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by dada78641 5y ago
This is what I always found difficult to reconcile with the idea of it being a lab leak. We know what viruses the lab was working with, and SARS-CoV-2 wasn't one of them. If the outbreak came from their lab, why was the virus completel
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by dada78641 5y ago
I think this is the correct way of doing it. Anyone can start their own instance and their own federation. It'd actually be a massive breach of freedom if you were somehow not allowed to shut out servers from your Mastodon federation—k
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by dada78641 5y ago
I don't think this signal becomes useless the moment an attacker knows about it. It's one thing to prevent your victim from speaking to anyone unattended, but it's hard to imagine there never being a moment for them to make a
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by dada78641 5y ago
> 1. I don't think Linus thinks CLI tools should not exist (as he uses them often for advanced tasks) but he feels like they shouldn't be the only option. As someone who daily drives Linux on my desktop, laptop, and work comput
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by dada78641 5y ago
> One thing that you can always bet on: Things change. Change is not inevitable. Every change has to justify its own existence. Look at your computer. You're likely using a keyboard and a mouse. How long have they existed with no fu
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by dada78641 5y ago
What really baffles me is how handwavey proponents of the Metaverse are being about the technical challenges, and I'm glad the article brings this up. It's pretty much unfathomable that you could build a standard that would allow
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by dada78641 5y ago
So? Bolsonaro is an integral part of today's Brazil. Does that mean being anti-Bolsonaro equates to being anti-Brazil? It's completely disingenuous to suggest that recognizing the horrors of an oppressive nation-state equates to s
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by dada78641 5y ago
It sounds to me like you just personally don't care about cinematography. Which is fine, but that makes it surprising to me you open with "I'm a film major", as if that means your view is the "correct" one and
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by dada78641 5y ago
If I had done directing or camera work during the 4:3 era and saw my work cropped to 16:9, I'd probably be furious. A lot of thought goes into framing a shot just right, making sure it has the right balance and composition. Even in cas
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by dada78641 5y ago
What is it with people believing RSS is dead? It's not dead, it's stable. It works, it does its job, it doesn't need to be changed. When something like this "just works" it's easy to fall victim to the belief t
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by dada78641 5y ago
In case anyone is interested, this is what it looks like on Internet Explorer 5 in Windows 9x: https://i.imgur.com/g668yBy.png What's happening is that the <h3> tags are all nested, since they don't auto-clo
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by dada78641 5y ago
Well, they finally got me to log in again after, what, 5 years? Good on them.
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by dada78641 5y ago
> Next interesting point. Is giving a speech about how to treat a broken bone considered ‘practicing medicine’? Regardless of whether it is, you can really tell the hypocrisy. Medicine is a vastly more protected profession than enginee
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by dada78641 5y ago
> Nobody speaks it in the EU English is one of the two official languages of Ireland. Either way, I think everything you've said is basically beside the point because English is the primary international language of the business and
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by dada78641 5y ago
There's actually still a fair number of people who get their first COVID-19 infection and never develop any symptoms at all, although it's a lot less than the initial research indicated early on in the pandemic: https:/&#x2F
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by dada78641 5y ago
> A note on cancel culture > I have also received hundreds of reports from project leads on freenode that they are being harassed and are at risk of being canceled if they do not leave, to Libera. This activity does not belong in FOSS
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by dada78641 5y ago
So, I know that this letter was apparently a draft and wasn't meant to be published, and the people involved have not made any decisions yet—I'm assuming this just means they wanted to sync up their resignations and someone accide
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by dada78641 5y ago
I actually did the exact same thing, for the same reason, a long time ago. I wanted to see just how bad things were getting, what sites were doing what kind of terrible ads, and how badly it was tanking both cpu and network usage. Ultimatel
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by dada78641 5y ago
Well...I got 100%, but that's mostly just because I know too much about Pokémon, so I don't know if I'm supposed to be proud of it.
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by dada78641 6y ago
That "once again, Canada is not the problem" line in the viral post is missing the point so, so badly. Like, yeah, lots of industrial waste comes from developing countries where the major production centers are, mostly in Asia. Bu
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by dada78641 6y ago
There always have been and will always be international politics at play in industry standards organizations, regardless of whether you make it part of the UN or not.
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by dada78641 6y ago
I hope you don't mind my asking this, but as a member of technical committees, do you ever get compensated for your time and expertise? Or is it simply a case of being paid by your employer to fulfill this role? Does any of the income
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by dada78641 6y ago
YAML sounded like a really great idea to me, until I started actually reading about it. It's a literal minefield. Some parsers intentionally support subsets of the spec for this reason, and there's multiple specs (like 1.2 which d
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by dada78641 6y ago
Apparently there are several digraphs too. Convinced this was secretly just designed to make IOCCC contests more interesting.
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by dada78641 6y ago
I've played it in both Japanese and in English, and while Japanese is more phonetically consistent I don't understand how people could miss it in English either. You can tell right at the beginning when Rover says your name back t
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by dada78641 6y ago
This reminds me of my first programming job in 2005, working with Macromedia Flash. They had one other Flash programmer who only worked there every once in a while because he was actually studying in college, and he was working on some kind
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by dada78641 6y ago
The existence of higher temperature records from the past does not invalidate the basic science of anthropogenic climate change. It's the same with, say, the massive fires in Australia that were in the news late last year. People right
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by dada78641 7y ago
It exists. RetroArch has it in some cores, for example. It was originally conceived of and made by emulator developers. Of course, it gets really hairy really quickly. Technically, a perfect runahead/negative latency requires ([all pos
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by dada78641 7y ago
Absolutely. Doing realtime video encoding is costly as it is, and the kind of hardcore gamers Stadia seems to be marketing for are definitely going to notice this. Some games are absolute codec poison, too. Check out some of the Games Done
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by dada78641 11y ago
> If you miss one train by only a microsecond, you still have to wait the entire time until the next train arrives. This is an apt observation and completely true, except now I can't help but imagine my frames getting stuck in betwe

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