dTal 2y ago
I realize this, but the fact that the format is "Turing complete" doesn't actually have any direct bearing on whether it's exploitable. Because the input to a TTF engine is not actually x86 machine code, it's mislea
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by dTal 2y ago
I've put a file in my home directory named the entirety of your comment, newline included. Unfortunately I had to trim "except / !" to bring it to 255 characters. Now at least when some tool or pipeline blows up horribly
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by dTal 2y ago
Neatly skewered 3 decades ago in the Sunday funnies: https://www.gocomics.com/outland/2023/01/16 It is depressing how many of those comic strips are still relevant today.
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by dTal 2y ago
And I think you vastly underestimate how big a planet is. "Put the correct mixture of gases in the atmosphere"? Where from? At least if you're building small enclaves on a planet surface, you can repurpose mass that's al
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by dTal 2y ago
I'm pretty sure it can't. There's nothing in a WAV file that's meant to be executed. A quick google turns up a DirectX vulnerability from 2007 (a validation error that's not inherent to the WAV format per se), and a
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by dTal 2y ago
Could you expand on this?
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by dTal 2y ago
From the preface to the 20th anniversary edition of Godel, Escher, Bach: "Meaning cannot be kept out of formal systems when sufficiently complex isomorphisms arise. Meaning comes in despite one's best efforts to keep symbols meani
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by dTal 2y ago
Which is a very interesting asymmetry, if we're stipulating that these are merely excuses. It implies that "think of the gays" will lose you more votes than it gains, compared to "think of the children". Terrorists
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by dTal 2y ago
And why are the established parties doing this? Why is it in their interest to keep advancing terrible candidates? I dunno. I kinda do think voters are the problem. Or at least a link in a chain of problems, the next link up being corporate
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by dTal 2y ago
The number of ludicrous "security theater" stories in the linked thread go a long way to explaining why nuclear power is so expensive. My favorite is the delivery guy who had his clothes confiscated. I wonder if it was always this
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by dTal 2y ago
I just want a GPD Micro PC with a cell modem...
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by dTal 2y ago
I know tone is hard to read over text but I'm honestly baffled how you got "very angry" from my comment. I'm simply responding? Nobody claims that vegan leather is perfect but veganism is about making a best effort. Obje
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by dTal 2y ago
10 print "If the universe is non-deterministic, that provides an explanation for free will!" 20 print "How? Coin flips don't have free will..." 30 goto 10
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by dTal 2y ago
I think what is being pushed back against is that the idea that knowing the name of something is important knowledge by itself . As you say, it is a handle to knowledge - a node that you can connect to other nodes, a precursor to underst
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by dTal 2y ago
Even if those assumptions were true (and why should they be? the universe is not a computer, does not have "frames") what would that have to do with "free will"?
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by dTal 2y ago
How is it "boiling the planet"? If anything, using petroleum for some purpose other than fuel is fighting global warming, by consuming a finite supply. Microplastics are bad, but that's indirectly killing animals - not di
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by dTal 2y ago
The kinds of people who would go out of their way to buy plant-based substitute leather products presumably are also not on board with the mass slaughter of livestock for any purpose. Even if they were dying "anyway", to purchas
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by dTal 2y ago
You described my experience well as well, except my abstract colorless ball was barely even visual. I was quite happy to entertain the idea of a ball on a table with very few concepts activated - roundness for the ball, flatness for the tab
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by dTal 2y ago
What even is "free will"? It's an idea that falls apart on close inspection. You think "I will wash the dishes". You wash the dishes. Ta-daa, free will! A paralyzed person thinks "I will raise my hand". No

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